Re: Archaeologists see treasure looting taking all of the shipwrecks

In article <1181410125.836497.301960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
jacklinthicum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
On Jun 9, 1:25 pm, "Mark Test" <MARK...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Jack Linthicum" <jacklinthi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

news:1181409549.123802.200700@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Odyssey treasure hunting starting to stir the archaeology community,
worried that the scooping up of treasure from below diver depths will
rob the future of the ability to salvage and study those wrecks.

Then the archaeologists need to pony up the cash and get onboard
with Odyssey types......and stop their bitching.

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Or sue the living *** out of them every time they try to sell a gold
coin.


According to the article, the sales are perfectly legal. Before they
start giving lots of money to lawyers, they need to give some money
to congress to get some new laws. Even worse, they will probably
need to plead their case at the UN, since many of the wrecks are outside
the territorial waters of any country that might be willing to regulate
the trade in artifacts.

Gold coin sales aren't really the problem in any case. People don't
melt down these coins. The coin is still available for study---but
you don't learn much from a single coin. If archeologists want to
study the wrecks in-situ, they are going to need MUCH larger budgets---
budgets that only seem to appear when there is a profit motive.

Mark Borgerson

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