Coronation Wreck Visitor Trail - A New Approach to Outreach and Protected Wrecks in the UK
Author(s): Roger Crook
Year: 2013
Summary
The Coronation, a 90-gun second rate, is a protected wreck site off Plymouth. In 1691 she foundered in a violent gale. Like the majority of protected wrecks in the UK, there is a wealth of history and archaeology to be gleaned most often by archaeologists. To regular sports divers, the 61 in the UK have often been deemed off limits, encouraging the notion of "ivory towers academics". Not any longer: Ginge Crook, the licensee of the site, has significantly changed this attitude in just one year. In 2011 he and his team established a Visitor Trail to guide divers through the great network of cannons, a waterproof booklet in hand. The Coronation is now the most dived protected wreck in the country, with over 1,000 dives logged in the first year of the trail. It's vital to welcome sports divers as the eyes and ears of our nation's heritage.
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Coronation Wreck Visitor Trail - A New Approach to Outreach and Protected Wrecks in the UK. Roger Crook. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428594)
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Keywords
General
Coronation
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Outreach
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Protected Wreck
Geographic Keywords
United Kingdom
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Western Europe
Spatial Coverage
min long: -8.158; min lat: 49.955 ; max long: 1.749; max lat: 60.722 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 613