>>So, until such time as it can be proven that human remains exist inside the wreck itself, I don't understand how you can claim that the "SHIP" is a grave site.<<
Parks,
Please excuse my intercession here, but I feel I must comment:
You say that there are no signs of bodily remains inside the ship. To this I am not in dispute. It has been 93 years, and with the vast plethora of organisms living at the bottom of ocean, it's no wonder why you haven't found anything remaining of the physical dead. But that doesn't mean that many of those who died didn't go down inside the ship. On the contrary, there is evidence to substantiate that many
had. This makes this, then, the site of the dead. Besides, considering what happened that night, it's unreasonable to presume that everybody got out. There were hundreds of third-class still in the stern and died there. Again, this makes the Titanic itself a place where people died, hence a grave site.
Even several survivors, including Eva Hart, before she died back in 1998, said that it was a grave site (the ship itself) and should be left alone.
Furthermore, lack of proof does not confirm that people didn't die inside the ship, as there is evidence as to
why there may not be any apparent evidence of the first. All that lack of evidence signifies is that there is no evidence (although I disagree that there is absolutely no evidence to substantiate that people died inside the ship).
>>In my view, the wreck still has much to tell us about the manner in which the ship sank and how the people aboard her lived and died. I believe that the way to honour the dead is to continue to listen to what the wreck has to tell us.<<
Oh, I agree! There's much more we can learn from her, but, unfortunately, it's unlikely that we'll learn
everything that happened aboard her or regarding the sinking. We, for example, will never know where
exactly Elizabeth Isham was when she met her fate, nor will we determine the location of the fates of so many other of those who died, such as Hudson and Bess Allison and Little Lourraine or Quig Baxter... There is only so much we can learn from the wreck, and I believe that we haven't yet learned everything. Even more, after the ship crumbles to dust, there will be no way of learning anything further, because there will not be any ship left to explore. That's why it's important to study as much as we can
now. Still, When Titanic is read to give up her still-undiscovered secrets, she will. As contradictory as it sounds, just give it time.
As for honouring the dead, there's so much more we can do, and that doesn't necessarily conclude with salvaging that which lies inside the wreck, although I do agree with you regarding the wireless apparatus....