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X is the founder and chairman of this nonprofit organization named NUMA aiming at preserving maritime heritage.

X claims that NUMA discovered, among other shipwrecks, the Confederate submarine Hunley. This claim is disputed by underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence who first reported finding it in 1970 The first expedition to dig into the site and bring back videographic evidence was the 1994/1995 SCIAA/NUMA H.L. Hunley expedition, directed by underwater archaeologist Dr. Mark M. Newell. That was largely financed by X, thus his claim to have discovered it. Based on sworn statements by Dr. Newell, that expedition relied, at least to some extent, on Spence's maps of his earlier work. The dive team that took the video was led by diver Ralph Wilbanks who is on NUMA's Board of Directors.

Important finds by X's N.U.M.A. include

§ The Carpathia. The ship famed for being the first to come to the aid of Titanic survivors.

§ The Mary Celeste. The famed ghost ship that was found abandoned with cargo intact. (The identification of this wreck as the Mary Celestehas since been disputed.)

§ The Manassas. The first ironclad of the civil war, formerly the icebreaker Enoch Train.

Identify X who is famous for something else.