The marine environment is almost ideal for the preservation of artefacts and, until relatively recently, it also provided complete protection from destruction b

The 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage represents a major step forward in the field of international law. New archaeol

The first full-scale study of the international legal framework governing underwater cultural heritage to be published in nearly two decades.

This volume comprises a collection of sixteen national perspectives on law, policy and practice in respect of the underwater cultural heritage, written in light