Emphasizing that ships and watercraft of all descriptions and ages hold essential information on the history of humankind and that archaeological heritage is a non-renewable resource, deposited over thousands of years, but vulnerable to destruction through modern technologies,
强调各式各样和各个年代的船只和水上工具都蕴含着人类历史的重要信息，考古遗产是不可再生资源，是几千年的沉积所形成，但很容易为现代技术所破坏，