30 kilometres southwest of Halifax the british warship Fantome sank. Because Nova Scotia is the only province in Canada to allow treasure huntining the wreck is stirring up treasure hunters and critics to the law.

 Rightly so! This law is completely archaic and needs to be scrapped. It's a bad law and stops the protection of Nova Scotia's maritime cultural history. The Nova Scotia province apprenently has given an American  treasure hunting company a licence to salvage what it finds. 

 The Fantome is reportedly carrying silver, precious china and other items stolen from the White House by British soldiers  and sailors before they set the presidential mansion on fire.

 Darryl Kelman, president of the Nova Scotia Archaeology Society said "From the society's point of view, we'd prefer to see all archaeological sites treated the same, whether they're on land or under the water."

Currently the special places protection act only covers sites on land. Salvage firms don't take the time to properly document the site and information and evidence will be move, destroyed or simply go missing.