Italy ratifies the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage

In some slightly belated news, on January 8th, Italy became the 30th, and most recent, ratifying State of UNESCO's Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. Italy's cultural heritage and patrimony concerns are well documented and it comes as little surprise that a country with a long coastline and an even longer seafaring past would lend its support to the protection of its underwater cultural heritage.