If the French had founded America, who would the French have to spit on now?
Still the Quebecois
They’re right to do that though.
“I think it is quite appropriate to say that this is the single most historically important shipwreck in North America,”
Lol, that lawyer is a full of himself. Maybe if he added, "for French history.
Did James Cameron make a movie about your boat? No? Ok then sit down. 🤣
Titanic isn’t in North America?
I imagine sailing the Caribbean before weather forecasts could be a bit treacherous. How long does it take for a hurricane to pass through?
There are usually several every late summer.
I get it, treasure hunters want to be compensated for finding wrecks but understand that if you do find one, that does not make you its owner. If it belonged to France when it sank, the wreck still belongs to France. “Finders keepers” is not a game you want to play with archaeologists.
What about legitimate salvage?
What do you define as “legitimate salvage”?
For me, it involves as taking control of the ship in the midst of an attack by medically-altered sociopathic scientists obsessed with ancient alien technology.
A ship that has been on the bottom of the ocean for 450 years. France had plenty of time to claim it.
They are claiming it. It was found in 2016 and since has been in a legal battle for ownership between those who found it and the country it belonged to when it sank. Just because you find a wreck doesn’t entitle you to pilfer it for treasure. Stuff like that belongs in a museum not some private collection.
Standing in the way of GME is the Sunken Military Craft Act (SMCA), a law signed by then-president George W. Bush in 2004 which recognizes the sovereignty of a country over its former warships.
Seems like this would remove most of the incentive to look for them.
