Could the titanic be raised?

Question

Could the titanic be raised?

Answer 1

If it could it would have been raised by now, I would think.

Answer 2

No.

Answer 3

Bits of it could but it's in more than one piece

Answer 4

No. it is in too fragile a state and would fall apart.  Plus it doesn't need to be.  I feel like it is grave robbing.  So many innocent people were killed because of arrogance and greed.

Answer 5

I'd imagine this could be possible but it all comes down to respecting the graves of all the people that lost their lives....

Answer 6

i will see your titanic and raise you a ark royal

Answer 7

not with todays technology - it's been down there for nearly a century, and it's far too fragile to raise it.  it would just disintegrate!

i say leave it where it is.

Answer 8

Theoretically of course it could be raised, there have been many visits to the wreck since it was discovered in 1985 and many artefacts retreived.

The main problem is the absolutely astronomical cost involved, who would pay for it and why.?

The Mary Rose was made of wood and sank in relatively shallow water within sight of land, it did cost a fortune to lift and the trust is still finding it difficult to raise funds to maintain it.

The Titanic is metal, broken in  two and is severely coroded, appart from the fact it's in very deep water 3,821 m and 24km from Newfoundland.

Who would pay for the upkeep, who would pay to see the rusting heap, anything worth salvaging has already been taken, the Mary Rose being fully laden had thousands of artefacts worth seeing, bows,arrows, cannons etc.

Answer 9

A huge debate surrounds the raising of the wreck of the Titanic. "Taking things from the ship is like robbing a grave," some experts say. "The Titanic should be left alone out of respect for those who died," they add. Others disagree. "This is history, and people should be able to see it," they say. "We need to save what we can before it's gone forever.

technically I think it is possible - its just whether its ethical to do so.

Answer 10

Lets hope not !!!!!!

It will mean even more CR4P films !!!!

Answer 11

They have been able to raise parts of it and it have been on a museum tour which I went to see.   IT WAS AMAZING!!!  And very humbling to see such a piece of history.  They can't raise the whole thing can't because of the organism that are eating the metal and if they tried to move the whole thing it would fall apart.  Go to a search engine and look up the information to see if they its still on tour or where the permanent display.

Answer 12

Yes, it can, but it will cost loads of money, and it might risk damaging some things down there.

And then they don't want to bring it up, because of the respect for the people who died, they died there and they derserve for it to stay there.

Answer 13

No chance, apart from the fact that the depth it is at just wouldn't make it possible, within the next few years it's going to collapse completely. It is being eaten away at the moment by an organism that has pretty much covered it. It is very delicate and ready to cave in, so any movement would make it break away completely.

However there a large section that has already been raised years ago called "The Big Piece" which I think is on display somewhere in the USA.

Answer 14

I don't think so, the last I heard it was classed as a grave

Answer 15

They looked at doing it many yrs ago asaid it was not possible - maybe in the future with new technologies it could be carried out.

It would be great if they could.

Answer 16

No- it's too deep under the ocean and too broken broken up to be raised

Answer 17

right now we don't have such technologies.

depth is too low.

but in the future i hope it can be.

Answer 18

no its a grave

Answer 19

It is possible for tools to be able to lift it, but the Titanic is not strong enough and it will just break in the process of raising it. I think it would be cool to take a large piece of it off and put it in a museum.

Answer 20

Only in bits. It could not be refloated as in the film; as well as the fact it's in two pieces, it is very fragile now.

Answer 21

I am afraid the wreck has deteriorated to the point it would simply fall apart if you try to move it. However you could salvage parts of interest such as the cargo, china and letters which are still intact in the cargo hold. The whole ship however is rusting away at a very fast rate it should be a pile of rustcicles by the year 2080. then all that will be left is jewelry and other none corroding metals. tragic loss but can't be helped.

Answer 22

Like others have said, it is possible, but no-one would pay the millions of pounds needed to and it would be like utting together a huge jigsaw puzzle.

It would be cheaper to make another one, or a BIG scale model version

Answer 23

Organisms known as RUSTICLES are already eating up the steel, so there is no strength in the remaining steel, even if they had the capability to do so.