We should be concerned about what we are allowed to do now. We should be free to dive all these wrecks without prosecution or persecution. You should be allowed to spear fish, photograph, or just observe without filing for a pseudo scientific permit. You should be incensed that you will not be allowed to dive these wrecks because you are considered proletariat. Only those whom have been touched by NOAA's scepter are worthy. If we don't care we deserve less freedom.
When I dived the Monitor in 1990, I was asked by the NOAA observer why I wanted to dive this wreck when there was so much documentation of the site? I answered that I wanted to feel the power of the wreck's history. Every American who is capable should have that privilege without prejudice. If your not passionate about this as an American you are not breathing.
Write your representatives and tell them how NOAA is wasting excessive tax dollars and destroying the economy of fisheries, boating, marine industry and diving industry.
Good Wreck Diving!
Atlantic Diver
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