Firm has no plans to salvage more Titanic artifacts, snuffing out legal fight Boston 25 News [Video]

NORFOLK, Va. — (AP) — The U.S. government has scrapped its litigation against the company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic, noting that the firm no longer has expedition plans to the shipwreck that could break federal law.

The scuttling of the government’s latest legal battle isn’t necessarily the end of RMS Titanic Inc.’s attempts to enter the rapidly deteriorating ocean liner or to fetch more historic objects. The company said last month that it’s still considering the implications of future expeditions.

But the U.S. on Friday withdrew its motion to intervene in a federal admiralty court in Virginia, which oversees salvage matters for the world’s most famous shipwreck. The withdrawal concluded the second of two legal battles in five years that the U.S. has waged against RMS Titanic Inc, the company that has retrieved and exhibited the ship’s artifacts.

The U.S. filed its latest legal challenge in 2023 when RMST …