Jakarta (ANTARA News) - In recent weeks Indonesia shocked by the discovery of Cirebon shipwreck treasure, known as 'The Cirebon Wreck'. Mediapun droves proclaiming the event that has never existed and placing it in the headlines.
"Two weeks was all excited and a lot of people who care about kebuadayaan Indonesia and the fear that the culture was for sale," said Jero Wacik, Minister of Culture and Tourism when the opening auction in the ballroom building Mina Bahari III Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries on Wednesday (5 / 5)For the first time, the government held an auction of artifacts worth millions of dollars with a lot system and there were no participants. Inadequate time for sosialisi accused as one cause.
"Two weeks was all excited and a lot of people who care about kebuadayaan Indonesia and the fear that the culture was for sale," said Jero Wacik, Minister of Culture and Tourism when the opening auction in the ballroom building Mina Bahari III Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries on Wednesday (5 / 5)For the first time, the government held an auction of artifacts worth millions of dollars with a lot system and there were no participants. Inadequate time for sosialisi accused as one cause.
The treasure was a historic relic but not Indonesia, but China's history because it is a porcelain goods with style and heritage of China's dynasties.
"Indonesia should not be disappointed because the property but not including the Indonesian culture Culture of China," said Jero Wacik.
The auction is just the end of appointment of shipwreck treasure it. Previously, the treasure was removed by betting the lives and still in a state of mud before cleaned in such a way to be beautiful on the shelf.
Excavation and Snifter
Underwater excavations are one way to find archaeological data with diving skills include excavation, removal and handling of the findings until the transfer to the handling.
The process of appointment of the treasure under the strict supervision of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, represented by the Directorate of Underwater Heritage, Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries and the Navy. They were all under the auspices of the national committee BMKT.
Underwater Heritage Directorate of Trustees oversee the techniques and working methods of appointment, the appointment of records found objects.
Navy Supervisor securing the work site and check every person who boarded and left the ship while the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries supervisor on duty checking the completeness of the foreign worker permits and vessels used and the means of each of the supervisors to report news and events by appointment.
"Officers are always on stand by to be on the boat watching the divers every day, they turn around two weeks to bring all food supplies on board," said Gatot Ghautama, Head of Sub Directorate of the Protection of Underwater and come to supervise the Cirebon Wreck on the ship.
Removal crews have 30 people consisting of captain, diver, ceramics and koki.Pengangkatan janitors could take many months and carried out only in daylight so that sunlight helps.
"There is division of work, there is on board as chef and below the divers and they do it during the day rather than night," he said.
Equipment that is standard in motor boats have a place to put the scuba gear or other equipment and crane machines (pulley), a tool for lifting the goods from the seabed.
Diving equipment consisting of masks to protect your eyes from the sand or small items as well to avoid irritation when diving, snorkeling (the short tube for breathing divers), and a life jacket as a means of neutralizing the heavy divers when in the water.
There is also a tube of air (scuba tanks), the depth gauge (depth gauge), frog legs (fins), diver clothing (wet suits) which serves as the retaining body heat in order not to lose in excess, gloves, watches (dive watch) and compass.
"Divers can be many hours in the water with the turn of the tube under the sea Scuba digatung been prepared by the ship's side divers stay so get it," he said.
Other equipment such as side scansonar tool used to track objects under water like land mines and even a shipwreck, an underwater camera and video and computer to process data.
"One of the divers perform video documentation so that we know what it does under," he said.
Appointment of the use of lifting balloon serves to lift the findings seabed to the surface.
"If a balloon tied to the four corners of the box after opening the bond will be mengelurkan gas balloon that will lift to the top surface, and some of the crew above ready to take him to the ship," he said.
No lagging, Airlift tool for finding reveals a closed sand or mud.
"Professional Divers wear Airlift let his property looks but if it is illegal to use a crowbar," he said.
Requires skill and risk dives should also be in accordance with regulations.
"Tantamount to dive skydiving parachute if one knot can nyungsep, well if one dives lumbuh diving could even die," said Surya Helmi, Director of Underwater Archaeology Peniggalan to ANTARA News on Thursday.
Before and after the dives, the divers will check the condition of his health.
A little creepy story of Billy can describe how vulnerable their jobs.
"Once it was there our divers in Manokwari, Papua, when he did not dive under the terms of health as well as less healthy, when it dives the first day okay but after a dive the second day after the ship suddenly all her body felt heavy and can not be moved next day because there is paralyzed ascertained damages in his bloodstream. "
How to dive should not go directly to the bottom of the sea but must follow the direction of ocean currents to hover so well when he returned to the surface because the pressure of strong ocean currents can cause death.
"Clearly, the ocean currents beneath the surface and stronger at the bottom therefore must be careful not to temperature extremes of temperature of sea water which is why one has to dive should not be boarded for 24 hours," he said.
Excavations under the water more easily in the appeal on the ground, but if the archaeological objects has become one with the corals will be more difficult than on land. The main problem is the time to work in water is very limited and depend on the depth of the archaeological object itself.
The relationship between the temperature very closely with the depth, the deeper waters of the sea is, the lower the temperature. Noticeable temperature change occurs at a depth of 200 feet - 1000 meters.
Make Over Treasure
Taking the treasure must be taken carefully, not to break or fracture. If goods are easily broken with a special handling tool that can protect these objects.
If the artifacts are already on the surface of the artefacts taken is washing with sea water, the identification and classification of the findings to determine the name of artefacts, decorative pattern and size (height, length and diameter), labeling the findings, the findings with fibers wrapped in cloth and soaked with sea water .
Why should be soaked in sea water again for a long time found objects together with its surroundings but when it moved to a new environment, the balance would be shaky.
"It must be soaked first in salt water so it is not immediately washed in fresh water," said Billy.
According to Billy, there are theories that say that at the time of the appointment of found objects which will evolve into cold temperate humid then the presence of hot air that causes moisture to be lacking. Changes in the air can make it brittle.
"Therefore, the found objects are dried slowly in a way the object remains immersed in sea water is gradually diluted the object of fresh water to remove the salt content," said Billy.
After a certain amount of salt does not exist, the object is wrapped with a wet cloth for a certain period so that the process of adaptation to new environments is done in stages so that stability is maintained with a good thing.
"Arriving at the warehouse, the property still being treated for rupture-prone objects like there is no special handling equipment temperature adjustment," he said. (ADM/A038)
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