How do you guys feel about salvaging artifacts? As for me, I am against it. I think it's the equivalent of grave robbing. I know Bob Ballard is completely against it. The thing was though, becaus of his position toward it, it hurt his efforts. If he had brought up the smallest item, a broken piece of a tea cup perhaps, he could have claimed the ship to be his, and then no one could touch it. However, he didn't know this, and someone else did an expedition, brought something up, claimed the ship to be theirs, and now they salvage everything they could get their hands on.