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> Various people have commented about the rights and wrongs of removing
>objects from wrecks. I say that all wrecks should be salvaged. Man needs
>metals. The world's metal ore mines and quarries won't last for ever, and with
>some metals (e.g. copper, gold, uranium) Man is starting to see the beginning
>of the end of new mineable supplies. Stuff lost or abandoned in the sea and
>elsewhere must be salvaged, ignoring mistaken sentiments about the dead and
>old times etc. There must be a limit to what the dead stop the living from
>using, or Man will end up back in the Stone Age. In nature everything is
>sooner or later recycled, and that is why Nature has kept going for so long.
Extract the minerals and metal ions from sea water and everyone will be
happy. The wreck will disappear so slowly marine life won't notice and
people hardly will but we will get back all that metal we have dumped in the
sea, blah blah blah...
Now back to technical diving....
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