About Dolan Research, Inc.

Dolan Research, Inc. is a maritime archaeological consulting and remote sensing surveying firm, specializing in the identification, documentation and evaluation of submerged cultural resources. Although initially incorporated in 1989 to study shipwreck sites, we have vastly expanded our initial focus to provide a wide array of underwater remote sensing services for a variety of commercial interests that include; bottom clearance surveys, identification of submerged utilities, locating and salvaging lost material (e.g. propellers and anchors) and remote tank and pipeline inspections.

Firm personnel have extensive archaeological experience in the study and interpretation of submerged cultural resources and all allied disciplines including marine survey, historical documentary research, magnetic, acoustic and sub-bottom remote sensing, underwater site excavation, artifact analysis, and archaeological data interpretation. Dolan Research is a long standing member of the American Cultural Resources Association (ACRA). Principals at Dolan Research, Inc., are all HazMat certified (40-hr.) and experienced in the use of cesium magnetometers, digital side scan sonar, sub-bottom profilers, precision echo-sounders, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), differential global positioning systems, Hypack navigational software, underwater digital video and photography. Dolan Research is based in southeastern Pennsylvania, but has the ability to operate efficiently throughout the eastern seaboard, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi River Valley.

In conjunction with various bridge and tunnel construction projects, channel dredging projects, waterfront development projects, maritime losses, pipeline and fiber optic cable crossings, and beach replenishment projects over the last two decades, Dolan Research has conducted several hundred underwater archaeological projects and remote sensing surveys in a variety of marine environments for numerous federal, state, local, and foreign governments, in addition to dozens of firms in the private sector.