Charlie Buffum has retired after 25 years in the beer business. Craig Harger has retired after 30 years as an industrial gas specialist in sales and marketing. Craig and Charlie met in 1996 when Craig’s Company supplied carbon dioxide gas to Charlie’s company. They have been diving together ever since. Collectively, they have over 50 years of diving experience and have logged hundreds of dives in the waters of Long Island Sound and Block Island Sound.

Charlie and Craig’s pursuit of finding the remains of the 1811 wreck of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s first command, USS Revenge, began in 2005. After locating the wreck in a dangerous passage off the coast of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, they logged nearly 100 dives on the site to identify artifacts and try to verify the wreckage as that of the USS Revenge. They announced the find on the wreck’s bicentennial in 2011 and continue to assist the US Navy History and Heritage Command with mapping and excavation of the wreck site.