Heritage crime crackdown follows illegal wreck dive
Updated: 2011-02-23 23:30:00
By Steve Peacock - This Is South Devon
An illegal dive on a protected South Devon wreck site has been highlighted in news of a new crackdown on heritage crime.English Heritage has brought in a top cop to lead the fight against the growing number of heritage crimes ranging from vandal attacks on historic buildings to damaging illegal excavations by treasure hunters local for historic valuable.Illegal diving on wreck and illegal metal detector expeditions on protected sites are part of what is believed...
By Kate O'Toole and Miranda Tetlow - ABC News
Silvano has been studying the wrecks since the early 90s, completing a Masters and a PhD on the subject.He thinks these World War Two wrecks are JUST as important as the ancient rock art shelters we also boast in the Territory...It's a lesson in underwater archaeology on The Guestroom, as we take you diving, surveying and into the intricacies of heritage listing in Northern Territory waters.Listen more...
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From ur Amazing Planet
A nearly 400-year-old shipwreck was discovered in Corolla, N.C., in 2008 after storms and tides uncovered its timbers. Archeologists from the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources believe the structure to be the remains of the oldest shipwreck discovered off the North Carolina coast.
In the summer of 2010, archeologists decided that the wreckage couldn't remain on the beach any longer, where wind, sand and...
By Michele Nugent - Weekend Courier
The WA Museum’ maritime archaeology department has pinpointed the location of a Tasmanian-built timber steamship that sunk southwest of Garden Island in March 1900.The SS Cambria had left Fremantle on her way to southern ports when a southwest gale and heavy seas forced Captain Colstadt to seek shelter at Rockingham. A heavy swell threw the 28.7m, two-masted vessel onto a reef, breaking its propeller and causing it to take on water, eventually sinking...
By Charles Jackson - WXYZ
The 30th Great Lakes Shipwreck Festival presented by the Ford Seahorses Scuba Diving Club along with the Detroit historical Society's Dossin Maritime and the Dossin Great Lakes Museum will take place Saturday, March 5th at Washtenaw Community College.The festival will run from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Washtenaw Community College's Morris Lawrence Building. On display will be several new shipwreck discoveries that were found in the Great Lakes including the Lady Elgin...
By Nicole A. Flotteron - Hamptons
Gardiner's Island - Approximately five square miles in size, Gardiner's Island, a part of the town of East Hampton, has a rich, tumultuous history that spans nearly 400 years of ownership by the same family. It is the only real estate intact in the United States that is part of an original royal grant from the English Crown. The Island has survived Indian wars, pirates, invasion by British forces, war, and family issues. It is home to more than 1,000 acres of...
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By Erin James - The Virginian-Pilot
The powerful winds of a blustery winter have uncovered the rusted metal and weathered wood of a previously unknown shipwreck on an isolated soundside beach of Hatteras Island.The 20-foot mystery vessel has emerged from the side of an eroded dune, where recently uprooted trees attempt to shield the exposed wreck from curious eyes. Evil-looking spikes - presumably the bolts that once held the vessel together - reach upward from...
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By Ralph Gifford - Culture 24
With bitterly cold winters becoming increasingly common, the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth is opening a new polar exhibition celebrating Polar adventurers. Aptly named On Thin Ice: Pioneers of Polar Exploration, the exhibition has been developed with the help of the Polar Museum in Cambridge and will open on April 8.
The exhibition focuses on the historic and modern-day achievements of polar pioneers by using photography, artefacts, equipment...
From The Dominion Post
All along Wellington's stormy South Coast lie the victims of howling gales and bad decisions. Swamped by monstrous waves or steered blindly on to rocks, shipwrecks dot the bays and inlets, sheltering slices of history and plenty of crayfish. Owhiro Bay, a treasure trove of four easily accessible wrecks, is a popular spot for novice divers. Dave Drane, who owns Splash Gordon dive centre in Island Bay and has been diving in Wellington waters for more than 20 years, says the...
With about one month delay relative to the release of the new baseline of PubMed, here is the updated BuzzCloud visualization for what was hot and up-coming 2010 (click image for larger interactive version): Here is a quick overview of some of the trends that I found interesting: Geoepidemiology. A bit of searching in PubMed [...]