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On-line

• Abandoned Shipwreck Act
• Beneath the Waters of Time: Interior’s Submerged Cultural Resource Programs
• Closing the Gaps in Domestic and International Law: Achieving Comprehensive Protection of Submerged Cultural Resources
• Commonwealth of Australia Law, Historic Shipwrecks Act
• Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage
  
• CSS Alabama Wreck Protection Agreement
  
• Enhancing NPS Stewardship of State-Owned Submerged Cultural Resources
• France's Department of Underwater Archaeological Research
  
• Historical Wrecks and Underwater Cultural Heritage, South Africa Heritage Resource Agency
• ICOMOS Charter on the Protection and Management of Underwater Cultural Heritage
• International Law for the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage: Can Our Past be Salvaged?
• International Law For the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage: Can Our Past Be Salvaged?
• Legislation on the Nautical and Underwater Archaeological Inheritance in Portugal
• LOST AT SEA: A treatise on the management and ownership of shipwrecks and shipwreck artifacts
• National Park Service Submerged Resources Center
• Nordic Underwater Cultural Heritage Legislation
  
• Perspective from Across the Atlantic
• Preserving A Submerged Legacy, National Park Service
  
• Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage of Sri Lanka
• Protection of UCH Consistent with International Law
• R.M.S. Titanic Memorial Act of 1986
  
• Raising Standards: A Modern Framework for Protecting Our Common Maritime Heritage
• Saving History for the Public
• Spain's National Plan for Protection of Underwater Archaeology Heritage
  
• Sunken Military Craft Act
• The Antiquities Act: Regulating Salvage of Historic Shipwrecks
• The Archaeological Duty of Care: The Legal Professional and Cultural Struggle Over Salvaging Historic Shipwrecks
• The Fig and The Spade: Countering the Deceptions of Treasure Hunters
• The Men Who Stole the Stars
• Underwater Archaeology Branch, Naval Historical Center
  
• Underwater Archaeology in Egypt
• Underwater Archaeology, China
• Underwater Cultural Heritage at Risk: Managing Natural and Human Impacts
• United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Off-line

• Boesten, E., 2001. Archaeological and/or Historic Valuable Shipwrecks in International Wares: Public International Law and What it Offers. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press.
• Watters, D.R., 0000. The Law of the Sea Treaty and Underwater Cultural Resources
• Dromgoole, S. (ed.), 2006. The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage: National Perspectives in Light of the UNESCO Convention 2001
• Elia, R.J., 2000. U.S. Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage Beyond the Territorial Sea: Problems and Prospects
• Street, T., 2006. Underwater Cultural Heritage Policies of the United States Coastal Zone