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I had thsi forwared to me and thought it might be of intetrest to all.
<< > >
> >This came in on Sept. 4 from Peter Hess. Peggy Bowen
> >Shipwreckers:
> >Here's what we're up against: the UNESCO cartel that's trying to outlaw
> >all shipwreck salvage has got Bob Ballard as their spokesman. He's a
> >tough act to follow. However, he's also a hypocrite, as he has been
> >actively salvaging artifacts from the Roman wrecks he's found in the
> >Mediterranean, to place in his museum at Mystic, CT (where you have to
> >pay admission to get it!). Ballard distinguishes Roman wrecks as
> >archaeological sites of which we are mostly ignorant, while we know
> >"everything there is to know" about Titanic. Of course, this, too is
> >false: the recent recovery of the "Big Piece" of the ship's hull
> revealed
> >that Titanic rivets have 3 times the slag content as they should have.
> >This impurity in the iron makes the rivets far more suseptible to
> >catatrophic failure. Thus, we are always learning from the artifacts
> we
> >rescue from marine peril. The battle goes on....
> >Peter Hess
> >
> >Subject: Your Morning News
> >Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 09:26:07 -0500
> >From: Larry Armstrong <laryarms@so*.ne*>
> >Reply-To: laryarms@so*.ne* Organization: FMDAC
> >To: stockman@ja*.ps*.co*, rgierak@in*.co*,
>
> > WRECK_DIVER@co*.co*, Peter
> >Hess <HESSIANS@ao*.co*>,
> > kwills@wo*.at*.ne*
> >
> >>From ABC News:Explorer Wants Protection for Sunken Antiquities Sea
> Treasures Threatened
> >"Don't stop explorers from exploring. ... You should be able to
> >explore, but not exploit."
> > - Robert Ballard, explorer
> >
> >L I S B O N, Sept. 3 - Robert Ballard, the U.S. marine explorer who
> >found the Titanic at the bottom of the Atlantic, has called for
> >legislation to protect antiquities in the deep from unscrupulous
> treasure
> >hunters.
> >Ballard, who led the French-American team which discovered the wreck of
> >the Titanic in 1985, told Reuters in an interview in Lisbon he did not
> >believe the law of the sea provided adequate protection to relics on
> the
> >seabed.
> >He said that as ownership belonged to the salvager, wealthy treasure
> >hunters could acquire the latest technology to search wide and deep and
> >raid sunken ships for profit.
> >"The (sonar) technology (to find shipwrecks) is readily available.
> >Treasure hunters can buy the technology. They will go out there and
> bring
> >up what they want," he said.
> >Ballard, speaking on Wednesday, called for UNESCO to make national
> >governments responsible for antiquities in their territorial waters up
> >to 200 nautical miles (320 km) from their coastlines, where the vast
> >majority of wrecks were located around the world.
> >At present the law just provided for commercial interests such as
> >fishing, mineral and oil rights in territorial waters.
> >Protection for 'Human History'
> >"I want to add to the law of the sea (the words) 'and human history',"
> >the explorer said.
> >But Ballard, whose work is sponsored by the National Geographic Society
> >and who has used the latest submersibles of the U.S. Navy, warned that
> >such a law must not discourage deep-sea exploration.
> >"Don't stop explorers from exploring," he said. "It is important that
> >nations don't pass a law giving themselves control over exploration,"
> he
> >added. "You should be able to explore, but not exploit."
> >Apart from the Titanic, Ballard's activities include searching the
> >Atlantic for the German battleship the Bismarck, which he found with
> its
> >huge swastika intact, and salvaging 2nd century B.C. artifacts from
> cargo
> >ships which sank in the Mediterranean.
> >Filming, Not Touching, Wrecks
> >His technique is to send down cameras on submersible robots that tour
> the
> >outside and inside of wrecks, filming the underwater museums for
> >posterity.
> >Ballard said he preferred to leave his discoveries intact and not to
> >salvage them. "I could probably find 300 ships for the price of
> >salvaging one," he said.
> >The explorer said he was preparing a journey to the Black Sea in June
> >1999 to study trade routes of Greek and Scythian vessels more than
> 2,000
> >years ago. He said he was confident he could find ships in pristine
> >condition because in the depths of the Black Sea there was
> >no oxygen to support life, such as ravenous wood-boring underwater
> worms
> >that destroy the wooden hulls of ships.
> >Ballard said chances were better of finding wrecks in good shape in the
> >Black Sea than, for instance, Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores islands,
> >another major ships' graveyard.
> >Getting to the Bottom of Ship-Shape
> >He said that ships off the volcanic Azores had often hit a rocky
> bottom,
> >rather than sinking into sand, leaving them susceptible to attack from
> >the wood-borers. Ballard said he looked forward to the day when people
> >using the Internet could watch film taken by submersible robots of
> famous
> >wrecks such as the Titanic or the U.S. aircraft carrier Yorktown.
> >In May, a team led by Ballard located and photographed the Yorktown,
> sunk
> >by the Japanese at the Battle of Midway in the Pacific in 1942.
> Ballard
> >said the ship was in excellent condition despite sitting for more than
> 50
> >years under 5,000 metres (16,650 feet) of water.
> >About 40 U.S. servicemen were killed when the Yorktown went down on
> June
> >7, 1942, hit by Japanese bombers and then torpedoed by a submarine.
> There
> >were 2,270 survivors.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>>
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Just passing this along.
