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Jim Sinclair |
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Mar 29, 07 - 7:02 AM |
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You Go Gregg!
Jim
Bemis cleared to search WWI shipwreck
Source: AP
SANTA FE -- A Santa Fe man hopes to explore the wreck of the Lusitania off the Irish coast next year.
The Irish Supreme Court has upheld a lower court decision allowing Gregg Bemis to dive to try to solve the mystery about the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine in 1915.
The sinking killed nearly 1,200 people.
Bemis said the court ruling Tuesday will let him get on with the project.
He was declared the sole owner of the wreck in 1982.
But Ireland claims the Lusitania is an archaeological site and fought Bemis' request to explore the sunken ship.
The wreck lies 300 feet below the surface in Irish territorial waters about a dozen miles off the southwest coast. |
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