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 legal protection of the underwater cultural heritage is a field in which there is growing international interest. Shipwrecks and other underwater cultural r

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

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