The Maritime Archaeological Association of Western Australia
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The Maritime Archaeology Association of Western Australia was incorporated shortly after Jeremy Green gave a public lecture as an introduction to a new course in Maritime Archaeology at the University of Western Australia. This lecture created such enthusiasm, a group of people with wide and varied diving and historical interests, formed the Association in October 1974 with a total membership of 23.
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| The Association became the 'Amateur Wing' of the Maritime Archaeology Department of the WA Museum, and offered a source of skilled voluntary labour and expertise for Museum Archaeology Projects. This relationship has worked well over the the years, with many benefits for both the Association and the Museum and has enabled MAAWA Members to participate in numerous local and overseas projects. |  MAWAA Diver Dave Totty finds a stoneware jar amongst ballast rocks on his first dive at the Rapid site.
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However over recent years budget restraints have curtailed most excavation expeditions requiring pools of volunteers, and the association has therefore initiated numerous survey and research projects on its own volition, without direct Museum supervision. Looking to the future MAAWA intends playing a greater role in publishing reports on local history and Colonial shipwrecks and one of our most recent important projects has been the STEFANO Story. |