The Texas State Historical Commission's site on LaSalle's boat and its excavation is extensive and user-friendly. Includes numerous photo albums, interactivities, and articles that relate to LaSalle's life and times as well as a teacher section, "La Salle in the Classroom."

Detailing the preservation of artifacts from LaSalle's boat, this site contains a section devoted to the specific challenges of restoring long-submerged historical items.

This site offers information about a CD-ROM database of every known shipwreck in North America, with extensive information on each.

This site offers information and updates on current projects run by NUMA, a nonprofit agency dedicated to locating and preserving historic shipwrecks.

INA's site contains a virtual museum, an extensive collection of photographs, and a description of current field projects. Back issues of the INA's quarterly magazine can be downloaded and read with Adobe Acrobat Reader.

The journal of Henri Joutel, a member of La Salle's expedition who served for two years as post commander at Fort Saint Louis, La Salle's ill-fated colony, and, after La Salle's death, eventually made his way up the Mississippi River to the Great Lakes and finally back to France in 1688.

A translation of a French biography of the explorer, from his birth in Rouen in 1643 to his tragic death in 1687.

This book includes three primary documents drawn from the explorations of Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. One covers both a journey La Salle took down the Mississippi River in 1682 and his voyage to the Gulf of Mexico. Another is a diary from a member of the Spanish expedition that circumnavigated the Gulf in 1686-87 in search of La Salle's colony. And the third details life in that colony, known as Fort-Saint Louis, and includes the only eyewitness account of the massacre that occurred there.

Concise, authoritative, well-illustrated listings for all the major shipwrecks of the world, from La Belle to Titanic, from Khufu's boats to Kublai Khan's fleet.

A profusely illustrated account of three expeditions that ended in shipwrecks - the Mahdia ship that was carrying the spoils of Sulla's sack of Athens in the first century B.C.; the Agamemnon, Horatio Nelson's victorious ship at the battle of Trafalgar; and the Graf Spee, a German warship scuttled in the River Plate in Uruguay. Bound, a marine archeologist, found and excavated all three.

A chronicle of the wreck of the sidewheel steamer SS Central America, which sank in a hurricane off North Carolina in 1857 while returning from the California gold fields, and its subsequent discovery and salvage by maverick engineer Tommy Thompson.