The United States government has dropped its lawsuit against RMS Titanic Inc., the company responsible for recovering and exhibiting artifacts from the Titanic shipwreck. This marks the second legal battle in five years between the two parties.
A federal court in Virginia oversees salvage matters for the world's most famous shipwreck, the RMS Titanic. The U.S. withdrew its motion to intervene in a federal admiralty court in Virginia, which concludes the second of two legal battle s in five years that the U.S. has waged against RMS Titanic Inc., the company that has retrieved and exhibited the ship's artifacts. The U.S.
filed its latest legal challenge in 2023 when RMST was planning to take images inside the ship's hull and pluck items from the surrounding debris field. RMST also said it would possibly recover freestanding objects from the room where the ocean liner broadcastimplosion of the Titan submersible. But the government told the federal court in Norfolk last year that it wanted to leave the door open to challenging subsequent expeditions. RMST, however, told the court in December that it won’t visit the wreck in 2025 and hasn't settled on any plans for future expeditions. The company said it will continue to “diligently consider the strategic, legal, and financial implications of conducting future salvage operations at the site. The U.S. said “Should future circumstances warrant, the United States will file a new motion to intervene based on the facts then existing,” in a filing on Friday. RMST has been the court-recognized steward of Titanic artifacts since it won salvage rights to the ship in 1994. The firm has recovered and conserved thousands of items, from silverware to a piece of the ship’s hull, which millions of people have seen through exhibits.
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