11 Questionable Suggestions for Raising the Titanic

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11 Questionable Suggestions for Raising the Titanic

The 100-year anniversary of the sinking of Titanic is only a few days away. In the years since the hulking ship slipped beneath the surface of the Atlantic, a wealth of ideas have been offered for how to bring it back to the surface – many of them proposed before the ship was even located by Bob Ballard and his crew in 1985. Let’s take a look at 11 of the weird brainstorms offered up over the last century.

1. Fill It With Ping Pong Balls

One of the most commonly cited ideas for raising the ship is one that calls for filling it with ping pong balls and letting their buoyancy raise it to the surface. This idea poses a lot of problems – like how exactly you’d get ...

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