D/V Tenacious

D/V Tenacious D/V Tenacious is a New Jersey-based dive vessel that locates, dives, and salvages shipwrecks. The vessel is owned by Atlantic Wreck Salvage, L.L.C.

To learn more about the team’s most recent discovery, order The Adriatic Affair: A Maritime Hit-And-Run Off the Coast of Nantucket https://a.co/d/6ohLcIW Atlantic Wreck Salvage (AWS) is a New Jersey-based company that conducts operations in the North Atlantic. D/V Tenacious is the vessel from which AWS’ crew locates, dives, and salvages shipwrecks. D/V Tenacious and her crew have discovered numero

us wrecks in the waters off the coast of New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, the most celebrated of which is U-550, the last German U-boat known to rest in diveable North Atlantic waters. D/V Tenacious and her expeditions have been chronicled in the books “Where Divers Dare: The Hunt for the Last U- boat,” “Dangerous Shallows, In Search of the Ghost Ships of Cape Cod,” and in dive publications worldwide. and operated by Joe Mazraani and Jennifer Sellitti.

Beneath the Sea is almost here!Join us this weekend Beneath the Sea at the Meadowlands Expo Center in Secaucus, NJ. Fabu...
03/25/2025

Beneath the Sea is almost here!
Join us this weekend Beneath the Sea at the Meadowlands Expo Center in Secaucus, NJ. Fabulous presentations run all day and there is busy dive show floor full of vendors. Jenn's presentation about The Adriatic Affair takes place on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. She'll be at the book signing booth from 12-4 (with a break from 1:15 to 2:45 for the presentation). Bring your book for signing or get one at the show! For tickets and more information, visit Beneath the Sea here: https://beneaththesea.us/

Hey Duane, the water is that way.
03/25/2025

Hey Duane, the water is that way.

Highlighting a few of the incredible presentations from this  weekend. Kate CIialdea on the Aikoku Maru, Mike Dudas on d...
03/24/2025

Highlighting a few of the incredible presentations from this weekend. Kate CIialdea on the Aikoku Maru, Mike Dudas on diving through the generations, Rich Napolitno on Batavia's graveyard, and Eric Takakjian and Rick Simon on Nantucket Shoals wrecks. Mark your calendars for next year's event on March 14-15, 2026.

Eric Takakjian and Tom Packer in the summer of 2024.
03/24/2025

Eric Takakjian and Tom Packer in the summer of 2024.

Captain Van Strickler (to Jenn’s left), is well known to fishermen and divers for his legendary log of hangs. He is also...
03/23/2025

Captain Van Strickler (to Jenn’s left), is well known to fishermen and divers for his legendary log of hangs. He is also an incredible storyteller with a deep love and respect for the ocean. Jenn’s conversations with Captain Strickler made their way into The Adriatic Affair both directly in the epilogue and indirectly through some of the book’s main characters. His words of wisdom and descriptions of how seamen read North Atlantic conditions both educated and inspired her. It was an honor to see him New Jersey Maritime Museum yesterday for the book’s launch. Here he is with his biggest fans - members of Le Lyonnais discovery team and D/V Tenacious crew. Look at all those smiling faces!

Thank you to New Jersey Maritime Museum for hosting the launch of The Adriatic Affair and to all of the folks who came o...
03/23/2025

Thank you to New Jersey Maritime Museum for hosting the launch of The Adriatic Affair and to all of the folks who came out to share this very special day. We’ll be posting more photos as the week rolls on. Post yours with .

Join us today at The New Jersey Maritime Museum in Beach Haven for The Adriatic Affair book launch party! Tour the museu...
03/22/2025

Join us today at The New Jersey Maritime Museum in Beach Haven for The Adriatic Affair book launch party! Tour the museum, have some food, get/bring your book and have it signed. The whole crew will be there from 2-5 pm. All are welcome. No RSVP required.

Spotted in the wild! Greg Skomal, accomplished marine biologist, underwater explorer, photographer, aquarist, author, an...
03/21/2025

Spotted in the wild!
Greg Skomal, accomplished marine biologist, underwater explorer, photographer, aquarist, author, and fellow Boston Sea Rover with Jenn at her book signing. Jenn's book officially released on Tuesday March 18. Share of a photo of yourself with the book and use . We're looking for photos of the book "in the wild" to share on Friday mornings. Greg has written many books about sharks including his incredible memoir, Chasing Shadows. You can buy Greg's book (and Jenn's) wherever books are sold.

