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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Or go to read 100 year old or more headstones.
Too many questions to leave it.
Besides, if everywhere that someone dies is treated as some holy site then every foot of every road in the country will soon be similar to some primitive mexicans gang shrine.
I’ve been there many times…..even climbed the tower stairs…….great view.
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I’d try that.
Maybe someday.
It’s an historic site. Those bodies, if any were still inside have long dissolved by the water or eaten by those sea bugs. Why is it okay to visit and take stuff from ancient burial sites and display them in museums?
“ You can’t go down in your own sub and screw around for fun.
Hope you have more respect for the living than you do the dead”
That’s an emotion driven argument, not a logical one. The method of travel to the site has no bearing on whether or not it is the right thing to do.
Also not sure why gazing at a rusted ship disrespects the dead. There are no dead bodies at the titanic.
Get a grip, people visit, even tour graveyards.
Sad? Yes,
Wrong? No.
Well, thats whats kind of funny about the ones clutching their pearls.
Old cemeteries all over the country were lost. No one even knows they are there.
We spread shit on peoples graves and send the produce to urban dwellers to eat.
Then somewhere down the road...Hey! Look theres some graves here! We didnt know...
Of course those are just the graves or regular plebes. Not the rich people. No, rich people, was it Jacob Astor...one of the Astors...do things like intentionally buy entire graveyards then bulldoze the graves of the common people into the river because its irritating him and he would rather have something else there.
People still pull up headstones and skulls and things from the river from time to time but who cares, those are just commoners.
I don’t understand. Famous graveyards have tours.
It’s why they put up monuments. They wanted people to view them and remember. Green-wood and Woodlawn cemeteries in NYC for example, have maps showing locations of prominent monuments.
Many of the recovered bodies are buried at a cemetery in Halifax. Actually more than one cemetery so that is an easily accessible spot to pay one’s respects.
Then why are they making such a fuss about the wreck site?
Agree,they do. But, there are limits/consequences on what graveyards you choose to visit.
Just saying...
“people visit graveyards”
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And some folks add themselves to the count in graveyards.
With bodies in graves, not strewn about like on the ocean floor.
I don’t know. There are countless shipwrecks all over the world and divers have been exploring them and seeking treasure from them for ages.
Good point.
Just remember, these “rich” idiots didn’t meander down to the Atlantic ocean depths to honor the already dead. Instead, they did it to fulfill their own desire(s) to esure themselves bragging rights that at their next luxurious cocktail party they can say “hey, I’ve seen the Titanic” have you?
The RMS Titanic was not a "cruise liner".
It was a passenger ship.
Correct! The Titanic was an ocean liner which was the quickest way to cross the Atlantic ocean year round. That's what people used to cross oceans year round in all weather before jet airliners like the 707 made transatlantic travel cheaper and more than an order of magnitude faster in the 1950's and 60's. That's why the management of White Star was interested in how fast the Titanic could reach New York.
People on Cruise liners don't care how fast their ship travels. They are on vacation and want to arrive at a new port every morning. Ocean liners are built to take heavy waves that occur during the Winter in the north Atlantic. There's only one true ocean liner operating in the world today, and that's the Queen Mary 2. Yes cruise ships do cross oceans too, but they do this to reposition to different markets between seasons. In the Spring many cruise liners move between the Caribbean and the Mediterranean and offer discounted tickets to people willing to take a slow ship across the ocean. What cruise liners making repositioning cruises don't do is to travel in heavy seas.
Congressional Cemetery in DC has tours; also a 5K run (Dead Man’s Run) which starts and finishes in the cemetery, but the course goes along the Anacostia River outside the cemetery.
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