The present paper focuses on international and national aspects of a legal regime of underwater cultural heritage and highlights peculiarities of States' jurisdiction towards discovered underwater archaeological values. Underwater cultural heritage legal regime correlates with regimes of maritime zones where objects in question are located or found. On these grounds, it is possible to
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