Salvage divers destroying war grave

[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/

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by TarJak

Aside from the fact oilfields were largely formed from ancient swamps and forests and not dinosaurs...

Wrong.

We're talking about people who died whose relatives are still around.

Well, yes.

[Rockstar]

Sad indeed, but not the only culprit destroying graves of the fallen. These sunken memorials make excellent fish habitats and commercial fisherman know this too. They wreak havoc dragging nets and trawls tearing them apart until nothing remains.

[Stealhead]

Well as time passes nothing will remain of any man made vessel that is on the bottom. So scavengers and fishing nets only speed up the natural process of things.

The scavengers are wrong not so sure about fishermen using nets they tend to avoid wrecks because these can either tear the nets apart or pull the gear apart which is costly.Usually they mark known wrecks so as to avoid getting the nets caught up in the wreckage even for commercial boats a lost net is very costly and not worth the possible gain.Now guys using rod and reel they would be all over a wreck of course they can not really do much damage with their gear.Also the fact that this particular wreck is popular with divers means that any fishing vessel is not going to be near it anyway.

[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.