1.   Each site is marked with buoys and provided with moorings to protect the wrecks from anchors.

2.   Ballard wants the wrecks protected within the full extent of territorial waters.

3.   Center Party leader Olof Johansson stressed that the wreck must be protected whether or not it is covered over.

4.   During the night, guards protected the wreck, partly from polar bears that roam the glacier-covered islands.

5.   One idea was to fill the vessel with sand to bury the victims and protect the wreck from scavengers.

6.   The Swedish government wanted to leave the bodies in the wreckage, entombing it under layers of sand and rock to protect the wreck from scavengers.

7.   As the ship is located in international waters, the wreck cannot be protected from citizens of other states.

8.   Special measures will also be taken to legally protect the wreck, Carlsson said.

9.   Sweden, Finland and Estonia have signed a legal agreement protecting the wreck, which has been declared a sea grave.