A salvage company wants to recover the Titanic's wireless Marconi telegraph, which was used to call for help after the ship struck an iceberg in 1912. The mission's backers call the device the 'last voice' of the sunken ship. hereandnow
The British liner Titanic sails out of Southampton, England, at the start of its doomed voyage on April 10, 1912.
During a scientific expedition in 2010, RMS Titanic mapped out the site with cameras and sonars to assess its condition, says David Gallo, an oceanographer and consultant for the company. The thin ceiling above the Marconi room had gaping holes, making the machine visible through the perforations, he says.
Photos from a series of dives on the Titanic last summer showed the ship is deteriorating faster than expected, he says. During the trial, Gallo testified that he used to consider the idea of excavating the shipwreck grave robbery. Though he was interested in the Titanic, he thought it seemed wrong to disturb a gravesite or recover anything from it.
Lawyers for the government who oppose this mission said it seems clear that this is not simply a one-off proposal, but a placeholder for future requests to take similar actions in order to recover other artifacts from inside the wreck. “In my 10 years of association with RMS Titanic Inc. and as a consultant for the last year, I've never once heard anything to do with recovering artifacts, especially for money's sake,” he says. “It's always to do the right thing by the ship. It's always to strengthen the legacy of the ship and to honor the passengers that sailed on board that ship and especially those that died that night.
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