The NAS is able to give support and guidance to help NAS members run investigation projects. Our Project's Sub-Committee has put together resources and created a project proposal template to help our Members who would like to run projects for other members, helping to bring ideas to fruition.
Maritime Archives is a new UK–Pakistan partnership to build skills in maritime archaeology and research into underwater cultural heritage along Pakistan’s coast.
Using the Lloyd’s Register Archive to investigate the development of colonial ports in Australia and Pakistan
There are thousands of potentially polluting wrecks (PPW) that are threatening the safety of our marine environment and the safety of those that use it. This data gathering project will create a framework for a potentially polluting wrecks (PPW) citizen science monitoring scheme to make both the environment and water-users safer.
In 2025 we partnered with the North of Scotland Archaeological Society to investigate a medieval crannog (lake dwelling) in Loch Achilty. In September 2025 we spent a week documenting and excavating a section of the crannog to better understand its occupation and use.
As part of the UnPath'd Waters Project the NAS are helping to address the need to link archives together to maximise the research potential and to make maritime archaeological sites more accessible, providing tangible links to British history through engagement especially with the non-diving general public. Discover more here.....
Be part of an online volunteer team illustrating artefacts recently raised and conserved from the HMS Invincible shipwreck.
Since 2019 the NAS has been recording and researching a historic wreck found by a dive boat skipper off the Sussex coast. Now designated as a protected wreck, the NAS is working with volunteer divers to help document the site for the UK and Dutch heritage agencies. Discover more here...
Help keep our waters clean and protect our underwater heritage. Learn how to record and monitor military wrecks and provide meaningful information to the Ministry of Defence to help them assess these potentially polluting wrecks.
The Holland No.5 submarine is a remarkable piece of our naval heritage. She was the first submarine to actually be commissioned in the Royal Navy, on the 19th January 1903 at the same time as Holland No.3. The NAS has been involved in recording and researching the wreck since 2008. Discover more here...
