Dr Darren Fa of the Gibraltar Museum recently returned from Sicily where he was invited to present the latest findings of the Gibraltar Museum’s Underwater Research Unit at the ‘Euploia Conference: Underwater Cultural Heritage Best Practices in a Mediterranean Context.’ The Organisers of the event were Sicily’s Superintendenza del Mare and USA’s Stanford University; countries represented at the meeting included Italy, Malta, Slovenia, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Albania, Turkey and Tunisia.

Dr Fa gave a presentation entitled 'Underwater Cultural Heritage in Gibraltar: a Case Study of Integrated Management Policies within a Small Territory’ which was very well received. The study, which is part of an ongoing museum strategy for the co-ordinated protection of our submerged heritage, is a development of similar models applied to heritage on land that have been at the forefront of heritage management thinking in recent years. A publication on good practice management strategies in the Mediterranean is expected to follow from the discussions at the Sicily conference.