Lectures on Tap - "Beneath Lake Union: Seattle's Hidden Shipwrecks"

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🧠 Lecture: "Beneath Lake Union: Seattle's Hidden Shipwrecks"

🎤 Speaker: Phil Parisi & Evan Weber

Join us for a captivating evening as ocean researcher and robotics specialist Phil Parisi,alongside digital archivist Evan Weber,reveals the hidden world beneath Lake Union. Over one hundred targets of interest—including barges, shipwrecks, and even cars—rest on the lake’s bottom, leaving major gaps in Seattle’s maritime story.

Learn how the newly founded Shipwreck City project is working to film never-before-seen wrecks using Finn, a blue remote-controlled robot about the size of a microwave. You’ll hear stories from the Shipwreck City team as they build the most up-to-date archive of Seattle shipwrecks and uncover what lies just beneath the surface of our city’s beloved central lake.

Phil Parisi, founder of ShipwreckCity.org, holds a Master’s in Ocean Engineering and has worked for two U.S. National Laboratories developing unmanned systems. Passionate about using robots to benefit humanity, he now combines cutting-edge robotics with underwater exploration and serves as the president of a non-profit.Evan Weber is a Pacific Northwest native, local historian, and Digital Archivist for Shipwreck City; he has a background in archaeology and museum studies and currently works for the Museum of Flight.

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Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.