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please don't be so smug- these people have an agenda, they have money, they have power & they have us --- the assholes that walk around with our heads in the sand thinking that if we don't look up nothing can happen. don't take it for granted that nothing will happen the arkies have figured out that if they devide the divers into the lookers & the takers they can win. they have the media on there side they have government officials on there side. make no mistke about it they are serious & they can win if we just sit around doing nothing. hank In a message dated 2/7/1999 6:47:19 PM Pacific Standard Time, hewhite@ix*.ne*.co* writes: << For an interesting discussion of the draft UNESCO Convention on Underwater Cultural Resources, see Peter Hess' article in the Spring 1999 (Vol. 4, No. 1) issue of Immersed, the international technical diving magazine. The draft treaty is a real threat; fortunately, UNESCO is so inept (the US and the UK resigned several years ago over its inefficient spending policies) that it ought to be possible for sport divers and salvors who are capable of rational argumentation to defeat a treaty whose basic premise is that it is better that man remain ignorant than that someone profit (e.g., salvors such as those salvaging the Wydah and the SS Central America) or just have fun (e.g., sport divers)while exploring the unknown. >> -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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