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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:34:00 -0500
To: techdiver@terra.net
From: ir002538@in*.co* (Jim Cobb)
Subject: Re: Titanic
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 ~~~
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