Ebook: Between the Devil and the Deep: Meeting Challenges in the Public Interpretation of Maritime Cultural Heritage

In creating interpretive strategies for maritime sites, archaeologists and resource managers often are required to think creatively to overcome challenges and problems. These issues include interpreting sites in inaccessible locations and extremely deep water, enabling and controlling access to fragile sites and restricted areas, monitoring visitor behavior, making information interesting to a wide audience, and creating opportunities for public engagement, among other concerns. Meeting Challenges presents cutting-edge interpretation and public education strategies for maritime resources, both on land and underwater, with emphasis on solving the unique problems often associated with presenting these fragile, limited-access sites as heritage attractions and on developing effective visitation and civic engagement opportunities. The examples presented ideally can serve as models for resource managers, archaeologists engaged in interpretation, and site administrators. This volume brings together a diverse group of heritage professionals to discuss issues they’ve encountered and to present ideas and case studies for adapting, improvising, and overcoming them.

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In creating interpretive strategies for maritime sites, archaeologists and resource managers often are required to think creatively to overcome challenges and problems. These issues include interpreting sites in inaccessible locations and extremely deep water, enabling and controlling access to fragile sites and restricted areas, monitoring visitor behavior, making information interesting to a wide audience, and creating opportunities for public engagement, among other concerns. Meeting Challenges presents cutting-edge interpretation and public education strategies for maritime resources, both on land and underwater, with emphasis on solving the unique problems often associated with presenting these fragile, limited-access sites as heritage attractions and on developing effective visitation and civic engagement opportunities. The examples presented ideally can serve as models for resource managers, archaeologists engaged in interpretation, and site administrators. This volume brings together a diverse group of heritage professionals to discuss issues they’ve encountered and to present ideas and case studies for adapting, improvising, and overcoming them.

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In creating interpretive strategies for maritime sites, archaeologists and resource managers often are required to think creatively to overcome challenges and problems. These issues include interpreting sites in inaccessible locations and extremely deep water, enabling and controlling access to fragile sites and restricted areas, monitoring visitor behavior, making information interesting to a wide audience, and creating opportunities for public engagement, among other concerns. Meeting Challenges presents cutting-edge interpretation and public education strategies for maritime resources, both on land and underwater, with emphasis on solving the unique problems often associated with presenting these fragile, limited-access sites as heritage attractions and on developing effective visitation and civic engagement opportunities. The examples presented ideally can serve as models for resource managers, archaeologists engaged in interpretation, and site administrators. This volume brings together a diverse group of heritage professionals to discuss issues they’ve encountered and to present ideas and case studies for adapting, improvising, and overcoming them.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Toward Multivocality in Public Archaeology: Public Empowerment Through Collaboration....Pages 3-10
Connecting the Wrecks: A Case Study in Conveying the Importance of Submerged Cultural Heritage Through a Scaled Outreach Approach....Pages 11-25
Out of Sight, Out of Mind and at Risk: The United Kingdom Public’s Engagement with Heritage....Pages 27-42
Connecting People to the Past: An Ethnographic Approach to Maritime Heritage Interpretation and Recreation....Pages 43-54
Management of Submerged Cultural Heritage: Public Outreach Examples as a Result of the Section 106 Process....Pages 55-62
Shifting Sand: A Model for Facilitating Public Assistance in Coastal Archaeology....Pages 63-72
“Public” and “the Public” in Italian Underwater Archaeology: A Sardinian Perspective....Pages 73-84
The Success of the South Carolina Sport Diver Archaeology Management Program....Pages 85-95
Maritime Heritage Outreach and Education: East Carolina University’s Engagement with International Public Communities in Africa and the Caribbean....Pages 97-107
The Florida Panhandle Shipwreck Trail: Promoting Heritage Tourism in the Digital Age....Pages 109-118
Sailing the SSEAS: A New Program for Public Engagement in Underwater Archaeology....Pages 119-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
No Visibility, No Artifacts, No Problem? Challenges Associated with Presenting Buried Sites and Inaccessible Shipwrecks to the Public....Pages 131-139
A Monumental Distance: Education and Outreach from the Most Remote Archipelago on Earth....Pages 141-153
Interpretation of Maritime Heritage at National Marine Sanctuaries: Using a Maritime Cultural Landscape Approach....Pages 155-159
Managing Historic Shipwrecks in Argentina: Challenges to Reach the Public....Pages 161-172
Difficult Heritage: Interpreting Underwater Battlefield Sites....Pages 173-187
Challenges as Stepping Stones: Mexico’s Experience in Maritime Heritage Interpretation....Pages 189-196
Making Shipwrecks Celebrities: Using the National Register, Shipwreck Preserves, Documentary Filmmaking, and Interdisciplinary Projects for Shipwreck Preservation....Pages 197-206
Back Matter....Pages 207-214