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Earlier this week, Tuesday, March 17, the British newspaper The Times published an article about the problems with divers and war graves, written by Fin Kavanagh. Treasure hunters are making millions of pounds salvaging British wartime shipwrecks amid accusations that they are “desecrating” maritime graves. More than 40 ships serving as war graves in British waters have been plundered by divers in the past five years. A freedom of information request to the Maritime & Coastguard Agency revealed that more than 400 relics had been plundered from merchant navy war[…]

Wednesday September 12th, Germany has collected the artefacts that a dive team from Lauwersoog had taken from the wreck of the German cruiser the ‘Mainz’ which perished at Heligoland during the First World War. A conflict had arisen about the artefacts, because Germany believes the Dutch divers should have stayed away from the wreckage.

A truck with artefacts from a warship drove from Westerbroek to a museum for military history in Dresden, on 12 September. These are items from the shipwreck of the Mainz. This ship sank during WWI at the Battle of Heligoland, a German island in the North Sea.

On 11 September 2018 the debate about the protection and preservation of heritage took place in the House of Representatives.

A German army truck will soon stop at the door of Henk Bos to seize archaeological objects that dive team De Zeester took from a German WWI wreck.