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International Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage

Proceedings of OCEANS 2005 MTS/IEEE, 2005
Ultimately much UCH will be discovered beyond the regulatory competence of any State. Hopefully, if the political will exists, the provisions of the UNESCO Convention that were adopted without consensus, can be renegotiated so that its Rules can be applied to a significantly broader range of underwater cultural heritage than is possible under ...
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The management of the underwater cultural heritage

Journal of Cultural Heritage, 2003
Abstract The underwater cultural heritage (UCH) includes all the material evidence of human activities carried on in the marine environment, particularly as evidenced on the sea floor. The evolution of the UCH is outlined, taking due account of its origins in the world’s traditional societies, and of the process of industrialisation of maritime ...
Hance D. Smith, Alastair D. Couper
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The Law of the Sea Convention and Underwater Cultural Heritage

The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, 2012
Abstract As far as underwater cultural heritage is concerned, the regime of the Law of the Sea Convention (LOSC) is fragmentary, insufficient and even counterproductive. The English text of Art. 303, para. 3, can be interpreted as an invitation to the looting of the heritage under a first-come-first-served, or “freedom-of-fishing,” criterion. Only Art.
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The Common Heritage Of Mankind And The Protection Of The Underwater Cultural Heritage

2010
In this paper the author intends to show that the notion of the "cultural heritage of mankind", which clearly also relates to the underwater cultural heritage, forms part of the concept of the common heritage of mankind. He, thus, explains the relevance and scope of the common heritage of mankind principle in relation to the protection of the ...
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The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage

International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 1996
In November 1995 a draft resolution was presented to the 28th General Conference of UNESCO which, among other matters, dealt with the organisation's future activities in the field of the underwater cultural heritage.1In conjunction with this resolution, the text of a draft Convention for the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage prepared by ...
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Salvage and the underwater cultural heritage

Marine Policy, 1996
Abstract The Buenos Aires draft Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage proposes in article 4 the exclusion of salvage law from the underwater cultural heritage. This echoes certain statutory provisions in the USA. However it is inconsistent with UNCLOS and the International Salvage Convention 1989. Archaeological information
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Underwater Cultural Heritage in Bermuda

2002
The first recorded encounter of Bermuda was between 1503 and 1505 by Spaniard Juan Bermudez on a return trip to Europe, on the eastern side of the Gulf Stream at 64°40′ West and 32°20′ North. In the centuries before the invention of the Harrison chronometer, which allowed for the routine determination of longitude, Bermuda served as a navigational ...
Clifford Earle Smith, Edward Cecil Harris   +1 more
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Wisconsin’s Underwater Heritage

Over the last 30 years, the Maritime Preservation Program at the Wisconsin Historical Society has developed productive long-term relationships with several avocational maritime archaeological organizations in the Great Lakes region. A cornerstone of the Maritime Program is education and training in the form of continued educational experiences for ...
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Underwater cultural heritage

2019
Nicholas Gaskell, Craig Forrest
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Making the Invisible Visible: Underwater Malta—A Virtual Museum for Submerged Cultural Heritage

Remote Sensing, 2021
Timmy Gambin, Gambin Timmy
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