Salvage divers destroying war grave

[Tango589]

Originally Posted by soopaman2

Your war graves are resources, just like the dead dinosaur graves we call oil fields..

How come no one mourns them?

They died for us too.

RIP Velociraptor, Apatosaurus, gastonia...etc.

We kill each other over your remains.

The difference is that nobody was alive to appreciate the dinosaurs when they were alive, whereas these sailors' ships were sunk and become graves still within peoples current lifetimes. It's the same as someone digging up your Great-Aunt Mary and selling her coffin for scrap wood and brass. The act is unconscionable.

[August]

Originally Posted by Tango589

The difference is that nobody was alive to appreciate the dinosaurs when they were alive, whereas these sailors' ships were sunk and become graves still within peoples current lifetimes. It's the same as someone digging up your Great-Aunt Mary and selling her coffin for scrap wood and brass. The act is unconscionable.

This ^

If it were a U-boat or other small craft i'd say as long as they remove the remains first then it'd be ok, but that's an impossible job with a cruiser or other large ship.

[August]

Update to the story:

US Navy divers to visit wreck of USS Houston in Indonesia

Divers from the U.S. Navy will visit the World War II graveyard of the "Galloping Ghost of the Java Coast” — the sunken USS Houston — later this month in a bid to determine what remains of the ship, which went down with more than 700 sailors off the coast of Indonesia.
The wreck of the Northampton-class heavy cruiser, which was sunk by the Japanese during the World War II battle of Sunda Strait on Feb. 28, 1942, will be surveyed by Navy divers working with their counterparts from Indonesia. The ship lies about 125 feet deep, near Java, Indonesia, where it has become a popular dive site for scavengers. Navy officials now want to find out what's left of the sacred site, especially given that it rests in corrosive waters in an unstable region.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/06/09...-in-indonesia/

[Peter Cremer]

Wonder what the government would do if divers starting looting the old USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor?

[Jimbuna]

Do what any politician would do and act upon and in favour of the outcry from a united nation.

[August]

Originally Posted by Peter Cremer

Wonder what the government would do if divers starting looting the old USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor?

They would descend upon the divers with a literal army of well armed cops and agents, haul them off to jail and charge them with an entire slate of crimes with penalties totaling several hundred years in prison.

[STEED]

Disgraceful but we all know this will not stop.