Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 March 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed)

2:10 pm

Mr. Terry Allen:

In the bag and in the water, so it would not have been a heavy landing. The biggest risk is trawlers and nets being trawled across the wreck. This has damaged the wreck significantly in the past. The telegraph that was brought up when they were down looking for the original one in October had net filament attached to it. It had been dragged from its original location to where they came across it. We have an agreement with the divers, formalised in the memorandum of understanding, that if they come across artefacts that are clearly dislocated from the wreck, they are entitled to take them up and recover them. They have done this with the second telegraph artefact. They have undertaken to go back down to look for this. I hope it will happen in the coming year and we will get it.

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