SEAHORSE CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Maritime Archaeological Research, Consulting & Diving Services
SERVICES
Maritime or Underwater Archaeological Services
Seahorse Cultural Resource Management Services offer an assortment of professional services in relation to academic research, education, heritage management, and resource impact assessments for developments that effect cultural resources underwater. Below is a list of permitting and additional services offered;
Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture, and Heritage, Heritage Research Permit (HRP) services:
- Underwater archaeological reconnaissance, category A permit
- Maritime archaeological research, category B permit
- Marine archaeological resource impact assessments, category C permit
Additional services offered:
- Desk based assessments
- Archival and historical research
- Site delineation, interpretation, and analysis
- Underwater survey, mapping, drawing and or drafting services
- Underwater digital photography and HD video inspection
- Underwater visual inspection and metal detection survey
- Underwater excavation & testing
- On-site mitigation & remediation
- Sub-contracting services to commercial diving companies, CRM and environmental consulting firms
- Diving operations carried out to occupational diving standards for Nova Scotia and CSA diving standards.
- Diver Certification Board of Canada DCBC accredited divers
Underwater Archaeological Reconnaissnance Survey
An underwater archaeological reconnaissance survey is an examination of a defined area to locate archaeological resources, such as shipwrecks, using methods that do not include disturbance of subsurface deposits, and may involve limited surface collection.
Maritime Archaeological Research Project
Maritime archaeological research projects can include preliminary desk based research, archaeological survey and excavation. A survey is an examination of a defined area, including subsurface or benthic deposits, for the purpose of obtaining information on the archaeological resource located underwater. Research projects may include an excavation, carried out to locating, systematically recovering by controuled excavation techniques, analyzing, and interpreting archaeological resources.
Marine Archaeological Resource Impact Assessment
Marine archaeological resource impact assessment is an inventory and evaluation of archaeological resources and the assessment of impacts in connection with development proposals which will potentially disturb or alter the landscape, thereby endangering archaeological sites such as shipwrecks.