[bowmessage]

> owner

What a strange concept, owner of a shipwreck... But, indeed, TFA links to a Q&A with the British owner who purchased the wreck in 1996:

https://thehistorypress.co.uk/article/qa-with-simon-mills-ow...

[lesuorac]

It's a pretty clever life hack.

If I own a ship on land I have to pay property taxes but if I just sink it to the bottom of the ocean I have people pay me!

Maritime laws just seem overly weird though. If I lost a car in the woods then after 100 years it seems pretty reasonable that any scrapper could take it and salvage what they want ...

[pessimizer]

You still have to have laws about it, or else I could take your car when it's been sitting in the street for two days.

[privatelypublic]

Throw a corpse in the car first, and you have a reasonable comparison.