Comments on: Elaborate plan to recover the historic Marconi radio from RMS Titanic

By: Evonne Fitzgerald

Evonne Fitzgerald — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:08:45 +0000

Leave it alone, moon rocks are one thing, the things inside the Titanic are quite different. They don’t belong to the company that is stealing them and say their owners are long gone, does not make it right. They must have family members still alive somewhere, I willing to bet know one has made a real effort to find them. That ship is a grave there are remains of the poor souls who died there, leave it be. It is commercialism at its lowest form.

By: Alastair

Alastair — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:28:53 +0000

In reply to Douglas.

Hi Douglas, Yes, good point. Selling artifacts from the Titanic is controversial.
I don’t think there’s a problem about fake items. The exhibitions have recreations of things like the grand staircase and cabins with props, that set the scene or context for the exhibition. I’m ok with that.
And, as I’ve explained already in this thread, my overall view is that it’s better to have artifacts above water for human historical interaction, than have them doing nothing on the seabed.
All the same, I welcome your view & passion. 🙂

By: Douglas

Douglas — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:27:14 +0000

My experience I have been into titanic since age 6 I’m now 25 I have drawn titanic evertydayv as a kid and became great friends with important people of titanic as a young adult I draw on my iPad Pro I walked away from titanic a few times as she can consume you but I draw every now and then on Instagram imagesbydouglas at the Luxor in Vegas I went last year and everything I seen destroyed me there were things in there that were fake as in artifacts as the employee told me and there were artifacts and the employees were mean they didn’t know my contacts and how I know that ship and artifacts in my hart as I left the Luxor I was on my iPhone talking to one of my contacts saying how sad and upset I was what I have seen . To me artifacts tell stories of importance and if you’re going to bring them to light and for everyone. To see keep them in a collection as one don’t sell them for profit as I remember didn’t rms titanic inc trying to sell all the artifacts at one point say a year or two ago I say leave the artifacts were they are and I would say 109 years under the sea I say let it stay at rest and peace we’re it is with everything else why bring it up here in this crazy world and let our imagination view it instead

By: Alastair

Alastair — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 17:36:36 +0000

In reply to Phillip.

I sort of agree, at least with the sentiment…. and I don’t.

I think these things are a connection to the past. I remember as a kid, half a century ago, leaning on a glass desktop cabinet in, I think, the British Museum, reading the last entry in Capt Scott’s diary, inches away from my face. It had a profound impact.

As did the piece of moon rock in the Chicago Science Museum, picked up off the surface of the moon by Gene Cernan (who died last year) commander of Apollo 17, during the last mission to the moon. I had spent 15 mins a few hours earlier, interviewing him. One of the most amazing people I ever met.

I’ve stared at the buildings & artifacts of ancient Roman, Greek, Egyptian, Mayan, Nabatean & other civilisations in their locations and wondered about the people who put them there.

Last week I stood precisely on a spot where I know, 78 years ago, Hitler and Goering stood.

And in Estonia six years ago, I saw some of the artifacts brought up from the Titanic, in one of their touring exhibitions.

Yes, it feels slightly ghoulish to be looking at the fittings from a sink somebody was using shortly before they died, the porthole they looked out of, the end of the bench they sat on on the upper deck, even a pair of boots they were wearing… but it’s a ‘reach out and touch’ (not literally) connection with a historic moment. It’s a legacy.

And what purpose, for theirs, ours and future generations, would these things be serving, rotting away to nothing thousands of feet down in the cold darkness?

By: Phillip

Phillip — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 14:33:59 +0000

No leave that ship alone it is a fkn grave and all these bastards want to do is plunder its valuables that don’t even belong to them