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Look, all that happened was that I had to cut the line after I retrieved the piece of the hull because- as I deco'd near the surface where there was better lighting- I saw that the piece I took from the bow tore in the wrong place so that only a part of its name-"Tit"- came up with the piece. Aarrggg! So I jettisoned the mother and will go for the other side and get the whole word after a twelve month surface interval. To really make worth my time coming back, I deep-sixed my IANTD Rebreather Instructor card with it. On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Jim Cobb wrote: > Kevin- > > There have been disasters of all kinds with planes, trains, buses, > Zeppelins, etc. What a mess it would be if every disaster was left alone > as some sort of monument to the dead. There would be burnt out buildings, > heaps of rusting metal, piles of bones all over the place. > > Those people who died so tragically on the Titanic are gone now, there is > nothing down there worth protecting. In a world getting smaller by the > day, true adventures are getting harder and harder to find. To attempt > the worlds deepest wreck salvage would be quit a trip, one I would not > mind being involved in, thats for sure. > > If anything, this fiasco has made a lot of people aware of the wreck and > perhaps to pause a moment and think about the victims. Maybe that's not a > bad thing. > > > >I know this doesn't have much to do with techdiving - but I just felt like > >stating my opinion that what those fuckers are doing to the Titanic is an > >abomination. > > > >I just don't understand why the fuck they need to hack away at the wreck, > >bringing up huge pieces of the hull. So what? Who is going to fly to France > >just to look at a piece of steel? > > > >1500 people died on that ship. Why don't we pull the wreckage of the > >Challenger out of storage in that silo, and put it on display too? > > > >How about George puts on display the tanks and Voit regs of all the dudes > >that died in caves on display too? > > > >If they want to bring up some flatware or small aritfacts, then fine - I > >don't have a problem with that, but I believe it is absolutely ludicrous to > >shag pieces of the hull from that ship to the surface. Those fuckers > >couldn't even do that right. Now, that hull piece will probably never be > >found, and most likely landed a couple of miles away from the main wreckage, > >to be lost forever. > > > >By all means, go down there, take pictures, make films, maybe bring up a > >plate or two, but keep your fucking grappling hands off the wreck itself. > > > >And that's all I have to say about that... > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. > Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. >
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