I tried to ask this recently, but got no real responses... Any takers? This was discussed on the list sometime last year. Mary Ellin D'Agostino [log in to unmask] At 08:54 AM 9/5/96 +1000, you wrote: >Does anybody feel a little concerned about the looting of the Titanic? Surely >the implications are that anyone can just go to a historic shipwreck and loot >it, not to mention the issues around disturbing graves. Isnt this the kind of >behaviour that maritime archeologists have been trying to prevent? > >The failure of the current expedition is more concerning as having disturbed >the site with no sucess they plan to come back and try next year, creating no >doubt more damage to the site. In Australian waters this site would have been >protected by the Historic Shipwrecks Act. > >Iain Stuart >University of Sydney > >