Titanic

When you think of Titanic, what is that you really think about? What does the word Titanic mean to you? Does it mean Leonardo DiCaprio? Kate Winslet? A Hollywood romance set on a dramatic backdrop?

Titanic means so much more to some then it does for others. I’m one of those people. I believe that Titanic is one of the greatest tragedies that has ever happened, immortalized by Hollywood.

How many people out there agree? I’m not sure, but Titanic has a personal meaning to each and every one of us. Does it haunt your thoughts? Or is it just an annoying thing of the past?

I personally think that Titanic is an event that we can learn from, even today. A tragedy that for years, lay hidden at the bottom of the North Atlantic.

One thing I have to ask you is this, how much respect does the Titanic deserve? Should it be honored and lay as a historical resting place for the 1 500 souls lost? Should we treat it like the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor?

People do stupid things right? How stupid is a couple who get married on the bow of the Titanic’s wreck?

Pretty stupid if you ask me. The Titanic is a place of sorrow, it shouldn’t be a place where happy things happen often. Titanic is NOT a church, it is a place where 1 500 people died, loosing their lives to the cold, unforgiving waters of the North Atlantic.

Actually, a New York couple did get married on the bow of the Titanic. They hunkered down in a submersible, with a preist and got married. That’s a disgrace. It only helped the Titanic to lose a bit more of herself to nature.

People should learn that the Titanic deserves respect, not be treated like a freak at a zoo or something.

If people learn the damage they are doing to this great ship, then they wouldn’t be so eager to harm or salvage off her. Indeed, people do salvage items off the wreck.

A beer company had sweepstakes to view liquior bottles being extracted from the wreck. Imagine, who might have touched that last? A question that shall linger on for all eternity.

As long as people remain fasinated with the Titanic, then the more we can protect her from those who would harm her.

Robert Ballard was right when he stated in a issue of National Geographic, “We treat Titanic like a freak at the county fair.”

I recently learned of a Titanic auction. I detest things like this, people don’t always seem to realize things. Like, maybe that item you’re holding in your hand, someone could have touched it before fleeing from their cabin to the lifeboats.

Auctioning items that floated to the surface when Titanic went down, placing a price on something that is priceless. As corny as that may sound, it’s completely true. People today don’t have as much pity as those who lived when Titanic went down.

Imagine how people who lost loved ones when Titanic sank, imagine how they would feel if they knew that someone out there held a possesion of their son’s, daughter’s, or husband’s?

If you lost someone close to you on board Titanic, how would you feel if their possesions were auctioned off like an animal? You’d feel betrayed, hurt, angry even, you’d feel that their memory isn’t being preserved.

I feel that as much as these items can mean to someone, they are better off in a museum, or better yet, back in Titanic where they belong.

Titanic can also teach us many things, or like the plack that James Cameron left on the wreck, “Remind us that the unthinkable can happen.”

It’s true, no matter how hard we try, we cannot stop the unthinkable from happening. All we can do is be prepared, think of every event that COULD happen, not just one scenario.

We could listen to those who know better, people should have listened to Thomas Andrews, he told people that Titanic should carry a specific amount of lifeboats, yet no one listened to him.

It took 1 500 lives to change how we think about listening, a heavy cost to be paid to learn a simple lesson.

A tradegy that could have prevented had we actaully thought about every situation imaginable.

Treat Titanic with respect, from that we can learn. Learn to respect people’s final restif places.