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A Monitoring Program for Shipwrecks at Fathom Five National Marine Park, Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Lorne D. Murdock  and
John Stewart
Lorne D. Murdock
Affiliation:
Historic Resource Conservation Branch, Parks Canada, 1550 Liverpool Court, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, KIA OM5
John Stewart
Affiliation:
Historic Resource Conservation Branch, Parks Canada, 1550 Liverpool Court, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, KIA OM5
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Abstract

Fathom Five National Marine Park, Canada's first such park, was established in 1987. Among the cultural resources visited by thousands of SCUBA divers each year are 27 shipwrecks of the sail and steam era. As cultural resources within a national park they come under the care of Parks Canada and must be inventoried and monitored to ensure that appropriate care is being given to their preservation and protection. To meet these responsibilities, a shipwreck monitoring program is presently being developed to determine the state of preservation of six of the wrecks and to alert the park to any threats to their continued survival.

The three areas that will be monitored are the physical integrity of the hulls or wreckage, the deterioration of the materials comprising the wrecks and the environment surrounding them. This paper describes the techniques used in the onitoring program and discusses the impact and control of visitor use of the site. The aim of the entire program is to help slow the deterioration of the historic resources while also encouraging sustainable use so they can be enjoyed by the public well into the future.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 352: Symposium – Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology IV , 1995 , 867
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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