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Odyssey Marine Strikes Major Deal with Discovery Communications

1 You need to learn how to speak in English and spell correctly (or at least use Spell Check).

2 When you state the law, you should at least know it well enough to know that your statement is correct.

3 The actual UNESCO law states under Article 1:

"8. “State vessels and aircraft” means warships, and other vessels or aircraft that were owned or operated by a State and used, at the time of sinking, only for government non-commercial purposes, that are identified as such and that meet the definition of underwater cultural heritage."

Did you notice that it says these ships or planes MUST be used, at the time of sinking, ONLY for NON-commercial purposes. Therefore, the discovery does not fall under UNESCO law. This means that the discovery falls under Salvage Law, allowing Odyssey to collect 90% of the value of the coins. The other 10% goes to the cargo owners descendants. Spain receives 0% of the discovery's value.

On Jun 02 04:04 PM ingwe wrote:

> See the Juno and Galga case: www.nps.gov/archeology...
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> the treasure is for Spain No matter the service of the ship, was
> a ship fleted by the goverment.
> And more: according to the UNESCO, any shipwreck with more that 100
> years is considered archaeological remains, so really, don't exist
> salvage for goverment ships sunk time ago, only despoliation, and
> this, is a criminal act in all countries.