Thank you very much to our witnesses for being here. I'll more or less pick up where my colleague left off.
I'm most interested in getting these wrecks protected. One of the things that stuck with me from the testimony of Mr. White, who was here previously, was that one of the purposes of their coming before the committee was to communicate that although they felt that our soldiers and airmen were treated with a certain respect when it came to military graves, the same was not necessarily true for those who were lost at sea. I've played that scenario over in my mind a number of times since I heard that testimony.
If we went down the route that we're talking about with respect to proposed regulations, would it be possible to specifically distinguish in the regulations war graves from other heritage wrecks? Part B to that question is, would there be a need to wait 50 years, or would the interim measures you were chatting about suffice to protect a ship from the day it goes down?