Federal Resources
- US Coast Guard Historian's Office
- Naval Historical Center
- Submerged Cultural Resources Center
- National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Marine Protected Areas Center
- NOAA Maritime Heritage
- Department of Interior's (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's Office of Renewable Energy Programs Historic Preservation Activities
- DOI's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement
Massachusetts Resources
- Massachusetts Historical Commission
- Massachusetts Archives
- Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs
- Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Historic Preservation Office
- Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) Tribal Historic Preservation Office
- Massachusetts Archaeological Society
- Massachusetts Historical Society
- Boston Public Library
- Martha's Vineyard Museum - formerly the Martha's Vineyard Historical Society
- Newburyport Maritime Society
- Egan Maritime Institute/Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum
- Essex Shipbuilding Museum
- Hull Lifesaving Museum
- Nantucket Historical Association
Massachusetts Laws and Regulations
- Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources Regulations (PDF, 188 KB)
- Law Governing Diver Access to Commonwealth Tidelands
- Law Requiring Display of Diver's Flag
- Massachusetts General Laws
News Articles, Publications, and Online Media
- ‘Stories coming back to life’: An inside look at recent shipwreck discoveries on Nantucket - Boston Globe, 2/28/23
- South Shore Shipwreck Podcast (Part 2) - Part 2 of a two-part podcast on the discovery and investigation of an historical shipwreck on Nantucket's South Shore from the Egan Maritime Institute's "Time & Tide Nantucket" podcast series, 2/21/23
- South Shore Shipwreck Podcast (Part 1) - Part 1 of a two-part podcast on the discovery and investigation of an historical shipwreck on Nantucket's South Shore from the Egan Maritime Institute's "Time & Tide Nantucket" podcast series, 2/1/23
- Massachusetts Coastal Resources at Risk: Ada K. Damon Shipwreck on Steep Hill Beach - A talk by BUAR Director, David Robinson from Salem Sound Coastwatch's "Virtual Underwater in Salem Sound" Lecture Series, 1/27/21
- The Archaeology of Submerged Paleolandscapes: Nantucket Sound and Beyond - A lecture by BUAR Director, David Robinson from the Nantucket Historical Association University's "Exploring Archaeology" virtual lecture series, 1/19/21
- Ada K. Damon: A Case Study in the Life-Cycle of Ships and the Vulnerability of Coastal Archaeological Sites to Sea Level Rise-Related Damage and Destruction - A talk by BUAR Director, David Robinson from the Robert S. Peabody Institute and the Massachusetts Archaeological Society/Robbins Museum's 10-episode virtual "Diggin' In!" lecture series, 10/21/20
- Underwater Archaeology talk with BUAR Director David Robinson and Connecticut's State Archaeology Program - iCRV Radio, 9/1/20
- Shipwreck fragment visits North Beach Island (PDF, 2 MB) - Cape Cod Chronicle, 5/14/20
Other Resources
- Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University
- G.W. Blunt White Library at Mystic Seaport, Mystic CT
- Society for Historical Archaeology
- Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology
- UNESCO Underwater Cultural Heritage
- Nautical Archaeology Society
- Seafaring Education and Maritime Archaeological Heritage Program