An interesting article from the BBC on marine salvage:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15031084

It is interesting, especially considering the attitudes of most here, that three Royal Navy warships, HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue and HMS Cressy, that were torpedoed by a U-boat, with the loss of 1500 lives, during an infamous action in 1914 are apparently subject to ‘desecration’ by Dutch salvage companies in search of copper and brass.

http://www.royal-naval-association.co.uk/news/100/anger-at-dutch-salvage-ships-plundering-ocean-graves/

Why are these ‘wargrave’ shipwrecks not protected? :confused: