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.