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I am delighted to announce that Craig Forrest has joined Wreck Check. Craig is the Director of the Marine and Shipping Law Unit, and Professor in the School of Law at the University of Queensland. He teaches and undertakes […]

I am pleased to announce the recruitment of two distinguished new members to Wreck Check, they being Ian MacLeod and Matt Carter. Ian is one of the world’s foremost materials conservators dealing with the underwater cultural heritage, while Matt […]

The destruction of underwater cultural heritage has increased rapidly in the last two hundred years mainly driven by direct and indirect impacts from people. However, with climate change and potentially larger storm events more often, an underwater site’s equilibrium […]

Who or what sank HMS Sirius at Norfolk Island in 1790? Introduction During July 2017 Wreck Check members commenced working on a Commonwealth Government Community Heritage and Icons Grant project titled ‘Who or what sank HMS Sirius at Norfolk […]

An article on Graeme Henderson’s new book Swallowed by the Sea mentions Wreck Check. Follow the link here: http://wreckcheckinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/shipwrecks-story.pdf

My book Swallowed by the Sea, the Story of Australia’s Shipwrecks, published by the National Library of Australia, was released on Saturday. The book features  a chapter on our  search by Wreck Checkers James Parkinson, Alex Moss, Andrew Viduka […]

Results of season 2 Closing in on the Fortuyn Project are now available on the Wreck Check website. Go to the gallery page to see photos and images of the survey method and results: Closing in on the Fortuyn […]

The Wreck Check team were conscious that the 7 day stay on Cocos Keeling Islands was a narrow window of survey opportunity. North Keeling, the top survey priority, is 28 km due north from the main atoll and the […]

We are now reasonably confident that the lost 1724 Dutch ship Fortuyn does not lie between 0-30 metres in the water off Christmas Island. We have re-run the priority areas on the south-west side of the island with a […]