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
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
1 Jul 2013Corioli: The Shipwrecked SepiaThe Sepia was a three-masted iron sailing barque that wrecked en route to Fremantle, 3km west of Carnac Island. It was carrying general supplies needed for the growing colony. Corioli has carried out excavations on the site and has found items that reveal information about consumer goods for early colonists, which gives us great insight into their needs and wants.Read more Video Western Australian Museum
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
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
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