Not everyone agrees with this approach. . . . others dismiss it as unprofessional and unscholarly.
Kevin J. Crisman, a marine archaeologist at the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University, said . . . In the case of the Republic, he said, the prudent thing was to "wait until all the dust has settled."
There are always those who would nitpick others' prodigious efforts to bring these historical artifacts to light again. 135 years of "dust settling" isn'i enough? How about waiting until the Atlantic dries up?