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Jenn Quaile (Jenn)

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out of all the books i've read and television specials i've seen, they have said that no trace of human remain was found at the wreck site. i find that curious. i mean 1500 people went down with the ship and only a small number of those bodies have been accounted for. I mean there was never a bone or even a skeleton remain found out of all those people. i think that if they had found anything remotely human they would cover it up because many people would be disturbed by this grave disturbing. if anyone knows different your information would be greatly helpful
 
Hi Jenn!

Hmmm, I don't really know more than you but i've seen some TV specials too and I've been trying to understand but see my point:

Carpathia only stood some time more to see if there was any more boats or if someone appear bouncing in something. No one did and they have left only with some bodies with it. Then Carpathia went to New York and took a week to reach it so... only one week later other boats went to the place with the point of getting bodies of passengers and crew of the Titanic. All the others ships that pass over the area just look a little bit and then they've continue their voyage. So, one week later most of the bodies went down with the heigth of the ice and of the body itself. Now, when Titanic was discovered in 1984, the bodies that were under water and could be reached had already dissapeared because of all the fishes and everything, but things like a pair of boots have reached our days.
They once explained that those boods were made of something that wouldn't dissapear ever only if the sand burrie them.
So this is way I think that no one was found under there, they were all "eaten" by the sea creatures or the sand as buried them forever... on their own grave!

This is how I want to believe things, but I may be wrong! Sorry for a so long letter and for the bad english!
Bye, Katia, from Portugal
 
HI KATIA
I THOUGHT ABOUT ALL THOSE THEORIES BEFORE AND I STILL FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT NOTHING WAS FOUND. i MEAN THEY HAVE FOUND EGYPTIAN SKELETAL REMAINS FROM OVER 3MILLION YEARS AGO WHY HAVENT THEY FOUND A TRACE OF HUMAN REMAIN FROM JUST OVER 88 YEARS AGO. I KNOW THAT THERE ARE TONS OF LIFEFORMS THAT HAVE EATEN THE FLESH OFF THE HUMAN BODIES BUT WHAT ABOUT A SKELETON? WOULD THEY EAT THIS AS WELL?
JENN
 
hi everyone,This is my Theory,Finding Egyptian Mummy's and finding human remains 88 years in the sea are two different things, a body being burried in sand or whatever for that long in my opinion kinda builds a surface over the body and being in or under water for 88 years doesent.a)This is salt water,and this may sound gross but there are fish,i think the decay is faster under water,specially salt water.the picture ive seen of a pair of shoes on the ocean floor tells it all,his shoes are there but no body or skelton,but you can see where the body was.Hope this helps,but i doubt it hehe
 
i understand that the sea is a harsh enviroment and i understand that fish and other living organisms fead on anything living. but what type of organism eats bones? i find it very hard to believe that not one skull or even a fragment of bone was found. i also have a theory that maybe these bones or skeletons are scattered over a wide area or maybe they are even trapped inside the titanic themselves . but as i said they have found skelatal remains from the sea that have been down there longer than 88 years it just sounds pretty curious to me that on a site where so many people have lost their lives that they can find find shoes and other items but not one skeletel remain.
 
Hi! I read in Dr.Robert Ballard's book that because of the great pressures that exist at the depth where the Titanic is, bones lose their calcium and disintegrate. That is why no bones can be found. Hope this clears things up.
 
tracy
thank you so much for your information it was verry helpful. i can understand things better know because of it. i have also considered bone disintergration but wasnt sure how rapidly it would happen.
 
On Larry King Live, Christmas Eve 1997, Dr. Ballard said with certainty that if you were to go deep into the Titanic such as the boiler rooms or third-class there would be human skeletons. This is from the book The Complete Titanic by Stephen Spignesi.
 
28 feb 2000

hi Jowens i think your theory is smart.do you like the film titanic,i have watched it 5 times.
how old are you im 13.write back yeh and i will get in touch.where do you live . maybe we will meet up sometime and study yours and mine theory.
catcha later.
love

Sambo
 
Been reading TITANIC an illustrated History,White Star hired ships to recover the MacKay Bennett found 306 bodies, 116 were buried at sea. Includes a few pictures. Probably to much for people of that era to bear. Gerdi S
 
Why weren't all the bodies brought back for burial, regardless of their condition? From what I've read ships were still seeing bodies weeks later floating in the general vicinity of the sinking.
 
who knows what you would find in the areas deep inside the wreck,beyond where living things can get to them,most likely the lower decks in the bow.
 
I doubt you're going to find any corpses deep inside the ship. Conceivably any such bodies could have been preserved longer than the rest, however in 90 years of aquatic scavengers slinking around in the ship, eating and reproducing, I think they've had plenty of time to get down there and take care of them. Besides, it's not like bacteria would have a hard time making it into the engine room, or what have you.
 

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