Wreck becomes eligible for UNESCO protection
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On the centenary of the sinking the site passed the hundred-year threshold in the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, bringing it within that instrument for states party to it. Protection remains partial in practice: the wreck lies in international waters, salvage has been conducted under US court supervision since 1987, and the hull is degrading steadily.
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- Titanic wreck siteconcerns
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- On the centenary of the sinking the site passed the hundred-year threshold in the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, bringing it within that instrument for states party to it. Protection remains partial in practice: the wreck lies in international waters, salvage has been conducted under US court supervision since 1987, and the hull is degrading steadily.
- Knowledge
- Titanic wreck site
- Wreck becomes eligible for UNESCO protection
- Connections
- Titanic wreck site
- RMS Titanic
- North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
- 1985 Franco-American Titanic search
- First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
- Lights fail and the hull breaks in two
- Wreck located by the Argo camera sled
- First human visits to the wreck
- Wreck becomes eligible for UNESCO protection
- Evidence
- Extends protection to underwater sites submerged for at least 100 years; the Titanic wreck reached that threshold on 15 April 2012.
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