sparky30
Contributor
I have a wreck preservation question.. How do you prevent people from removing (or moving) artifacts from wrecks??
Charter operators don't tolerate this type of behaviour, but how do you prevent private folks form doing it? Any moron with a boat can pillage to their hearts content.
Its not like you can watch over a wreck every minute of the day...Education doesn't seem to be working.. I hear a recent report that one of my favourite wrecks looks like someone has been digging around it (and in it) and some of the item previously there are gone...
Its sad that this type of thing is still going on
My only solution would be to educate people at local marinas and boat ramps.. There are more of them, then there are divers.. sort of like a community watch... except for artifacts... What have other people tried?
Charter operators don't tolerate this type of behaviour, but how do you prevent private folks form doing it? Any moron with a boat can pillage to their hearts content.
Its not like you can watch over a wreck every minute of the day...Education doesn't seem to be working.. I hear a recent report that one of my favourite wrecks looks like someone has been digging around it (and in it) and some of the item previously there are gone...
Its sad that this type of thing is still going on
My only solution would be to educate people at local marinas and boat ramps.. There are more of them, then there are divers.. sort of like a community watch... except for artifacts... What have other people tried?