Plan to retrieve Titanic radio spurs debate on human remains

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Plan to retrieve Titanic radio spurs debate on human remains

Oct 18, 2020

People have been diving to the Titanic’s wreck for 35 years. No one has found human remains, according to the company that owns the salvage rights.

But the company’s plan to retrieve the ship’s iconic radio equipment has sparked a debate: Could the world’s most famous shipwreck still hold remains of passengers and crew who died a century ago?

Lawyers for the U.S. government have raised that question in an ongoing court battle to block the planned expedition. They cite archaeologists who say remains could still be there. And they say the company fails to consider the prospect in its dive plan.

“Fifteen hundred people died in that wreck,” said Paul Johnston, curator of maritime history at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. “You can’t possibly tell me that some human remains aren’t buried deep somewhere where there are no currents.”

https://phys.org/news/2020-10-titani...ate-human.html

[SvanMeyja]

I say leave them there. Bring back the historical bits but leave the remains of humans alone. I have doubts there is much of anything left down there other than bones, if that. The connective tissue between the bones would even be gone by this point, so nothing would even been connected and identifiable. I'm sure anyone who was trapped below decks was absolutely pulverized by the weight of the ship when it crash landed on the bottom.