Attribution and Open-Data Notices

UK Hydrographic Office — Wrecks and Obstructions

Used for wreck positions in UK waters. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Historic Environment Scotland — Canmore (National Record of the Historic Environment)

Used for wreck identities and positions in Scottish waters. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Historic Environment Scotland. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Historic England — protected wreck sites

Used to identify wrecks designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Historic England. Open Government Licence v3.0.

National Monuments Service — Wreck Inventory of Ireland

Used for wreck identities, loss dates and positions in Irish waters. © Government of Ireland. National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. CC BY 4.0.

Geological Survey Ireland and Marine Institute — INFOMAR Shipwrecks

Used for wreck positions and surveyed water depths. INFOMAR Shipwrecks © Geological Survey Ireland and Marine Institute. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. CC BY 4.0.

Marine Institute

Used for survey imagery and wreck records where cited. © Marine Institute. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. CC BY 4.0.

EMODnet Bathymetry

Used to infer a wreck’s depth where no source states one: the deepest surveyed seabed within 250 metres of the recorded position. EMODnet Bathymetry Consortium: EMODnet Digital Bathymetry (DTM), sampled through the EMODnet Bathymetry REST service (rest.emodnet-bathymetry.eu), September–October 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

NOAA / NASA JPL MUR SST v4.1

Used for monthly mean sea-surface temperature at a wreck’s position, 2015–2024. JPL MUR MEaSUREs Project. GHRSST Level 4 MUR Global Foundation Sea Surface Temperature Analysis (v4.1). PO.DAAC. https://doi.org/10.5067/GHGMR-4FJ04. Accessed via NOAA CoastWatch ERDDAP.

Esri World Ocean Base

The map’s basemap. Powered by Esri · Esri, Garmin, GEBCO, NOAA NGDC, and other contributors.

Esri World Ocean Reference

Place names and labels over the basemap. Sources: Esri, GEBCO, NOAA, National Geographic, Garmin, HERE, Geonames.org, and other contributors.

Marine Regions — EEZ boundaries

The faint maritime boundary lines. EEZ boundaries: Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Marine Regions, CC BY 4.0.

The map shows these credits in its attribution control.

Third-party sources cited on wreck records — museums, archives, books, newspapers and specialist websites — remain with their owners. Facts drawn from them are cited with a link to the source; their text is not republished. Positions are published only from sources that permit it, and at a precision set by the position policy.

Open sample dataset: a 50-record, metadata-only sample of the map’s records is published on Zenodo under CC BY 4.0 — https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23187882.

Reuse of the site’s own facts is covered by the terms.