It took approximately 45 years from when I first discovered (and reported) the wrecks of the Georgiana and Mary Bowers for any official from the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology & Anthropology (SCIAA) to visit the wrecks. They are the State agency in charge of the shipwrecks. This site is important archaeologically and historically. I say their decades of delay was way too long to and smacks of chronic, serial incompetency.