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Underwater Cultural Heritage

2020
Abstract This chapter focuses on underwater cultural heritage. This form of heritage is important because it constitutes what has been called a ‘time capsule’—meaning everything on a site may well be as it was when it disappeared beneath the water’s surface.
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Underwater cultural heritage and human rights

2023
This chapter takes the view that there are multiple indications in theory and trends in practice testifying to the emergence of a human rights approach to cultural heritage which, regardless of its peculiarities, also applies to underwater cultural heritage (UCH).
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Decommissioning Offshore Structures and Large Ships: A Threat or an Underwater Cultural Heritage Opportunity?

Heritage & Society
This article examines the feasibility of recycling, dismantling, and retaining offshore structures, such as wind turbines and oil platforms, in situ. It also scrutinizes the environmental consequences of recycling large ships.
E. Perez-Alvaro, James P. Delgado
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Indigenous Underwater Cultural Heritage Legislation in Australia: Still Waters?

The Heritage
The article examines possible amendments to the Australian legislative regime regulating and protecting Indigenous cultural heritage in an offshore, including underwater, context.
Matthew Storey
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Underwater Exploration with Sonar of the Flooded Basement of a WW-II Submarine Bunker in the Context of the Digitization of Cultural Heritage

Oceans, 2023
Underwater mapping based on the registration of data from a mechanical scanning sonar (MSS) is presented. The specific use-case is the exploration of the flooded basement of the U-Boot Bunker Valentin in the context of the digitization of this World-War ...
Tim Hansen, Frederike Buda, Andreas Birk
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Underwater Cultural Heritage in World Heritage Sites: Figures and Insights into Possibilities and Realities

The Historic Environment
The UNESCO World Heritage List is a compilation of sites worldwide acknowledged for their outstanding universal value to humanity. Established by the UNESCO World Heritage Convention in 1972, the list encompasses cultural, natural, and mixed sites ...
E. Perez-Alvaro, Martijn R. Manders, Christopher J. Underwood   +2 more
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The disappearing underwater heritage

Museum International, 1983
(1983). The disappearing underwater heritage. Museum International: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 9-10.
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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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International Law Challenges for Underwater Cultural Heritage Protection in the South China Sea

Ocean Development & International Law
The South China Sea is rich in underwater cultural heritage (UCH), which is suffering serious damage owing to illegal salvage by treasure hunters and unregulated excavation by commercial companies.
Hui Wu
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Encyclopedia of underwater cultural heritage

2020
This encyclopedia includes two main sections: annotated list of the most significant works dealing with the exploration of the underwater cultural heritage covering the period from 1859 to2019 brief biographical information about specialists in underwater cultural heritage and four applications that reveal the major exploration issues relating to ...
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