Unesco announced Thursday that the wreck of the Titanic will come under its protective wing this April, as the British liner has now lain at the bottom of the Atlantic for 100 years. Having sunk in international waters, the Atlantic is not covered by state protection. After a century, however, wrecks fall under the jurisdiction of a 2009 UN Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage. Unesco frowns upon the plunder of cultural sites on land and equal protection will be extended to sunken heritage, the Unesco director general was quoted as saying. The Titanic was and remains one of the worst peacetime shipping disasters in history.
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