Condition of bodies inside the ship

[angeline2011]

I just wondered, i assume there were bodies that went to the bottom with the ship (as pairs of shoes were found in the debris field). would those bodies have shrunk/crushed with the water pressure immediatley? poor souls

 

[Bob Godfrey]

See this thread:

Condition of bodies after the descent

Please do not think me sick or weird for asking this, but in what kind of condition would the human body be once it hit the ocean floor? We always here the pressure down there is "bone crushing" and I was wondering if that was literal. There's no real way to ask this nicely...I've tried to...

www.encyclopedia-titanica.org

 

[Tommy]

The microbes ate the bodies that went to the bottom.

 

[Stanley C Jenkins]

If, by any chance, there are human remains within the wreck (which must be extremely unlikely), do you think that anyone is going to admit that the have found them? To admit that there are still bodies on the ship would, in effect, be to admit that they are grave-robbing.

 

[Matthew Farr]

However morally questionable it may be, it is none the less completely legal.

See this article: www albanylawreview org archives/65/1/TheArchaeologicalDutyofCare-The LegalProfessionalandCulturalStruggleOverSalvagingHistoricShipwrecks.pdf

 

[PRR5406]

"Titanic" is not a grave. It is the location where people died, but it is not consecrated ground. Bodies remaining on the site should be treated respectfully, but I would not advocate removing them or disturbing their resting places.
A train wreck is not a grave. An automobile crash is not a grave.
You can honor the bravery and fear that went on that night. You can surrender to the loss and cry till your heart breaks.
If "Titanic" was an airliner, we would not consider the impact site a grave. The remains would be retrieved and interred or ashes spread.