03/20/2025
A little dredging in May of 2020.
03/20/2025

A little dredging in May of 2020.

On this Women’s History Wednesday, meet Mia DaPonte. This 12-year-old from East Greenwich, RI has recently been named Ne...
03/19/2025

On this Women’s History Wednesday, meet Mia DaPonte. This 12-year-old from East Greenwich, RI has recently been named New England’s youngest certified master scuba diver. She’s only the second 12-year-old in the US to achieve this certification. She wants to be marine biologist one day, but Jenn is hoping to talk her into wreck diving!

Smile! It's the first day of spring.
03/19/2025

Smile! It's the first day of spring.

Jenn inside the engine room of Kiyosumi Maru. Kiyosumi Maru was built in 1934 as a transport ship. The Japanese navy too...
03/18/2025

Jenn inside the engine room of Kiyosumi Maru. Kiyosumi Maru was built in 1934 as a transport ship. The Japanese navy took control of her in 1941 and converted here into an armed merchant ship. Kiyosumi served as troop carrier during the Battle of Midway in 1942. She was struck by 3 torpedoes and was towed to Truk Lagoon (Chuuk) to undergo repairs. US dive bombers sunk her during Operation Hailstone in February of 1944. She rests in 30m/100ft of water.

It is difficult to put this year’s  Sea Rovers experience into words. I presented a live-narrated film about the Le Lyon...
03/17/2025

It is difficult to put this year’s Sea Rovers experience into words. I presented a live-narrated film about the Le Lyonnais discovery to a packed Film Festival crowd. My goal was to honor the members of our team and share with the audience the joy, challenges, thrills, grind, and importance of shipwreck discovery—something that rarely happens while cameras are rolling. There is nothing I could do or say to convey how much my friends and experiences aboard the D/V Tenacious mean to me, and this film was my best attempt at honoring them.

To do it alongside legends who were so supportive and inspiring was the icing on the cake. My fellow presenters were: Bob Ballard, who, among so many distinguished accomplishments, discovered the wreck of the Titanic; Cristian Dimitrius, an incomparable wildlife photographer whose work has been featured everywhere from National Geographic to Disney feature films; Eric Cheng, whose work in VR is taking us under the sea with dolphins and to the highest mountains with Free Solo climber Alex Honnold; Rose Dalrymple, whose new film highlights the hope and healing that scuba is bringing to wounded female veterans; acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Hergen Spalink, whose opener took us swimming with hammerhead sharks; and host Nancy McGee, a celebrated underwater explorer, filmmaker, adventurer, and personal shero. Not to mention another shero, Diver of the Year Erin Quigley. (Girl Power!)

Sharing our team’s story alongside so many brilliant tales of the sea was just extraordinary. Thank you to Sea Rovers President Kim Malkoski and Board Chairwoman Pat Morton for hosting such an incredible event, and to Film Festival Director Jake Stout for taking a chance on a storytelling lawyer/pirate from New Jersey who is armed with way more words than footage or software tools. -- Jenn

Join us March 22 at New Jersey Maritime Museum for the official launch of The Adriatic Affair!
03/16/2025

Join us March 22 at New Jersey Maritime Museum for the official launch of The Adriatic Affair!

Please join us for the launching of trustee Jenn Sellitti's book, The Adriatic Affair, this coming Saturday, March 22nd, from 2-5pm!

Absolutely incredible night  Film Festival. Films/presentations by Eric Cheng, Christian Demetrius, Rose Darwhimple, Bob...
03/16/2025

Absolutely incredible night Film Festival. Films/presentations by Eric Cheng, Christian Demetrius, Rose Darwhimple, Bob Ballard, and Jenn Sellitti. Hosted by BSR’s first fenale president Kim Malkoski. Masters of ceremonies: Nancy McGee. Diver of the Year: Erin Quigley.

Always great to see Marty Klein, the “father of sidescan sonar.” His shipwreck discoveries are legendary, and his work t...
03/15/2025

Always great to see Marty Klein, the “father of sidescan sonar.” His shipwreck discoveries are legendary, and his work to bring along the next generation of engineers and explorers is truly inspiring.

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