New plan to protect the vanishing Titanic from high-tech grave robbers | BevanShields
But it also brought out the salvagers. Less generous observers described them as high-tech grave robbers. Already losing the battle against the ravages of deep sea currents and metal-eating bacteria, the Titanic's brittle remains have been subjected to repeated expeditions where thousands of artifacts and even an entire 15-tonne slice of the steel hull have been removed.
Backed by private equity firms, RMS Titanic Inc plans to lead the expedition and will argue the new agreement between the UK and US - as well as various other treaties and regulations - is not a legal barrier. The latest agreement to better protect the site was reached in 2004 and swiftly ratified by Britain, but the US did not get around to introducing crucial enabling legislation until the end of last year. When they did formally sign up, the development barely registered a blip amid the UK's Brexit chaos.
"This momentous agreement with the United States to preserve the wreck means it will be treated with the sensitivity and respect owed to the final resting place of more than 1500 lives."
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