On the one hand, I feel like it should all just be left there as a memorial to those who died. On the other hand, this is not like it's a sacred indigenous burial ground or anything. If you're going to recover artifacts from somewhere, at least you're getting them from a place where it's not just basic theft.
It's worth pointing out that the Titanic is literally disintegrating. Bacteria is eating away the steel. They even named it after the ship: halomonas titanicae.
The wreck will soon be gone or severely dimished to the point it's unrecognizable. Certain things will definitely remain, but the structure will not.
And frankly, good. The ocean floor has no obligation to maintain our trash in pristine order for us to gawk at. Let the wreck vanish into history.
You have to be indigenous to have respect for the dead? This is like someone stealing the flowers off the telephone poles marking the scene of an accident as a business plan. Gross enough a guy was selling guided tours.
No, you have to be indigenous to have ancient sacred grounds which have been used to honor the dead for hundreds or thousands of years.
But the guided tour, I agree, that's crass.
Plus in keeping with the metaphor of "stealing flowers left at scenes of wrecks", it's more like a towing company coming in to remove the vehicles that crashed, but waiting a long time to do it.
If this were a recent wreck, and not 110 years old, this discussion wouldn't even be taking place.
It's a shame for any of them to die so sadly, but this plus what I read about Nargeolet when the Titan implosion was all over the news have me thinking pretty unfavorably about the guy. He was a Titanic expert and seemed like the most respectful of the bunch: he seemingly wasn't there just for adventure or obligation.
But like, this just makes it seem like he just knew how to speak respectfully while grave robbing and profiting off the Titanic tragedy.
Reading the title my tiny brain assumed he traveled to a Saturn's moon and died there. I was confused for a second.
Yikes. What a way to go. The renown expert of Titanic artifacts, trusting a company like OceanGate to do their due diligence in safety, only to poof.
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