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So when did the Titanic sank?

Skeletons from The Mary Rose (sank 1545) were recovered so why pretend the Titanic has none inside?

  • If, as is claimed, the bones of the Titanic passengers & crew were 'dissolved' by the seawater how come the Mary Rose which sank in 1545 had 90 skeletons of crew members when it was raised? Could it be that if Titanic was recognised as a tomb and the last resting place of all those trapped inside then the salvaging of artefacts would be seen as grave robbing and dives on the wreck as ghoulish?

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    Well the conditions where the Titanic rests is quite an extreme environment. It is pitch black and also has extremely high pressure so this probably means any skeletons or artifacts which are pressure prone are going to disintegrate. I mean we can see the effects the water is having on the ship already with rust icicles eating the steel from the ship meaning in the next 100 years the Titanic will have itself completed disintegrated. In regards to raising the titanic that is completely impossible due to the fact once it leaves the water and is above in oxygen the whole ship ( which would be very weak) would simply just break apart. However people do visit the ship and salvage artifacts for the sake of keeping the memory of the ship and the people alive or so they claim and to give information to people who have an interest into what happened that night and the ship itself. Some others believe that it is grave robbing and that the wreck should be left alone in peace with plagues and other items left there to commemorate this. But also now as the Titanic is having her 100 year anniversary so she is now protected from people simply diving to the ship to retrieve artifacts and damaging the ship as this is what some were doing by landing on the deck or bumping into the ship therefore leading to pieces falling or collapsing off. Hope that helps!

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Conditions are different, depending on where a shipwreck happens. It is possible for human remains in a shipwreck to be totally lost in time. However, I would think that the wreck of the Titanic, being in such cold waters, wouldn't be one of those. By and large, the Titanic is considered as a sea grave for those who lost their lives on it, but that only precludes attempts to raise the ship. Salvage operations for artifacts are considered acceptable.

Der Kommissar

The Titanic is just over 2 and a half miles down, the conditions down there are completely different to the depth Mary Rose is, the abundant bacteria down there literally eat anything, bones are made of calcium so it will be eaten away that far down, even the Titanic itself is being eaten away, eventually all the wreck will be is an iron ore deposit, today it has probably collapsed in on itself by now!

Chris

That is exactly why they say all the remains are gone. This is the oldest ship wreck I've heard of to have remains found aboard, but I know shipwrecks from the 19th century have also had remains found aboard which has always raised the question for me of how it is the Titanic would not have remains aboard it when it has been on the ocean floor for less time.

knight1192a

well, most of the bodies drifted far away from the wreck while it sunk and even after it had sunk. i don't think there would've been that many people left inside the ship when it sunk as most would've jumped off. and like it's been said, the pressure and the sea life does do its damage.

Ilkka

Conditions as deep as where Titanic sank are entirely different to the rather mildly warm waters of the Solent of Southsea, Portsmouth. Any wreck in International Waters is up for grabs - it's called 'salvage' and anyone with the know-all and where-with-all can enter a wreck and take things from it. Unless a wreck is declared a 'sea burial site' such as the US Navy ships sunk at Pearl Harbor, then it's just another wreck. An American crew think they have found the burial site of Sir Francis Drake - in Panamanian Waters. They may have found the coffin - he was buried at sea where he had died onboard on of his ships - he had three ships, two were stripped and sunk and the remaining ship headed for home with ye treasure etc. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2052899/Sir-Francis-Drakes-grave-verge-Panama-coast.html Bodies from Titanic http://www.titanic-titanic.com/recovering_titanic_dead.shtml Salvage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_salvage When a ship lost it's deck cargo near a beach here in UK a couple or so years ago, the usual gang of beach combers arrived to go over the pickings. It's perfectly legal - in any event, even if it is not, no one in their right mind is going to try to stop people taking what they want from beached cargo. Might cause a riot. Easier to just let them get on with it. http://www.google.co.uk/#q=ships+cargo+on+beach+uk&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvnsu&source=univ&tbm=nws&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=BTqFT_aOGI_J8gPnpajBBw&sqi=2&ved=0CI8BEKgCKAAwAw&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=bbcf57e4fc38864d&biw=1600&bih=791 Let's put it like this - a pal of mine once said that if a ship such as Titanic had grounded on a beach near where he lives, it would be like suddenly having Harrods on your doorstep. You can bet that every beach lover for hundreds of miles around would suddenly arrive with their billhooks ready to tear their way into the ships' holds and grab at whatever was available. As for the crew and passengers, they must fend for themselves. Them's the rools. "The Wreckers of Dead-Eye Crew"

Yorrik

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