Is the Titanic still underwater

Answer 1

RMS (Royal Mail Ship) Titanic touches a deep chord in most people. It is an intensely powerful human drama of excessive pride, stupidity, reliance on technology and, ultimately, awful, awful tragedy as over 1500 souls drowned or slowly froze to death that dreadful night in April of 1912.

* She was on her maiden (first) voyage and never even arrived in New York from Southampton. * She was the largest and most luxurious passenger vessel ever yet seen in April of 1912. * She was the largest moving object in the world at the time. * Her First Class passenger list were the "Glitterati" of their day, as sought after by the tabloid press and public as Britney Spears or Angelina Jolie today. * Even her Third Class or "steerage" appointments were the most luxurious of their day. * She was rumored to be "unsinkable," a claim, by the way, that White Star, her owners, never once made. The "unsinkable" myth was perpetuated by the shipping magazines and the press of 1912, and was based on the actual fact that she could float with any two of her sixteen watertight compartments flooded. The problem, as we learned all too well from the disaster, was that it was possible to compromise more than two compartments, but at the time no one could imagine such circumstances. * The loss of life was appalling. Estimates range from 1520 to 1527 people lost their lives when she went down in the freezing North Atlantic on April 15, 1912. * It was discovered that she had had only enough lifeboats for about half the people aboard, yet she actually carried more boats than required by the British Board of Trade at the time, through an oversight in the computation of necessary boats. No one had considered that such giant liners as Olympic and Titanic would ever be built, so the computation of boats was based on tonnage rather than number of people actually carried. * By far the highest percentage of people saved were First Class women. This caused an an uproar, especially when it was learned that there weren't enough lifeboats and many of them left the ship less than half full. (Some people may have bought into the myth of "unsinkability" and waited until it was too late to get a boat.) * The ensuing investigations demonstrated that the ship was speeding at about 25 miles per hour through a known ice field on a dead calm night with ice warnings posted on the bridge, yet the captain did not slow down even though he knew that at least one nearby ship (Californian) was stopped dead, completely surrounded by icebergs. * The training of the crew and especially the deck officers was inadequate, and once the emergency was known, the captain seemed to want to keep it quiet to prevent a panic, which may also have contributed to the high number of people who never made it into the existing boats, insufficient though they were. * She went down in extremely deep water and was not found for 73 years. Up until the wreck was discovered in two pieces on the ocean floor over 12,000 feet down, there had always been a general belief that she had gone down intact, and there was always the faint, vain hope she could be raised somehow and towed into New York to complete her voyage.

Thus, much of the mystique of RMS Titanic is tied up in the appalling loss of life on the maiden voyage of what was generally, and falsely, believed to be an "unsinkable" ship. No one has ever called any ship "unsinkable" since, and no vessel has ever put to sea since without more than enough lifeboats for every soul aboard, yet it is well known that even that is no guarantee of safety (see the sinking of RMS Lusitania in 1915).

See the web link below for much more information. Also, visit your library and read Walter Lord's classic A Night to Remember and many other books on the subject.

Answer 2

Because most people think it should be left there as a graveyard.

Apart from the valid moral arguments, it would be technologically extremely difficult and financially prohibitively expensive to lift the Titanic to the surface. This is in a large part because it is so far underwater.

Answer 3

The titanic is still under water because its been corroded by the salt water for years and is to brittle to lift. also the cost factors would be way to large.

Because of it being so brittle if they did lift it they say it would probably just fall apart so they cant move it

Answer 4

Yes, the Titanic is now a registered a grave site and will not be disturbed.

Answer 5

Yes. We do not think we will ever pull it out of the sea.

Answer 6

She would be destroyed if raised. She's much to brittle to be taken to the surface.

A common philosophy is "Save the artifacts, leave the wreck".

Answer 7

well i searched in yes the titanic is still in the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Answer 8

yes the titanic is still under water and is to hevey to bring to the surface and is a part of of history and probley remain for ton of years