Question for all of you.

[Admiral Halsey]

I was thinking the other day of famous shipwrecks that could be raised and the one I kept coming back to was the Britannic. She's relatively intact and isn't that deep compared to other wrecks. The only major hurdle is her size really. Anyways my question is this, do you think it's possible to actually raise her?

[Oberon]

Not likely, trying to raise something of that size and weight, even if it's not as badly corroded as the Titanic, she's not going to come up in one piece, and even when she's up she'll require a very specialist environment to be housed in for at least a decade in order to stop the metal from decaying.
Then you've got the problem that it's technically a war grave, even though no-one was actually killed by the explosion directly.
Then there's the cost of the work, not only to actually lift the ship and put it somewhere safe, but also the disruption it would cause to a busy shipping lane.

In the end it would be far cheaper to wait until Titanic II is built, if ever.

[Jimbuna]

Not that great a loss of life (30) but enough for people to recognise and respect/consider her a war grave.

She is listed as a British war grave as far as I'm aware and any expedition would need to be approved by both the British and Greek governments.

[Dread Knot]

Then there's the cost of the work, not only to actually lift the ship and put it somewhere safe,

Indeed cost. Even the Virginia museum where the restoration of the ACW ironclad Monitor's revolutionary turret was on display has had to shut down public viewing due to lack of interest and funds.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/va-museum-shuts-lab-with-uss-monitor-artifacts-citing-lack-of-federal-funds/2014/01/09/1bd0a7ca-78b7-11e3-b1c5-739e63e9c9a7_story.html

[Rockstar]

Not that great a loss of life (30) but enough for people to recognise and respect/consider her a war grave...


Unless of course one has something to hide. Then you're allowed to drop hundreds if not thousands of hedghogs over the course of several weeks turning the war grave into swiss cheese.
<cough> Lusitania <cough>

[Jimbuna]

Unless of course one has something to hide. Then you're allowed to drop hundreds if not thousands of hedghogs over the course of several weeks turning the war grave into swiss cheese.
<cough> Lusitania <cough>

Definitely worthy of further research :yep:

[Rockstar]

Big mistake? Target practice gone wild? Supposedly it happened in the fifties long after the war. Funny thing though, it wasn't until the fifties that technology was far enough along which allowed for detailed exploration of wreck sites.

[Jimbuna]

Not the most reliable of sources but all may be revealed soon:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2172654/Was-Lusitania-war-crime-1-198-passengers-died-liner-sank-1915--German-torpedo-really-blame.html

[STEED]

Let sleeping dogs lay.