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charlezk t1_iuo1c7i wrote

Reply to comment by TinyAd280 in Century-old shipwreck being torn apart by visitors; researchers asking them to stop by InflationOk300

Pretty sure the article said that when the water rises again it will just go back to being submerged, so they won't be paying anyone to do anything.

But yeah, I laughed at the

>Why is the state department concerned about visitors taking away mementos from the S.S. Brookhill if they have no plans to preserve it? McGimsey explained that it's state property and they want it left the way it is.

So basically it's "because we said so, and we also said it's ours so nyah"

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Marokiii t1_iup2p6t wrote

Or because state property is state property. Just because someone isn't actively using something doesn't mean it's now free for everyone else to just take.

The shipwreck could last decades(theres a sailboat shipwreck near where i live and its been there longer than ive been alive. No active preservation is going on with it)or even longer if just left alone, allowing many people to visit it and see it. If people start to take it apart piece by piece than soon no one will be able to see it.

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