If you looked like succeeding Henry, ATSB will have the lawyers, or the insurers lawyers onto you real quick in my estimation.
You would need to do it stealthily and get the data out and published outside Australian jurisdiction in my opinion.
I've dived on a B17 near Milne bay and a Jap fighter further north in depths of 39 and 10 metres and they were remarkably well preserved. If the data is behind stainless steel it should be there for decades at 45m.
Last edited by Sunfish; 17th May 2013 at 18:46.