Comment Mmmm...plunder (Score 2, Interesting) 262
I am an amateur treasure hunter. I have been called a looter by archeology types at times. My proposal is this:
How many historical sites/wrecks can be researched in 100 years? Take this number and double it. Now make a list of these sites. These sites would be "off limits" to looters, er treasure hunters.
Now if a "new" site is found, in order to add it to the list you must drop an existing site from the list.
My point is that there are so many sites there is no way they can all be researched, and without "looters" many existing museum pieces would not have been found and available for the public to see and researchers to study.
Thank goodness for maritime law and the law of salvage....
How many historical sites/wrecks can be researched in 100 years? Take this number and double it. Now make a list of these sites. These sites would be "off limits" to looters, er treasure hunters.
Now if a "new" site is found, in order to add it to the list you must drop an existing site from the list.
My point is that there are so many sites there is no way they can all be researched, and without "looters" many existing museum pieces would not have been found and available for the public to see and researchers to study.
Thank goodness for maritime law and the law of salvage....
