The Maritime Education and Research Society (MERS) is a non-profit
501(c)(3) organization whose aims and objectives are to research and to
advance education and training in the techniques pertaining to the study
of various maritime fields of endeavor for the benefit of the public.
Such fields include the continuing assessment of ecological impacts on
coral reefs around the world, the research of maritime events that have
shaped history, underwater archeology, the training of individuals and
groups in the above fields, and the publication of all such research for
the continuing education of the public. Our first field study was called
The Dorado Expedition and continues to this day. This is a research
program to determine if a World War II US submarine was lost on the
coral reef system off the Yucatan Peninsula as mentioned by Mexican
locals in the 1970s.