The story “Crowds gather goods washed from stricken ship” is about people on the Devon coast “‘recovering’” items that fell from the stricken ship ‘Napoli’.
Really the emphasis of the article is on the illegality of taking items from a shipwreck. Ms. Sophia Exelby, the receiver of the wreck has been given a lot of space in the article to make clear to the public that the contents of the ship are not free for the taking. It is mentioned, “the finders of wrecked items have some rights.” But it is not made clear what those rights are (although in the online version of the story there is a link to the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 that runs to thirteen parts and over three-hundred pages).
This article faithfully represents the facts of the wreck, the status of the cleanup operation and touches upon the legal ramifications of the wreck with ease. One criticism might be that much of the emphasis is put on the legal and economic situation and little is made about the environmental impact that such a wreck might have, especially when it has taken place off a coastline that is protected as “Britain's first natural World Heritage Site”.
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