What about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?
Which more feasible: Manned flight to Mars or Raising The Titanic?
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It's that too. The reason why it's impossible is that it's essentially rust held together by animal life. Dives to the site are strictly controlled because it's so delicate and unstable. If one were to somehow get some chains around the forward section it would disintegrate the instant it started to move.
it'd be cheaper to lower the Atlantic...
Nasa isn't doing shit, but James Cameron might one day decide to have the Titanic lifted and put in one of his palatial living rooms. The Titanic is far more likely.
That's why it's ridiculous. You can't just haul it up. You'd first have to come up with some cutting-edge shrink wrap or something to hold it together, then surround it with a bubble and float it up-- or something equally grandiose. It would take an effort on the scale of the Manhattan or Apollo projects to no good purpose.
Who the hell was Edmund Fitzgerald anyway, and why did they name a ship after him?
He was Chairman of the Board of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, who ordered the vessel built as an investment. Fitzgerald's grandfather had been a lake captain and his father owned the Milwaukee Drydock Company which built and repaired ships.
Hail wiki.
The Edmund Fitzgerald...now there was another interesting shipwreck. Very tragic.
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^ I love the song though.
Fun fact: Gordon Lightfoot has occasionally altered the lyrics during performances, when new information about the sinking has come out.
Fun fact: Gordon Lightfoot has occasionally altered the lyrics during performances, when new information about the sinking has come out.
