The Marconi room holds the ship’s radio - a Marconi wireless telegraph machine - which broadcast the Titanic’s increasingly frantic distress signals after the ocean liner hit an iceberg. RMST said it would recover artifacts from the debris field and “may recover free-standing objects inside the wreck.” Those could include “objects from inside the Marconi room, but only if such objects are not affixed to the wreck itself.” That includes “inside the wreck where deterioration has opened chasms sufficient to permit a remotely operated vehicle to penetrate the hull without interfering with the current structure.” The company said it plans to take images of the entire wreck. RMST’s expedition is tentatively planned for May 2024, according to a report it filed with the court in June. They added that the shipwreck “will be deprived of the protections Congress granted it.” lawyers argued in court documents filed Friday. “RMST is not free to disregard this validly enacted federal law, yet that is its stated intent,” U.S. Among the government’s concerns is the possible disturbance of artifacts and any human remains that may still exist.
argues that entering the Titanic’s severed hull - or physically altering or disturbing the wreck - is regulated by federal law and its agreement with Britain. The ship hit an iceberg and sank in 1912. District Court in Norfolk, Virginia, which oversees Titanic salvage matters, hinges instead on federal law and a pact with Great Britain to treat the sunken Titanic as a memorial to the more than 1,500 people who died. But this legal fight has nothing to do with the June tragedy, which involved a different company and an unconventionally designed vessel. The government’s challenge comes more than two months after the Titan submersible imploded near the sunken ocean liner, killing five people. The company exhibits artifacts that have been recovered from the wreck site at the bottom of the North Atlantic, from silverware to a piece of the Titanic’s hull. The expedition is being organized by RMS Titanic Inc., the Georgia-based firm that owns the salvage rights to the world’s most famous shipwreck. government is trying to stop a planned expedition to recover items of historical interest from the sunken Titanic, citing a federal law and an international agreement that treat the shipwreck as a hallowed gravesite.
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