My view is that this is a ridiculous law, and that eating off ancient stuff would be kinda cool. Particularly on an island I've never heard of. :') It's not as if the restaurant owner spent afternoons skin-diving to find antiquities to sell out of the country.
Published on Saturday, November 3, 2001 in the Guardian of London
UN Shuts Lid on Sunken Treasure Chests
New Convention Aims to Outlaw the Pillage of Ancient Shipwrecks and Drowned Civilizations
by Jon Henley in Paris
Historic shipwrecks and sunken cities will be protected against pillaging by treasure hunters by a convention adopted by UNESCO yesterday.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1103-03.htm
The UN has it's dirty fingers in everything.