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Titanic families slam ‘disgusting’ tours — shipwreck should be treated as ‘graveyard’
Nypost ^ | 06/22/2023 | Natalie O'Neill

Posted on 06/22/2023 5:03:34 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Relatives of people aboard the ill-fated Titanic cruise liner, which sank in 1912, say tourist trips to the shipwreck site — like those offered by the missing OceanGate Titan sub — are “disgusting” and disrespectful to those who perished in the disaster.

The wreckage should be treated like an underwater “graveyard” of the 1,496 who died, not a “Disneyland” for adventure-seeking tourists, the family members told the Daily Beast.

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Sad all around
1 posted on 06/22/2023 5:03:34 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I walk through graveyards all the time.


2 posted on 06/22/2023 5:05:56 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I agree completely.

Beyond that, those fools that just died at the Titanic site put a loaded gun to their own heads and paid serious money for the privilege.


3 posted on 06/22/2023 5:07:12 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Relatives of people aboard the ill-fated Titanic cruise liner, which sank in 1912, say tourist trips to the shipwreck site — like those offered by the missing OceanGate Titan sub — are “disgusting” and disrespectful to those who perished in the disaster.”

Sounds like the Indians complaining of ‘burial grounds’ every time Americans want to drill or mine.


4 posted on 06/22/2023 5:09:12 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Jonty30
I walk through graveyards all the time.

I often walk through a certain local cemetery and have the distinction of being able to walk over my own grave, where my late wife is also interred.

5 posted on 06/22/2023 5:09:30 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: clee1

My thoughts exactly!


6 posted on 06/22/2023 5:10:04 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“ The wreckage should be treated like an underwater “graveyard” of the 1,496 who died, not a “Disneyland” for adventure-seeking tourists”

Like I’ve been saying


7 posted on 06/22/2023 5:10:42 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

By 2030, there will be nothing left anyway. So it won’t be a “graveyard”. Not sure what their point is.


8 posted on 06/22/2023 5:11:58 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: ChicagoConservative27

people visit graveyards


9 posted on 06/22/2023 5:12:14 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Jonty30

Mount Auburn Cemetary in Cambridge MA is a tourist attraction…a very beautiful place.


10 posted on 06/22/2023 5:12:52 PM PDT by Mears (.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Hey now. Hang in there. We still need ya!


11 posted on 06/22/2023 5:13:09 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Jonty30

I mostly whistle past them.


12 posted on 06/22/2023 5:14:54 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Seriously.)
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To: BobL

The writer is a moron...

The RMS Titanic was not a “cruise liner”.

It was a passenger ship.


13 posted on 06/22/2023 5:15:07 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (The modern world demands that we approve what it should not even dare ask us to tolerate.)
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To: Jonty30

“ I walk through graveyards all the time.”

Do you visit morgues for fun to stare at bodies you don’t know?

That’s what they’re doing


14 posted on 06/22/2023 5:16:39 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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*The wreckage should be treated like an underwater “graveyard” of the 1,496 who died, not a “Disneyland” for adventure-seeking tourists, the family members told the Daily Beast.*

It’s been a hundred years. Those people are not entitled to an opinion anymore than you or the 5 passengers.

Opinion shopping.


15 posted on 06/22/2023 5:17:46 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I am not seeing disrespect as in any way essential to a curiosity that wants to be proximal to a location of historic loss of life.


16 posted on 06/22/2023 5:18:24 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Seriously.)
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To: Jonty30

Graves of the rich and famous are tourist attractions.


17 posted on 06/22/2023 5:18:49 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: NWFree

There is no bodies to be seen. Scavangers, bone worms and dissolution in salt water would have seen to that.

It is just a rusted out hull that is left.


18 posted on 06/22/2023 5:19:04 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When do the tours to visit the dead sailors resting in the Arizona begin?


19 posted on 06/22/2023 5:20:05 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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I don’t think there’s any bodies left


20 posted on 06/22/2023 5:20:51 PM PDT by goodnesswins ( We pretend to vote and they pretend to count the votes.)
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