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Originally Posted by Igo kyu

As I read between the lines, this is a rush job because in 2018 or earlier these will come under preservation orders, which will prevent amateur divers from removing items. So, from then on it will only be professional historians, and then only maybe, who are allowed to dive on these.

So, while there is a lot of talk about doing right by the crews, what it actually is, is a gold rush before the deadline falls.

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These are WW1 subs, not WW2, this is nothing to do with operation Deadlight.

Have you got a link?

I'm struggling to understand how there could be 40 WW1 or WW2 subs in one place which have dead crew members in them. Or are they talking about 40 individual sites which will become preserved and there fore stop people pillaging them. If the latter how has that not already happened? Most British wrecks sunk with loss of life are designated war graves I believe.