In April 1999, Channel Islands National Park Archeologist Don Morris asked the National Park Service's Submerged Resources Center (SRC) to lead documentation efforts on the remains of the schooner Comet, exposed on the beach in Simonton Cove, Miguel Island. Comet had been exposed by winter storms, the first recorded exposure since 1984. SRC archeologists, park staff and volunteers, spent five days documenting Comet's remains with scale drawings, photos and video.