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Exploring Europe's Shipwrecks, Virtually

Posted by timothy on from the like-a-virtuous-pirate dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Fancy youself as a bit of an archaeologist? This picture story shows images from a project aiming to digitally map out the shipwrecks around Europe's coasts. The plan is for people to eventually be able to take a virtual tour of the wrecks from their PC."

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  1. History by penguin+king · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well I was initially sceptical, come on, can't people go and visit or watch videos? History should be visited, you wouldn't want to explore a museum from your armchair... right? They make a good point out that this does offer a preservation of history. I guess it also makes it more available to disabled people (and lazy ones, ones without money etc.). This could be a neat project, especially for those with an interest in old ships. I'm kinda hoping the finished project will look less computer game like and more real though, otherwise it just doesn't seem like the whole history angle is really being explored (no pun intended).