> >
> >This came in on Sept. 4 from Peter Hess. Peggy Bowen
> >Shipwreckers:
> >Here's what we're up against: the UNESCO cartel that's trying to outlaw=
> >all shipwreck salvage has got Bob Ballard as their spokesman. He's a
> >tough act to follow. However, he's also a hypocrite, as he has been
> >actively salvaging artifacts from the Roman wrecks he's found in the
> >Mediterranean, to place in his museum at Mystic, CT (where you have to
> >pay admission to get it!). Ballard distinguishes Roman wrecks as
> >archaeological sites of which we are mostly ignorant, while we know
> >"everything there is to know" about Titanic. Of course, this, too is
> >false: the recent recovery of the "Big Piece" of the ship's hull
> revealed
> >that Titanic rivets have 3 times the slag content as they should have. =
> >This impurity in the iron makes the rivets far more suseptible to
> >catatrophic failure. Thus, we are always learning from the artifacts
> we
> >rescue from marine peril. The battle goes on....
> >Peter Hess
> >
> >Subject: =09Your Morning News
> >Date: =09=09Fri, 04 Sep 1998 09:26:07 -0500
> >From: =09=09Larry Armstrong <laryarms@so*.ne*>
> >Reply-To: =09laryarms@so*.ne* =09Organization: FMDAC
> >To: =09=09stockman@ja*.ps*.co*, rgierak@in*.co*,
>
> >=09=09=09=09=09WRECK_DIVER@co*.co*, Peter
> >Hess <HESSIANS@ao*.co*>,
> >=09=09kwills@wo*.at*.ne*
> >
> >>From ABC News:Explorer Wants Protection for Sunken Antiquities Sea
> Treasures Threatened
> >"Don't stop explorers from exploring. ... You should be able to
> >explore, but not exploit."
> > - Robert Ballard, explorer
> >
> >L I S B O N, Sept. 3 - Robert Ballard, the U.S. marine explorer who
> >found the Titanic at the bottom of the Atlantic, has called for
> >legislation to protect antiquities in the deep from unscrupulous
> treasure
> >hunters.
> >Ballard, who led the French-American team which discovered the wreck of=
> >the Titanic in 1985, told Reuters in an interview in Lisbon he did not
> >believe the law of the sea provided adequate protection to relics on
> the
> >seabed.
> >He said that as ownership belonged to the salvager, wealthy treasure
> >hunters could acquire the latest technology to search wide and deep and=
> >raid sunken ships for profit.
> >"The (sonar) technology (to find shipwrecks) is readily available.
> >Treasure hunters can buy the technology. They will go out there and
> bring
> >up what they want," he said.
> >Ballard, speaking on Wednesday, called for UNESCO to make national
> >governments responsible for antiquities in their territorial waters up=
> >to 200 nautical miles (320 km) from their coastlines, where the vast
> >majority of wrecks were located around the world.
> >At present the law just provided for commercial interests such as
> >fishing, mineral and oil rights in territorial waters.
> >Protection for 'Human History'
> >"I want to add to the law of the sea (the words) 'and human history',"
> >the explorer said.
> >But Ballard, whose work is sponsored by the National Geographic Society=
> >and who has used the latest submersibles of the U.S. Navy, warned that
> >such a law must not discourage deep-sea exploration.
> >"Don't stop explorers from exploring," he said. "It is important that
> >nations don't pass a law giving themselves control over exploration,"
> he
> >added. "You should be able to explore, but not exploit."
> >Apart from the Titanic, Ballard's activities include searching the
> >Atlantic for the German battleship the Bismarck, which he found with
> its
> >huge swastika intact, and salvaging 2nd century B.C. artifacts from
> cargo
> >ships which sank in the Mediterranean.
> >Filming, Not Touching, Wrecks
> >His technique is to send down cameras on submersible robots that tour
> the
> >outside and inside of wrecks, filming the underwater museums for
> >posterity.
> >Ballard said he preferred to leave his discoveries intact and not to
> >salvage them. "I could probably find 300 ships for the price of
> >salvaging one," he said.
> >The explorer said he was preparing a journey to the Black Sea in June
> >1999 to study trade routes of Greek and Scythian vessels more than
> 2,000
> >years ago. He said he was confident he could find ships in pristine
> >condition because in the depths of the Black Sea there was
> >no oxygen to support life, such as ravenous wood-boring underwater
> worms
> >that destroy the wooden hulls of ships.
> >Ballard said chances were better of finding wrecks in good shape in the=
> >Black Sea than, for instance, Portugal's mid-Atlantic Azores islands,
> >another major ships' graveyard.
> >Getting to the Bottom of Ship-Shape
> >He said that ships off the volcanic Azores had often hit a rocky
> bottom,
> >rather than sinking into sand, leaving them susceptible to attack from
> >the wood-borers. Ballard said he looked forward to the day when people=
> >using the Internet could watch film taken by submersible robots of
> famous
> >wrecks such as the Titanic or the U.S. aircraft carrier Yorktown.
> >In May, a team led by Ballard located and photographed the Yorktown,
> sunk
> >by the Japanese at the Battle of Midway in the Pacific in 1942.
> Ballard
> >said the ship was in excellent condition despite sitting for more than
> 50
> >years under 5,000 metres (16,650 feet) of water.
> >About 40 U.S. servicemen were killed when the Yorktown went down on
> June
> >7, 1942, hit by Japanese bombers and then torpedoed by a submarine.
> There
> >were 2,270 survivors.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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