HUAED - Diver Training @ www.seabreaze.gr

1. HUAED WEBINAR:
HERITAGE AND UNDERWATER
ARCHAEOLOGY EDUCATION DIVING
Why you…
How you’ll benefit…
What to expect…

2. BUILD AROUND YOUR
HERITAGE SKELETON
Take responsibility for your past, present, and future by learning heritage and underwater
archaeological theory, methodology, “ship wreckords”, and more

3. WHAT IS HUAED?
• HUAED is an idea that aims to educate everyday people from
all backgrounds about the principles, methodologies and
issues concerning underwater heritage and archaeology
• Through the simple process of a Webinar and Conference,
future divers and diving instructors come together, forming a
collective conscious towards the conservation of underwater
heritage, while initiating a negotiable dialogue for future
diving lessons
• This Webinar answers why you should consider coming to
the HUAED Lecture Assembly, how you will benefit, and what
you can expect from the Conference

4. HUAED = HU-AID
TO AID HUMANITY

5. WHY YOU?
• You are the future passengers of our underwater environment,
and it’s your choice whether you will help or harm its safety and
preservation
• Use your inspiration for diving to humanise the discipline,
becoming part of a generation of divers that respects heritage,
and condemns the treasure and technology obsessed
generations of the past (Flatman: 2007, 80)
• Combine your interests in diving and underwater archaeology
now, avoiding the complications of becoming a diver first, and
archaeologist second (Bass 1966)

6. • To have as many people from different academic and
cultural backgrounds as possible to develop a common
understanding on the multi‐disciplinary nature of Maritime
Archaeology (Cultural Heritage Connections 2015)
• Diversify your current diving ability and knowledge,
increasing your level of employability and attractiveness
for joining maritime projects
• Its your chance to tailor your diving career towards the
cultural heritage and periods of history you love, whether
it be recreationally, academically, or business motivated
• Use your passion for photography to capture your own
photo graphic record, and help contribute to the world’s
lack of digital photographic material regarding maritime
heritage

7. SEE YOURSELF HERE?

8. HOW YOU’LL BENEFIT
• Being taught specific training and knowledge of Underwater
Archaeology that is primarily offered only at universities and
private institutes
• Diving instructors get to meet diving enthusiasts, and vice
versa, in a friendly environment, beginning a relationship
founded upon respect for heritage
• Initiates a negotiable dialogue with diving instructors and
students towards future diving certification

9. • Gaining a step ahead of other divers by developing a
value-conscious and ethical ideology concerning
underwater heritage and archaeology
• Discover the roles and responsibilities of archaeologists,
particularly concerning archaeology under water
• Understanding why you dive in the first place, and
deciding how you will conduct yourself underwater
• Learning how the surviving material remains can be
affected by human activity before, during, and after the
destruction/crisis event (Gibbs 2006)

10. • Understanding the processes that determine the formation
of underwater site environments (what you see)
• Being told the contemporary issues facing underwater
heritage and archaeology in a clear and concise fashion
• Learning vital aspects of the law regarding the sea, such
as the UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of
Underwater Sites

11. HELP PRESERVE
WORLD HERITAGE

12. WHAT TO EXPECT
Theory and purpose of archaeology
• Learn how to distinguish between the disciplines of
archaeology that are relevant to underwater activity
• Find out the nature and expected outcomes of archaeology,
enabling you to conceptualise the life cycle of an
archaeological process

13. • Identifying the desired outcomes that are expected from
archaeological projects
• Acquire skills and knowledge concerning values towards
underwater heritage and archaeology
• Learn about site formation processes, explaining how
archaeological material ends up looking the way it does.
• Be given information on how to get involved in Maritime
Archaeology

14. Underwater archaeological
methodologies
Learn the types of methods Maritime Archaeologists use today

15. • Remote sensing (aka
magnetometer)
Diver-Tow Surveying
Underwater photography and videography
Non-disturbance survey, recording & material
detection
Others (dredging, sampling)

16. Equipment, technology, digitisation, and
software
See what types of equipment and software Maritime Archaeologists use
today

17. • Remote Sensing Technology
Underwater photographic and video
technology
Software for archaeological digitization
Basic useful archaeological equipment for
underwater recording and excavation

18. “Ship Wreckords”
See case studies of archaeological investigations on Classical,
Byzantine, and 16th century AD Maritime Heritage

19. • CAPE SOUNION
ARCHAEOLOGICA
L INVESTIGATION:
SOUNION,
SOUTHERN
ATTICA, GREECE

20. • MARZAMEMI II SHIPWRECK,
AKA “THE CHURCH WRECK”

21. • MARY ROSE, WARSHIP OF
HENRY VIII

22. Contemporary Issues
and Legal Framework
• Learn the major issues that are affecting worldwide
Maritime Heritage
• Be exposed to the law that governs the worldwide
protection of Maritime Heritage (UNESCO 2009)
• Find out where Greece is lacking in its stance towards
protecting its Maritime Heritage resources

23. • Gain valuable insights into the way
archaeology is influenced by
political motives, and a treasure
hunting/technologically obsessed
diving society
• Be empowered with legal knowledge that enables you to
be an advocate for your own heritage
• See an ethics Case Study, experiencing the thought
process of making a conflicting ethical decision in
regards to archaeological participation

24. Any Questions?

25. –John F. Kennedy
“We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back
to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are
going back from whence we came.”

26. REFERENCES
Bass, G. (1966). Archaeology Under Water. New York: Frederick A Praeger.
Cultural Heritage Connections (2015). UNESCO fieldschool for Underwater Cultural
Heritage. Available from:
http://www.culturalheritageconnections.org/wiki/UNESCO_fieldschool_for_Underwater_
Cultural_Heritage [Accessed 15th Mar 2015]
Flatman, J. (2007). The origins and ethics of maritime archaeology. Public Archaeology.
Vol. 6(2): 77-97.
Gibbs, M (2006). Cultural Site Formation Processes in Maritime Archaeology: Disaster
Response, Salvage and Muckelroy 30 Years on. The International Journal of Nautical
Archaeology. 35(1): 4–19.
UNESCO (2009). The UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of Underwater Sites.
[Online] Available from: http://www.unesco.nl/sites/default/files/dossier/gb-
2001convention-infokit_07-2009.pdf?download=1 [Accessed: 3 Feb 2014].

27. Thankyou, and see you at the Conference!