ABSTRACT Recreational scuba diving has grown over the past six decades and interest in wreck diving has increased. This growth demands evidence-based management, and understanding diver behaviour is crucial to effective management. This paper presents the first formal study of diver behaviour on a particular class of underwater cultural heritage, World War II submerged aircraft at Chuuk Lagoon in the Federated States of Micronesia. Chuuk is a world-renowned dive tourism destination, providing divers access to an extensive collection of shipwrecks and a few submerged aircraft. Although it may be assumed that diver behaviour on shipwrecks and aircraft would be similar, this study identifies marked differences in diver behaviour between the two different types of wrecks. This may be due to their novelty or to their scale. The smaller and more human scale of aircraft may encourage tactile interaction, such as sitting in the cockpit. Restricted physical access increases the chances of accidental damage to the aircraft. The implication of these findings is that there are different needs for the management of shipwreck and aircraft diving, to protect both cultural heritage and dive tourism values of sites.

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在雷达下潜水：潜水员和水下飞机

摘要 在过去的 6 年里，休闲水肺潜水不断发展，人们对沉船潜水的兴趣也在增加。这种增长需要循证管理，而了解潜水员的行为对于有效管理至关重要。本文首次正式研究了潜水员在密克罗尼西亚联邦楚克泻湖的特定类型的水下文化遗产——二战水下飞机上的行为。Chuuk 是世界知名的潜水旅游目的地，潜水员可以接触到大量沉船和一些水下飞机。尽管可以假设潜水员在沉船和飞机上的行为会相似，但这项研究确定了两种不同类型沉船之间潜水员行为的显着差异。这可能是由于它们的新颖性或规模。更小、更人性化的飞机可能会鼓励触觉互动，例如坐在驾驶舱内。受限的物理访问增加了飞机意外损坏的机会。这些发现的含义是，对沉船和飞机潜水的管理有不同的需求，以保护遗址的文化遗产和潜水旅游价值。