Can this really happen?
I'm having an argument with someone and I'd like some professional opinions.
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I could care less, but I don’t care enough to bother.
Could you raise the Titanic?
The short answer is "no".
The ship is in two pieces, with the front of the bow section sunk some 70 feet in the muck of the sea bottom. It's like being in cement.
Structurally, the ship is badly damaged with bow section decks pancaked on top of one another-- this is at the rear of the bow section.
The stern section is little better, as its hull has imploded from the trapped air as it sank into the depths.
Additionally, the ship has and is being fed on by iron eating organisms.
All told, the damage caused by the sinking and impact with the sea bed, combined with over 100 years in the sea has made the ship very brittle and fragile.
Any attempt to raise the wreck would result in it shattering to pieces like a cracked egg shell.
There is at that depth a very strong undersea current. In perhaps 40 or 50 years, the ship will not even be there. You will see the bones of its carcass and perhaps its keel, but nothing that looks like a ship.
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By the time they found it, it was too badly ruined, too deep, and there was no reason to spend hundreds of millions in trying to raise it anyway. Many artefacts have been recovered, but that's where it should end (in my opinion).
It's important to remember that it is a grave. Many people were trapped inside and went down with the ship.
I just watch this Discovery Channel show, "Drain the Titanic" on You Tube.
The entire Titanic debris field was mapped, filmed with 3D cameras and other things so that when that was all done, they could "drain" the ocean around the debris field and see almost exactly what shape the ship was in. Pretty interesting show.
https://youtu.be/RmouADoZHb4
Actually, it's the other way around. The bow is in pretty good condition as it still resembles a ship. The stern, however, barely looks like anything. When she went down the strength imploded and as it hit bottom, the poop deck folded back over itself with the decks below becoming a mass if unrecognizable debris. The rudder and triple screws are still recognizable, as is her nameplate across the back, but little else.
share"the strength imploded"? What the F does that mean?
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