Shipwreck
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A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water. It results from the event of shipwrecking, which may be intentional or unintentional. There were approximately three million shipwrecks worldwide as of January 1999, according to Angela Croome, a science writer and author who specialized in the history of underwater archaeology [1] (an estimate rapidly endorsed by UNESCO[2][3] and other organizations[4]). When a ship's crew has died or abandoned the ship, and the ship has remained adrift but unsunk, they are instead referred to as ghost ships.
- ^ Angela Croome (January 16, 1999). “Sinking fast Archived 2017-12-25 at the Wayback Machine”, New Scientist, Volume 161, Issue 2169, pp. 49.
- ^ “Sinking fast”, Marine Industrial Technology, 1 and 2/1999 Archived 2021-02-24 at the Wayback Machine, Emerging Technology Series, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, pp. 58.
- ^ Lucia Iglesias Kuntz (June 12, 2002), “UNESCO urges the Americas to join the underwater heritage convention Archived 2017-12-26 at the Wayback Machine”, UNESCO Media Services.
- ^ “Lisbon Resolution Archived 2017-12-25 at the Wayback Machine”, Society for Historical Archaeology Newsletter, Summer 1999, Volume 32, Number 2, pp. 31.