What is this endless fascination with attempting to raise every piece of rotting junk from the sea floor? It may sound glamorous, but, even aside from technical and legal issues, what on earth would really be the point?
To promote this idea seems to miss the point that the Britannic, Titanic, Andrea Doria etc as they were in 1916 or 1912 or 1956 NO LONGER EXIST!! All that's left is decomposing wreckage of no value whatsoever, at any rate in propotion to what it would cost to salvage from the depths.
Salvaging artefacts from wrecks is another matter entirely, of course, and in the case of Titanic it is a particularly emotive one. That is the subject for another thread, but the idea of spending zillions and risking lives to try and raise something which in a sense doesn't even exist any more is futility at its highest.
As much as I especially would love to see the Andrea Doria rise like the phoenix in all her (former) splendour, it just isn't there no more. Ditto, Britannic.
To promote this idea seems to miss the point that the Britannic, Titanic, Andrea Doria etc as they were in 1916 or 1912 or 1956 NO LONGER EXIST!! All that's left is decomposing wreckage of no value whatsoever, at any rate in propotion to what it would cost to salvage from the depths.
Salvaging artefacts from wrecks is another matter entirely, of course, and in the case of Titanic it is a particularly emotive one. That is the subject for another thread, but the idea of spending zillions and risking lives to try and raise something which in a sense doesn't even exist any more is futility at its highest.
As much as I especially would love to see the Andrea Doria rise like the phoenix in all her (former) splendour, it just isn't there no more. Ditto, Britannic.