Out of the Blue

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Not All Wet: Public Presentation, Stewardship, and Interpretation of Terrestrial vs. Underwater Sites

   • John H. Jameson

   Pages 7-18

3. The Value of Public Education and Interpretation in Submerged Cultural Resource Management

   • Della A. Scott-Ireton

   Pages 19-32

4. Look Outwards, Reach Inwards, Pass It On: The Three Tenures of Underwater Cultural Heritage Interpretation

   • David M. Nutley

   Pages 33-51

5. Florida's Maritime Heritage Trail

   • Roger C. Smith

   Pages 52-63

6. A Maritime Heritage Trail and Shipwreck Preserves for the Cayman Islands

   • Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton, Della A. Scott-Ireton

   Pages 64-84

7. Creating a Shipwreck Trail: Documenting the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet Wrecks

   • Jennifer F. McKinnon

   Pages 85-94

8. Refocusing on Georgia's Rivers: The Role of Maritime Historical Archaeology in Waterfront Revitalization

   • Jason M. Burns

   Pages 95-111

9. Lake George, New York: Making Shipwrecks Speak

   • Joseph W. Zarzynski

   Pages 112-126

10. Diver Awareness Program – QAR Dive Down

    • Mark U. Wilde-Ramsing, Lauren S. Hermley

    Pages 127-144

11. Not Just Another Piece of a Boat: Massachusetts' Shoreline Heritage Identification Partnerships Strategy (SHIPS)

    • Victor T. Mastone, David W. Trubey

    Pages 145-157

12. Wrecked, Abandoned, and Forgotten?: Public Interpretation of Beached Shipwrecks in the Great Lakes

    • John R. Halsey

    Pages 158-170

13. Outreach Beyond the Beach: Management of Historic Shipwrecks on the Outer Continental Shelf

    • David A. Ball, Jack B. Irion, Christopher E. Horrell

    Pages 171-181

14. Unseen Battlefields: The Japanese Midget Sub at Pearl Harbor

    • Hans Konrad Van Tilburg

    Pages 182-195

15. The View from the Hunley Recovery Team

    • David L. Conlin

    Pages 196-203

16. People Power this Submarine: H.L. Hunley within the Context of Public Archaeology

    • James W. Hunter III

    Pages 204-222

17. Entering the Virtual World of Underwater Archaeology

    • Gordon P. Watts, T. Kurt Knoerl

    Pages 223-239

18. Back Matter

    Pages 240-248

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Those charged with protection of resources falling within the public domain, including submerged sites, continuously strive to find the best management solutions. Given the advent of recreational diving in the last half century and advances in underwater survey and exploration technology, pressures have increased dramatically on submerged archaeological sites. Users of these p- lic resources fall into groups with various needs and agendas, including divers, fishermen, salvers, scientists, and the tourism industry (Kauru and Hoagland, 1994). To insure that all people are represented in the decision-making process, site managers have increasingly argued that public outreach and education is vitally important. “Without public appreciation of the importance of archa- logical sites and information,” states one early proponent, “there can be no effective protection of sites. ” Archaeologist Charles McGimsey (1972:6) c- tinues, “. . . the greater one’s knowledge of archaeology, regardless of formal training in the subject, the greater the responsibility to take the initiative to lead, to teach, and to persuade others to do likewise. ” Some also suggest that rather than rely solely on museum interpretive displays the public should be allowed to observe heritage resources in their original setting, which can strengthen the spirituality and meaningfulness of the experience (Carter and Horneman, 2001:67-68). Managers must be aware that from a purely archaeological perspective, public access is not a preferred option for those sites that still retain significant, undo- mented remains.

• Conservation
• Cultural Heritage Management
• Heritage Protection
• National Park
• Underwater Archaeology
• heritage management
• individual
• shipwrecks

From the reviews:

"This volume is … testimony to a much larger set of challenges that have come to define heritage conservation and museum practice today. … the book appears to be largely aimed at politicians and policy makers, and perhaps also the larger archaeological community, those who are not entirely aware of the maritime aspect of their discipline. … the larger issues behind the book do have significant ramifications for all those with an interest – intellectual, educational, political and financial – in heritage conservation of any kind, anywhere." (Garth Wilson, International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. XX (1), June, 2008)

• National Park Service, Tallahassee, USA

  John H. Jameson

• Florida Public Archaeology Network, Pensacola, USA

  Della A. Scott-Ireton

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