4 May 2015HMAS Sydney (II) and the HSK Kormoran survey expedition 4 May 2015An expedition to survey the historic World War II shipwrecks of HMAS Sydney (II) and the German raider HSK Kormoran. The wrecks lie in 2,500 metres of water, 20km apart, about 200km west of Steep Point (Shark Bay). The $2.4 million survey expedition is supported by the Australian Government, Western Australian Museum, Curtin University, DOF Subsea, the Western Australian Museum Foundation, GMA Garnet Group and the Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany in WA Torsten Ketelsen, and Prospero Productions. Read more Video Western Australian Museum
1 May 2015HMAS Sydney (II) survey expedition 1 May 2015 An expedition to survey the historic World War II shipwrecks of HMAS Sydney (II) and the German raider HSK Kormoran. The wrecks lie in 2,500 metres of water, 20km apart, about 200km west of Steep Point (Shark Bay). The $2.4 million survey expedition is supported by the Australian Government, Western Australian Museum, Curtin University, DOF Subsea, the Western Australian Museum Foundation, GMA Garnet Group and the Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany in WA Torsten Ketelsen, and Prospero Productions. Read more Video Danny Murphy
3 Nov 2014Wreck Update: Behind the scenes in Maritime ArchaeologyPresented by Adjunct professor Dr Michael (Mack) McCarthy, Curator, Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Museum Part of the WA Museum’s 2014 In the Wild West Lecture Series. Some of Western Australia’s most historically significant maritime sites have had many new and exciting developments happening in the field and behind the scenes. Dutch shipwrecks Batavia, Zeewick, Zuytdorp and Gilt Dragon all have new research unfolding, as does the elusive Aagtkerke.Read more Video Western Australian Museum
9 Sep 2014Patrick Baker: The Evolution of Underwater PhotographyToday, underwater photography is an important aspect of any shipwreck recovery. It allows us to discover the sites without physically going there, records the intimate details of the site for future generations when the wreck may have been moved or suffered further deterioration, and allows scientific study away from the wreck site using high-resolution images.Read more Video Western Australian Museum
30 Jul 2013Month of Shipwrecks – Batavia Dive 2013Video taken on a dive to the Batavia wreck site in the Abrolhos Islands during the research expedition of April-May 2013.Read more Video Danny Murphy
29 Jul 2013Patrick Baker: 36 years of shipwreck photography –Gallery 4Patrick Baker is the Western Australian Museum's shipwrecks photographer. This series of photo galleries explores his amazing career and catalogues the photos taken between 1970 - 2005. The fourth gallery has a heavy focus on object photography and 18th century Dutch shipwrecks. Read more Photo Galleries Western Australian Museum
25 Jul 2013Month of Shipwrecks – Batavia Expedition 2013This photo gallery showcases some photo highlights of the research expedition to the Abrolhos islands during April-May 2013.Read more Photo Galleries Danny Murphy
16 Jul 2013Jeremy Green: The Deep-Water GraveyardThe settlement of Western Australia meant that an increasing number of ships were sailing into port. Some of these ships were incapable of carrying on due to factors like age and storm damage, and so were being abandoned on pristine beaches. This caused unrest within the local community as it ‘didn’t look good’ to have wrecked ships lining the coast.Read more Video Western Australian Museum
11 Jul 2013Apothecary Jars from Batavia and Gilt DragonThe Batavia wreck site produced a large collection of medical supplies used by the ship’s surgeon – one of the largest ever found from this period. Coral, an aquatic archaeology student from Texas A&M. University came to Western Australia to study the medical supplies of the Dutch wrecks Batavia and Gilt Dragon (Vergulde Draeck). Her study focused on shipboard medicine from large trading companies of the 17th and 18th centuries.Read more Video Western Australian Museum
8 Jul 2013The Mysteries of BataviaBatavia is housed at the Western Australian Museum’s Shipwreck Galleries, and can tell us a lot about seafaring and shipbuilding in the 17th Century. Batavia is unique. It sank in 1629, right off the Western Australian coast in the Houtman-Abrolhos archipelago. It was the first Dutch East India ship to be lost along this rugged coastline.Read more Video Western Australian Museum
5 Jul 2013Patrick Baker: Exploring the James MatthewsThe James Matthews was a colonial ship that was wrecked in 1841, about 8 or 9 km from the Fremantle Maritime Museum, at Woodman Point. The ship was carrying a group of settlers coming out from the United Kingdom. They were, quite literally, as Patrick Baker points out, ‘on the doorstep of their new home’ when the ship sank.Read more Video Western Australian Museum
1 Jul 2013Month of Shipwrecks July 2013 is the Month of Shipwrecks. At 9:30am every weekday throughout the month a new video, map, mini-website, photo gallery, lecture, interview or database will be available exclusively on this website to reveal new insights about wrecks such as the Batavia, SS Xantho and James Matthews, or invite you behind-the-scenes to learn about our research and archaeology. Read more Online Exhibition Danny Murphy