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To: HeimannJ <heimannj@ma*.nd*.gt*.co*>
Subject: RE: The "Big Wreck"
From: Curt Smitka <cwsmitka@sp*.um*.ed*>
Cc: Hadland
Cc: Keith <hadlandk@lg*.lo*.co*>
Cc: techdiver <techdiver@opal.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 13:04:59 PST

On 15 Nov 1994, HeimannJ wrote:

> >John Heimann wrote:
> >
> >>Hank Garvin came up with a porthole and I brought up a cage lamp, but
> >>none of the really serious artifacts have come up yet.
> >
> >Now I don't want to flame anyone, but here we have a wreck which has >hardly
> been dived and  which is out of range of most  divers, so why do >we feel a
> need to take 'artifacts' from it?....
> 
> One good reason to take artifacts from a virgin wreck is to identify it.  I
> believe there is some writing on the cage lamp I found, and the language
> could at least identify the nationality of the wreck.  One isn't always lucky
> enough to find the name still painted on the bow of most wrecks!
> 
> John


As a serious wreck diver who has assisted inidentifing many "virgin 
wrecks" neither I or my associates have every had to remove an artifact 
to identify a wreck.  Take only pictures and leave the wrecks intact for 
future divers to enjoy.
Curt 

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