March 8 -- Dave Flood is angry, because he says his rights are being violated: "I'm a dwarf and I want to be tossed," he said. Tossed? Well, yes, it's actually done around the world, often in bars.

RMS Titanic Inc. was founded by an unlikely cohort of adventurers in the late 1980s. The beleaguered company has the exclusive right to salvage artifacts from the wreck of the Titanic. A consortium of ...