Heaven forbid you or I take a barnacle home.
Better that others recover them and put them put them somewhere " safe"...for our sake. But who looks out for the sake of those who would save us from ourselves? Or their recoveries?
Many finds from shipwrecks that are to be "safe kept" by entities throughout salvage history...
Are in fact kept from public eyes... restricted from public access... OR... in cases... "missing"... unable to be located / found.
With little to no accountability... and mostly lost in the "shuffle"...
And IF a record exist of items path ... Records lead to "dead ends" or to no an "exchange" or no press quiet sale.
As far as "misplaced" items in archival storages... little to no "solves" as to an items whereabouts are pursued due to lack
No one wants to be held accountable for misplacing or loosing something of value.
Which brings to point "there will always those who can open the gate for the gate keeper".
Hence why I admired Mel Fisher...
At least Mel Fisher put it all out there for all to see.,, and allowed people who really wanted to "own" a piece of it.
And made a museum of his own to tell the story and display the finds that captured our imaginations.
