[1][2] He is best remembered for fusing academia, archaeometry, and diving in 1960 to create responsible underwater archaeology: the excavation of the Cape Gelidonya bronze age wreck site.
[3] Throckmorton was a founding member of the Sea Research Society and served on its Board of Advisors until his death in 1990.
He was born in 1928 in New York City [9] to parents Edgerton Alvord Throckmorton and Lucy Norton Leonard[10] who divorced in the 1930s.
George Bass wrote of him: "Born in New York, he eventually rebelled against his privileged background, running away from boarding school in Colorado to seek adventure.
After four years in the army, in Japan and Korea, he enrolled in the University of Hawaii and worked on a terrestrial archaeological excavation.