‘The Titanic is a graveyard and should be left in peace’
‘Descendants of passengers and crew on the doomed liner say modern-day Adventurers should stop new visits to wreck site after submersible implosion killed five.’
Relatives of passengers and crew who were on the Titanic have said the wreck should be left ‘in peace’ after the news yesterday that the five submersible passengers were killed when their craft imploded.
More than 1,500 passengers and crew lost their lives in April 1912 after the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank.
Helen Richardson, 40, from Norfolk, is the great-great granddaughter of Christopher Arthur Shulver, a fireman on the Titanic who survived the sinking before dying in an explosion on the RMS Adriatic, another White Star Liner, in 1922.
Speaking to MailOnline, Ms Richardson said: ‘It should be left alone. It is a site where all those poor people lost their lives, and a tragic site even for those who survived.’
The victims were British billionaire Hamish Harding, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, French navy veteran PH Nargeolet and wealthy Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman.
The news came after debris from Titan was found near the Titanic’s wreck by a remote submarine, confirming that the five men had lost their lives.
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