Washington, DC Area (Linthicum Heights, Maryland), USA September 9, 2009 MITAGS An international survey (Michel et al., 2005) has identified over 8,500 sunken shipwrecks in marine waters around the world, including more than 1,500 sunken tank vessels (≥ 150 gross tons) and nearly 7,000 sunken non-tank vessels (≥ 400 gross tons). These wrecks may contain as much as 20 million tons (140 million barrels) of oil and other hazardous materials. Sporadic or con2nuous leakages or potential sudden massive spillages from these wrecks, 75 percent of which stem from World War II, pose a con2nual risk across the globe. The problem of potentially-polluting wrecks has long been discussed and recent incidents around the world have caused government agencies and responsible parties to look proactively at preventing catastrophic oil and other chemical releases from long submerged shipwrecks. The risk of oil and other hazardous materials seeping out of sunken shipwrecks is growing yearly, and the likelihood of leakage or even a massive spill occurring increases, as do the potential costs. Taking a proactive rather than a reactive approach to mitigating this risk will save not only dollars in response costs, but also reduce the threat of environmental and socioeconomic damages. From the viewpoint of environmental and economic impacts, there is little difference between oil spilling from a sunken vessel and oil spilling from a modern day vessel casualty, with the exception that, while there is no way to predict the location or timing of the next major oil spill, potentially-polluting wreck sites are known and the probability of an spill event is quantifiable or even inevitable. There is ample evidence that there are a large number of wrecks in U.S. coastal waters that are spills waiting to happen. Sponsored by the American Salvage Association (ASA), the Association of Diving Contractors International (ADCI), the International Salvage Union (ISU), the Marine Technology Society (MTS), the Maritime Law Association of the United States (MLA), the Maritime Technology Alliance, the North American Marine Environmental Protection Association (NAMEPA), the Spill Control Association of America (SCAA), and the World Ocean Council (WOC), this conference, “Wrecks of the World: Hidden Risks of the Deep,” will aim to provide an opportunity for an objective review and discussion of the current state of potentially polluting wrecks and to offer considerations to address the problem.

Breakfast (7:00am - 8:00am) Registration (8:00am - 8:30am) Building 3, Classroom 2 Morning Sessions A (8:30am - 9:45am) Moderator:  Carleen Lyden-Kluss, Executive Director, NAMEPA 8:30am:  Opening Remarks:  Public Awareness of Oil Pollution Issues Clay Maitland, Founding Chairman, NAMEPA 8:45am:  Magnitude of Potentially-Polluting Wreck Problem (Presentations) Dr. Ida-Maja Hassellov, Chairmers University of Technology, Sweden Dr. Dagmar Schmidt Etkin, President, Environmental Research Consulting 9:15am:  Oil Removal from Leaking Wreaks (Presentations) Hans Petter Mortensholm, Project Manager U864, Norwegian Central Administration Capt. Anthony S. Lloyd, Chief, US Coast Guard Office of Incident Management & Preparedness Coffee-Break (9:45am - 10:15am) Morning Sessions B (10:15am - 12:30pm) Moderator:  Carleen Lyden-Kluss, Executive Director, NAMEPA 10:15am:  Repercussions of a Reactive Strategy and Need for Pro-Active Strategy Dave Westerholm, Director, NOAA Office of Response and Restoration 10:30am:  Assessing Presence of Oil and Probability of Leakage (Presentation) Dr. Luigi Alcaro, Istituto Centrale per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica Applicata al Mare (ICRAM), member IMO MEPC Working Group on Technical Guidelines on Sunken Oil Assessment and Removal Techniques 11:00am:  Applying Spill Impact Modeling to Wreck Risk Assessment (Presentation) Dr. Deborah French McCay, Director of Impact Assessment Services, Applied Science Associates 11:30am:  Cost-Benefit Analyses of Wreck Oil Removal Projects (Presentation) Dr. Dagmar Schmidt Etkin, President, Environmental Research Consulting 12:00pm:  Prioritization of Wrecks for Oil/Chemical Removal (Presentation) Dr. Fanch Cabioch, Head of Response Department, CEDRE Luncheon (12:30pm - 2:00pm) 1:00pm:  Luncheon Speaker:  Salvage Technological Advances and Challenges Hans Van Rooij, Principal, Global Marine Solutions Afternoon Sessions A (2:00pm - 4:00pm) Moderator:  Clay Maitland, Founding Chairman, NAMEPA 2:00pm Panel:  Legal and Insurance Liability Issues

Sample Topics:  Whose oil is it anyway?  Whose responsibility is it to pay for the removal?  What is the role of the international wreck convention?  For wrecks in international waters, who is responsible?  What if more than one jurisdiction is involved?  Whose responsibility is it to pay for any spillage that might occur during a wreck removal operation (and who would pay for that spillage from a wreck in the absence of any removal operations)?  How can industry take a stewardship role? Panelists Lizabeth Burrell, Esq., Partner, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP Mihai Balaban, Manager, Compliance and Enforcement, Transport Canada Marine Safety Jonathan Waldron, Esq., Partner, Blank Rome LLP 3:00pm Panel:  Funding Issues Sample topics:  How will wreck removals be funded?  What about World War II wrecks and other wrecks with no existing owner?  How is this handled by national funding institutions?  (e.g., US OSLTF).  How is this handled by IOPC Fund?  What role do insurers play?  What is needed to get funding from spill-related sources (e.g., demonstration of "substantial threat")?  What resources should pay for preliminary risk assessment studies?  How can the cost of removal operations be controlled? Panelists Charles Anderson, Senior Vice President, Head of Skuld North America, Inc. Craig Bennett, Director, National Pollution Fund Center/Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund William Lerch, Chairman Oil Spill and response Committees, IPIECA and API Mihai Balaban, Manager, Compliance and Enforcement, Transport Canada Marine Safety Coffee-Break (4:00pm - 4:30pm) Afternoon Sessions B (4:30pm - 5:30pm) Moderator:  Clay Maitland, Founding Chairman, NAMEPA 4:30pm Wrap-Up:  Next Steps, How Do We Move Forward?  (Panel Discussion) Capt. Anthony S. Lloyd, Chief US Coast Guard Office of Incident Management & Preparedness Hans Petter Mortensholm, Project Manager U864, Norwegian Central Administration Dr. William Conner, Chief, HAZMAT Emergency Response Division, NOAA OR&R William Lerch, Chairman Oil Spill and Response Committees, IPIECA and API Coctail Reception/MITAGS Memorabilia Room (5:30pm - 7:30pm)