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I 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

I 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 ago
Surprisingly little time needs to pass from what I heard.
BeefWellington 3y ago
The 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 ago
  That 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.