Titanic

A salvage firm has received approval from a judge in Virginia to remove the telegraph machine from the famous Titanic wreck that was used to send distress signals when the liner sank more than 100 years ago.Salvage company RMS Titanic Inc.’s plan to retrieve the Marconi wireless telegraph has sparked controversy, with the National Oceanic…

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration opposes the operation to salvage the Marconi device and contends that the wreckage should not be disturbed.The Titanic leaving Southampton, England, in 1912.Credit...Associated PressMay 20, 2020Updated 10:57 a.m. ETAn underwater salvage company was granted approval this week to cut into the wreckage of the Titanic to try to recover…

For the first time in the 108 years since the Titanic sank to the bottom of the ocean, causing the deaths of more than 1,500 people, explorers are set to cut into the ship and remove a piece.Their target is the wireless Marconi telegraph, one of the first of its kind, which the doomed ocean…