I am not a professional diver but I think I know something about diving. If the dies are attached to nets I think it might be very dangerous to go near them because of the danger of entanglement. It would also be difficult to get a remote camera to them, same problem. Before even thinking about diving a lot of research needs to be done. How many dies, there is a male and female for each set, how big? what are the bottom conditions, weather, currents etc. Who placed them and where. Are there any markings on them for identifacation? You need to know what you are looking for and how it would appear so if you find it you know what you have.The list goes on and on. The point is you don't go in the water first without a lot of research first to minimize the high costs of an expedition and have a high probability of success. Ballard spent years doing research on some of the wrecks he has found and luck still has a lot to do with it. Don't be naieve, this could cost thousands of dollars and include a high level of personal risk, this is not a "day at the beach". David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxx, id <ionicdesign@xxxx> wrote: > i would think if the dies are in the water they do not belong to anybody because they > have been abandoned for almost 20 years. isn't there a maritime law regarding > abandonment of anything in water. what about the titanic does everything recovered > belong to the passengers of the ship or the white star line? what about all of the gold