On June 8, 2021, the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-20 announced their endorsement of ODHN’s Cultural Heritage Framework Programme (CHFP) as an official Decade Action. Of the 28 endorsed Decade Actions, it is the only thus far that addresses cultural heritage in the Decade. The Cultural Heritage Framework Programme (CHFP) provides […]
GIRT members surveying the wreck of TSS Wandra wrecked at the Drum and Drumsticks, New South Wales, Australia. Photo A. Viduka. Dive into an ocean full of history with GIRT Scientific Divers By Andrew Viduka, ODHN In line with the societal objectives of the upcoming Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021–2030 (particularly a predicted ocean, a sustainable ocean, […]
Launching the ODHN ship! One of the results of the First Global Planning Meeting of the UN Decade of Ocean Science 2021-30, held in Copenhagen at the National Museum of Denmark in May 2019, was the creation of an Ocean Decade Heritage Network. ODHN is proposed as a way forward to continue to raise awareness […]