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They will work together to develop as soon as possible a comprehensive conservation project of the 'Mazarrón II', in addition to taking immediate action to prevent storms from damaging the wreck
The current protection system will be consolidated and reservoir monitoring will be reinforced to verify that conservation conditions are ideal at all times.
The Autonomous Community and the Ministry of Culture and Sports have agreed to conduct new studies before taking a definitive solution for the protection of the wreck 'Mazarrón II', the Phoenician ship, dated in the seventh century BC.
C., and discovered in 1994 at the Playa de la Isla, in Mazarrón.
The two administrations have pledged to work together to ensure the protection of the wreck and write a comprehensive conservation project that does not exclude extraction.
Community and Ministry thus comply with the recommendations adopted by the Scientific Commission for Monitoring the National Plan for the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, meeting in Madrid, the body that advises the Ministry in the development of the National Plan.
The work carried out during six years by the Mazarrón II Commission, made up of the Autonomous Community, the City Council of Mazarrón, the Ministry and technicians of international prestige in underwater archeology have also been valued.
Experts have verified the structural cohesion of the vessel, but warn of the progressive deterioration suffered by the protective box, installed in 1999, and warn of the risk that could be suffered in the future by the action of the storms.
Until a final decision is made, the current protection system will be consolidated and the monitoring of the deposit will be reinforced to verify that the conservation conditions are suitable at all times.
These decisions have been taken in the afternoon today after studying and discussing the reports presented during the morning by the technicians of the National Museum of Underwater Archeology (ARQVA), and those from the Autonomous Community.
The reports, commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Culture, were prepared from the prospecting campaign conducted between August 23 and September 3 in which experts in underwater archeology of both administrations participated.
The joint meeting between the general director of Fine Arts, Román Fernández-Baca;
the general director of Cultural Assets, Rafael Gómez;
the director of the Institute of Cultural Industries and the Arts, Juan Antonio Lorca;
and the mayor of Mazarrón, Gaspar Miras.
Source: CARM
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