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[QUOTE="Michail Michailakis, post: 38957, member: 142169"]
Considering the number of wrecks located in the Aegean (and the fact that some of them are from ancient times),it's not surprising that the Greek laws regarding their protection from salvagers are among the strictest worldwide. Britannic obvioulsy hasn't a "national trasure" status but just as any other wreck older than 50 years is under the watchful eye of the Greek Department of Marine Antiquities (responsible for the pemissions necessary to dive the wreck). 
 
 
Jeremy, the wreck is REAL close to the port of Kea. It's just impossible not to be seen by anyone even during the night. See the second photo in the followin page to see what I mean: 
 
[url="http://www.hospitalshipbritannic.com/2003.htm"]http://www.hospitalshipbritannic.com/2003.htm[/url] 
 
According to the British laws the wreck is a war grave. I think that Greece -being also a European Union member- has no problem to recognize it as such. 
 
Colleen:Check the forum of the Britannic website.There is a reply to your post. 
 
Mark Baber:The password-protected area is accessible only by the team of [url="http://www.hospitalshipbritannic.com"]www.hospitalshipbritannic.com[/url] and contains some material that can't be presented in the "open" area simply for copyright reasons. 
 
Best regards, 
Michail
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