Why would anyone wish to visit the wreck of the #Titanic as an excursion? For scientific purposes, maybe. To see what remains, to check its gradual decay.
For the rest, it is like descending into an open grave. Fifteen hundred people died there, and nothing remains of them. To me, its wreck carries echoes of another maritime tragedy that occurred 8 years before the Titanic hit the iceberg.
In June 1904, SS #Norge hit the islet of Rockall, far west of the Western Isles, and sank, taking 700 souls to the bottom. At the inquiry in Copenhagen, the next year, it was determined that a lack of life-saving apparatus (lifeboats) contributed to the loss of life. But the Titanic also had insufficient life-saving equipment.
Had the recommendations from the Copenhagen inquiry been followed, the losses from the Titanic's sinking would have been far less.
May they all rest in peace.
I hope that the occupants of the Titan are found alive.
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