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Subject: Removing artifacts from wrecks
From: "Sounds like fish, Troy" <forster@ma*.en*.de*.co*>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 94 14:31:26 MET
Christina Young wrote (in response to the mail from Keith Hadland
regarding removing things from wrecks)

>This doesn't sound like a hippy ideal.  It sounds like a very naive and
>uninformed individual.  Portholes don't "rot in the back garden".  Even
>if they are left there, they will survive much better than in the sea.
>Divers I know (which are probably pretty typical of most wreck divers /
>artifact recoverers) take great pains to restore and preserve their
>artifacts.

Doesn't sound like any of the wreck divers I know. Most of them have
all their 'treasures' stashed away in cardboard boxes in their
garage or loft. This includes portholes, crockery, shell fuzes, bits of U-boat
etc, etc.

Dave.

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