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Old August 20th, 2007, 03:52 PM   #10 (permalink)
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I very rarely dive wrecks, I don't have much interest in them and I don't really understand the attraction of swimming round a scrapyard. For me, I would not want what is essentially a bunch of tourists swimming around the remains of my relatives, especially relatives that had given their lives in defence of said tourists.

The big difference between a wreck and a war cemetery is that in a cemetery the dead have the protection of six feet of earth. That is not the case in a wreck. Would you squeeze into an open tomb in Normandy with a video camera?

Like I said, wrecks have no interest for me and when someone's bones become a spectacle then I'm a bit uncomfortable with that. Where the dead have been removed (by manual means or nature) then I think preventing diving is a bit ridiculous in most circumstances.

Many tourists go into tombs with bones on display. From the caves in Mexico to the pyramids in Egypt

Buddha's bones on display to public - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Photo: Bones

Perhaps Mr Bush is not the man to ask about this..

Hiding Geronimo's Bones


If they found human remains in a cave you dive would you stop diving it?

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