Unesco’s Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage

  It's an international treaty aimed at saving the underwater cultural heritage. 

  States Parties to the Convention pledge to preserve underwater cultural heritage for the benefit of humanity, and take action. 

  Furthermore underwater cultural heritage will be protected from being commercially exploited for trade or speculation.

  In-situ preservation

  Training and information sharing

   It was recently in news because, the legendary Titanic’s wreckage, which has remained at the bottom of the North Atlantic for 100 years, will now come under its protection.