“If it’s his, why does he have to get permission to take pictures of it?”
Because the Irish government claimed the wreck as an archaeological site to protect it from the scavengers that had been diving to her and removing relics, as well as various naval entities that had been using her for target practice over the years.
“scavengers”
I read somewhere that in 1982 a salvage diver succeeded in detaching three of the Lusitania’s four propellers.
Later saw on TV one of those turning up in a salvage yard.
The hull of the wreck has mostly collapsed. Since it lies starboard side down, I wonder how the explorer-owner will locate the torpedo impact point.
Kind of like will some Titanic wrecksite expedition bore into the ocean bottom and reveal the exact nature of the rip in Titanic’s starboard side.