{"id":41782,"date":"2020-01-29T07:57:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T11:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=41782"},"modified":"2020-01-29T07:57:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T11:57:24","slug":"titanic-radio-may-soon-be-recovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/titanic-radio-may-soon-be-recovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Titanic radio may soon be recovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_41783\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/titanic-radio-room.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41783\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41783\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/titanic-radio-room.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/titanic-radio-room.jpg 550w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/titanic-radio-room-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Replica of the Titanic&#8217;s radio room at the Antique Wireless Museum (Source: Trip Advisor)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2020\/01\/21\/titanic-treaty-salvage-expedition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Post<\/a> via Davud Iurescia, LW4DAF)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/225c0fd0-fca5-4f6e-a4f0-4e2ed54e3aff\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[&#8230;]\u201cLying two and a half miles below the ocean surface, the RMS Titanic is the subject of the most documented maritime tragedy in history,\u201d British Transport and Maritime Minister Nusrat Ghani said in a statement. \u201cThis momentous agreement with the United States to preserve the wreck means it will be treated with the sensitivity and respect owed to the final resting place of more than 1,500 lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A century later and the Titanic still fascinates<\/p>\n<p>RMS Titanic Inc. argues that the wireless transmitter must be recovered soon, and ideally within the year, as expeditions to the site more than two miles below the ocean\u2019s surface have noted deterioration over the years. The \u201cSilent Cabin,\u201d the soundproof room where it is housed, withstood years of damage and protected the transmitting switchboards and regulators, the company wrote in court documents.<\/p>\n<p>But the deckhouse above the Marconi transmitter has been falling apart since 2005, and holes have been forming over the Silent Cabin. The overheard will probably collapse within the next few years, Titanic expert Parks Stephenson wrote in court documents, \u201cpotentially burying forever the remains of the world\u2019s most famous radio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]RMS Titanic Inc. President Bretton Hunchak, however, has said the radio recovery mission would be limited in scope and undertaken in an effort to protect the important artifact before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not some kind of Trojan horse so that we can start grabbing suitcases full of diamonds from the wreck,\u201d he said, according to the Telegraph. \u201cThis is a careful, surgical operation to rescue a historically significant item so it can teach future generations about the story of Titanic.\u201d[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2020\/01\/21\/titanic-treaty-salvage-expedition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article at the Washington Post and note portions may be behind a paywall or geo-blocked.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: The Washington Post via Davud Iurescia, LW4DAF) [&#8230;]\u201cLying two and a half miles below the ocean surface, the RMS Titanic is the subject of the most documented maritime tragedy in history,\u201d British Transport and Maritime Minister Nusrat Ghani said in a statement. \u201cThis momentous agreement with the United States to preserve the wreck means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,288],"tags":[8290,8291,4378],"class_list":["post-41782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radio-history","tag-titanic","tag-titanic-radio","tag-washington-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-aRU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":59172,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/radio-waves-international-symposium-focuses-on-broadcasting-last-morse-station-yaesu-frg-7-digital-frequency-kit-and-remembering-bob-heil\/","url_meta":{"origin":41782,"position":0},"title":"Radio Waves: International Symposium Focuses on Broadcasting, Last Morse Station, Yaesu FRG-7 Digital Frequency Kit, and Remembering Bob Heil,","author":"Thomas","date":"March 6, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Radio Waves:\u00a0 Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Welcome to the\u00a0SWLing Post\u2019s Radio Waves, a collection of links to interesting stories making waves in the world of radio.\u00a0Enjoy! 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