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MARITIME UNDERWATER SURVEYS v. UNIDENTIFIED VESSEL

No. 83-1245.

717 F.2d 6 (1983)

MARITIME UNDERWATER SURVEYS, INC., Plaintiff, Appellant, v. The UNIDENTIFIED, WRECKED AND ABANDONED SAILING VESSEL, Her Tackle, etc., Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 9, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dean E. Cycon, New York City, for plaintiff, appellant.

E. Michael Sloman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Government Bureau, with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., was on brief, for defendant, appellee Com. of Mass.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, BOWNES, Circuit Judge, and PEREZ-GIMENEZ, District Judge.

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.

Maritime Underwater Surveys, Inc. (Maritime), a Delaware corporation, appeals from the dismissal of its in rem admiralty action.

In November, 1982, after years of archival investigation and an expensive and dangerous ocean search, Maritime confirmed the find of a wrecked and abandoned sailing vessel one quarter mile off the beach at Wellfleet, Massachusetts. The vessel lies in fourteen feet of water, under five feet of...

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