The College of Marine Arts was operated as the Sea Research Society's formal higher education wing from 1972 until 1978.[1] It was initially located in Columbia, South Carolina and later moved to Mount Pleasant, outside of Charleston where it was housed in the former Berkeley County courthouse building on Pitt Street.
Students participated in classroom workshops on history and artifact identification & conservation as well as in underwater archaeological projects on the wrecks of the Civil War blockade runners Georgiana, Mary Bowers and Constance as well as paleontological projects in the Cooper River and refuse sites in the Ashley River.
- ^ Spence, Edward Lee (1994). Treasures of the Confederate Coast: The "real Rhett Butler" & Other Revelations. Narwhal Press. p. 425. ISBN 978-1-886391-00-0.