Titanic salvage: recovering the ship’s radio could signal a disaster for underwater cultural heritage
The RMS Titanic’s Marconi radio was last used to make distress calls from the north Atlantic after the ship struck an iceberg on April 14 1912. Now the radio could become the target of a salvage operation after a private company was granted permission to recover the artefact from the wreck’s interio...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/457869/ |
| Summary: | The RMS Titanic’s Marconi radio was last used to make distress calls from the north Atlantic after the ship struck an iceberg on April 14 1912. Now the radio could become the target of a salvage operation after a private company was granted permission to recover the artefact from the wreck’s interior. This recovery for profit is directly at odds with the ethics of modern archaeological practice. It also raises questions about legal protection for shipwrecks such as the Titanic and how we choose to value our shared cultural heritage. |
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