Yes – perfect!!:D Glad “we in the south” could be of assistance!:)

I suppose it is not very likely but would/could consideration be given under the Act and directives, if relatives were to request exhumation and reburial?

Thank you, Kev.

I understand. So, leaving aside the moral aspect, the law distinguishes between civilian and military “graves”.

No – I did not mean to imply that you did.

So, in order that I can corretly understand your position, drowned vessels such as I described, should remain untouched. Is the retrieval of bodies, for reburial for example, assuming conditions are suitable, acceptable?

I ask purely for clarification not to start a debate on the subject.

Linc – “aged bits and bobs which have been sold by Auction in the States.from the TITANIC.”

But that’s my point – this wreck lies nearly 3000′ deeper than the Titanic.

Kev, Andy – would the same criteria not have applied to the Titanic? Any vessel, marine or airborne, civil or military, which sinks in the sea with people aboard is a grave. Are these vessels always sacrosanct from salvage?

Indeed – no different from the other euphemisms for death – passing on and passed away and no longer with us, resting at peace etc. Sadly death is death, arrived at by whatever means.

I agree with you about the bayonet rushing. I am sure a degree of “psyching-up” is necessary but it verged on the laughable. In fact some of the cadets were laughing and berated for it, weren’t they?

I am sure of that, Linc – I didn’t mean to imply that the profits wouldn’t be worth it, but he is in unchartered waters – no one has salvaged this deep before, so there will be a risk, however calculated.