Monitoring Underwater Aircraft in Washington State
Author(s): Kees Beemster Leverenz; Megan Lickliter-Mundon; Maurice Major; Claudia Chemello; Alexis Catsambis
Year: 2020
Summary
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Strides Towards Standard Methodologies in Aeronautical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
A Martin PBM-5 Mariner rests in 24 m at the south end of Lake Washington in Seattle, WA. This WWII-era aircraft presents as typical for the situation of most aviation heritage objects in freshwater lakes and reservoirs in the US, as an un-regulated dive site. It exemplifies universal challenges for public awareness and interaction with archaeological sites, and local and federal management strategies for underwater cultural resources.
In 2018, a collaborative survey took place to collect baseline-status data for the wreck, to experiment with efficient 3D modeling of a low-visibility site, and to help foster stewardship for Seattle’s submerged cultural heritage. In this case, Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) represent a movement that is becoming more common in the US; an organized, non-profit group of highly-trained individual local divers who are increasingly well-suited, and in some cases better equipped, to collaborate with federal and academic partners in monitoring submerged heritage.
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Monitoring Underwater Aircraft in Washington State. Kees Beemster Leverenz, Megan Lickliter-Mundon, Maurice Major, Claudia Chemello, Alexis Catsambis. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457536)
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Keywords
General
Archeology
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Aviation
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Photogrammetry
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1949
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 706