[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.

[Boogieman]

“Original owners have been buried for almost 400 years.”

You do know that things like nations and corporations don’t actually die, right? They’re not mortal beings...

Anyway, I was speaking in principal, as to what the laws should be, not just talking about this specific case. If your boat sinks today, nobody should be able to raid it tomorrow and claim it before you have a chance to recover it, that’s why there needs to be a grace period.