From May 27 to June 2, the Center for Underwater Archaeology (CUA) hosted a training course on underwater photography and photogrammetry, during which innovative methods and techniques for documenting submerged cultural heritage were presented.
The instructors were engineers Antonio Lagudi and Umberto Severino, lecturers from 3D Research at the University of Calabria, Italy. Participants included archaeologists from CUA, CUA partners (SubDiving), and colleagues from abroad (Croatia).
The course was organized as part of the international CREAMARE project, in which CUA is a partner. The project aims to establish a transnational and cross-sectoral framework for collaboration, bringing together cultural, scientific, and research institutions, creative professionals, and technology experts to develop cultural and creative applications and digital products for communicating, disseminating, and promoting cultural heritage. The activities have a special focus on underwater cultural heritage, raising awareness about pollution and other environmental threats affecting seas and oceans. The ultimate product is the creation of a serious mobile game designed to draw attention to these issues. CUA contributes to the platform with a digital model of the “Urdoviza” shipwreck and the documented artifacts from it. The digitization was carried out via photogrammetry by our colleague Pavel Georgiev. The shipwreck is located in Kiten Bay near Cape Urdoviza and has been studied jointly since 2022 by archaeologists Assoc. Prof. Krum Batchvarov and Dr. Dragomir Garbov, with funding from the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture and the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Texas, USA.
https://creamare.eu/