April 14th, 1912. 11:50pm. Moment of impact. Moment.
On April 10th, the White Star Liner the Titanic set out from Southampton, England on its maiden voyage to New York City, USA. At the time, she was the biggest ship to sail. Named "Unsinkable," everyone knows the story; it his a humungo chunk of ice (aka an iceberg :) ) and sank.
One hundred years later, the wreck is still there. Wouldn't the salty water and pressures of being that deep in the ocean decompose of the ship's material? Apparently not, but apparently tourist do?
Robert Ballard, one of the oceanographers that discovered the wreck, suggest that "tourist" visiting the site leave trash and diminish the paint of it. Ballard suggests that they can actually "paint" the Titanic. Why paint the ship? It's history. You don't just go out there and add something unnatural to history.
Robert Ballard, don't try to make another mark in history by paining it.
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