Existing legislation protects about 6,000 known World War II wrecks, but enforcement often ... "As the equipment used to legally salvage ships from the bottom of the ocean improves, the danger ...

An effort will be made by a Dutch ship salvage firm to dig up the SS Patria, a vessel sunk in the Port of Haifa, eight years before Israel was established with the loss of 202 Jewish immigrants ...

which promises an improved research environment. The city also hopes to salvage the body of the sunken ship in the future and preserve it.