Titanic‘s Exploration and Exploitation
Titanic, however, is reluctant to give up her secrets. The wreck is deteriorating, and exploration of the site is extremely risky. Hollywood director James Cameron has developed deep-sea technology to explore the wreck (and replicated his dive footage for the blockbuster movie) but it focuses on documentation of the structure and debris field rather than artifact retrieval. Dr. Ballard has discouraged other organizations from retrieving artifacts from the site, but this hasn’t stopped for=–profit groups from travelling to the wreck. RMS Titanic Inc., for one, retrieved items from the wreck and displayed them in traveling exhibits until their parent company went bankrupt in 2016. More recently, Titanic made news for another disaster, passenger vessel Titan, imploding while bringing tourists to the wreck, killing the five men aboard. Scientists and salvage groups continue to debate about Titanic exploration and artifact retrieval, but interest in the ship lingers on.
Where did we find this stuff? Here Are Our Sources:
James Cameron takes viewers through Titanic deep dive in 1997. Paige Gawley, 22 June 2022.
The engineers lost aboard Titanic. Dr. Denis Griffiths, Universidad d Cordoba (n.d.)
The first-class gym on board the Titanic. Stuart Marsh, 9Honey, 2016.
Titanic‘s unsinkable stoker. (n.a.) BBC.com, 30 March 2012.
Why the Titanic still fascinates us. Andrew Wilson, Smithsonian magazine. March 2012.