A series of courses offered by the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Training Program will be held on Saturdays from August 8 through September 12.

Accredited by UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage, The Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project (RIMAP) was created in 1992 to include members of the diving and non-diving public in a professionally organized and directed effort to study Rhode Island's maritime history and marine archaeology. RIMAP is a federally approved 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization with an interest in the maritime history and marine archaeology of Narragansett Bay, the Sounds, the state's rivers and other inland waters, and how all of these connect Rhode Island to the wider world.

Classes include Introduction to Marine Archaeology, Museums, Preserves, and Sharing Shipwrecks, Basic Artifact Management, Site Mapping, Archaeology of the Classical Mediterranean, Ship Construction for Archaeologists, and Rhode Island in the Revolution.

Trainees must be 2026 RIMAP members. Classes will be held at the RIMAP artifact management lab, Herreshoff Marine Museum on Burnside Street. The lab is on a 3rd floor walk-up. For those who wish to take Intro and who can't manage stairs, that class will be repeated in Warwick on September 12.

Pre-registration is required a minimum of 3 days in advance of each class. For more information visit www.rimap.org or call 508/635-7951.