There are a lot of questions are being asked today following the news that a privately-operated deep-sea sub carrying five people to view the wreckage of the Titanic located more than two miles down on the floor of the ocean in the North Atlantic had burst apart.
Questions about what went wrong and why, questions about government regulations of such endeavors that may need to be stronger, questions about how the craft was built and with what materials and with what testing and questions about the enormous amounts of money the people were willing to spend to be a so-called Titanic tourist and the moral questions that are raised by it.
But what the Titanic International Society is saying about this tragedy is maybe what is what everyone should be talking about.
The organization says there are lessons that remain to be learned about what they call “the dangers of hubris and over-reliance on technology.” As the president of the nonprofit historical organization puts it, “Just as Titanic taught the world safety lessons, so, too, should Titan’s loss.”
And he also suggests, that in the name of safety, it may be time for human expeditions to the wreckage of the Titanic to come to an end altogether, with relatively little more to be learned, he says, about or from the wreckage of the ship that carried more than 1500 people to their deaths 111 years ago and now five more have joined them.
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