Lee Bell wrote:

> I'm with you.  I think the darned thing is considerably more interesting
> with it's butt stuck in the sand and it's nose stuck in the air than it ever
> would be just sitting on the bottom as planned.  It seems, however, that the
> powers that be don't much care for the idea.  They clearly have an
> underdeveloped sense of humor . . . or I simply don't understand the
> magnatude or source of their concerns.

Lee, ya kidding me?

In the interests of preserving the lives of us unsuspecting innocent
vict ..., I mean divers, who might be prepared to enter the wilds of
this, likely unprepared, or perhaps underprepared, ship, why, the
"authorities" (and their insurers) who had control of the ship are
likely now to be sh*t scared that some likely gung ho lad, just
recently released into the vagaries of scuba, is likely to lose his
life there and that they are then likely to get their collective asses
sued off'n 'em.

Phew! That's some sentence.

Let's face it, just ANYBODY can prove that the ship was underprepared,
I mean, it didn't EVEN get sunk at the right time, in the right spot,
in the right condition and at the right attitude.

If I were contemplating suicide and needed to provide for lotsa
dependents ...

:-0 Maybe I should add, just to be on the safe side, that I have zero dependents.

Cheers,

Christian