[Boogieman]

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.

[telstar12.5]

Not many original owners living from 1631, I think. Not many extant corporations either.

[Paladin2]

It’s bad for guns to be in the water long....

[CaptainMorgantown]

I’m not sure about this one. UNESCO can pound sand, but if the sunken treasure lies within the territorial waters of a sovereign nation, shouldn’t the laws of that nation apply?

[Vendome]

Almost 400 years have passed in which the original owners could have reclaimed their property.

Looks like they will give up the ghost 1st.../S

[Godebert]

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.

Really? Original owners have been buried for almost 400 years. Finders keepers. Losers can kiss my @ss.