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Whaling heritage is a significant part of the world’s maritime history, and its landscape footprint is global. In the 19th Century, the Pacific and adjacent Arctic waters were the epicenter of whaling, where both many of the most productive whaling…

This paper presents the advantages of incorporating Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) disciplines in the protection of underwater sites. The integrated safeguarding approaches can enhance professional capacity and can lead to a knowledge pool that…

This paper deals with the utility, valorization, and sustainable development of underwater cultural
heritage in the Indian Ocean region. We outline how the process of valorizing underwater cultural
heritage has been undertaken in this specific…

There are many opportunities, challenges, and competing interests related to the development of research on and
preservation of submerged WWII heritage in the Pacific. This paper outlines an interdisciplinary, community
inclusive project which…

Poster presented at the 2014 Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage

The arrival of Spain and Portugal in Asia-Pacific in the 1500s marked a turning point in the history of the region. New foreign actors came into play: priests, merchants and mercenaries looking to save souls and profit from trade in exotic Asian…

East Asia is rich in maritime and underwater cultural heritage. Not only conventional shipwrecks or submerged archaeological sites but also stone tidal weirs or prehistoric shell mounds along coastal zones have extensively been identified by many…