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>Its really a question of greed vs. altruism. Off hand, it appears to me
>like those who want to strip a wreck for personal souvenirs fall into
>the greed category. My philosophy has always been look but don't touch,
>but I'll admit that even that may be a little extreme. If a modern
>wreck is left alone it will eventually disappear and be lost to all.
>It seems to me that an appropiate position to take would be that anything
>taken from a wreck be donated to a museum so that everybody can enjoy it.
>That way the person who got the artifact will be given credit for the
>find but won't be as likely to be driven by greed to take something that
>really belongs to us all.

This would be fine in an *idealistic* world, however, most museums have
much more than they can ever put on display and so, donating things
like this to a museum in effect, remove them from ANY viewing WHATSOEVER!!!

With this in mind, perhaps scuba clubs could set up small private
"museums" (I hesitated to use that word, but it was the best fit that
I could think of). - they could even travel (well, parts of them)
to dive shows, etc.

To all my friends out there on techdiver - this email address will be fading
into the sunset as of this Friday (11/18/94).  I will subscribe as soon as
I get my new email address which hopefully will be soon.  Thanks for all
the good conversation!  Catch 'ya soon :^)

-Carl-

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