The story of the state's oldest colonial shipwreck is being re-imagined in a museum exhibit that allows history buffs to see it through the eyes of divers, as well as visitors on board while it was still intact in 1837.
South Australia's oldest colonial shipwreck, which was rediscovered in 2018, has become the subject of a 3D virtual reality museum exhibit in a collaboration between Australian archaeologists and German designers.
The barque, which was being used as a whaling station, was full of whale oil and ready to set sail to Hobart before storms pushed it onto a reef. He has also helped shape the new exhibition, which incorporates comic book art, technology, logbooks, old records and years of research and data from the site.The virtual reality experience puts the user on a research boat, anchored over the site of the wreck at Encounter Bay, before flashing back to the night of the storm through animated comic dioramas, taken from a soon-to-be-published graphic novel called The Loss.
He was near completion of his doctorate in 2011 and was casting around for a new challenge when he started reading up on sailing ships and came across the story.Dr Hunter said his interest became insatiable and he scoured the recovered logbooks from the ship, held at the State Library of South Australia.
From there, during the tedium of COVID lockdowns, the idea for a graphic novel about South Australian was born, as well as the basis for the exhibition and its mix of art, technology, and history.A rich history
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