Titanic – Going, Going, Gone!
 

On Thursday in New York City, there will be an auction of seafaring memorabilia featuring items from the Titanic, Andria Doria, and Lusitania, although not all the ships involved in the auction were sunk.

The lots include the lifejacket of one victim, a first-class dinner menu and a folding deckchair.

http://www.guernseys.com/

Wish I had that kind of money!

WOnder how much this one will go for...

467A Fragment of Green Carpet from the Titanic


^^ Some people will buy ANYTHING. <sigh>

R.I.P. for the gravesite of those who perished on the Titanic!

I'm a diver...and I just know when NOT to touch something!

I'll jump on Lixy and Sharni's bandwagon.

All nations have ships that have sunk, whether it be the Arizona or the Titanic. There is an international movement to have certain underwater wreckage declared as memorials, just as many land based memorials have become so ... the Alamo, Stonehenge, Great Barrier Reef, etc.

WE dig up graves from Egypt to Lake Mungo to the Anasazi ruins.

Titanic is just one more.

The dead have no defence against modern man.

*While ridding the Lixy-Sharni bandwagon*

I just want one of the munitions from the Lusitania, that we INFATICALLY declared to the world, wasn’t there before the technology to check became available.:cool:

See, to me it's like this amazing thing that's very tragic and so appealing... Not in a morbid sense, well, no maybe slightly morbid, but not in a creepy way... (?)
Just looking at it on TV or reading about it gives me those little hairs on the back of my neck standing up.
I'd love to know if they could raise it, it's like the ultimate thing. Unreachable so far, though.
The Mary Rose (Henry 8th's ship... I think- long time since the primary school history trip! lol) is much the same, and to see this piece of ship that many lost their lives on is just, well, breathtaking! Because of the age and the mystery.... It's History, not grave-robbing. Just like Oldfart said, we do it all the time. History and our knowledge of everything that surrounds us would be so much worse off without it!.... But, anyway....

Sharni,

I agree with you there. That is why I believe it is important to not exclude anything from the forum of civilized discourse.

The entire ship has been deterioating more in the past 20 years, than it had in the 70 before that. Scientists say it's likely because of the amounts of trips down to study it. So, what do they do? Send more trips down to study it further and to take note of how quickly it deteriorates. :rolleyes: