Its amazing to me they could find anything in the hudson! LOL.
Diggemall, the company that was essentially raping the titanic is/was based here out of norfolk. It comes up in the papers every now and again about them being sued for making money, etc, etc.
I guess I'm of the opinion that they are out there doing the work, it is way out of any jurisdiction where the wreck is, and they need to recoup some losses. Sure they are being paid to do it, but it doesn't cover everything.
Its kind of like those fellas down in fl who found that large gold find from back in the gold rush days (I don't recall every detail, I watched it on history channel late at night). They found this ship full of gold bars and coins, and all the banks were WAITING for them to pull into port to try to claim it. They did all the work, logged all the man hours, and the banks were wanting to lay claim to it, and were threating to sue. I believe in a rare situation, the courts actually did the right thing and awarded the th's the find, not the banks.