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As far as I’m concerned, whoever can haul it up from the ocean floor first owns it. Finder’s keepers.
I guess there should be some waiting period though, before you can claim salvage rights, just to give the original owner a grace period in recovering their property.
US out of the UN. Demolish the building or set it up as the National Tea Party Headquarters.
Downsize Federal Government by at least a half, 2/3 better. . except increase military spending.
Next project. .
Hey, they are from the governments and they are there to help (themselves).
As usual, the critics wait until the treasure is found and in the process of being retrieved before swooping in for the booty. What is mine is mine, what is yours is mine even though you paid for it!
If they wish to run archeology expeditions, pay them for it. But nope, they want to profit off the labor of others, like always, and in the process toss aside one of the oldest laws of man and the sea.
Admiralty law has been sufficient for hundreds of years to determine the rights of the various claimants. But, liberals want their own rules and their own desires to overrule silly laws and precedence. Government, in their insatiable hunger for money, has jumped into the argument. Heritage and culture is worthy of respect, but mostly it’s just used as a cudgel for the various claimants against the treasure. The market can decide if these trinkets end up in museums, in private collections, or in the melting part. Very little of this shipwreck booty is really unique to either science or history.
Why should they not?
They take the initiative to look for the treasure if they find it then it is theirs to do with as they please.
The world is no worse off if they melt it down into ingots then if they left it at the bottom of the sea for the fish.
Most of them do give at least a portion to museums but that is their choice and should not be mandated by law.
“...the industry is engaged in a battle with academic marine archaeologists and Unesco, the Paris-based United Nations agency that tries to protect cultural treasures around the world.”
Oh yeah, I remember them.
Weren’t they guys galvanizing the world to protect historic sites in the Middle East as Islamists destroyed antiquities millenia old and coalesced a consortium of countries to protect buildings and ruins in midst of these barbarians and their vile acts?
Or was there not enough money it for them?
Get a few more Lawyers with no skin in the Game and it will work out just fine.
It is the thieving government vote-buyers who are the looters and plunderers.
Government is the scourge of the humanity.
There’s a simple truth that has held for all of human history: finder’s keepers. Call it salvage law if you want, but the principle is the same.
Everything belongs to the collective, this is the mantra o The New World Order”
I doubt the museums or archeologists are going to finance the hunt and provide the divers to retrieve treasures from the oceans.
Shovel, sift & sell- slowly without fanfare.
But the industry is engaged in a battle with academic marine archaeologists and Unesco,
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Is anyone here a marine archaeologist?