Filipe Castro

It is impossible to inventory all the shipwrecks found around the world. This space is mainly intended as an ongoing inventory of ships studied and published shipwrecks, but we will try to collect other sites for which there are any published information. We have organized our shipwreck lists by country – as countries are the political units that have cultural agencies and bureaucratic organisms that collect these data – but we will present them by continents, and within continents, by countries and then bodies of water.

As countries have been formed, occupied, absorbed, separated, and renamed over the last millennia, we will try to balance the necessity to present them within a cultural context or maritime landscape, and under the political umbrella of the authorities with jurisdiction over the submerged cultural heritage in each country.

We are aiming at having a designated manager per country represented on NADL, but this is a working process, and we estimate that it will take some time before we get a stable data set. we welcome corrections and comments.