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by
Scott Collins
Helsell
Fetterman llp
1001 Fourth
Avenue
Suite 4200
Seattle,
Washington 98154
(206) 689-2178
scollins@helsell.com
© 1999 Scott E. Collins
9 June 1999
Abstract
The law governing ownership and recovery
rights in long-lost shipwrecks can be as murky as the waters in which
they rest. No longer is the rule as simple
as “finders, keepers;” today, salvors face a myriad of laws and
regulations that attempt to manage competing interests in these
shipwrecks by salvors, historians, recreational users, insurance
companies and government agencies. This
technical session will lay out the framework of laws and regulations
that a person faces when seeking access to shipwrecks and suggest how
best to navigate through them to achieve the result desired.
Speaker
Scott Collins is a partner with the Seattle
law firm of Helsell Fetterman
llp where he practices maritime and admiralty law.
His practice includes advising and representing
clients seeking access to and/or recovery of long-lost shipwrecks and
other man-made resources. He is a graduate
of Union College (B.A. 1985) and the University of Washington School of
Law (J.D. 1988). His undergraduate
education included the Williams College - Mystic Seaport Program in
American Maritime Studies. His legal
memberships include the Maritime Law Association of the United States
and American Bar Association. His
non-legal memberships include the Propeller Club for the Port of
Seattle and Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society.
He has spoken and written about the law of long-lost
shipwrecks, including The Abandoned Shipwreck Act of 1987: Managing Historic Shipwrecks in the United
States, 17 Coastal
Management 309 (1989), and other areas of maritime law. He is an avid scuba diver.
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