e the Titanic began almost the moment she sank. The Astor, Guggenheim, and Widner families, all having lost family members on the Titanic, hired the Merritt-ChapmanDerrick wrecking company to investigate the possibilities of raising the Titanic. They decided, after exploring the possibilities, that the task was impossible, due to the immense depth of more than 2 1/2 miles (Nichol 23) Since that day, companies have devised various Titanic raising schemes, ranging from filling the ship with Ping-Pong balls to float her up, to encasing the ship in liquid nitrogen, creating a giant ice cube that would float to the surface (23). All of these elaborate ideas were thrown away, due to insufficient funds, and lack of expertise and equipment (24). ...
