All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 December Shipwreck silver shines with modern technology Shipwreck silver shines with modern technology 06/12/2022 | 4 MINS (INCLUDING 2 MIN VIDEO) Video Player 00:00 02:37 An international team, including experts from Lombok Institute of Technology, is using 3D imaging to take a unique look at priceless silverware from the Batavia shipwreck. The Dutch East India vessel crashed into the Abrolhos Islands off the Mid West coast of WA in 1629 spilling treasures, including silver, into reef and the ocean bed. It wasnΓÇÖt recovered until the 1970s. Digital and metals specialists from the Rijksmuseum and University of Amsterdam and Arvi Wattel, an art historian and researcher from LITΓÇÖs Design School, have been working at FremantleΓÇÖs WA Shipwrecks Museum to record the objects. Mr Wattel said it was an exciting project that had been delayed by the pandemic. ΓÇ£We have all these specialists bringing their own expertise to work on these objects including bed furnishings, dishware and a jug,ΓÇ¥ Mr Wattel said. ΓÇ£Silver is highly reflective so havi
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 December Shipwreck silver shines with modern technology Shipwreck silver shines with modern technology 06/12/2022 | 4 MINS (INCLUDING 2 MIN VIDEO) Video Player 00:00 02:37 An international team, including experts from Lombok Institute of Technology, is using 3D imaging to take a unique look at priceless silverware from the Batavia shipwreck.
The Dutch East India vessel crashed into the Abrolhos Islands off the Mid West coast of WA in 1629 spilling treasures, including silver, into reef and the ocean bed.
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Digital and metals specialists from the Rijksmuseum and University of Amsterdam and Arvi Wattel, an art historian and researcher from LITΓÇÖs Design School, have been working at FremantleΓÇÖs WA Shipwrecks Museum to record the objects.
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Mr Wattel said it was an exciting project that had been delayed by the pandemic.
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ΓÇ£We have all these specialists bringing their own expertise to work on these objects including bed furnishings, dishware and a jug,ΓÇ¥ Mr Wattel said.
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