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Another beautiful day on site

Wednesday 18 April After a delayed start due to some ordinary weather, today was another cracker day, with smooth seas but ...

A magnificent day on site

Tuesday 17 April After a comprehensive briefing this morning all of the project participants were raring to get into the water. ...

The Team begins to arrive

The first of the interstate participants have started to arrive in Portarlington. On Friday 12 April Mark picked up Chief ...

JUPB1 en route to Clarence

Pushed along by KV Johnson's tug Taurus, the project's diving and laboratory platform for the next month, Fitzgerald Constructions' JUPB1, ...

Media article: Archaeologists dive into St Leonards shipwreck’s history

Geelong Advertiser journalist Danny Lannen spoke with Mark Staniforth about the Clarence project today. Go to this link to read ...

10 tons of sand bagged and ready for deployment

On Saturday 30th March and Tuesday 3rd April, a team of enthusiastic volunteers (and two dogs) assisted Cass and Mark ...

Jack-up barge preparations underway

James Parkinson and others from PDS have been busy preparing JUB1, an 18m x 12m jack-up barge which will be ...

Current Deflector Screen test

A team of seven - Chief Investigator Mark Staniforth, Research Associate Peter Harvey, Researcher Toni Massey and volunteers John Munro, ...

National maritime archaeology project launches new website

The Australian Research Council (ARC) has provided a large ARC Linkagegrant for the Australian Historic Shipwreck Protection Project (AHSPP). ...

AHSPP Data Workshop

The Australian Historic Shipwreck Protection Project held a Data workshop over the weekend of 17 and 18 March 2012. The ...