1.   I covered wrecks when I was a kid reporter.

2.   While the exposed wood has been eaten away by time and sea bugs, no more than one inch of sediment covered the wreck.

3.   Sahlin also said Sweden will not cover the wreck, but proposed to guard it from looters through monitoring.

4.   Sweden had initially said it would try to bring up the bodies, but then proposed that the wreck be covered under sand and rock to prevent looting.

5.   The first phase will entail covering the wreck with a gigantic sheet of heavy duty cloth.

6.   To avoid desecration, the sunken wreck will be covered as soon as the weather permits, transportation minister Ines Uusman told the news conference.

7.   Instead, the wreck will be covered with concrete next year in order to keep it as an inviolable monument.

8.   At the same time, the government announced its intentions to cover the wreck, probably with stones.

9.   The Swedish government is to decide within two weeks how best to cover the wreck, and work will start at the end of May, the ministry said.

10.   The best solution would be to cover the wreck with concrete to thwart potential looters or divers who had been commissioned by families of the victims to recover bodies.