SANCTUARY ALERT: I might just simply add folks for any of you trying to absorb this whole thing at once, that the imposed penalty for any infraction of these NEW rules will cost you $100,000 per day. Even if you were found to be moving an object (artifact) from its original (or in-situ) place. This regulation is so broad that it basically prohibits divers from most any wreck that is worth diving on. If you have read any of Greg Stemms rebuttal suggestions (listed in the last thread) That should be adequate for you to reply with. Below this next link however, I have posted my displeasure of this outrageous amendment to the Federal Register, so if any of you would like to submit some other ideas, please, by all means, do so!. Also, the link right below this will take you DIRECTLY to the comment section of the Federal Register. Please write something today. Thank you! regulations.gov/#!submitComment;D=USN-2011-0016- 0001 Dear Gentlemen, We, the professional and Historical Salvors of America unanimously reject and condemn Dr. Robert Nayland’s support of any further plans by UNESCO to terminate, outlaw, interfere or proffer any motion that maintains these changes. Dr. Nayland knows that our State dept. walked out of the UNESCO meetings in Paris in 2000 because of their unacceptable socialistic plans to covert all underwater shipwrecks of private Salvors. We walked out, gentlemen, because we could not apply their draconian “suggestions” to the laws of the U.S. They were simply UNCONSTITUTIONAL! To this day gentlemen, the USA has not ratified this UNESCO treaty. As long as “The Law of Salvage and Finds” as well as “Admiralty Law” still exists in this country, we refuse to see those laws abandoned, amended or other wise circumvented. As far as the SMCA is concerned there should not be an amendment to prohibit the private sector from discovering and recovering historical ships, rather you should be encouraging these professionals to continue with their vocations. (The finding and recovering of shipwreck material has been going on for a lot longer than this country was even a country). In and of themselves they are an Historic industry that is looked on as a proud part of any coastal community. The idea of making criminals out of people that have participated in this industry for generations is deplorable, reprehensible and downright UN-AMERICAN. I thank you for your time.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 19:53:36 +0000
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