The Australian National Maritime Museum has launched an innovative new web experience dedicated to the Museum’s maritime archaeology research undertaken over the past 22 years.
DEEP DIVE will enable the general public and the academic community to learn more about the work of the museum‘s maritime archeologists, using immersive videos, animation, underwater footage, and photogrammetry data sets. This website is the Museum’s ongoing centre for this research.
Audiences can experience rare insight into what it is like to be at deep depths of the ocean, discovering and investigating shipwrecks and research sites.
DEEP DIVE utilises innovative technologies to deliver these rare underwater experiences, now available to everyone via an internet browser. The museum will continue to publish the work of the maritime archaeology team as they uncover stories, innovation and experiments.
In launching the Deep Dive website today, the Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts, The Hon. Paul Fletcher MP, said,
“As the positive identification of the Endeavour shows, marine archaeology is a fascinating and rapidly developing field of expertise. I am delighted to launch Deep Dive, which will give the community unprecedented access to this aspect of the Museum’s activities.”