Over the retiring few week , people have been surprised to read that bring down the Titanic is something other ( very loaded ) people do .
Many shipwreck , such asmilitary shipsthat have sink in US water , are off - terminus ad quem to explorers , tourists , and people looking to salvagebooty . The Titanic , lie ininternational water supply , is protected by the United Nations Educational , Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) , as well as a laterUS - UK treatyaimed at preserving the shipwreck and preventing robbery .
However , people are still admit to dive down to the Titanic and can hold licence to insert the Kingston-upon Hull if they have the resources uncommitted to them to take them down there . Only one company – RMS Titanic Inc. – is de jure allowed to salvage items from the wreck .
A dive to the Titanic , led byChristopher J. Davino , the president of RMS Titanic , Inc.
Only ahandfulhave made the trip , and among them was one couple , who got hook up with on the ship ’s deck . David Leibowitz and Kimberley Miller , from New York , made the trip-up 4 kilometers ( 2.4 Admiralty mile ) under the sea to bind the knot on top of the Titanic in2001 , after get ahead a competition by diving company Subsea Explorer .
They got married in a ceremony by Captain Ron Warwick , on the Russian research watercraft the Akademik Keldysh above . Due to space limitations and safety concerns , the couple remained on their knee during the ceremonial occasion , while dressed in flame - retardant suits .
The contention and wedding were met with some argument , with Titanic historian Brian Ticehurst call it " an insult to each one of those people that this couple should cross the site by suffer married " .
" We do n’t really view this as a gravesite , " Leibowitz say at the time , harmonise to theIndependent . " Still if you were to be married at a church , you ’d have to care for that with fear because you ’d be near a memorial park , too . "
“ I ’ve always been uncomfortable with the exploitation of the ship down there . Over a thousand the great unwashed died , " Brett Gladstone , whose capital - gravid - nanna died during the disaster , toldInside Edition .
“ My groovy - great - grandmother ’s body was never see , it lies at the bottom , ” he continued . “ Her soulfulness and the souls of a thousand people remains in a form of graveyard . ”
