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I must write and agree with Alan posting, the systamic dsetruction of
wrecks, ( I am not talking about the bell or prop , but all the non-
ferrous removal possible ), is typical of the greed of the 20thC.
I can see the point in removing and indentify piece, I can see the point
if it is an historic wreck and a museum is interested, but these
privare museums, ie people own houses are a lost cause as it is this
greed that denys anyone from seeing it, not only the public but a number
of future divers on that wreck, and all so one individual can gloat in
their little den on there selfish prize...

Don't get me wrong I was there once, I just got reformed.. and afterall
one porthole is very much like another.

But the person that wrote this below


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> This life (sea anemones, muscels) has a relatively short life span.
> Are a few anemones worth saving over a porthole?  The wrecks are
> covered with these things anyway.
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deserves help....

This is possibly the saddest posting that I have ever seen on the web..
We dive to escape the hum drum of normality, to discover another world
and its inhabitants, no sooner that we are there than some of us bring
the destruction that we have inflicted upon the surface with us...

It is people whos mentality is akin to the statement above that have
depleated us of the dodo, nearly the whale, tiger and gorilla..
I here you say that they wher only talking about (sea anemones, muscels)
, that is not the point it is the mentality of it not the species
as I am sure whales where abundant at one stage to..

Somebody in the States re-educate this person please, I would like there
to be something left to dive in the USA when I get there someday...


Tom
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