If we could ask the people that went down with the Titanic, I suspect that very few would want to remain with the ship that killed them.
If we could ask the people that went down with the Titanic, I suspect that very few would want to remain with the ship that killed them.
I've always wondered how cost effective it would be to bring up the sunken freighters of WW2. There were quite a lot, and many had very expensive cargoes, such as tungsten and gold. Check out this global map of identified WW2 wrecks.
https://mapsterman.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/fe88b5e18...
That's not actually true, although I don't blame you for not being aware of this... Here in the US, there are plenty of identifiable, unsalvaged plane wrecks left in the wilderness.
I hike a lot around Southern California... The San Gabriel Mountains alone have at least a half dozen wrecks with significant portions of the fuselage & engines.
Some of them are remarkably accessible... IIRC there is a T-6 Texan from the 1950s along the Mt Baldy summit trail (~9500' elevation) which is hiked by thousands of people a year. In Joshua Tree National Park, there are two wrecks on Quail Mountain... Plenty of others besides those.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Tahoma_Glacier#History
Crashed in December 1946 with 32 US Marines aboard... This was before helicopters and GPS, so the wreck wasn't located quickly enough, and got buried by the early Winter snowfall. Some recoveries in the following years, but the bulk of the wreck and the bodies were left in place, as a permanent monument.
I believe the area is now off-limits to climbers, as well.
In 1946, simply setting foot onto the Tahoma Glacier required a highly technical mountaineering expedition. There were no helicopters at that time to bring in search & rescue personnel or to remove bodies. Park rangers and the Navy determined that a huge team of mountaineers would be required, and it would take them several weeks to extricate the bodies, by hand and on foot. A recovery could only have taken place in the late Summer/Fall, when the snow was at it's lowest level--but that would also require exposing the recovery team to the worst dangers of rockfall, crevasses, etc while they worked and camped on the glacier.
The risk to rescuers was simple too great, and there were no feasible alternative options at the time.
https://www.historylink.org/File/7820
Listen, this is the THIRD time in row that you've asserted something that's just factually false, on this topic... Don't you think it would be a good idea to do some research and educate yourself about this topic, before you make any more comments about it? I mean this with respect... We all have gaps in our knowledge, and I assume that growing your knowledge is important to you?