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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 +7 more
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Heritage, 2023 This paper discusses and underlines the importance of investigations on post-medieval shipwrecks, particularly for wrecks where archival documentation is also available, in relation to gaining a better knowledge of tin-glazed tableware produced in ...
Marco Milanese
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Artificial wrecks: Unwanted consequences of the deliberate sinking of ships for recreational diving
Ecología AustralArtificial 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 +4 more
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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 +5 more
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Environmental Predictors of Seabird Wrecks in a Tropical Coastal Area. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Beached bird surveys have been widely used to monitor the impact of oil pollution in the oceans. However, separating the combined effects of oil pollution, environmental variables and methodological aspects of beach monitoring on seabird stranding ...
Davi Castro Tavares +2 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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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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Selected wrecks and report on their condition state - Deliverable D2.1
, 2023 This deliverable is written to report on the work carried out in Task 2.1 of WP2 (Wrecks), which concerns the identification and selection of WWII aircraft wrecks (corpus), their constituent materials and their main conservation ...
Brunet Magali
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The Wrecks of Scapa:A Digital Exploration
, 2022 Scapa Flow and its surrounding waters are internationally renowned as the home of many military shipwrecks from WWI and WWII. These include the Royal Navy war graves HMS Royal Oak (1939), HMS Vanguard (1917) and HMS Hampshire (1916) and the remains of ...
Rowland, Chris; id_orcid
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Wreck removal and the Nairobi Convention - a movement towards a unified framework?
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2016 The Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks came into force on the 14 of April 2015 and provides a framework for wreck removal. Three central questions arise when dealing with shipwrecks; Who is responsible? What measures can and are to
Jhonnie Mikael Kern
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