The 100th
anniversary of the sinking of
the Titanic, a significant moment in world navigation history. The moment was
marked in a number of ways, However ,some of which were more tasteful than
others.
“Titanic” 3-D the film and a memorial cruise are just two
ways people remembering the events of that 1912 frigid night in the Atlantic
Ocean.Lying two miles below the ocean surface, the Titanic has become a part of
the ocean.
For a few, the anniversary came with the revelation that
the RMS Titanic was an ture ship and not the fictional subject of James
Cameron’s blockbuster. Several cringe-worthy tweets from today’s woefully
ill-informed generation made the news, such as “Nobody told me titanic was
real…?
Even a century on, stories about titanic didn’t fade away
and taste and decency are still raised over ways the events are memorialized.
At least two memorial cruises retraced the Titanic’s
course, stopping for a moment of silence Saturday night at the same time and
place of the titanic’s fated encounter with an iceberg.
Some passengers wore period costumes and the cooks served
up meals painstakingly reconstructed from surviving copies of the ship’s menu,
according to BBC News.
A restaurant in Houston recreated the last meal served to
first-class passengers aboard the ship. For $1,000 apiece, parties of 12 can
enjoy the lavish 10-course meal on plates from the 1900s, according to the
Associated Press.
Off and on since 1998, Deep Ocean Expeditions has offered
submersible rides down to the Titanic’s remains. In 2001, a couple was married
in a small sub that actually landed on the deck of the sunken ship.
Robert Ballard, the scholar who discovered the Titanic’s remains in 1985,
has always opposed bringing artifacts back from the ship and recently took to
“The Colbert Report” and other news outlets to decry the damage tourism has
done to the ship.
Others seem to be retrieving artifacts from the depths in
the hopes of turning a profit. Titanic memorabilia is quite popular; a ticket
from the ship’s maiden voyage recently sold for $56,250 at a New York auction
house.
While tourists and explorers should
keep their damage to the wreckage minimal, Ballard wants to go too far in the
other direction, proposing that the ship’s hull be cleaned and sprayed with
protective paint to prevent further corrosion and be guarded by robot sentries.
Respect for the tragedy doesn’t warrant creating a bizarre, permanent
underwater shrine.
