Sunken Planes, Sunken gold- it's all about money!

[bdk]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110524/ap_ ... k_treasure

[67N20]

What ever happened to "finders-keepers"?

[DaveM2]

Sunken planes? -where, what, who?

[bdk]

Well, they suppose in the article that if the US allows finders-keepers than all the USN claimed aircraft booty that is off-limits around the world is fair game for other countries to recover.

Maybe if the US keps their nose out of this it would open all the international USN wrecks to be fair game once again.

[The Inspector]

I don't recall seeing anywhere that the Navy was going after the guys who fished that CORSAIR wreck out of the Med, if it had been us and in the U.S. we'd still be in court over it.

[shelldrake]

If the US Navy tried to take legal action on a Non US citizen who is acting under the powers of another state, nation or even in international waters, then it would be up for an environmental clean up bill bigger than the current US debt. Every ship that has ever sunk containing any environmentally unfriendly substance would therefore automatically become the responsability of the US navy. The Palau govt and many other pacific nations hate the US for not cleaning up oil tankers sitting in lagoons and still leaking oil.

Now this is not a personal opinion but something I have heard said at a number of forums.


so just give that some thought


SD

[The Inspector]

Mine was more a comment on who the Government figures they can threaten and bluster and the rest of the world who gets up on their back legs and bark back

[jet1]

the 'treasure' actually belongs to central America where it was looted from. You know what you have when you have 1000 drowned lawyers? A GOOD START....