I walk through graveyards all the time.
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.
“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.
“ 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
By 2030, there will be nothing left anyway. So it won’t be a “graveyard”. Not sure what their point is.
people visit graveyards
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.
When do the tours to visit the dead sailors resting in the Arizona begin?
After this (late) entrepreneur’s attitude towards and reputation for safety, I suspect there will be no rush to start up tours again. Maybe in another hundred years?
As far as I could tell, the Titanic visitors were not being disrespectful of the dead. Lots of burial sites are visited by tourists, such as Arlington National Cemetery, the Taj Mahal, the Pyramids, the catacombs of Paris, etc. After a point, the descendants need to get over it. How often did these complaining descendants of the Titanic victims ever visit the site, even on the surface, to pay their respects?
There are tours that include graveyards all the time. What about Arlington?
There are tours that include graveyards all the time. What about Arlington?
People tour graveyards.
Hate to break this to them, but people tour graveyards all the time
I understand that the Titanic was a singularly impactful disaster because the world's richest titans died on the ship, but people still visit the graves of Mozart, Beethoven, and anyone who was interned in Westminster Abbey, to name a few famous "hallowed" sites.
I visited Pompeii, where countless ordinary people died instantly, and Ireland where burial mounds are tourist attractions. King Tut was carted across the globe many times.
I'm sorry for the loss to the families of these people, but they are no more or less special than anyone else who died over the millennia, and people will continue to trek to visit (or not) the burial sites of historical interest to them when the historical impact of the disaster resonates with them, despite the anguish of the families who lost loved ones.
-PJ
It's a valid question, academically.
Completely agree.
Would we do this to the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor?
You should see how many people flock to the Gettysburg battlefields.
That ship is their tomb no different than the Arizona
One video already shows huge chunks falling off after they stupidly ran into it on their Disneyland rinky dink ripoff ride. It’s completely unprotected and the families of the victims are correct about only true scientific exam should take place. Tourists are causing damage to get their kicks and that can’t be justified.
I don’t even know where to start.
As a Titanic fan, a graveyard fan, fan of well-written English, etc.
Let’s start with “people visit the Buddy Holly crash site”. Not to mention his grave and the others.