notabob
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Allison Finch:Parrot???? NAW! I thought of those words all by myself!
As THAL mentioned, I am not against artifact recovery in itself....I like archeological recoveries. Just the illegal taking of items from areas intended for heavy diving use.
Bye the way, "vicious criminals" were your words, not mine.
Legal recoveries I have less issue with. I just wish people would ask themselves "where is the geatest overall value? On my mantle or left for all to share?"
Visitors to wreck dive destinations (CHUUCK) could help answer that. It amazes me when I hear of people removing ordinance and momentos from there. Illegal? yes. Dangerous? yes. Sad? yes. I, for one, like seeing the clarinet still laying on the shelf in the cabin.
Hmmm silly me....
Allison, while the quoted paragraph was yours, the response was meant to be more general. I'm getting very tired of all the BS and name-calling both here and in the rest of the scuba-related media. You may have thought of "plunderers" by yourself when writing your post, but I've heard the word, combined with "vicious criminals" and many other very choice excerpts from someone's thesaurus one too many times. The words originated in one specific source that I'm not going to bring up again, and have been parroted ever since by the general diving public that that "source" has been whipping up into a frenzy for the last couple of years. So whether you think you did or not, the very words you said have been said before and parroting has been taking place.