Teresa Newton-Terres

The shipwreck made national news. On Tuesday June 7, 1960 the private vessel Marie left Santa Barbara Harbor at 7 a.m. in route to waters off Santa Cruz Island, but never returned. When the Marie vanished, her crew was conducting a covert underwater communications experiment for a Raytheon-related project.

Among the Marie’s seven crew, the author’s father and an eminent physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project.