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xviii Acknowledgments
Governments have come and gone, as have museum directors—my col- league Graeme Henderson, once a member of staff in the Department, has gone on to become director of the Western Australian Maritime Museum, which in turn has enjoyed a new building and a revitalization of the work of the Maritime Museum. The State government has continued to support the work of the Department, as has the Federal government, through the Historic Shipwrecks Programme.
I would especially like to thank (long-time friend and associate) John Penrose and Alec Duncan from the Centre for Marine Science and Tech- nology at Curtin University of Technology, and Bruce Montgomery and Jochen Franke at the Department of Spatial Sciences at Curtin University of Technology for their input to my work and ongoing support and assis- tance. The Western Australian companies Geosciences Australia and 3D Mapping has also been a great help on photogrammetric issues.
Geoff Glazier of Fugro Survey has over the years lent exceptional support for maritime archaeology in Western Australia and I am particu- larly grateful to him for the assistance Fugro has provided towards the work of the Department.
In 2001, the local Western Australian film company Prospero Productions sponsored a series of three documentary films entitled The Shipwreck Detectives which portrayed the work of the Western Australian Department of Maritime Archaeology and of maritime archaeology in general. The pro- grams, which were totally funded by Prospero, enabled us to carry out further work in the Batavia grave sites, investigate the World War II sea- plane wreck sites in Broome, and explore the Deepwater Graveyard off Rottnest (an episode that ultimately transformed into a program about the World War II wrecks of Truk Lagoon, Micronesia). This proved to be a dynamic and extremely successful collaboration and I am grateful to my friend and colleague, Ed Punchard, director of Prospero, for his support.
Teaching has played an important role in my work and is part of the reason for writing this handbook. Curtin University of Technology, through the auspices of Professor John Penrose, established the first Australian post- graduate diploma course in maritime archaeology. Initially a collaborative course between Curtin University of Technology, the University of Western Australia, Murdoch University, and the Western Australian Museum, it was a unique course that was run on an irregular basis (five courses between 1990 and 2001). In 2001, Curtin University was no longer prepared to run the course and with changes in tertiary education in Australia we nego- tiated to run the course in conjunction with James Cook University in Townsville and Flinders University in Adelaide. Currently I hold the unusual distinction of being an adjunct associate professor at two univer- sities. The Department is now negotiating a new structure with the Depart-