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Challenges Facing the State Management of Historic Shipwrecks in English Territorial Waters

Internet Archaeology, 2020
Funding challenges for maritime archaeology in the UK means that Historic England has to seek creative solutions to historic wreck management. This article details how historic shipwrecks in English territorial waters are protected, managed and conserved
Hefin Meara
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3D RECORDING OF UNDERWATER ANTIQUITIES IN THE SOUTH EUBOEAN GULF [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015
An underwater archaeological survey was initiated in 2006 by the Hellenic Institute of Marine Archaeology in collaboration with the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities of Greece, in the South Euboean Gulf.
E. Diamanti, F. Vlachaki
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Prospection magnétique 3D à haute résolution

Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2015
Magnetic survey realized with the simultaneous determination of the coordinates of the magnetic field measurement, with centimeter accuracy, at rates of 10 to 20 measurements per second, opens new horizon.
François Lévêque, Vivien Mathé
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Are Sunken Warships Biodiversity Havens for Corals?

Diversity, 2022
Coral reefs are threatened by climate change, overfishing, and pollution. Artificial reefs may provide havens for corals, both to escape warming surface waters and to assist in the geographic migration of corals to more habitable natural reef conditions ...
Gregory P. Asner, Sonja F. Giardina, Christopher Balzotti, Crawford Drury, Sean Hopson, Roberta E. Martin   +5 more
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A state-of-the-art model for spatial and stochastic oil spill risk assessment: A case study of oil spill from a shipwreck

Environment International, 2019
Oil spills are serious environmental issues that potentially can cause adverse effects on marine ecosystems. In some marine areas, like the Baltic Sea, there is a large number of wrecks from the first half of the 20th century, and recent monitoring and ...
Payam Amir-Heidari, Lars Arneborg, J. Fredrik Lindgren, Andreas Lindhe, Lars Rosén, Mohammad Raie, Lars Axell, Ida-Maja Hassellöv   +7 more
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The Armoured Cruiser HMS Defence: A case-study in assessing the Royal Navy shipwrecks of the Battle of Jutland (1916) as an archaeological resource [PDF]

, 2012
This paper presents the findings from a survey of one of the shipwrecks of the Battle of Jutland, and is extracted from a longer currently unpublished report which examines the six known Royal Navy wrecks.
Campbell, Fawcett, Gordon, Harper, Innes McCartney, Lambert, Liddle, Steel, Tarrant, Von Hase, Wyllie   +10 more
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Underwater Cultural Heritage and the Sustainable Development Goals

Blue Papers, 2023
Underwater cultural heritage is heritage that is surrounded by water. It can be found in rivers, lakes, oceans and reservoirs, and comprises tangible heritage – wrecks, fishing tools, sunken cities and aircraft – as well as the intangible heritage of ...
Elena Perez-Alvaro
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Risk assessment of war wrecks – a comprehensive approach investigating four wrecks containing munitions in the German Bight/North Sea

Propellants, explosives, pyrotechnics
Shipwrecks and dumped munition continue to be a major hazard, both in the North Sea but also on a global scale. Research within the EU Interreg project North Sea Wrecks (NSW), in cooperation with the German Aerospace Centre, Institute for the Protection ...
Sven Bergmann, Matthias Brenner, J. Strehse, T. H. Bünning, E. Maser, Philipp Grassel, David Heuskin, David Brandt, Marco Berger, Simon van der Wulp, Mathew Skellhorn, P. Hill, Sven Van Haelst, Maarten De Rijcke, Uwe Wichert   +14 more
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Artificial wrecks: Unwanted consequences of the deliberate sinking of ships for recreational diving

Ecología Austral
Artificial reefs are submerged human-made objects. In particular, the artificial wrecks are intentionally submerged obsolete ships. Once deployed, these wrecks are rapidly colonized by diverse benthic communities.
Karen L. Castro, Nicolás Battini, Gonzalo Bravo, Gastón Trobbiani, Evangelina Schwindt   +4 more
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Cycle End of Boats' life and Coasts for creative projects on built environments in the post-pandemic future

Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA, 2021
Some coastal landscapes have become places of abandonment of boats at the end of their life. A growing phenomenon that affects many geographical areas, local communities, terrestrial and aquatic areas.
Maria Maccarrone
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