Regional strategy to address marine pollution from WWII shipwrecks in the Pacific : Phase I - report and preliminary risk assessment

Abstract

SPREP under its Pacific Ocean Pollution Prevention Programme (PACPOL) formulated a Regional Strategy to address the issues related to World War II wrecks in the Pacific. This CD-Rom contains relevant regional and country by country level information relating to World Warr II wrecks in the Pacific|This SPREP WWII Shipwrecks for the Pacific database currently stands at 3855 vessels sunk in the Pacific region during WWII. This equates to over 13 millions of vessel sitting at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean