The final resting place for the Titanic, the famous passenger liner that sank almost exactly 100 years ago, has offered up a grisly clue in a newly released photo: possible human remains:
(CBC) — A 2004 photograph, released to the public for the first time this week in an uncropped version to coincide with the disaster’s centenary, shows a coat and boots in the mud at the legendary shipwreck site.”These are not shoes that fell out neatly from somebody’s bag right next to each other,” James Delgado, the director of maritime heritage at the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration, told The Associated Press in a phone interview on Saturday.
“The way they are “laid out” makes a “compelling case” that it is where “someone has come to rest,” he said.
Typos in your title–gravesite is missing an “r”, and “yeild” should be “yield”. (sorry; I’m in the process of editing student paper drafts, so it’s practically reflexive. Feel free to delete this comment!)
Breaking news – a shipwreck that claimed 1500 lives may have human remains in and around it! In other news, water is wet!
“For Delgado, who was the chief scientist on an expedition in 2010 that mapped the entire site, the difference in opinion is “one of semantics.”
Ah, I see now. When I read the title of the blog post, I thought “bodies”, which I thought would’ve decomposed and dissolved long ago. But, if you’re using remains in the sense that Delgado is, well, it’s as Midnight Rambler pointed out–1500 people died; of course you’re going to see shoes and whatnot.
Any flesh certainly would be, but there may be some bones around. Not sure if there’s anything there that takes care of them, at least within 100 years.