Titanic will be gone by 2028
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flashbuck — 20 years ago(October 27, 2005 08:02 AM)
I have it from someone who has visited the Titanic several times that it's deteriorating rapidly. The mast, which was lying backward against the bridge, has completely turned to powder, and inner sections like the Turkish baths are now inundated with rusticles. They're predicting that the hull and superstructure will collapse by 2028. There may be no way to prevent this, but I wonder if there's a way to force the hull to collapse outward, so as not to destroy the interior. The farther into the wreck you go, the better preserved it is. If the ship is going to disintegrate, might as well do our best to reveal more and more of its inner secrets as it falls apart, rather than just watch the whole thing with all its stories go up in a puff of rust.
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electrictroy — 16 years ago(December 04, 2009 11:16 AM)
The logical thing would be to develop small cameras that can rove inside and capture the interior views before they fall apart.
And as for those who say, "Don't touch a gravesite," we do that all the time. All over the world archaeologists dig-up bodies and graves, not out of disrespect, but to better learn about the past. If they didn't do stuff like that, we would be ignorant of our own history.
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flashbuck — 20 years ago(December 30, 2005 07:59 AM)
"What do people want to preserve it for, just so rich Yanks can pay $750K for a bottle of plonk brought up from her?"
That's not what I meant, far from it. I object to the way some people cash in on the Titanic tragedy; it's in very bad taste, especially since there are some survivors still alive. No, what I meant was the more thr wreck is exposed, the more forensic evidence we'll have to learn more about what happened. There are still lots of untold stories and lots of unanswered questions. If some people profit from it in the meantime, well, there's just no stopping that; hopefully the ultimate consequence will be beneficial.
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flashbuck — 20 years ago(December 31, 2005 08:58 AM)
I just heard not long ago that Millvinia Dean is alive and doing very well. It's possible that Lillian Gertrude, Barbara West, and Lousie Laroche are still alive. Michael Navratil was alive in 1998 and looks pretty good in the A&E documentary.
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stealthman — 19 years ago(January 12, 2007 05:47 AM)
I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I feel nothing should be taken from the Titanic.
Photograhping and studying is ok, but it's a grave site, and should be left alone.
Stealthman.
"WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND THEY IS US"
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flashbuck — 19 years ago(January 12, 2007 06:58 AM)
I totally respect your point of view, Stealthman, but it's not only a gravesite, but also a historical site. There are a lot of unanswered questions. I suppose you could argue it doesn't matter now, considering anyone who might have survived would be dead by now anyway, and we don't travel in riveted, steam-driven ships anymore, so anything we might learn from the Titanic tragedy would not be applicable to today's world, but just for the knowledge of history I think we should continue exploring the wreck. And if we take anything, it should be for that purpose, not for souvenir-hunting and salvage.
The most practical things we can learn from the Titanic tragedy are well documented in White Star's records, and they involve administrative decisions that led to the disaster. That's something we never seem to learn, and we repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Hindenburg, Challenger, Columbia, September 11th, Hurricane Katrinathe same series of oversights, bureaucracy, and complacent inaction continually lead to disaster. When will we learn to think ahead?
Collin R. Skocik