Fort Pierce BOOTY

[Au_Dreamers]

Federal Admiralty Arrests are different than State of Florida salvage contracts.

Unfortunately the abandoned shipwrecks acts stole rights from the people of the United States and empowered States to control shipwrecks within State submerged lands.

The right to salvage geographic areas that contain "1715 fleet ships" as well as other ships within the area was granted by the Federal Court when the Federal Admiralty Arrests were made decades ago by "Mel Fisher's company(ies)"

This Federal Admiralty Arrest is the same jurisdiction and authority presently operated under.

Most of these are from a center pinpoint location extending 3000 yards...not including the land west.

If you are "just looking", laws are possibly being broken....There are exploration permit requirements. Recovery of objects is a state violation.

"The division may institute an administrative proceeding to impose an administrative fine of not more than $500 a day on any person or business organization that, without written permission of the division, explores for, salvages, or excavates treasure trove, artifacts, sunken or abandoned ships, or other objects having historical or archaeological value located on state-owned or state-controlled lands, including state sovereignty submerged lands."

IN AMERICA

 

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[grossmusic]

"The division may institute an administrative proceeding to impose an administrative fine of not more than $500 a day on any person or business organization that, without written permission of the division, explores for, salvages, or excavates treasure trove, artifacts, sunken or abandoned ships, or other objects having historical or archaeological value located on state-owned or state-controlled lands, including state sovereignty submerged lands."

IN AMERICA

They did a lot of things wrong in the old days, but it's too bad "finders keepers" didn't stick.

 

[GatorBoy]

I understand Brent and his crew hit it big at Corrigans... Biggest haul in a long time!!!

 

[Red_desert]

Hope this helps, a better improved to see or read lease map.

 

[ivan salis]

salvors might have the "right" to pull up a cannon , but no one really wants to these days * cannons are basically worthless money costing "white elephants" if one removes them they have to "preserved" at great cost ..and are of little fiscal value --plus they better serve as "bottom reference" points for "find plotting" ...during the old days of salvage often salvors would "remove" cannons from a wrecksite to hide the location form others ..since most used iron seeking towed mags to locate possible wreck sites

 

[Red_desert]

Yeah, I thought of the possibility they would make a good reference point, makes sense alright.