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Oceans odyssey : deep-sea shipwrecks in the English Channel, Straits of Gibraltar & Atlantic Ocean

By Greg , Kingsley , Sean A.; Stemm

Book information

Publisher
Oxbow Books
Year
2010
ISBN
1842174150, 978-1-84217-415-9, 9781842177860, 1842177869
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
86 MB (90553908 bytes)
Series
Odyssey marine exploration reports volume 1
Edition
First Edition
Pages
288\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

In ten papers Odyssey Marine Exploration presents the technology, methodology and archaeological results from four deep-sea shipwrecks and one major survey conducted between 2003 and 2008. The sites lie beyond territorial waters in depths of up to 820 metres off southeastern America and in the Straits of Gibraltar and the English Channel. Exclusively recorded using robotic technology in the form of a Remotely-Operated Vehicle, the wrecks range from the major Royal Navy warships HMS Sussex (1694) and the unique, 100-gun, first-rate HMS Victory (1744)to the steamship SS Republic (1865) and a mid-19th century merchant vessel with a cargo of British porcelain. Their study reveals that the future of deep-sea wreck research has arrived, but also that many sites are at severe risk from destruction from the offshore fishing industry

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