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Post by Soutpeel on Mar 16, 2017 14:06:33 GMT 7
TITANIC wreck diving holidays to be offered by UK travel operator TITANIC aficionados are about to receive an unprecedented opportunity for their next holiday, to dive down to the wreckage of the famous sunken cruise ship. A UK travel company is set to launch tours to the shipwreck of the RMS Titanic. London-based Blue Marble Private will take groups of nine at a time, on an adventure deep under water. Spanning a length of eight days, the pioneering journey will depart from the coast of Newfoundland, heading 370 miles to the wreckage. Tourists will reach depths of 12,500ft in a purpose-built titanium and carbon fibre submersible. www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/779649/titanic-wreck-cruise-holidays |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2017 14:17:53 GMT 7
Looks exciting.
100 plus years after the event, I have no problem with this type of tourism.
I'm sure that most people will be awed, emotional, and will pay respects in their own way.
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Post by smokie36 on Mar 16, 2017 14:32:29 GMT 7
I voted YES.
Let's bring back Leonardo Di Caprio so we can burn him.
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Post by siampolee on Mar 16, 2017 14:50:14 GMT 7
I do object for personal reasons.
A member of my family (a great great uncle) was lost when the Titanic foundered. He was a second class ticket holder and the life assurance policy he held at that time paid out 200 pounds sterling, some 9 months after the event according to our family records.Not an insignificant amount of money then either
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2017 15:45:44 GMT 7
No different really than say a Jack the ripper tour , or a graveyard tour is it?
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Post by siampolee on Mar 16, 2017 16:01:08 GMT 7
All well and good, but the diving conditions and the general state of the wreck would seem to indicate such dives will finish off very quickly the processes that which the denizens of Poseidon's realm have long since started.
On reflection my initial objections have softened but in my view all that will result in such an enterprise will be a very rapid disintegration of the site and what remains of the main attraction.
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Post by Soutpeel on Mar 16, 2017 16:07:09 GMT 7
No different really than say a Jack the ripper tour , or a graveyard tour is it? Well yes...on the jack the ripper tours there are no actual physical remains of people or victims are there ? Grave yards are typically public spaces, but on grave tours coffins are not being dug up and opened are they ?...if they were would you object then ? This was the reason i polled this story as people rationslise things in different ways, one could argue the Titianic wreck is an "open grave" To me personally, no objection to dives for scientic research, but some tacky tour operator charging big bucks for some fat American to go gaulking...? Naah doesnt seen right somehow Someone could accuse me of the same thing, two years ago i went to the Titanic exhibition in Cape Town, is that commericalisation as well ? Yes i guesd so |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2017 16:45:11 GMT 7
No different really than say a Jack the ripper tour , or a graveyard tour is it? Well yes...on the jack the ripper tours there are no actual physical remains of people or victims are there ? Grave yards are typically public spaces, but on grave tours coffins are not being dug up and opened are they ?...if they were would you object then ? This was the reason i polled this story as people rationslise things in different ways, one could argue the Titianic wreck is an "open grave" To me personally, no objection to dives for scientic research, but some tacky tour operator charging big bucks for some fat American to go gaulking...? Naah doesnt seen right somehow Someone could accuse me of the same thing, two years ago i went to the Titanic exhibition in Cape Town, is that commericalisation as well ? Yes i guesd so In a submarine and it's nothing more than passing by the wreck though , so its not likely after 100 years you'll see any human remains. There's countless comparisons to this type of tour which bother no one. One that comes to mind is Gallipoli each year. |
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Post by Soutpeel on Mar 22, 2017 21:02:56 GMT 7
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