The most important aspects of the international protection of the underwater cultural heritage" (a comparative study).

 The protection and treatment of underwater human heritage is one of the most important challenges facing the States parties, so these countries must follow a fixed and specific strategy that works to protect the underwater human heritage permanently and continuously, in order to prevent it from being looted, stolen and destroyed, and it can only achieve this through the formulation of technical, technical, legal and administrative procedures, to manage heritage sites in a stable and orderly manner, and in order to implement these procedures, an umbrella of international and regional agreement is required. and national legislation. The power granted to coastal States derived from the sovereignty of the State over its maritime territory has also been given an important role in the protection of underwater cultural heritage, even if national laws do not provide for it, but it is a strong protection, so that the protection of heritage located beyond the limits of national jurisdiction requires political and economic power, which are two criteria that achieve the capacity for protection, Unlike countries that do not have these assets, their heritage is vulnerable to looting and theft by pirates of sea treasures. This diversity of sources of protection has given it a special advantage, which has given it a sequential comprehensiveness that cannot be dispensed with any source of such protection, as an integrated legislative unit that works to address the issues of the underwater heritage of mankind.