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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
I think the biggest protector of these wrecks is deep water. Seldom do laws prevent the divers and scavengers from getting involved.
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That's quite true. I've read of many shallow water wrecks, like "Prince of Wales" & "Repulse", being looted by divers who, apparently, could care less about disrespecting war graves.
There was even one case where some divers removed skulls from a sunken submarine and put them in the windows of their dive shop, as decorations. Absolutely classless, in my opinion.
Anyways, there's interesting stuff about the discovery at wrecksite.eu. Apparently the search team was successful because they got help from local fishermen, who reported losing their trawls on an undersea obstruction...they went to the site they marked and sure enough, there Scharnhorst was. I'm a little surprised that they would be trawling in such deep waters; in any case it is a great find. Maybe next they can locate Gneisenau, the German light cruisers, and the British CA's Good Hope and Monmouth.
https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?15323