We're pretty inconsistent in the way we handle the underwater final resting place of a person. Sometimes they are off limits and sometimes they aren't. After sixty or seventy years none of the surviving family members that knew the lost service person are alive.



It must be tricky work to cut up a warship underwater and make it disappear. Think of all of the unexploded ordinance that might be in the hold. Probably lots of toxic nasties too. I remember reading about a German U-boat that was carrying a cargo of mercury that went down. You just never know what you might run into unless you could locate the cargo manifest from an archive somewhere.