they will laugh. but how many Titanic fans do u think there r in the world? a couple million?

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Because a petition is as useless as a plea not to salvage the site. When you weight the millions of dollars the salvage companies make against a plea for common friendly, genial, hospitable, sociable; felicitous, graceful; humble, meek, modest or unassertive petition they will laugh at a petition.

This is a brilliant idea. Why has nobody thought of this before? The salvors have got more than enough artifacts to fill their' traveling exibit. They should let the wreck rust and leave it alone

yes it would. we should start a petition, as i said to Glen.it might work. if we got the administrator to help us we may be able to start a petition against salvaging rights

I agree. The mast for example did not just give way onto the forward well deck due to decay. It was in fact flattened by a sub when the ship's bell was recovered from the crow's nest.

People are causing greater damage to the wreck than ever before. People have lost the respect for the ship in order to make a profit and I am absolutely certain that it's only a question of time before the artifacts end up on e-bay. Consider this: If the artifacts were to be split up and sold, there would be no control over the "true artifacts". Anyone can then claim to have "phoney artifacts". This would taint the archeological practice for the sake of sensationalism...

yeah. i think it's wful how badly she is treated

People should also stop taking plaques down to the ship. On the last video I saw there were over 4 plaques near the telemotor in the wheelhouse and what looked like a bunch of shriveled up roses. In my oppinion one plaque would be enough

maybe i exaggerated a bit. now u r finally seeing my side of things. (you wouldn't be horrified but the look on ur face would be ) i'm just totally against the grave-diggin thing. that pic of the tan oval thing is basically an ad for somone who wants to buy it

I wouldn't reep a grave if thats what you mean pat but i agree with you but i don't think the bill gates example explains alot because i mean 3 million is still alot and could buy alot and i think one of bill gates accountants would notice a dip in the amount of money he ha and would start to wonder were the money went to.

but it isn't important what i'm saying but i change my mind about the tuxedo thing, i would find it horrifying if someone stripped me of my clothes.

If you brought back moonrocks (from the moon, lol) and you put them on display here on earth, people would go have a look at the rocks and say "ooh....ahhh" until the novelty wore off. Then people would be none the wiser about moonrocks and just plain old rocks from your backyard. Nobody would bother about going to see these moonrocks (from the moon, lol again). The point is that half of the mystique surrounding the artifacts is the location in which they are found. If you remove the artifact, you lose the mystique. The video footage regarding these artifacts inspire a greater impact on the audiences sences than an preserved shoe behind the pain of glass that looks like my grandads shoe at home. Thus these artifacts become spoilt. They loose their identity. And once they loose their identity they loose their ability to tell the story. The story of 1500 souls still waiting to reach distant shores...