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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Main Authors: Farr, Helen, Sturt, Fraser
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2020
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North Atlantic
Online Access:https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/457869/
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spelling ftsouthampton:oai:eprints.soton.ac.uk:457869 2023-07-30T04:05:19+02:00 Titanic salvage: recovering the ship’s radio could signal a disaster for underwater cultural heritage Farr, Helen Sturt, Fraser 2020-06-09 https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/457869/ English eng Farr, Helen and Sturt, Fraser (2020) Titanic salvage: recovering the ship’s radio could signal a disaster for underwater cultural heritage. The Conversation. Article NonPeerReviewed 2020 ftsouthampton 2023-07-09T22:48:22Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic University of Southampton: e-Prints Soton
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description 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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title Titanic salvage: recovering the ship’s radio could signal a disaster for underwater cultural heritage
title_short Titanic salvage: recovering the ship’s radio could signal a disaster for underwater cultural heritage
title_full Titanic salvage: recovering the ship’s radio could signal a disaster for underwater cultural heritage
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