Abstract
After a description of the international regulatory framework, this paper examines the European project DE.E.P.P. and provides an overview of shipwreck databases in Italy. Afterwards, it reconstructs the recent history of the supertanker VLCC Haven which represents one of the largest Mediterranean shipwrecks. The findings of this paper emphasize the need to unify all the various agencies databases into a national Territorial Information System of potentially polluting wrecks. This System would be completed by all the information available in archives and press, to allow an adequate environmental risk monitoring and classification of shipwrecks in the Italian seas.
Department
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
Publication Date
11-2009
Volume
No. 2 (2009)
Journal Title
International Hydrographic Review
Pages
52-60
Publisher Place
Monaco
Publisher
International Hydrographic Organization
Document Type
Journal Article
Recommended Citation
Masetti, Giuseppe and Orsini, Fulvia, "Environmental Risks Monitoring of Shipwrecks in Italian Seas" (2009). International Hydrographic Review. 490.
https://scholars.unh.edu/ccom/490