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Worm-eaten shipwreck of Captain Cook’s Endeavour under threat from more marine animals
The wreck of Captain James Cook’s Endeavour is under threat not just from shipworms, but also from fish, crustaceans and the ocean itself, maritime archaeologists warn. The wooden ship rests off the coast of Rhode Island in the US, and is already worm-eaten. Experts from the Australian National Maritime Museum say time is critical in the race to save parts of the wreck that are important both historically and for future study. In February, the museum announced the identity of the wreck at the site known as RI 2394. That announcement caused a stoush with the Rhode Island custodians, who said it was premature. However, the museum says it has the evidence it needs and wanted to use the declarat…
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Shipwreck of Captain Cook’s Endeavour being eaten by ‘termites of the ocean’, expert says
There are fears the wreck of Captain James Cook’s Endeavour is being destroyed by shipworms, the “termites of the ocean”. In February the Australian Maritime Museum announced that the shipwreck, in waters off the coast of Rhode Island in the US, was “the final resting place” of that famous historical ship. The Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project (Rimap) challenged that assertion, sparking a transatlantic spat over the site known as RI 2394. Related: Row erupts over wreck in US waters identified as Captain Cook’s Endeavour Now an expert has told the Boston Globe that he has fo…
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Tags: Australia news US news Archaeology Marine life Oceans Environment Article News Tory Shepherd The Guardian Main section Top stories Australia News
Row erupts over wreck in US waters identified as Captain Cook’s Endeavour
A 22-year partnership between US and Australian researchers to identify James Cook’s ship the Endeavour has descended into a row after the Australian Maritime Museum announced the discovery. The museum’s chief executive, Kevin Sumption, announced on Thursday he was satisfied that a shipwreck in waters off Rhode Island in the US was “the final resting place of one of the most important and contentious vessels in Australia’s maritime history”. But the museum’s US partner organisation, the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project (Rimap), said the claim the Endeavour had been identified was a breach of contract, and blamed “Australian emotions or politics” for the “premature” announcement. The museum responded that it was not in breach of any commitments, and that Sumption was “confident” the wreck was the Endeavour. Cook sailed the ship around the South Pacific before landing on the east coast of Australia in 1770. It was scut…
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Deep sea robots will let us find millions of shipwrecks, says man who discovered Titanic
He is the celebrated deep-sea explorer who discovered the Titanic, as well as the German battleship Bismarck and other historic sunken vessels around the world. Now Dr Robert Ballard is pioneering cutting-edge technology – autonomous underwater vehicles that will “revolutionise” the search for more than three million shipwrecks that lie scattered across ocean floors, according to a Unesco estimate. Many will offer new insights into life on board at the time of sinking, hundreds or even thousands of years ago. “We’re going to be finding them like crazy,” Ballard told the Observer. “It’s going to be rapid discovery because of th…
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Tags: Exploration Oceans Archaeology The Titanic Science Technology UK news Article News Dalya Alberge The Observer Main section News Observer Main
New technologies bring marine archaeology treasures to light
No one knows what happened at Atlit-Yam. The ancient village appeared to be thriving until 7000BC. The locals kept cattle, caught fish and stored grain. They had wells for fresh water, stone houses with paved courtyards. Community life played out around an impressive monument: seven half-tonne stones that stood in a semicircular embrace around a spring where people came to drink. Then one day, life ended. The village that once sat on the Mediterranean coast now lies 10 metres beneath the waves off Israel’s shore. It was inundated when sea levels rose at the end of the last ice age. But Atlit-Yam was destroyed before then, and swiftly, perhaps by a tsunami. Buried under sand at the bottom of the sea, it now ranks as the largest and best preserved prehistoric settlement ever found on the seafloor. Human skeletons still lie there in graves, undisturbed.
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Tags: Archaeology Science Technology Internet of things Internet Italy Article News Ian Sample The Guardian Main section UK news UK Science
In resurrecting Captain Cook’s ship, we can re-examine our colonial past
News has emerged confirming the whereabouts of the wreckage of HMS Endeavour, a ship sailed by Captain James Cook. Reports invariably contain images of the ship in its pomp, proudly reminding the reader of its British origins and its voyage to the Pacific Ocean, where Cook took possession of Australia. But where should Cook’s ship go? Once we dredge it up, or rather, once the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project dredges it up, where should it be put? And will Cook’s ship be allowed to take us beyond our colonial past? It must be remembered that it is our cultural attachment that will be doing the dredging, our obsession and fascination with these objects that circulate as evidence of the all-powerful histories of empire…
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Tags: Opinion Colonialism Archaeology Australia news World news Rhode Island Indigenous Australians Science Comment British empire Article Captain Cook Sarah Cefai UK Opinion
Captain Cook's Endeavour: from the Great Barrier Reef to Rhode Island?
Captain James Cook observed the transit of Venus from the shores of Tahiti, ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef and claimed Australia for the British crown. He fought the French in the Americas, circumnavigated the world and died trying to kidnap a king of Hawaii. Related: Wreckage of Captain James Cook's ship Endeavour found, researchers say But the ship that saw so many adventures was sold, forgotten and lost. For centuries, the fate of HMS Endeavour has remained a mystery. Now marine archaeologists are almost certain they have found its wreck at the bottom of the sea – off exotic Rhode Island.
Researchers with the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project (Rimap) will announce on Wednesday that they are nearly sure that they ha…
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Tags: Rhode Island US news Archaeology Science Article News Alan Yuhas The Guardian Main section International US Foreign
Marine archaeologists discover rare artefacts at 1503 shipwreck site
A British-led archaeological expedition has uncovered the 500-year-old wreck site of what it claims is the earliest ship ever found from Europe’s “Age of Discovery”, a Portuguese vessel that was captained by an uncle of the legendary explorer Vasco da Gama. The Esmeralda was one of two ships that sank in a storm off the coast of Oman in 1503, only five years after Da Gama discovered the first sea route from Europe to India. After three years of excavation and historical and scientific research – the findings of which are reported on nationalgeographic.com – the archaeologists, which included teams from Bournemouth University and Oman’s ministry of culture, announced that they had fo…
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Tags: Archaeology Oman History Portugal Education Europe Middle East and north Africa Science World news Article News Esther Addley The Guardian Main section UK news
Shipwrecks at risk from fishing ‘bulldozers’
They are some of the country’s greatest untouched treasures, having lain undisturbed on the seabed, in some cases for centuries. But now these archaeological riches are being destroyed at an unprecedented rate before scientists or historians can get their hands on them. That is the stark situation described by marine archaeologist Sean Kingsley, who says fishing boats that use heavyweight bottom-trawling and shellfish-dredging equipment are annihilating precious artefacts and sunken ships. Our desire for fresh scallops is putting our heritage at risk. Once shipwrecks have been struck by fishing gear, they – and their contents – are obliterated for ever Sean Kingsley, Wreck Watch International “We know what damage can be done by these bulldozers of the deep – trawlers that drag hundreds of tonnes of gear over the se…
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Tags: Archaeology Science Fishing Food Wildlife Conservation Animals Marine life Environment Features Article Robin McKie The Observer The New Review Discover
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