http://moocs.southampton.ac.uk/shipwrecks/2015/12/22/mapping-potential-wreck-sites-with-seafloor-data-scientific-social-and-legal-considerations/ Shipwrecks and Submerged Worlds: Maritime Archaeology Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:17:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.14 http://moocs.southampton.ac.uk/shipwrecks/2015/12/22/mapping-potential-wreck-sites-with-seafloor-data-scientific-social-and-legal-considerations/#comment-2805 Sat, 06 Feb 2016 11:46:35 +0000 http://moocs.southampton.ac.uk/shipwrecks/?p=777#comment-2805 […] primary: http://moocs.southampton.ac.uk/shipwrecks/2015/12/22/mapping-potential-wreck-sites-with-seafloor-dat… & https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=673916F4 Closing date: 5 February […]

]]> http://moocs.southampton.ac.uk/shipwrecks/2015/12/22/mapping-potential-wreck-sites-with-seafloor-data-scientific-social-and-legal-considerations/#comment-2586 Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:28:43 +0000 http://moocs.southampton.ac.uk/shipwrecks/?p=777#comment-2586 […] primary: http://moocs.southampton.ac.uk/shipwrecks/2015/12/22/mapping-potential-wreck-sites-with-seafloor-dat… Closing date: 5 February […]

]]> http://moocs.southampton.ac.uk/shipwrecks/2015/12/22/mapping-potential-wreck-sites-with-seafloor-data-scientific-social-and-legal-considerations/#comment-2585 Mon, 28 Dec 2015 19:04:30 +0000 http://moocs.southampton.ac.uk/shipwrecks/?p=777#comment-2585 […] Project Title: Mapping potential wreck sites with seafloor data – scientific, social and legal con… Thousands of potentially polluting WWII shipwrecks litter the ocean floor. The pollutants carried on board may include oil, ammunition or other toxic materials. Leakage of pollutants from such wrecks may take place continuously or catastrophically, and the risk of such an event increases with time. The location of several of these wrecks is known and monitored by national administrations, but by far the majority sank without exact information on their location. The UK Ministry of Defence is presently undertaking a project trying to identify the location of such WW II wrecks, on the basis of historic information. In addition, hindcasts of oceanic circulation and storm surges extending before WWII can be used to enhance our understanding of the nature of the wrecking. Finally, there are now multiple publically available (UKHO, CCO, MCA) and commercial sources of swath bathymetry from the UK shelf, against which this archive derived wreck record can be compared. In many cases the decimetre resolution of the swath data will also facilitate full mapping of the identified sites. […]

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