Titanic wreck plundered?

Just in from Virginia:

A pirate ship from England may have plundered the Titanic in violation of a Norfolk court order.

Rumors of the illegal salvage operation surfaced in November in Norfolk’s federal court. Since then, a Portsmouth maritime lawyer has investigated the rumors and concluded they may be true.

In letters to Norfolk’s federal court, lawyer Mark S. Davis said evidence suggests that a Florida company may have used a ship from England and a submarine from France to salvage pieces of the Titanic in November and December. . .

Four nations — the United States, Canada, Britain and France — have tried to outlaw the Titanic’s salvage, but an international agreement is still unsigned. The Titanic was discovered in 1985 by a joint American-French expedition.

Posted by David on March 24, 2003 10:19 PM