Michel L'Hour, guardian of wrecks

Collection title

Thalassa: the magazine of the sea

ID

INA00674

Source

INA (FR)

First broadcast date

01/29/2010

Production year

2010

Abstract

Portrait of Michel L'Hour, curator of the immersed heritage , director of DRASSM, the Department of Archaeological and Underwater Research. Its role is to protect shipwrecks and their treasures against looting. Indeed, these wrecks, and the more or less valuable objects they contain, belong to the archaeological heritage; they have a value not only commercial but also historical, and are owned by the French state.

Type

video

Production companies

• France 3 - Own production

Broadcaster

FTV - F3

Audiovisual form

Magazine

Personalities

• L'Hour Michel

Primary theme

Antiquity

Secondary themes

• Tourism and cultural sites / Archaeological sites

Period of events

• 2010

Map locations

• France - South East - Marseille

Original language

French

Media running time

6m42

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