Yeah well you hosers are so good at respecting the graves of the dead, your government felt it had to pass anti-plundering laws and post guards over great lakes wrecks. They even managed to save a few before you kanuck vultures got to them and stripped them bare. Fuckin hypocrite. >Le/On10 Sep 96 @ 22:25, vous ecrivites/you wrote: > >> 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 > >By comparison, the Empress of Ireland, the second worst peacetime >naval disaster (1914, 1023 dead) stands still in 40-80msw in the >St-Lawrence, and has been the prey of many graverobbers who will >plunder this "monument to the dead" (witness the recent >advertisement here for yet another plundering expedition obviously >meant for yankees with deep pockets). > >The Titanic piecemeal raising is nothing less than the same kind of >grave robbing witnessed on the Empress. > >----------------- Pour la Republique Francaise du Quebec ----------------- >If you are disturbed by political slogans that don't support what you >think, or believe that because you have lots of money, your voice has more >value than one poorer than you, you may be not a democrat, but a fascist. >~~~ Last dive: the *WALL* at Escoumins (Quebec) with wolf eels - 25msw ~~~ > This .sig is illegal in the states, because it contains a dirty word. > Marc Dufour - [\] ACUC6 31874 - TDI CD-0197 - http://www.accent.net/emdx >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. >Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'.
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