A new expedition to discover the Titanic is ready: the mission was planned just months after the OceanGate submarine tragedy and is scheduled for 2024.
The US government is trying to shut down the shipwreck salvage business by citing Federal law that it international agreement Who calls the place a “sacred site.”
Shipping is organized by RMS Titanic Company, the Georgian company that owns the rights to salvage the most famous wreck in the world. The company collects and displays artifacts recovered from the wreck site at the bottom of the shipNorth Atlantic.
Submarine Titan, co-founder of OceanGate, wants to send 1,000 people to Venus by 2050: “a ready-made floating colony”
What the law stipulates
The fight in the US District Court in Norfolk, Virginia, which is overseeing the recovery of the Titanic, is based on Federal law And on a deal with Great Britain regarding the Titanic.
Among the government’s concerns is the possible destruction of artifacts (and human remains, ed.) that may still exist. “The RMST is not at liberty to ignore this properly enacted federal law, but that is its stated intent,” the US attorneys who filed court filings on Friday said.
the shipment
Shipping is scheduled RMST May 2024This is according to a report submitted to the court in June.
Marconi room It contains the ship’s radio—the Marconi wireless telegraph—which transmits the increasingly frantic distress signals from the Titanic after the ship’s collision with an iceberg. Other ships and shore receiving stations intercepted the Morse code messages, helping to save the lives of about 700 people who escaped in lifeboats.
“At this time, the company has no plans to cut off the wreckage or exfoliate any part of the wreckage,” RMST said. The company said it will work with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the US agency that represents the public interest in the wreck. But RMST said it had no plans to seek a permit. lawyers Government officials have said the study cannot proceed, arguing that the RMST needs approval from the US Secretary of Commerce, who oversees the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Legal battle
The Georgian company did not provide one Respond in courtBut it has previously challenged the constitutionality of US efforts to “violate” its rights to salvage wrecks in international waters. Only the Norfolk Court has jurisdiction, the study said, drawing on centuries of precedent in maritime law. In 2020, the US government and the RMST waged a nearly identical legal battle over a proposed shipment that would have cut the wreck. But the measures were halted due to the coronavirus pandemic and were not fully implemented.
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