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Date: 11 May 2011
Bournemouth University’s (BU) research and recoveries from the Swash Channel Wreck, and in particular work being conducted on its rapid deterioration, has been the focus of numerous news reports in national newspapers and television reports.
The piece has been covered by publications including The Independent on Sunday and the Daily Mail and has also featured on the BBC South Today television news show.
Conservationists have stated that the wreck, which has been labelled ‘the most important shipwreck since the Mary Rose’, may disappear within the next 5 years as the sand which had preserved it has shifted, exposing it to bacteria and aquatic ship worms.
Now a BU Marine Archaeology team, who have been studying it since 2006, plan to raise and preserve parts of the wreck at Poole Museum before it deteriorates to the point where there will be nothing left to study.
David Parham, a Senior Lecturer in Marine Archaeology said to The Independent on Sunday: “The damage there has increased dramatically since we first started studying it. It's a race - you’ve only got a certain amount of time before it’s too late and there’s no point. The longer the wreck is exposed, the more damaged it will be. If nothing were done within the next five years there’d be nothing left.”
The effort to save the wreck will also feature in the BBC 2 series ‘Britain’s Secret Seas’, which had its first episode shown on Sunday evening.
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