What is the sunken liner like today? Torn to bits and pieces by salvagers?
2007-08-22 16:42:06 · 6 answers · asked by fantasie66 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
~Learn to use the web. There are several sites with hundreds of pictures of the wreck.
She lies at 3,800m and the conditions there have preserved her pretty well, as the photos indicate.
As to salvage, visit a few more sights and read for yourself why that is not a serious problem.
2007-08-22 18:05:58 · answer #1 · answered by Oscar Himpflewitz 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It was broken in two. One part of it is on a rock shelf and the other has fallen far deeper and no-one has ever been able to get to that part. Even with the part that is on the rock shelf, it is not possible for "sight-seeing" salvages because of the depth and the temperature of the sea where it sank. It has been there for a very long time now and is becoming buried in sand. As far as I know there has only been a couple of attempts to bring anything up from the wreck and none of them have been very successful. Every now and then someone decides they want to raise the wreck but it is so expensive and technically challenging that it has been pretty much put in the too hard basket by everyone.
2007-08-22 17:57:44 · answer #2 · answered by cutsie_dread 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pretty much the way it was back a few hours after it sunk, excpet much more decayed, it will not be around to even examine in another 90 years they estimate, so what does it matter? the Ocean is doing what it does best, decaying and rusting away objects left in it's depths. It is extremely costly to do any salvage work on the Titanic, and there is not treasure, so there not going to make any money, a few tried after Ballard, the French went at it a few times, but at over a few million per trip in cost, that takes the fire out of the trinket seeks after a few trips.
2007-08-22 18:20:48 · answer #3 · answered by edjdonnell 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You might use a search engine to check the depth of the wreck.
I believe it is down a mile or so. Not everyone has the resources
- the equipment - to get at the wreck, and there is concern about plundering. Some artifacts have been recovered. The crash when it sunk, broke up, and hit the bottom in 1912 did the most damage. 95 years deep in seawater takes its toll also.
2007-08-22 16:52:20 · answer #4 · answered by Spreedog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is still mostly intact. Some pieces were removed from the wreck and some company tried to sell pieces as souvenirs. But they were shut down out of respect for the survivors and families of the victims. Essentially it is now treated as an historical site, and a grave site.
Unfortunately the wreck itself is beginning to show signs of degradation and will eventually disintegrate naturally.
2007-08-22 17:29:49 · answer #5 · answered by rohak1212 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Besides natural coral and animal growth, it remains undisturbed. It is so deep down salvagers cannot get to it.
2007-08-22 16:49:35 · answer #6 · answered by soccerplayer2491 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