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Stealing the Titanic: Artifacts auction draws accusations of grave robbery
On April 15, on the 100th anniversary of the RMS Titanic’s sinking, an auction house in New York will sell off $185-million-worth of items salvaged from the wreck: Eye-glasses, antique currency, jewellery, clothing and — the pièce de resistance — a 17-tonne section of the hull ripped clean in the ship’s final violent moments.
In Halifax, the burial place of 150 Titanic victims, news of the auction prompted disgust.
“We’re into preserving and documenting — not into pillaging,” Lynn-Marie Richard, registrar for the city’s Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, told The Chronicle Herald.
The man who located the Titanic sitting upright at the bottom of the Atlantic would agree.
In 1985, only hours after he had spotted the wreck, Robert Ballard took a call from a curious ABC reporter, who asked if the legendary ship could ever be raised from the depths.
“Absolutely not,” he replied.
“In fact I would like to go and try to ensure that this memorial to 1,500 souls is left the way it is.”
Only months later, a fully equipped salvage crew set sail for Mr. Ballard’s coordinates.
Titanic survivors called them “thieves” and “pirates,” and Mr. Ballard condemned the salvagers for “perpetuating” the tragedy.
Decades later, has the taboo of “graverobbing” worn off? (Photos: RMS Titanic, Inc.)
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Creepy Cocktail of the Day: The Alien Brain Hemorrhage contains 1 part peach schnapps, 1 part Bailey’s Irish cream, and 2 parts grenadine.
Makes the perfect hangover cure: One look at this terrifying concoction and you’ll be as sober as a Sunday school marm.
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