Abandoned Shipwrecks Act particular case of the salvage of the "Nuestra Señora de Atocha", an historic and culturally significant wreck off the coast of Florida, in which the State of Florida was unable to prevent illegal salvage operations due to a lack of a suitable law that would disallow it, spurred action at the federal level to address the situation. On April 29, 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed the bill (Abandoned Shipwrecks Act of 1987, Pub. L. 100-298, 102 Stat. 432) into law. The law provides that any wreck that lies embedded in a state's submerged lands is property of that state and
One Block Off the Grid remained however more active and widely known than its parent company. It was bought in 2012 by Pure Energies Group, a closely held Toronto-based solar panel manufacturer that credited its ability to make the purchase to Ontario's 2009 Green Energy Act. Pure Energies vice president Chris Stern would not give a price for the acquisition but said he expected the new enterprise to be making $50 million by the end of 2012. One Block Off the Grid One Block Off the Grid, or 1BOG, is a US solar company that works with the largest solar providers in the nation to