Almost 1,000 drones lit up Belfast harbour on Monday with a recreation of the RMS Titanic, to commemorate her leaving the city on 2nd April 1912.

Them. It’s eerily beautiful but it’s a grave site. Please respect that and leave it alone

Me. Sure, I agree with that, but I disagree with how that respect is shown. Being dead doesn't instantly confer an exalted, inviolate status. Let us presume that the wreck was never found: how many generations would it be before all those people would be forgotten, lost to time? How many websites would there be with the 2nd and 3rd class passenger manifests? Very few, I would offer. By studying and salvaging the wreck, we keep those people alive in the public consciousness. A living, breathing person drank coffee from this mug. Someone slept in this bunk, shaved in this mirror. To my way of thinking, willfully forgetting them is the disrespect.

New 3D scans have been taken of the wreck of Titanic. They show in great detail what the state of the wreck is, including the stern which frankly is a mess. Quite sad to see the true extend of the deterioration.

Link to album with rest of scan images: https://imgur.com/a/Y2pNDqk

Awesome video showing what the wreck might have looked like only half an hour after hitting the ocean floor.

OceanGate sub still missing 2 days after losing contact during decent.