{"id":70,"date":"2008-12-02T22:46:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T22:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/?p=70"},"modified":"2009-02-18T05:08:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T05:08:18","slug":"sailors-divers-underwater-wrecks-to-be-preserved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/2008\/12\/sailors-divers-underwater-wrecks-to-be-preserved\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailors, Divers: Underwater Wrecks to be Preserved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for the <a title=\"Environmental Archaeology\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/environmental_archaeology.htm\"><strong>Environment<\/strong><\/a>, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett has announced $440,000 in funding from the Australian Government&#8217;s <a title=\"Historic Archaeology\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/historical_archaeology.htm\"><strong>Historic<\/strong><\/a> Shipwrecks Program to protect the nation&#8217;s <a title=\"underwater_archaeology\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/underwater_archaeology.htm\"><strong>underwater<\/strong><\/a> cultural heritage.<br \/>\nThe Minister made the announcement on a visit to the <strong>Queen Victoria Museum<\/strong> in Launceston, Tasmania, <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Underwater Archaeology \" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/images\/Lena.jpg\" alt=\"Underwater Archaeology \" \/>where three of the 29 funded projects will be carried out.<br \/>\nThe Historic Shipwrecks Program provides valuable financial assistance to state and territory agencies who manage, protect, identify and raise awareness of <strong>historic shipwrecks <\/strong>on behalf of the Commonwealth,&#8217; Mr. Garrett said.<\/p>\n<p>Shipwrecks are <strong>virtual underwater<\/strong> libraries of information from our past, and the secrets and insights our shipwrecks hold tell a story about our nation, revealing information about the people that traveled to our shores and the times in which they lived.<\/p>\n<p>With a vast <strong>maritime heritage<\/strong>, it is vital that we act to preserve <strong>Australia&#8217;s historic shipwrecks<\/strong> and their <strong>artefacts<\/strong> for future generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett has announced $440,000 in funding from the Australian Government&#8217;s Historic Shipwrecks Program to protect the nation&#8217;s underwater cultural heritage. The Minister made the announcement on a visit to the Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston, Tasmania, where three of the 29 funded projects will be carried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[101,100],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-archaeology","tag-queen-victoria-museum","tag-virtual-underwater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}