'Race against time' to save Mary Rose video archive
Charlie Watts, works in the university's School of Film, Media, and Creative Technologies, described it as "a race against time". "They have a very robust outer casing but inside the tape is very vulnerable. The oxide on the tape is dissolving as we speak," said Mr Watts. "We have to do this now, otherwise it's gone completely."
Student Oliver Wibew, who is also working on the project, said: "I'm only 18 so I've never used this kind of technology before. "You have to put them into a player then it goes into the computer then you've got special software that can capture it and put it onto a drive."Another student, James Watts, has been watching the footage. "Seeing the Mary Rose from a diver's perspective, possibly for the first time in 40 years, that's something that not a lot of people get to experience," said Mr Watts. The digitised footage will help to tell the the salvage story at the Mary Rose Museum.
"We have the incredible Tudor story of all the artefacts that were found underwater," said collections manager Alastair Miles. "But then there's this modern story of the salvage, recovery and excavation and all of the people that were involved in that process."These tapes will allow us to add to that story with extra layers of information that we just didn't have access to before."The Mary Rose Museum's chief executive, Dominic Jones, said more than 500 divers were involved in the salvage. "What's fantastic is that we've now got 18-year-old students who are bringing that story to life," he said."It's not lost on us that they're the same age as the crew of the Mary Rose when the ship sank."
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