Titanic Law and Policy

The Wreck's Role In Changing International Maritime Safety and Salvage Law
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-27066-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Buch, Englisch, 115 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: SpringerBriefs in Underwater Archaeology

This open access book highlights the historical significance of , and its impact on law, including the first treaty on maritime safety - the Safety Of Life at Sea Convention (SOLAS). The work covers the laws that protect , e.g., the 1986 RMS Titanic Maritime Memorial Act, the international agreement on , and the 2017 implementing legislation that enabled its Entry into Force between the US, and UK. UNESCO's 2001 Convention has also protected since 2012. The authors specifically address the evolution of these laws and policies from their perspectives.
 
They explain how a US District Court has jurisdiction over a British flagged vessel under the high seas and the decades of litigation that resulted in Orders of the court that protect the public interest in . It has taken decades for the Agreement to become law, which now seeks to safeguard the wreck site of as a Maritime Memorial, a historic and archaeological resource that is being preserved.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Varmer, Ole

P. Delgado, James

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sanger, Louise

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction: ’s Place in History.- Chapter 2. Why Mattered to the US Government.- Chapter 3. Impact of the Loss of on Maritime Safety and International Law and Policy.- Chapter 4. The US Government Response.- Chapter 5. Admiralty Jurisdiction, Maritime Law of Salvage, and .- Chapter 6. Traction for an International Agreement.- Chapter 7. International Agreement: Negotiation, and Entry into Force.- Chapter 8. Controversy and Conflict.- Chapter 9. The Future of : Next Steps?.

Über Autor(innen)

James P. Delgado is a maritime archaeologist with five decades of experience and field projects that include being the first archaeologist not associated with the salvage to dive to .  His work emphasizes the ships and wrecks of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was the founding director of the U.S. Government’s maritime preservation program in the National Park Service, and his subsequent role as the director of NOAA’s maritime heritage program.  In that role he was the U.S. Government’s policy lead for .  He also served as the lead scientist for the 2010 scientific mapping of the wreck site of undertaken by RMS Titanic, Inc., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, NOAA, the NPS, and the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA), and at that time was INA’s President and CEO.  He is the author or editor of more than two dozen books on maritime archaeology and history.
 
Ole Varmer, adviser at The Ocean Foundation, has practiced the UCH law for 35 years. He was the lead attorney on the Agreement, Guidelines, legislation and litigation on .  He was the attorney in the establishment of the Florida Keys, Stellwagen Bank, and Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuaries. He represented NOAA in shipwreck litigation in the Keys, Channel Islands and the Brother Jonathan Supreme Court  case. He advised on the inscription of Papahanaumokuakea on UNESCO Mixed Natural and Cultural Heritage List and was the heritage expert for the US in negotiations leading to the 2001 Convention on the Protection of UCH. In 2019 he was the legal expert for UNESCO’s Evaluation Report on the 2001 Convention. He has dozens of publications, including the 2014 UCH Law Study,  articles about and  the chapter on US UCH law for The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage: National Approaches in an International Context (Brill, 2025).