Protecting undersea cultural heritage in spotlight at mining code talks

They are pushing at a meeting in Jamaica of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) -- an organization established under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea -- for such protection to be enshrined in a mining code that is being negotiated to govern the exploitation of sea beds in international waters. "Our ancestors traveled the oceans for thousands of years, passing on information from generation to generation," said Hinano Murphy of the Tetiaroa Society, a Polynesian conservation group. "We...