The generalized underwater technics efficiency estimation methodology of deep sea archaeological projects

Abstract

From the perspective of managing projects the trends of underwater and technical support of marine archaeological expeditions were set up, a scientific problem of estimating the efficiency of these trends was defined, and a global criterion for estimating the efficiency of using underwater technologies for the stage of drafting deepwater archeology projects was proposed. The urgency of the scientific problem lies in the presence of a large number of underwater objects in the territorial waters of Ukraine, which make up the underwater cultural heritage of mankind, and in the low activity of studies due to the lack of scientifically justified methods of choosing underwater technologies and techniques of their use at the stage of drafting marine expedition projects.As a result of the studies, it was suggested computing a global criterion for estimating the efficiency of using a dimensionless safety criterion of carrying out operations for underwater archaeologists and environment, as well as dimensional criteria of productive efficiency of underwater techniques and price characteristics of their application.For estimating criteria, a system of formal indicators and poorly formalized operating limitations in using underwater techniques and technologies, which take into account environmental factors and characteristics of wrecks, was developed.The obtained results give a theoretical basis for a generalized methodology for estimating the efficiency of underwater technologies and modern diving, manned and fully robotic underwater techniques at the stage of drafting deep-water archeology projects considering environmental factors in an area of carrying out archaeological operations and features of submarine objects under investigation