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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Shipwreck"”.
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An analysis of the law governing the acquisition of shipwreck
The second half of the twentieth century has brought drastic changes in technology. These advances have changed the way marine resources are harvested or acquired The development of SCUBA made diving to depths of 50m unrestrained by the need for surface support, feasible. 1 This opened up the …
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Balancing Acts : Public Access And Archaeology In The Cape Fear Civil War Shipwreck District
… in the largest concentration of Civil War shipwrecks in the world. The interpretation of these wrecks for public outreach constitutes a valuable opportunity to educate members of the public using a material culture assemblage connected with the historical framework of the Wilmington …
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Prayers from the wreck : shipwreck narratives and imagined spiritual communities in nineteenth-century Britain.
Shipwrecks in nineteenth-century literature have commonly been interpreted as metaphors for religious crisis or loss of faith. Yet by reading shipwreck as only a metaphor, I argue that we have lost a sense of the historical reality that shaped nineteenth century readers and writers' imaginative …
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The humanitarian, technical and political response to shipwreck in the first half of the nineteenth century: the 1836 Inquiry and its aftermath
Shipwreck in the first half of the nineteenth century had been an on-going national tragedy. It was not officially quantified until the 185O's when it was found that 1025 ships a year on average were lost, the consequent destruction of life averaged 830 persons a year, with an annual loss to the …
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Managing underwater cultural heritage at Mozambique Island: in situ conservation, mitigation and monitoring strategies for Nossa Senhora da Consolação (IDM-003) shipwreck (1608)
… against the illegal destruction of important shipwrecks and removal of scientific evidence. The underwater cultural heritage of Mozambique is no exception and is emerging from almost two decades of destructive treasure hunting that has heavily impacted this heritage, particularly around …
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Players in a storm: Climate and political migrants in The Tempest and Othello
… Othello. Using Steve Mentz’s work with water and shipwreck, Lowell Duckert’s work on water in Shakespeare, Rob Nixon’s concept “slow violence,” Patricia Fumerton’s book on vagrancy in sixteenth and seventeenth century England, and Ken Hiltner’s work with environmental advocacy of the same time, I …
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Who is entitled to a shipwreck located in international waters? A contest for the spoils between salvors, the original owners, legitimate heirs, state governments and the historic preservationists
This dissertation addresses the value of shipwrecks, the reasons why persons have an interest in shipwrecks, the nature of competing claims for the shipwrecks by different persons and how different national laws and international law, treaties and conventions attempts to resolve such competing …
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Ultramarooned : gender, empire and narratives of travel in Southern Africa
… violability and territoriality. Portuguese shipwreck survival accounts from the long sixteenth century, the first sustained narratives of contact between southern African peoples and Europeans, are examined in the first half of this study. British women’s travel writings from the nineteenth …
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Probabilistic Roadmaps for Virtual Camera Pathing with Cinematographic Principles
… this work is an underwater setting featuring a shipwreck model with other virtual underwater elements such as rocks, bubbles and caustics. The digital shipwreck model was reconstructed from an actual World War II shipwreck, resting off the coast of Malta. Video and sonar scans from an autonomous …
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The Effect of Spill Contaminants on Marine Biofilms and Microbially-Induced Corrosion of Carbon Steel
<p>There are over 2,000 known historic shipwrecks located in the northern Gulf of Mexico which are ecological and cultural resources that support the diversity of life found in the deep-sea when they become artificial reefs. Spilled crude oil and chemical dispersant from the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) …
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The Maritime Archaeology of West Africa in the Atlantic World: Investigations at Elmina, Ghana
… in the discovery of a mid-seventeenth century shipwreck, which archaeological and archival research suggests may be the Dutch West India Company vessel Groeningen that sank after arriving to Elmina on a trading voyage in 1647. The site lies approximately 2.4 kilometers (1.5 miles) southeast of …
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Of His Bones are Coral Made: Submerged Cultural Resources, Site Formation Processes, and Multiple Scales of Interpretation in Coastal Ghana
… known sites, which include a circa 1650 shipwreck, referred to as the Elmina Wreck, and the remains of an early 18th century vessel in the Benya Lagoon. Drawing on remote sensing survey data, diver investigations, and the micro-sampling sediment coring technique developed over the course …
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Surgery at Sea: An Analysis of Shipboard Medical Practitioners and Their Instrumentation
… data sets from the medical assemblages of two shipwreck sites and one museum along with historical data into a comparative analysis. Using the methods of material culture theory and pattern recognition, this thesis will explore changes in western maritime medical practices as compared to …
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VIRTUAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND COMMINGLED SKELETAL REMAINS. RESOURCES AND POTENTIAL FOR PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION IN HUMANITARIAN FORENSIC CONTEXTS
… thousands of commingled skeletal remains, the shipwreck of April, 8th, 2015 stands among these recurrent tragedies. The advancements of imaging techniques and 3D modelling have brought about innovative tools to forensic anthropology and paved the way to novel research avenues for the analysis …
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An Evaluation of the Effects of Marine Oil-spills, Remediation Strategies, and Shipwrecks on Microbial Community Structure and Succession
… analysis of sediments around a North Sea shipwreck (HMS Royal Oak), in Chapter Five, revealed low levels of pyrogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and little evidence of HCB, indicating sediments showed no long-term impact by previous oil-pollution from the shipwreck. This thesis not …
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unclosure: Workstation for Aquarcheology
… and researching the ruins of the oldest known shipwreck of the world. The use of the building is projected to change over time to house the findings of the research and exhibit this world heritage and the process that brought it into light. Permanence as a concept is the subject of the major …
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A camcorder-based rapid mapping system
… photogrammetric mapping of a newly discovered shipwreck was carried out. A Sony Hi-8 camcorder was used for video image capture, and control for the imagery was obtained by a combination of GPS and theodolite survey. Retroreflective targets were placed along the surface of the wreck to tie the …
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The Anglo-American: Isthmian Diplomacy 1840-1850
… in the tides of diplomacy. Oftentimes to avoid shipwreck in tempestuous undulations, the ship of state drops anchor in less resistant waters, sometimes to lose the hunted treasure at the end of the voyage. |Long ago, after Columbus discovered these great Americas, there was jealousy, strife, and …
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