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Re: Shipwreck in Delaware |
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Pat Clyne |
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Nov 8, 06 - 10:49 AM |
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Atocha@aol.com |
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Interesting story, thanks Jim. Although it's always a little disappointing to hear of shipwrecks being discovered by "Dredges" after they've torn into a hull. Does it ever make you wonder just how many historic old wrecks are still being 'uncovered' by the Army Corps of Engineers dredging out channels and ship lanes around our country. Well, some people have tried to address it.
In Paris at UNESCO we brought up the statistics of the number of ships around the world destroyed this way as opposed to work on ships that the private sector salvors have discovered and tried to preserve. It was treated with typical bureaucratic logic. Private salvors by the very act of touching something on these shipwrecks destroys their archaeological integrity forever, but a huge dredge digging into and through a ships midsection and tearing it from it’s resting place is not something the ministers of culture were prepared to discuss at that time. It, according to them should not be included in the discussions at hand which were called- “Protection of our Underwater Cultural Heritage”- go figure!
For every shipwreck discovered by a diver in this country alone, over a dozen are destroyed through commercial dredging practices.  |
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