Mike-

No doubt about it, "the Nation's coastal and marine resources" is nice 
and vauge, but I just can't picture piles of junk on the ocean floor 
as "resources". Fish, minerals, oil, commerce, those are resources and 
I think what was intended on the founding of NOAA.

The National Park Service is the appropriate entitiy to do the marine 
sanctuary thing, just like they have done at Bikini Atoll. They have a 
long history protecting and managing things of historical nature, NOAA 
has none. 

As a Pilot, how would you like it if the FAA started protecting 
historical plane wrecks? They let their aironautical charts all get 20 
years old, quit maintaining navigation aids, but spend millions 
building monuments wherever an airplane has crashed. Crazy nonsence.

    Jim


On Thu, 07 Mar 2002 11:21:05 -0500
  Rodriguez <mikey@ma*.ne*> wrote:
>At 09:04 PM 3/6/2002 -0500, Jim Cobb wrote:
>
>>Bill the disturbing thing about all this is that our "underfunded" 
>>NOAA
>>program, who does not have enough money to maintain it's ships and 
>>cannot
>>even do it's job of reporting on oceanographic weather information 
>>and put
>>out decent charts, suddenly has all the money it needs to do stuff 
>>not in
>>it's mission statement.
>
>NOAA's Mission Statement is: "to describe and predict changes in the
>Earth's environment, and conserve and wisely manage the Nation's
>coastal and marine resources."
>
>Historically significant shipwrecks are part of our nation's
>coastal and marine resources.
>
>-Mike Rodriguez
><mikey@mi*.ne*>
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