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The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is a protected site due to this very topic of discussion. Diving it can get you in quite a bit of trouble: https://www.cbc.ca

• fullstop 3y ago
  That had the added benefit, something which feels very strange to type, of not sinking in international waters. It's significantly easier to restrict access in that case. It is somewhat surreal that a historically short amount of time must pass before people can visit these areas without it being taboo. Some of them, in my opinion, are extremely important to humanity such as Auschwitz and Choeung Ek, and the latter happened during my lifetime.