Need Help/Info on Admiralty Filing for New Wreck past 3 miles

[aquanut]

Ivan,
My understanding is that ONLY the coast Guard is authorized to board a vessel. My mother worked for the DEA and told me that they had to request the assistance of the Coast Guard because they had no authorization to board a vessel even though it was for a known drug bust. CMIIW.
Aquanut

 

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[ivan salis]

coasties "stop" the vessel - since -their the ocean "police" and once a violation is "found" to have occured the coasties seize the vessel and the "others" jump on the band wagon -- drugs -- illegal fishing they act "hand in glove" together .

 

[upstatejay]

USC title 46 would be a jumping off point.

 

[mariner]

My experience is that the USCG are loathe to interfere in waters beyond the 3 nm limit, unless ownership of the wreck has been clearly established. Their starting point seems to be that disputes about salvage rights are civil, rather than criminal, issues.

On the other hand, I once anchored during the night in Ketchekan, Alaska, on board a research ship with a submarine on the deck, directly off the USCG station. We had a patrol boat boarding us at first light, to check what we were doing. The fact that we had the Alaska State Archaeologist aboard cut absolutely no ice. They assembled everybody in the galley, and searched every nook and cranny in the boat.

Mariner

 

[FISHEYE]

I have been fortunate and privy enough to be let in on some information that pertains to a virgin wreck off the east coast of Florida out past 3 miles. There are certain artifacts that have come up, to cofirm there is a wreck there with much ship wreckage.

Have any photos of the artifacts that you brought up?Also what date period do you think the wreck is?