Re: That's it...
This James Delgado's got a great job, consisting of:
1. A Government department sinks something in the Pacific, without recording where they did it.
2. A period of time later a different Government department declares that these vessels are historic.
3. James Delgado and his chums get a nice big boat with lots of toys to play with for a period of time, in order to find these self declared 'historic' relics.
What is the point?
Am I being just a wee bit too cynical.....
Well, apart from the messing about in boats thing, and the order of the step in which the government declares something valuable, this is pretty much a definition of how archeology works in general.
You could ask the time-wasters who dug up the 9th century cathedral in Coventry recently what the point is. I mean, they already had two that weren't in deep holes. One is a bit smashed up but the other is in good repair.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
