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to the other commenters: there’s a difference between a week old wreck still being investigated and one a hundred years old. same way there is a difference bet
by sigstoat 3y ago
to the other commenters: there’s a difference between a week old wreck still being investigated and one a hundred years old.
same way there is a difference between photos of dead bodies undergoing forensic investigation, and those undergoing archaeological investigation.
- fullstop 3y agoI wonder how much time has to pass before it is socially acceptable to gawk at a shipwreck? I'm not really joking here, there has to be some sort of threshold and I'm not sure how it can be defined.
- scotty79 3y agoSurprisingly little time needs to pass from what I heard.
- BeefWellington 3y agoThe wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is a protected site due to this very topic of discussion. Diving it can get you in quite a bit of trouble: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/titanic-edmund-fitzgerald-1.6882861 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/titanic-edmund-fitzgerald-1.68...
- fullstop 3y agoThat had the added benefit, something which feels very strange to type, of not sinking in international waters. It's significantly easier to restrict access in that case. It is somewhat surreal that a historically short amount of time must pass before people can visit these areas without it being taboo. Some of them, in my opinion, are extremely important to humanity such as Auschwitz and Choeung Ek, and the latter happened during my lifetime.