I am coming into this discussion a bit late but I have a question: The
Titanic sank 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, in international
waters. How is it that the US courts have jurisdiction over this at all?

 
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Subject: Re: US firm awarded $110m for salvaging Titanic artefacts

This certainly continues to muddy the waters over what constitutes a
grave 
and what is considered salvage. The "H.L. Hunley" seems to have expanded
the 
possibility and now it appears it is creeping into other locations. I
wonder 
when those over loaded German Army hospital ships that were sunk in the 
Baltic during World War II will be picked over and the graves of
thousands 
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Subject: US firm awarded $110m for salvaging Titanic artefacts


> Could have some interesting consequences:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10973009
> I had thought the "Titanic" was supposed to be "off-limits" to
salvagers,
> but if it really is decaying this quickly, then there's not much point
in
> trying to argue for preserving it as a monument.