Uso Sinia

Ole Varmer

Faufautua Sinia ile Vasa Measina

Ole Varmer e silia ma le 30 tausaga o lona poto fa'aloia i tulafono fa'ava-o-malo ma Amerika mo le fa'asaoina o le si'osi'omaga ma tala faasolopito. Talu ai nei lava, sa avea ai o ia ma tagata poto fa'aloia i le 'au a le UNESCO na faia le Lipoti o Iloiloga o le 2001 Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage (2019). Na faauu Ole mai le Benjamin Cardozo School of Law i le 1987 ma le mamalu o le avea ma Faatonu Sili o le International Law Students Association (ILSA) International Law Journal. Toeitiiti atoa le 33 tausaga sa galue ai i le Matagaluega o Pisinisi/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration lea na atiina ae ai lona tomai i le Tulafono o le Sami, tulafono o le siosiomaga o le gataifale, tulafono o le gataifale ma tulafono o measina (natura ma aganuu). 

Mo se faʻataʻitaʻiga, o Ole na fai ma sui o le NOAA i fonotaga a le US Delegation i UNESCO i lalo o le Vaitafe Cultural Heritage, Word Heritage, le 1st World Congress on Maritime Heritage and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Committee fonotaga e uiga i le Pulea o Large Marine Ecosystems. I le vaitau o le 1990 sa ia faia se sao taua i le tele o feutanaiga lautele o le International Agreement on Titanic, faʻatinoina o Taʻiala, ma tulafono. O Ole sa avea foi ma loia ta'ita'i i le fa'atuina o nisi o Nofoaga Puipuia o le Gataifale e puipuia ai measina faalenatura ma aganuu, e aofia ai le Florida Keys, Stellwagen Bank, ma Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuaries e aofia ai ma le tele o mataupu e puipuia ma le manuia le faaaogaina o tulafono o le siosiomaga/measina mai luitau i lalo o le tulafono. o le faasaoina.

Ole avea ma loia ta'ita'i ole NOAA ile fa'amasinoga e aofia ai le USS Monitor, ma va'a fa'asolopito iloga ile Florida Keys ma Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuaries. Ole tele o lomiga fa'aletulafono e fa'atatau i le fa'asaoina o a tatou measina fa'ale-aganu'u ma fa'anatura. Mo se faʻataʻitaʻiga, o lana Underwater Cultural Heritage Law Study o loʻo i luga o le upega tafaʻilagi a UNESCO ma faʻaaogaina e fai ma meafaigaluega faʻasino i totonu o malo ma aʻoga. O se otootoga o lena suʻesuʻega, "Tapuni le Va i le Puipuiga o Measina Faaleaganuu i lalo ole Suavai ile Outer Continental Shelf" na lomia i le Vol. 33:2 o le Stanford Environmental Law Journal 251 (Mati 2014). Faatasi ai ma le tagata poto faaloia Prof. Mariano Aznar-Gómez, na lomia e Ole "The Titanic as Underwater Cultural Heritage: Challenges to its Legal International Protection," i le Vol 44 o le Ocean Development & International Law 96-112; Na tusia e Ole le mataupu ile US Law on UCH ile su'esu'ega tulafono fa'atusatusa ua fa'aulutalaina tu'ufa'atasia e le tagata poto fa'aloia, Dr. Sarah Dromgoole fa'aigoaina: Le Puipuiga o Measina Fa'ale-aganu'u I lalo ole Suavai: Va'aiga Fa'ale-atunu'u ile Malamalama ole UNESCO Convention 2001(Martinus Nijhoff, 2006) . Ole sao o Ole ile lomiga a le UNESCO: Underwater Cultural Heritage at Risk ma se tala ile RMS Titanic NESCO/ICOMOS, 2006).

O Ole foi ose tusitala faʻatasi ma le Faamasino muamua o Sherry Hutt, ma le loia Caroline Blanco i luga o le Tusi: Tulafono Punaoa o Measina: Puipuia o le Archaeological and Cultural Environment (Wiley, 1999). Mo tala faaopoopo e uiga i aganuu, natura ma Measina a le Lalolagi tagai i le lisi o lomiga o loo maua i le https://www.gc.noaa.gov/gcil_varmer_bio.html. Ole loia ta'ita'i ile atina'eina ole vaega fa'aletulafono ile NOAA Risk Assessment for Potentially Polluting Wrecks in US Waters, ose lipoti ile USCG (Me, 2013). Ua avea nei o ia ma Uso Sinia i le Ocean Foundation e fesoasoani i le tuufaatasia o le UCH i le galuega ma le misiona a lena faalapotopotoga e le o ni tupe mama.


Fa'asalalau e Ole Varmer