Families with relatives who died or survived the 1912 Titanic disaster say that the wreckage site is a “graveyard” that should be treated with respect—not as a tourist destination.
that has garnered headlines around the world—and triggered an outcry from families who have raised ethical concerns about such tours.
“What do you want to look at, you want to ogle?,” he added. “Where is the logic, where is the sense in it all?”Brett Gladstone, whose great great-grandmother and great great-grandfather, Ida and Isidor Straus, died in the 1912 disaster, told The Daily Beast: “I’m not someone who believes in bad karma, and that people who go down in submersibles are subjecting themselves to bad karma because they’re going down to see a graveyard up close with unburied people.
The first photo taken of Leah Aks, right, her husband, and their baby Filly following their dramatic rescue from the Titanic.Binder does not think the site should be any kind of travel destination.
T. Sean Maher, whose great grandfather James Kelly, of County Kildare, Ireland, died in the 1912 disaster, told The Daily Beast that though his relative’s body had been recovered and buried at sea, he still considered the Titanic to be a mass grave site—and not something that should be any kind of travel destination.That’s where all those people lost their lives. That should be it. It should be left just as it is. We should let those people down there lie in peace.
Asked about the submersible tours of the wreckage, Petteruti said he feels “like it’s a graveyard, all those people who died with all their remains are down there… now it’s almost like Disneyland with all the people going down there to look.”
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