A bit ot, but from looking at channel 2 write up, seems there was a
hiatus on recovery operations. I seem to recall at one point the Navy
was saying that it owned wrecks that came up and were going to take
them from people trying to turn them into warbirds. Seems there was a
bit of legal wrangling and all that a while back.

I don't know the entire story and at the time it was a big source of
heartburn among people recovering wrecks. No doubt there are other
articles and cites out there on this.