The only company with legal rights to salvage items from the wreckage of the RMS Titanic has scrapped its plans to recover artifacts from the sunken ship – at least for now – following a legal challenge from the US Government.

RMST will] diligently consider the strategic, legal, and financial implications of conducting future salvage operations at the site,” the company wrote at the time. But regardless of what happens in the future,

A blend of bureaucracy and saltwater is conspiring to keep any of the ship’s remaining secrets from being brought to the surface.