Exploring Europe's Shipwrecks, Virtually

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."

Comments

History

[penguin king]

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).

Re:History

[JanneM]

You do realize, I hope, that these aren't museum ships, but actual wrecks still lying on the seabed. And not only easy to get to either, but far offshore, or in deep water. Very few people can actually visit them for real, what with the need for diving certification and equipment.

And if for some reason diving interest, ability and funding explodes over the next few years, having hordes of amateur divers swarming around the sites, picking up pieces as souverniers and so on would not be doing anything good for the sites.