why dont' they bring the titanic out of the bottom of the ocean and restore it to its original self?

Question

I hear they were going to do this one time but the families of the victims objected. surely they would be able to bring it up before it decomposes into nothing. the cost may be high but look at the money they would be making when it would be fully restored, the amount of tourists visiting it would be unreal

i no you say it is a mass grave but its been 95 years... if someone throws ashes of a person into the sea they do not say it is their grave. people will look back and will regret because it will be gone in the next 50 years. that for me is very sad.

Answer 1

That would be like opening a mass grave. I can't blame the families for objecting. Besides, it would probably disintegrate further in an attempt to raise it.

Answer 2

Just because something is possible doesn't mean it has to be done. Not that bringing the Titanic to the surface is really at all possible...And what would be the exact purpose of bringing her back to the surface? "Just because"? No, 95% of the dead were not recovered...Many people "went down with the ship" and the Titanic is their grave marker. Even if they were recovered and buried, the Titanic wreckage serves as a memorial to all that lost their lives due to the ships' poor management of lifeboats. The argument of "just because" for not desecrating the wreckage, while weak in some people's eyes, is not that bad of a reason. Human emotion and reasoning tells us to respect the dead; it's been done for thousands of years. Removing the Titanic, to a lot of people, would be disrespecting the dead. There are really no important scientific questions that NEED to be answered. Bringing the ship back up wouldn't tell us exactly what happened, why it happened, and it certainly wouldn't change anything for the people that died because of it. It's like the World Trade Centers in New York. Many people want to leave ground zero just the way it is, as a reminder and memorial to those that died on September 11th. I don't know of any official plans yet to do anything with the space. Artifacts have been recovered from the wreckage, and I think even that is a stretch of what should be allowed. The idea of a ship 12,500 feet underwater is fascinating to people. It's mysterious, and bringing the ship to the surface, while causing excitement, would take away a lot of the mystery. In a hundred years or so, all that's left of the Titanic will most likely be gone, and the scientific community will have suffered no great loss by leaving her where she lies at the bottom of the ocean. Some things are better just left alone, despite what science may want to do.

Answer 3

Turning a graveyard into a tourist attraction for people is revolting, I would've been against that, as well.

I never heard that they were going to raise it though. For one thing, it's so heavily decomposed, experts predict it will be completely gone or caved into nothing within the next 10-20 years, and as for another, so many pieces of it are scattered across two miles of ocean floor, it would be next to impossible to bring it back to how it was, using the original parts.

As for the cost, it would be astronomical. Do you see what the Titanic looks like down there? It's covered in layers of what looks to be rust. Thick, thick layers. They'd never be able to get that off without destroying the ship.

But perhaps the other biggset reason is because the Titanic would never stay in whatever pieces it is currently in if they tried to surface it. It's brittle and highly sensitive, and it would not last even a fraction of the way up to the top wthout falling even more apart.

Sad, but true.

Answer 4

I don't think they could do it even if it had sank yesterday and was in one piece. It is too far down and way too large an object to try to bring up.

Also, since it is in two pieces it is very structurally unsound.

Also, since it has been sitting on the bottom for 95 years, it has been eaten away by organisms. It is falling apart right now.

The Titanic is not going anywhere.

Over the next few decades, it will decompose more and more. Eventually, it will be nothing more than a large red spot on the bottom of the ocean littered with artifacts.

Answer 5

I believe it is because it is a Maritime grave and as such it would be disrespectful to those who died and those who survived and are still alive, to re-float it; it was discussed a few years ago. Several people at the time still survived who were on the Titanic, however, I suspect there are only one or two left now. But they did not want it re-floated and I have to admit, in a sense, I do agree with them.

Dives did take place and several artifacts were removed. But surely lifting it would mean permanent wet dock in a specially humidity controlled environment and so now we are talking time and money.

No....leave it where it is, it is a grave after all

Answer 6

Anyone who proposed the idea of raising the Titanic is, to be blunt, a moron.

It broke in half, it's DEEP underwater to the point where you need deep seas submarines to get to it, it's been rusting for decades, and it wouldn't be seaworthy once at the surface.

It's not a convenient distance form shore, and there's no one who has any interest in footing the bill for the billions of dollars it would cost to rise the sucker from the ocean floor.

Finally, it's several times the size of the largest objects we've ever raised form the ocean floor. We'd need a boat capable of lifting the Titanic to get it to the surface.

In the end, we don't have the technology to do it, and even if we did, it would be too costly for anyone to try.

Answer 7

The Titanic lies mores than 2 1/2 miles down. It weighs hundreds of tons and is in such a dilapidated state, the it would disintegrate on te way up. There is no way the Titanic can be raised. Bringing up even small pieces is extremely difficult and dangerous. Besides, it is the gravesite of over 1000 people, and should be left alone and respected.

Answer 8

The Titanic is way down deep and in pieces. It's not the money, it's the fact that it would be a pile of rust within weeks of coming to the surface.
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Besides Bollard is right, the Titanic site has been declared as the final resting site of the victims and should not be disturbed.

Answer 9

They cant bring it up because it has been down there for so long now that all of the salts have been decomposing and decaying it that the second that it hits the air it is going to fall into so many peices that it wont even be funny! Anyways it will be so crumbled and torn apart that it wont even be worth the money to even try to put it back together! Sorry.

karianne :)

Answer 10

It is barbaric to disturb the mass grave of so many just to have a piece of history to look at. And it would be much cheaper and safer to build a new one than to try to salvage a broken, rusted, and sand filled hulk like the Titanic.