Robert de Hoop
Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, Archaeology, Department Member
- Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, International Programme for Maritime Heritage, Department MemberUniversity of Southern Denmark, Maritime Archaeology Programma, Faculty Memberadd
- Archaeology, Maritime History, Maritime Archaeology, Nautical Archaeology, Ancient Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks, and 14 more17th Century Dutch Republic, Dutch East India Company, Dutch archaeology, World War II Archaeology, Contemporary Archaeology, Archaeological Heritage Management, Conflict Archeologie, Community Archaeology, Battlefield Archaeology, Battlefield Heritage Management and Metal Detecting, Second World War, Modern conflict archaeology, World War II, and Military Historyedit
- 'Robert de Hoop is a maritime and underwater archaeologist and works at the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlan... more'Robert de Hoop is a maritime and underwater archaeologist and works at the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE), which is part of the Ministry of Education Culture and Science, since October 2017. The projects he works on deal with Dutch maritime heritage (overseas) and shared cultural heritage.
Robert completed a bachelor in Archaeology with Honors at Saxion University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. Robert's undergraduate thesis about predicting underwater cultural heritage was linked to an internship at the Maritime Programme of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands. He completed his masters at the Maritime Archaeology Programme at the University of Southern Denmark. During his masters he obtained his Commercial SCUBA Diver ticket and afterwards he also obtained his Commercial SSE ticket. His thesis on the different values and on the significance of WWII shipwrecks was nominated for the W.A. van Es price.
As a maritime heritage expert Robert has travelled all over the world to cooperate with countries managing cultural heritage underwater. Robert participated in several national and international projects including the excavation of the East Indiaman (VOC) ship the Rooswijk and writing the process and best practice guidelines for the EU-project SASMAP.'edit
Agreements have been made between the Netherlands and Indonesian government to investigate what may have happened to the sites of the three Dutch Navy ships Hr.Ms. De Ruyter, Hr.Ms. Java and Hr.Ms. Kortenaer. This was done in a three-step... more
Agreements have been made between the Netherlands and Indonesian government to investigate what may have happened to the sites of the three Dutch Navy ships Hr.Ms. De Ruyter, Hr.Ms. Java and Hr.Ms. Kortenaer. This was done in a three-step research.
This is the report of the Joint Verification Mission Java Sea, 6 to 9th of February 2017, Jakarta, Indonesia titled: Joint Verification of the location and condition of Hr.Ms. De Ruyter, Java and Kortenaer
This is the report of the Joint Verification Mission Java Sea, 6 to 9th of February 2017, Jakarta, Indonesia titled: Joint Verification of the location and condition of Hr.Ms. De Ruyter, Java and Kortenaer
Research Interests: Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Heritage Management, Heritage Management, Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage, and 8 moreIn Situ Conservation of Coastal & Underwater Heritage Sites, Underwater Cultural Heritage Management, Underwater Cultural Heritage, WWII Archaeology, Antiquities Looting, Shared heritage, In Situ, In-Situ, Conservation, Preservation, Underwater Cultural Heritage, Underwater Archaeology, Maritime Archaeology, and Shared cultural heritage
In binnen- en buitenlandse wateren liggen in totaal ruim 1600 Nederlandse scheepwrakken. De online database Maritime Stepping Stones (MaSS) bevat informatie en verhalen over deze wrakken en ander Nederlands maritiem erfgoed. MaSS biedt,... more
In binnen- en buitenlandse wateren liggen in totaal ruim 1600 Nederlandse scheepwrakken. De online database Maritime Stepping Stones (MaSS) bevat informatie en verhalen over deze wrakken en ander Nederlands maritiem erfgoed. MaSS biedt, indien beschikbaar, feitelijke gegevens, kaarten, foto’s, documenten, tekeningen, video’s en 3D-modellen van elke site. De website is toegankelijk voor het publiek, archeologische professionals en vrijwilligers en heeft als doel de zichtbaarheid van maritieme archeologie te vergroten en het maatschappelijk belang ervan te benadrukken.
