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Well, the problem is that in salt water steel rusts away in a matter of years. And wood is gone in a matter of months from the teredo worms. You could pass a law not to touch a wreck, but how do you stop the ocean from taking it? Only a huge, mindless bureaucracy like Canada's would pass a pointless law like that. In fresh water it is another story, where the wreck is preserved. And I agree to leave them alone there. Down here in Virgina Beach they found the Monitor wreck. It was declared a no-touch sanctuary by zelous bureaucrats, you had to get a pass signed by The Big Cahuna himself to even gaze upon the wreck. But eventually even the stuffed shirts found out what us wreckdivers knew all along, steel + salt water = rust. In the monitor's case a rather large, impressive pile of rust. So the solution? Salvage the bitch. Duuuuhhh! At last count they spend $20,000,000 dollars to bring up a half-rusted propeller. Something a bunch of wreckers do on a regular basis for a few hundred bucks. I love mindless government workers. What a job. Jim On 8/24/98 9:33 PM Anthony DeBoer wrote: >A discussion came up with a fellow Ontario diver today about the apparent >differences in attitude toward wreck preservation on either side of the >US/Canada border. From where we're sitting (north side of Lake Ontario), >we see that wrecks on the Canadian side are protected by law, while much >of what we see and hear from the US side suggests that it's open season >on artifacts. > >I seem to recall hearing several years ago that Congress was passing a >very restrictive wreck-preservation law; did anything ever come of that? >What about state law (specifically New York)? Or is there any great >difference between what's on the books and what actually happens out on >the lakes? We'd like a better idea of what folks across the water are >doing and thinking. > >-- >Anthony DeBoer <adb@on*.ca*>
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