Abandoned Shipwrecks Act
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abandoned-shipwrecks-act-174-5337221
title:
Abandoned Shipwrecks Act
text:
The Abandoned Shipwrecks Act is a piece of United States legislation passed into law in 1988 meant to protect historic shipwrecks in US waters from treasure hunters and unauthorised salvagers by transferring the title to the wreck to the US state whose waters it lies in.
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
US legislation
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandoned_Shipwrecks_Act
date created:
2008-05-25T17:15:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T18:42:17Z
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13
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