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HMS Victory 1744 Wreck - Consultation
From Steve Roue 4/5/2010
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) are currently undertaking a Public Consultation on what should happen to the wreck of HMS Victory now it has been located.
Basically there is three options:
1. Leave the wreck and contents in-situ to erode and corrode away and also at the risk of being damaged by trawlers and theft from illegal salvors. This is the current crazy plan on most historic wrecks as detailed by UNESCO and English Heritage (Stirling Castle, Resurgam etc.)
2. Recover the Bronze guns and visible artefacts and then leave the wreck and remaining contents in-situ to erode and corrode away and also at the risk of being damaged by trawlers and theft from illegal salvors
3. Let Odyssey Marine Exploration who spent millions locating the wreck (or another organisation with the deepwater vessel and ROV technology) carry out a more extensive archaeological evaluation and excavation of the wreck and bring to the worlds public most of the lost history the wreck contains (Similar to what happened on the Mary Rose and hundreds of other important wrecks over the years).
Unfortunately the academic archaeologist are promoting a fatally flawed view that wrecks should be left in-situ for future generations, whilst totally ignoring that no wreck is stable underwater, only that its destruction may be slowed by the conditions it is laying in (buried by mud etc.)
We have big gaps in our maritime history, and it the excavating of wrecks like the Victory that can answer these many questions.
If you feel passionately about our Maritime History please respond to the consultation process on http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/consultations/6773.aspx
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