The Great Museum of the Sea: Why Shipwrecks Capture the Imagination
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
5 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
🌊 What do shipwrecks really reveal about us?
In this special episode of The Not Old – Better Show, produced in collaboration with Smithsonian Associates, we’re celebrating 60 years of learning and discovery by going deep—literally—with maritime archaeologist Dr. James P. Delgado.
From the wreck of the Titanic to the sunken slave ship Clotilda, Delgado shares powerful stories from decades of underwater exploration. These aren't just relics—they're reflections of our history, identity, and humanity.
Join us in honoring the Smithsonian Associates’ 60th Anniversary with a conversation that reminds us how far we’ve come—and how much the past still lives beneath the surface.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series on radio and podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | The show covering all things health, wellness, culture, and more. |
| 0:12.3 | The show for all of us who aren't old, were better. |
| 0:15.2 | Each week we'll interview superstars, experts, and ordinary people, doing extraordinary things, all related to this wonderful |
| 0:22.8 | experience of getting better, not older. Now here's your host, the award-winning Paul Volose. |
| 0:35.1 | The sea forgets nothing. Beneath the waves, silent, endless patient, lie over a million |
| 0:42.9 | ships, wooden bones, iron holes, shattered dreams. Every one of them once carried people, |
| 0:50.6 | hopes, ambitions, and every one of them went down. Some fell in storms, some in |
| 0:56.5 | battle, some under the crushing weight of greed or cruelty. But none of them disappeared because |
| 1:03.7 | the ocean, as today's guest tells us, is the largest museum on Earth. Today on the not-old |
| 1:10.7 | Better Show, Smithsonian Associates |
| 1:12.6 | Interview Series, we welcome Dr. James P. Delgado, renowned maritime archaeologist, National |
| 1:18.9 | Geographic explorer, author of the Great Museum of the Sea, and someone who has stared |
| 1:25.0 | straight into the ghostly face of history |
| 1:28.4 | from the deck of the Titanic to the haunted hold of the slave ship Clotilda. |
| 1:36.0 | He's not here to tell us about treasure. |
| 1:39.1 | He's here to talk to us about truth. |
| 1:41.4 | Shipwrecks, he says, are more than stories of disaster. They're memorials, |
| 1:46.2 | their evidence, their mirrors held up to our civilization. It's violence, its resilience, |
| 1:52.5 | it's yearning to cross the horizon, no matter the risk. And for those of us, with a few more miles |
| 1:59.5 | behind us than ahead, maybe that's what speaks to us. |
| 2:04.5 | The idea that something lost can still teach, still inspire, still matter. |
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