My personal short answer would be “%*&#$, no!” But that would hardly an article make.
Valerie Voigt, a respected community religious leader and a good friend of many years, sent me a link to an article from the (UK) Sunday Independent by Johann Hari that begins,
“Do you believe in the rights of […]
OK, so you want to look for sunken treasure - be it monetary, historical, or both. (Or you find out someone else is doing it, you don’t think they should, and you want to see if you can stop them).
You’re in luck, sort of.
The bad news for underwater artifact-hunters is that unless […]
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