How much year is left before the titanic decays to very bad shape?

Question

and is there any chance that it can be taken from the ocean. and if its taken who will have ownership over it.

Answer 1

8

Answer 2

yep.

Answer 3

Dance for your daddy when the boat comes in! This question will wreck me, trying to fathom it out.

Answer 4

I dont know. But I would really like to know

Answer 5

it cannot be retrieved now, it has been pushed near a ledge on the sea floor. if they try, it will break it in 2 and the whole thing wil l fall into the deep abyss where current equipment cannot reach.

most artifacts and of value have already been retrieved.

yesterday China retrieved a 800 year old ship and is putting it in a musuem in a giant tank that simulates the ship's resting site. the temperature and pressure will be kept the same even. So as you can see, wrecks last quite a long time.

Answer 6

bearing in mind it was in bad shape after the ship hit the iceberg, and the rivets popped... then people have been down in little subs and bounced around the outside.

In effect it is protected by the waters, air would have a rotting effect so it is better where it is and has a longer life span than above the sea.

So to answer your question, it will still be there in another 100 years.

Answer 7

Not long.  Probably less than twenty years.

For instance - when Bob Ballard first found the wreck, there was only one major hole in the Boat Deck.  Now, twenty-one years later, there are several.

Ther is no chance she will ever be removed from the sea.  She is simply too deteriorated, too far down (for her present condition), and too deeply buried in the mud.

Also you need to ask yourself - if the wreck is salvaged, then what?  She will never sail again.  She is too fragile to walk on. Plus, because steel and iron objects tend to absorb salts and minerals due to electrolysis when submerged in seawater for long periods of time, she would deteriorate at an accelerated rate once exposed to the air.  

As for who would have ownership, since she was a commercial ship owned by a private company, she would be the property of whoever salvages her, according to international law.  However, because of the 1987 expedition to the wreck, there is a moratorium over further salvage on the wrecksite, and it presumably extends to the salvage of the wreck itself.

Answer 8

How much year is left? what does that mean? OK then four pounds of year is left

Answer 9

The ship will last a very long time to come.  The wreckage is very deep, and in very cold waters, which will preserve it well.  

The Ship lies in international waters, and so technically, would have no ownership.

There will be no recovery of the ship.  It is much too large, and would be a monumentally expensive task to recover.  Pieces of the hull, and artifacts have been brought to the surface for museums, and traveling expositions, but the ship in it's entirety will remain a gravesite on the bottom of the ocean.

Answer 10

from what I have watched on TV, it is decaying faster than expected but I don't remember how many years estimated until it is totally unrecognizable.  Maybe try a yahoo search.

Answer 11

I'm a huge titantic buff and I was watching on the History Channel (deep sea detectives) that they won't ever resurrect the titantic because the ship is in too brittle of a condition.   It would just fall to pieces if they tried to lift it.  They don't want to disturb such a huge artifact.  I'm assuming if any company tried to gain ownership of it they would auction it off.

Answer 12

It will not decay quickly as there is too little oxygen and the water temperature is very low. It will gradually become overgrown with coral, barnacles and other marine creatures. It would be virtually impossible to raise from the sea bed because it is heavily silted and buried deeply in parts. Besides, it is a maritime grave and should be left undisturbed.

Answer 13

5 years