[August]

The country that sent them there ought to mount an expedition to search the wreckage and locate, remove and return any human remains for proper burial in the home country.

Then it's not a war grave anymore. We do it for plane crash victims all the time, including war losses even decades after the fact. There's one going on up in Alaska right now for a larger crew than what was on the 550. They just finished bringing back a bunch of WW2 aircrew remains from Burma. I don't see why small ship crews should be treated any differently. You're talking about just 40 bodies not 40,000 like on some large land battlefield.

Otherwise in order to stop civilian divers from disturbing the wreck and remains you will have to secure it and guard it. That will be expensive and oppressive and imo we have enough of both in government lately.

Besides. I never met a sailor or soldier, myself included, who would prefer having his remains left where they fell. Everybody wants to go home. I think we owe it to them to make sure it happens.