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[BazaJT]

Two men have been sentenced to 4yrs and 3 1/2yrs respectively for fraud and failing to report their haul to the receiver of wrecks after looting HMS Hermes which was sunk by U-Boat in the channel in 1914 with the loss of 44 lives.Apparently the artefacts they'd recovered and [some] sold has been valued at £150,000.

[Sir Tigger KC]

In South East Asia, WW2 shipwrecks which are classified as war graves have systematically dismantled for the scrap metal by criminal gangs. 

[BazaJT]

Some of the things they'd removed from Hermes were sold for scrap too.The condenser was one such item that went to the scrap man.In a way I think this makes it worse as they weren't even doing it to preserve things by selling on to collectors etc.

[Lizzie Zoom]

Greed, just pure bloody greed!!

No historical value in their quest to make as much money as they can!  It makes me so angry!

[Rods2]

And it was Argentinian scrap metal looters that landed in South Georgia that the Argentine Junta used as their excuse for invading the Falklands. Mine you the RN did add a bit more scrap metal at Grytviken by damaging and then capturing the Argentinean submarine Santa Fe.