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High-Tech Pirates Target Historic Shipwrecks, Experts Warn
10/14/2025
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Story summary
- Tech-savvy pirates are increasingly using advanced submersible craft to loot famous shipwrecks.
- Mensun Bound, known as the "Indiana Jones of the deep," warns that technological advancements make it easier for pirates to access previously unreachable wrecks.
- He regrets lost artefacts from the Endurance, which is protected but still vulnerable.
- Legal disputes around the San José, sunk in 1708, complicate ownership and retrieval.
