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Titanic wreck gets Unesco protection

The wreck of the Titanic is to come under the protection of the United Nations cultural agency Unesco.

The agency says more than 700 divers have visited the site, 4,000m under water off the coast of Canada.

The ship will fall under the 2001 Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage once it passes the 100th anniversary of its sinking on 15 April....

Read entire article at BBC News