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   3-D Model Animation Acknowledgements
 
It was truly a team effort in putting together the 3D-model of Santa Margarita and its hurricane animation. Without the magical touch and computer skills of John Whitesel of Black Laser Learning, it would have been impossible to have so realistically depicted Santa Margarita as she struggled to stay afloat on September 6, 1622 off the Florida Keys.

Accurate images of Spanish galleons over 300 years ago are not easy to come by and are always suspect in the absence of actual construction contracts.

Thanks to the seminal research of Dr. Eugene Lyon, the 1616 construction contract of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha has provided a reliable basis for reconstructing how Santa Margarita must have looked like. New research findings by Blue Water Ventures of Key West have helped to uncover new construction information which has assisted the effort to flesh out its main archaeological features.

Our project’s ship historian, Bill Muir, has also played a major role in creating this 3-D model archaeological findings through his continuing research of how Santa Margarita must of have been built.
I would also like to personally thank all my research colleagues who have discussed the archaeological features of this Spanish galleon with me over the years and who have helped me to understand the computer mechanics necessary to visually depict 3-D perspectives.

I believe that as our 3D-animation program is further developed with more contextual data from both the archives and the artifacts, this simulated model will become a powerful research tool for deciphering the subsequental events involving the progressive break-up and disintegration of the galleon.

Thanks also to the ship modelists who have assisted me in getting the archaeological details right, particularly Oleg Mikhaylov, who is busily building his own Atocha model.

Dr. R. Duncan Mathewson III
 
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