NAS Member Mike Cross reports on his recent experience of diving on the Salcombe Cannons as part of the Salcombe Cannon Protected Wreck Project. Did everything go to plan for the team? Find out here... Read more
Member of the UK Mine and Cave Diving and Exploration group, Karen Garner, writes about a new type of diving that she’s recently added to her repertoire. Find out what she discovered here... Read more
Susie McGraw is a forensic archaeologist who attended our Underwater Skills Days to see if she’d like to diversify into underwater archaeology. As you’ll find out here, she made the right decision! Read more
Our heritage is continuously under threat of damage or destruction by environmental and human action. Read more
Promoting the preservation, protection and research of our nautical heritage.
Help us to raise £200,000 to support the work of The London Shipwreck Trust to advance, promote and provide for the preservation of the amazing London shipwreck and its artefacts for public benefit and to protect it for future generations. Discover more here...
Without you — our supporters, members and sponsors — we would not be able to do our work, protecting our global nautical heritage. Join us if you too have a passion for our maritime past and want to get involved, on the foreshore or under water. You will learn that discovery really is just the beginning...
NAS CEO Mark Beattie-Edwards discusses why historical shipwrecks like the London, lost on the Thames Estuary, hold significance in today's society, and what we can do to protect them. Discover more about the wreck of the London here....
The UK heritage agencies have supported the development of diver trails around the country to facilitate access to the country’s protected wrecks. The NAS has help establish four of the trails as well as three virtual dives that help non-divers experience the pleasure of exploring a historic wreck. Discover more about dive trails here...
Indulge your passion for nautical archaeology, and help us explore, preserve and record the world’s intertidal and underwater heritage for future generations. Discover more about us here...
During 2018 and 2019 this HLF funded project will use the latest imaging techniques to reveal underwater wrecks from the Great War, and will support coastal communities around Wales to tell their previously untold stories about the Great War at Sea. As a project partner the NAS delivered two fieldschool events in North (2018) and South Wales (2019). Discover more here...
In 2019 the Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) and the Maritime Archaeology Trust (MAT) will be running training activities and series of public events based around the Chesil Beach protected wrecks off the coast of Weymouth. Discover more here....
Explore present day London and see the physical evidence for the Roman and medieval ports of London. Read more
Do you know your futtock from your frame? What about your adze from your awl? If you are fascinated by the craftsmanship of wooden vessels but baffled by the terminology and number of parts then come to this course and NAS Senior Tutor, and former shipbuilder Ian Cundy, will explain it clearly. Read more
Learn how to confidently run maritime heritage related public engagement activities for a wide variety of audiences and get practical experience with your own project. Read more
Get practical and theoretical experience of content creation for promotion and public engagement online, from ideation to creation, uploading and evaluating. Read more
In 2019 the Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) and the Maritime Archaeology Trust (MAT) will be running training activities and series of public events based around the Chesil Beach protected wrecks off the coast of Weymouth. Discover more here.... Read more