The U.S. government will try to stop a company’s planned salvage mission to retrieve the Titanic’s wireless telegraph machine. Federal attorneys argue the expedition would break federal law and a pact with Britain to leave the iconic shipwreck undisturbed.
FILE - In this April 10, 1912 file photo the Titanic leaves Southampton, England on her maiden voyage. The salvage firm that has plucked artifacts from the sunken Titanic cruise ship over the decades is seeking a judge's permission to rescue more items from the rapidly deteriorating wreck.
U.S. attorneys filed a legal challenge before a federal judge in Norfolk, Virginia, late Monday. The expedition is expected to occur by the end of August. The international agreement calls for the Titanic “to be recognized as ‘a memorial to those men, women and children who perished and whose remains should be given appropriate respect,’” the government’s filing states.
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