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De ontdekking in 2016 van het verdwijnen van drie Nederlandse oorlogswrakken-de Hr.Ms. De Ruyter, Hr.Ms. Java en Hr.Ms. Kortenaer in de Javazee riep bij de leden van de Tweede Kamer de vraag op hoeveel scheepswrakken Nederlands eigendom... more
De ontdekking in 2016 van het verdwijnen van drie Nederlandse oorlogswrakken-de Hr.Ms. De Ruyter, Hr.Ms. Java en Hr.Ms. Kortenaer in de Javazee riep bij de leden van de Tweede Kamer de vraag op hoeveel scheepswrakken Nederlands eigendom zijn en waar zij zich bevinden. Dit werd alleen maar versterkt door de bevestiging dat ook de onderzeeboten Hr.Ms. O16 en Hr.Ms. K-XVII in Maleisische wateren illegaal waren geborgen.
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Three Dutch naval ships, HNLMS De Ruyter, HNLMS Java and HNLMS Kortenaer went down in the Battle of the Java Sea on 27 February 1942, claiming the lives of 915 sailors. In November 2016 an international diving team from the Karel Doorman... more
Three Dutch naval ships, HNLMS De Ruyter, HNLMS Java and HNLMS Kortenaer went down in the Battle of the Java Sea on 27 February 1942, claiming the lives of 915 sailors. In November 2016 an international diving team from the Karel Doorman Foundation discovered that the warships had disappeared.
The management and protection of shipwrecks from the Second World War is very complicated, because of the different values that different stakeholders attach to it. These WWII shipwrecks are often war graves, important to relatives as lieux de mémoire. The shipwrecks thus have an emotional, commemoration value, but they also have a historical, archaeological and intrinsic value. If WWII shipwrecks are investigated using archaeological methods, they can provide new information on the WWII period, but it can also change certain details. To the salvors the shipwrecks have an economic value, but they actually have several economic values as they also bring in diving tourists, and they are fishing spots for the local fishermen. These different values played a major role during the joint Dutch-Indonesian investigation that followed after the notification that the three Dutch warships had disappeared from the bottom of the Java Sea.
Only with proper understanding and consideration of the different values or significances the WWII shipwrecks hold to different stakeholders, new ways of managing these complex sites may be developed that will be effective in the long run. Countries and different stakeholder groups must work together on this.
The management and protection of shipwrecks from the Second World War is very complicated, because of the different values that different stakeholders attach to it. These WWII shipwrecks are often war graves, important to relatives as lieux de mémoire. The shipwrecks thus have an emotional, commemoration value, but they also have a historical, archaeological and intrinsic value. If WWII shipwrecks are investigated using archaeological methods, they can provide new information on the WWII period, but it can also change certain details. To the salvors the shipwrecks have an economic value, but they actually have several economic values as they also bring in diving tourists, and they are fishing spots for the local fishermen. These different values played a major role during the joint Dutch-Indonesian investigation that followed after the notification that the three Dutch warships had disappeared from the bottom of the Java Sea.
Only with proper understanding and consideration of the different values or significances the WWII shipwrecks hold to different stakeholders, new ways of managing these complex sites may be developed that will be effective in the long run. Countries and different stakeholder groups must work together on this.
Research Interests: Maritime Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Heritage Management, Nautical Archaeology, Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage, and 9 moreWorld War II Archaeology, Underwater Cultural Heritage Management, Maritime and Underwater Archaeology, Underwater Cultural Heritage, WWII Archaeology, Management of Underwater Cultural Heritage, In Situ, In-Situ, Conservation, Preservation, Underwater Cultural Heritage, Underwater Archaeology, Maritime Archaeology, Maritime and Nautical Archaeology, and Archaeology of WWII
Begin jaren tachtig werd voor de kust van Zeebrugge het wrak gevonden van het VOC-schip ’t Vliegend Hert. Nadat verschillende delen van de lading aan land waren gebracht, werd de Oost-Indiëvaarder verder met rust gelaten. Het wrak lag... more
Begin jaren tachtig werd voor de kust van Zeebrugge het wrak gevonden van het VOC-schip ’t Vliegend Hert. Nadat verschillende delen van de lading aan land waren gebracht, werd de Oost-Indiëvaarder verder met rust gelaten. Het wrak lag daar prima onder een dikke, beschermende zandlaag. Maar Belgische onderzoekers ontdekten enige tijd terug dat een deel van die laag is weggespoeld. Gevolg: paalwormen zijn begonnen om blootliggende delen van het wrak aan te vreten. Deskundigen van de Nederlandse Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed en het Vlaamse Instituut voor de Zee werken nu samen aan een plan om de restanten van het schip zo goed mogelijk te beschermen.