David W. Jourdan

David Walter Jourdan (Born December 5, 1954) is an author, as well as the co-founder and president of Nauticos, a deep ocean exploration company. He studied physics and engineering at the U.S. Naval Academy and Johns Hopkins University, and served as a U.S. Navy submarine officer during the Cold War.^[1] Jourdan and his Nauticos team have made a number of notable deep ocean discoveries, including the missing Israeli submarine INS Dakar in the Mediterranean and the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga, sunk in the battle of Midway. Most recently he has led two deep ocean expeditions in search of Amelia Earhart’s lost Lockheed Electra airplane. He has published two books, Never Forgotten: the Search and Discovery of Israel's Lost Submarine Dakar and The Deep Sea Quest for Amelia Earhart.

References

1. ^ http://www.earhartdiscovery.com/bio.html

External links

• http://www.earhartdiscovery.com/
• http://www.nauticos.com/
• http://dakarneverforgotten.com/

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Name	Jourdan, David W.
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Date of birth	December 5, 1954
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