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CHAN E D ITE D BY PETER SYME S BY PETER SYME S BY GU NIL D SYME S Flying Sea Turtle, Indonesia, by Eric Cheng (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) 3 X-RAY MAG : 24 : 2008 Amsterdam Barcelona Cape Town Copenhagen Hamburg London Miami Moscow Oslo Paris Ravenna Singapore Sharm El Shiekh Sao Paulo Warsaw Editorial Explore the past but no looting please Wreck diving and marine dispute with Spain over the trea- ments were found. On land, such archaeology can be fasci- sure and wreck code named, remains would have rotted away ”Black Swan”, found by Odyssey long time ago, and that is what nating and rewarding. in a non-disclosed position in inter- makes marine archaeology so Wrecks are often refer- national waters. Spain alleges it special and fascinating. In the red to “time capsules” to be the Nuestra Señora de las blue realm, you can find stuff that and with good reason. Mercedes, which was sunk by would otherwise have disappea- the British fleet off the coast of red. Underwater, artefacts can Portugal in 1804. In the previous sometimes be preserved issue, we could report on the find And you don’t have to be a for centuries, as is the of a completely intact medieval Robert Ballard, have the resour- case with especially the vessel in the Baltic, presumably ces of a professional salvager like Dutch, and it was only this week Odyssea, or have major funding many magnificent finds the HMS Ontario—a 22-gun British to be a shipwreck detective. of the perfectly preserved warship that was lost on Lake Many of the significant finds have wooden shipwrecks in Ontario without a trace with as been done by enthusiasts and many as 130 people aboard historically interested divers who fresh or brackish waters. during a gale in 1780—was research archives and scan the reported found virtually intact in seabed weekend after weekend The 17th century warship Vasa on deep water. (See page 25) with echo sounders or sidescan display in a museum in Stockholm sonars. I know of many dive clubs harbour is one of Sweden’s big- From Europe to America, Africa who have found and now proud- gest tourist attractions. It is a and Asia, historically busy shipping ly display carefully restored arte- must-see for every visiting diver lanes are strewn with tens of thou- facts from shipwrecks, which they who happens to pass through the sands of shipwrecks from all eras. located and explored. Swedish capital. The initial sight Many of them have long since of the complete vessel as you go decayed and deteriorated into The retrieval and restoration of through the entrance will send a pile of ballast stones, but even artefacts from shipwrecks is a shivers down your spine. It looks in these cases, a lot of interesting delicate issue, however. First of exactly as it would if popped out artefacts can survive surprisingly all, should it be done in the first of a time machine, materialising well for centuries, preserved by place? Many wrecks have been before your very eyes. It is an physical and chemical conditions shamefully pillaged by visiting almost unreal sensation. of the bottom sediment. recreational divers who hack, saw, unscrew and break lose Ancient wrecks—and sometimes In Denmark, where X-RAY MAG’s parts of the wreck to have a even treasures—are still found headquarters are located, even “souvenir”—what is so interesting on a regular basis. As we go to remains of stone age canoes about a rusty porthole anyway?— press, Odyssey Marine Exploration have been found, and on these to the detriment of other divers. is engaged in a protracted legal remains, intricate painted orna- 4 X-RAY MAG : 24 : 2008 EDITORIAL FEATURES TRAVEL NEWS EQUIPMENT BOOKS SCIENCE & ECOLOGY EDUCATION PROFILES PORTFOLIO CLASSIFIED A real conversation piece. A box of coding wheels for the top- secret German Enigma coding machine found by a club of sports divers on a local WW2 wreck in the Danish straits. This and other artefacts were meticulously restored and dis- played at a public wreck exhibition ficult have also incurred loss of many to iden- lives. Many wrecks still contain the tify in the first remains of unfortunate seafarers, place, but that and they should be met with the does not mean same respect as those who lie the seabed is a free for interred in a cemetery. all buffet, where finders are keepers. It will often be the insu- All that being said, the seabed rer who owns the remains—or, as enables most of us recreational is the case with warships, a state, divers to be our own shipwreck which the Odyssey vs Spain case detectives or archaeological goes to prove. If in doubt, contact explorers. I would suggest that you In many countries, the law the maritime authorities or national always contact the local maritime is perfectly clear: Do not remove museums. In many places, you can museum, or other appropriate aut- anything without specific permis- be granted a permission to recover hority, if you find a wreck, to get sion from the relevant authorities souvenirs. guidance, and not to forget—to be and the legal owner. recognized as the finder. If there is Some wrecks should not be touc- to be an excavation, you will often Everything—also artefacts lying hed at all. War graves are such be asked to take part and have a around on the seabed or the instances. You may, in some instan- great time learning about marine apparently abandoned wreck— ces, visit them, while in other cases, archaeology and also about the has an owner. It is a widespread they have been declared complet- wreck itself from professionals. misconception among sports divers ely off limits to divers. Always dive that what lies on the seabed is on wrecks with the appropriate There is plenty to go around, and “owner-less” or “abandoned”. reverence. Shipwrecks are scenes it can be highly rewarding as you Granted it is often challenging, if of accidents and disasters, which might uncover facts about our not impossible, to establish who’s in the best of cases, just meant past. Just play by the rules the owner of remains that are dif- huge material losses, but may often …please. ■ X-RAY MAG is distributed or its affiliates. Unsolicited X-RAY MAG six times per year on the manuscripts, photographs is a founding Internet. © 2004-2006 and illustrations should be member of the Underwater X-RAY MAG.