“...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?
The beauty of this ‘Deal’ unlike the Mid-East antiquities is that it’s self-financing no matter which side youre on...