The rusted prow (bow) of the Titanic rests on the bottom of the North Atlantic.
Will Titanic’s iconic telegraph be recovered by deep-ocean robots?
A new court ruling marks the latest step by a private company to salvage a wireless machine that broadcast the last pleas for help from the shipwreck.
Over the course of three hours on the night of April 14-15, 1912, the messages transmitted by the telegraph operator aboard the R.M.S. Titanic went from the frivolous (on behalf of a passenger to a friend in New York: “Hello Boy. Dining with you tonight in spirit,”) to the frantic (Titanic to R.M.S. Carpathia: “We have struck a berg.”) to the final (“Come quick. Engine room nearly full.”).
Now, a federal judge has ruled that the private company with salvage rights to Titanic may potentially recover the telegraph set from inside the wreck, an act the court says “will contribute to the legacy left by the indelible loss of the Titanic, those who survived, and those who gave their
