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42 Emory L. J. 1099 (1993)
Full Fathom Five: Legal Hurdles to Treasure

handle is hein.journals/emlj42 and id is 1109 raw text is: COMMENTS FULL FATHOM FIVE1: LEGAL HURDLES TO TREASURE* I believe in the law of the sea .... He who goes down to the sea or lake and harvests the bounty has it as his. Men have always chal- lenged the sea for fish, plankton, flotsam and treasure, and it's al- ways been theirs to do with what they will. If a guy went down and salvaged a cargo or a vessel, he was entitled to fair compensation. Harry Zych American Diving & Salvage Co.2 I. INTRODUCTION Maritime folklore recounts endless tragic tales of ships' demises ranging from pirate attacks and violent hurricanes to mysterious disappearances and wartime aggressions, from Noah's Ark to the Titanic and the Andrea Doria. Tantalized by these legends and allured by the prospect of untold wealth, adventurers have vied for years to discover buried treasures that the oceans have long refused to relinquish. The recent development of advanced scuba diving technology has brought previously inaccessible * This Comment received the 1993 Myron Penn Laughlin Award for excellence in legal research and writing and for the best Comment by a Candidate for the Board of the Emory Law Journal. Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade. But doth suffer a sea-change. Into something rich and strange. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, THE TEMPEST act 1, sc. 2. ' Adrienne Drell, It's a Skirmish of 'Plunderers' and Historians for Shipwreck, NAT'L L.J., Dec. 11, 1989, at 8.

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