Adopt-a-Wreck
The Adopt-a-wreck scheme is part of the wider Dive with a Purpose initiative introduced in 2000 and received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund through the Diving into History Project. Today the scheme continues as a way to encourage people to actively record the sites they are visiting and everyone who has adopted a site is encouraged to submit their work for the annual Adopt a Wreck Award. An Adopt-a-Wreck newsletter is produced for those who have adopted sites and we will send you an Adopt-a-Wreck starter pack when you adopt a site.
What kind of sites can I adopt?
While the title suggests a shipwreck,
and it is commonly dive clubs that carry out adoption projects, neither is a
requirement. On land there is a range of harbour works and buildings
with nautical connections, coastal habitations, hulks and other material of archaeological interest. Going back further in time to the
ice age, much of the North Sea and the English Channel were dry land -
now it is underwater archaeology...
Over 120 sites have been adopted under the scheme, both in the UK and overseas. If you, your group or club have a site that you visit reguarly and would like to take your work on that site further and contribute to our knowledge of maritime sites, by adopting the site, please fill in the form
below, a full list of adopted sites can be found here:
Wreck adoption
form
Adopt a Wreck Newsletter
The latest edition of the Adopt a Wreck Newsletter can be found here, with information on the 2011 Award and some recent adoptions...
2012 Newsletter
Project Starter Pack
 In 2010 the NAS where awarded grants from English Heritage, Historic Scotland, Cadw and the Professional Association of Diving Instructors to update the original Diving with a PurposeProject Starter Pack, developed in 2001. The new Adopt a Wreck Starter Pack CD-Rom provides information to adopters including sections on undertaking research and fieldwork, on documentation and interpretation as well as on funding projects. New adopters will automatically be supplied with a Starter Pack.
If you are an existing adopter and would like a pack please contact the NAS office
What is in the Starter Pack?
- Case studies from previous winner of the Adopt a Wreck Award
- Guidance on working safely
- Useful equipment
- Project planning, recording, research
- 14 different proforma recording forms
- Relevant legislation that might affect your project
- Reporting, archiving and funding guidance
- Applying for the Adopt a Wreck Award
- Information on appropriate NAS Training
Many thanks to the Adopt a Wreck Project Starter Pack sponsors:
   
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