EMODnet Human Activities, Cultural Heritage, Ship wrecks

The dataset combines data collected from several sources: data collected and processed by the “Service hydrographique et océanographique de la marine” (SHOM) under the product “Wrecks and obstructions” for France (Hexagone and outermost regions and territories), The National Monument Service Wreck Viewer for Ireland, Historic England and the University of Oxford - The Oxford Roman Economy Project (Strauss, J. (2013). Shipwrecks Database. Version 1.0. Accessed (date): oxrep.classics.ox.ac.uk/databases/shipwrecks_database/) for archeological remains of ship wrecks in the Mediterranean. The different products were developed with different purposes and therefore provide information of different nature. The product developed by SHOM aims to identify objects emerging from the seabed and likely to hinder navigation, while the three other products focus on the historical value of the wrecks. The choice was made to keep as much information as possible. When possible fields from different sources have been merged (e.g. least depth available in SHOM data and the Oxford Roman Economy Project), but other fields correspond to a specific source. When available, information is provided on the nature of the objects (object description, ship characteristics, object type, artefacts, estimated tonnage), on the aging of the wrecks (sink year, dating, period), on the circumstances of the sinking (sink context, place of origine, place of destination), on the location (least depth, max depth, other depth information, object length, location precision, site area, coast distance), on the protection status (only for England) and on sources and additional information available (source information, references, website, website 2). Data from the National Monument Service Wreck Viewer in Ireland includes data from a variety of sources, including the UK Hydrographic Organisation. As there is a separate dataset based on the UKHO data, the corresponding records have been removed here. The additional processing carried out by EMODnet consisted in translating the available information to English (through partly-automated translation), extracting the year of the sinking when available and calculating the distance to coast. Last update of the product by SHOM was made in November 2022, last update of the Historic England data was made in March 2025, update of the National Monument Service Wreck Viewer in Ireland was made in August 2023, and the Oxford Roman Economy Project was carried out in 2013.

Date (Publication): 2022-07-22

Date (Revision): 2025-04-09

Date (Creation): 2022-07-20

Citation identifier: EMODnet_HA_Heritage_Shipwrecks_20250409

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
AND-International	[email protected] [email protected]	Author
Service hydrographique et océanographique de la marine (SHOM)- France	[email protected]	Resource provider
National Monuments Service Wreck Viewer - Ireland	[email protected]	Resource provider
Historic England	[email protected]	Resource provider
University of Oxford - The Oxford Roman Economy Project	[email protected]	Resource provider

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Protected sites

INSPIRE - Feature Concept Dictionary, version 3

Protected Site

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1

culture (society)

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1

wreck

GEMET - Themes, version 4.2.1

waste

GEMET - Groups, version 4.2.1

WASTES, POLLUTANTS, POLLUTION

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 100000

Language: English

Topic category

Oceans

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: No limitations on public access

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Other constraints: Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Other constraints: This data was downloaded from the EMODnet Portal ( https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/). The data originator is AND-International.

Transfer size: 0

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK	https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities	EMODnet Human Activities
WWW:DOWNLOAD	https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/e965088b-a265-4517-84df-c49b156af8a7/attachments/EMODnet_HA_Heritage_Shipwrecks_20250409.zip	EMODnet_HA_Heritage_Shipwrecks_20250904.zip
OGC:WMS	https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wms?	heritageshipwrecks
OGC:WFS	https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs?	emodnet:heritageshipwrecks

Distribution format

Name	Version
Esri geodatabase	gco:nilReason="unknown">
Esri shapefile	gco:nilReason="unknown">

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Date: 2020-12-23

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Statement: Depending on the source of information, the amount of information available on a specific wreck varies. More specific information on the metadata and quality of data can be found on the sources website.

Metadata

File identifier: e965088b-a265-4517-84df-c49b156af8a7 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: MD_CharacterSetCode_utf8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-09-02T08:27:19.17188Z

Metadata standard name: ISO19115

Metadata standard version: 2003/Cor.1:2006

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
AND-International		[email protected] [email protected]	Point of contact

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