Titanic Law and Policy: The Wreck’s Role In Changing International Maritime Safety and Salvage Law
The Ocean Foundation is promoting the role of the 2001 Convention and other laws in the protection of the wreck as UCH. Titanic Law and Policy: The Wreck’s Role In Changing International Maritime Safety and Salvage Law, by Ole Varmer and Dr. James P. Delgado has been approved for publication by Springer as part of its SHA Advisory Council of Underwater Archaeology (ACUA) Underwater Briefs series. It is scheduled to be published in the Spring. Thanks to a grant from the Lloyds Register Foundation (LRF), it will be open access and available for free download. LRF Louise Sanger of the Heritage Education Centre also contributed as is the author of the chapter entitled: Impact of the Loss of Titanic on Maritime Safety and International Law and Policy. It also offers a sustained legal–policy analysis of Titanic as a leading case in the integration of historic preservation law into the law of salvage on Titanic, including requiring compliance with the International Agreement on Titanic and a US 2017 Act that have Rules and Principles consistent with the 2001 Convention. The protective measures taken to protect Titanic, including boundaries and zones, provide a model for a high seas marine protected area for heritage under the High Seas Treaty
Themes
- Safeguarding maritime and underwater cultural heritage
- Promoting/Awareness-raising for maritime and underwater cultural heritage
- Looting and illicit trafficking