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Shipwrecked: Diving with a Purpose with Dr. Sean Kinglsey

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How to Dive on Wrecks of Historical Significance

Marine archaeology requires an MA as a basic standard. There are various universities at Southampton, Texas A&M and HIFI University to get those sort of qualifications. Then if you want to do the academic side and really run projects you have to get those PhD letters after your name. If you find a wreck your local dive club work with English heritage historic England or with a heritage body for that site. I've got some colleagues who are very very hardcore divers in the North Sea which is the worst condition you can imagine of Eastern England. They weren't professional marine archaeologists but they found the Gloucester which had James Duke of York on it from 1682.

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