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Tanzania has a coastline of about 1,424 kilometres (km) with many famous ancient coastal towns such as Zanzibar, Kilwa, Mafia and Bagamoyo. The town’s host many underwater cultural heritage (UCH) sites which are not yet documented. About 40…

Bandar-e Kong is a port-town located in the Iranian coasts of the Persian Gulf, which flourished in the 17th
century CE with the presence of the Portuguese. Since then, Bandar-e Kong has been a departure point for
Iranian ships sailing the triangle…

The ships and boats of the 15th and early 16th century European voyages were the space shuttles of their time, and yet we don’t know much about them because most have been destroyed by looters and treasure hunters. This paper will focus on a…

Carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) is a high-strength, lightweight material that is widely used in the
aerospace and automobile industries, and recently is also used in the shipbuilding field. However, the fibre
volume fraction of the…

Shodo Island in the Seto inland sea used to be the major entrepôt of wall stones, which were taken to the Osaka castle, gathered from some islets around this island. The processes of constructing Japanese castle walls are composed of three…

In October 2022, archaeologists from East Carolina University and the University of California at Los Angeles investigated
underwater cultural heritage associated with World War II around the islands of Maui and Lānaʻi in Hawaiʻi. Working…

The excavations of underwater cultural heritage (UCH) in Korea are conducted mainly after surveying the waters
where they are found, which is only conducted by the National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage
(NRIMCH). Excavation of…

This paper will examine the history of underwater fossil research in the Mt Gambier region, Australia, focusing
on ongoing efforts to study, conserve, and protect underwater resources found in the freshwater sinkholes and
limestone caves of the…