Maritime Historian: Commercial salvage firms argue that private deep-sea exploration should be granted unrestricted property rights over discovered historic shipwrecks to incentivize private investment in underwater recovery. However, private salvagers prioritize retrieving commercially valuable artifacts while disregarding fragile organic remains and spatial context. Consequently, allowing commercial salvagers unmonitored ownership inevitably destroys critical archaeological data. For this reason, international maritime authorities must prohibit granting private ownership titles to commercial salvagers who locate historic shipwrecks.
The claim that allowing commercial salvagers unmonitored ownership inevitably destroys critical archaeological data plays which one of the following roles in the maritime historian's argument?
- AIt is the overall conclusion of the argument that all other statements are offered to support.
- BIt is an unargued premise assumed by the author to describe the general practices of deep-sea salvage operations.
- It is a subsidiary conclusion supported by evidence about salvagers' priorities and used to support the author's final policy recommendation.Cevap
- DIt is a concession made by the author to acknowledge a legitimate rationale behind commercial exploration.
- EIt represents an objection raised by commercial salvage firms against regulatory intervention.