Originally Posted by
Leftfoot
Yes it is a good picture of the find and Lotter Jnr. Now if it turns out that it did belong to MH370, then the Lotters have hit the lottery jackpot.
Here in the UK we have some laws and things alike that would oblige us to hand it over to a chap called "Receiver of Wrecks".
Here is an extract from the published guidance.
"Merchant Shipping Act 1995
Under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, you must report to the Receiver of Wreck all wreck material recovered from UK territorial waters and any wreck material brought into the UK from outside UK territorial waters. This includes:
wreck material found in or on the sea
wreck material washed ashore in tidal waters
material recovered from a wreck site - regardless of age, size or apparent importance or value
When you report recovered wreck material to the Receiver, you may be entitled to a salvage award."
Don`t they have one of these Receiver of Wreck types in SA. I would have thought they would have given him a courtesy call before letting the CAA chaps cart it away.