Today marks the 100th anniversary of RMS Titanic departing on her one and only voyage from Southampton, England bound for New York. She would never reach her final destination. After striking an iceberg at 11:40 PM on Sunday April 14, 1912, she sank at 2:20 am on Monday April 15, 1912, taking 1,523 poor souls with her. The connections with this fabled tragedy here in the Maritimes and along the East coast is far and wide. Cape Race, Newfoundland had a wireless station and was one of the first points of land to know what was unfolding off the coast. Over here in Nova Scotia, in the city of Halifax, they had the grim task of bringing lost souls home, most of whom were buried in local cemetaries. This sea disaster has prompted a lot of changes to how ships are run at sea, including the Safety of Life At Sea (SOLAS) regulations, lifeboats for all passengers aboard and International Ice Patrol just to name a few. My point of view on the wreck site and recovery of items from Titanic are it is an International grave with many nationalities involved and should be left in peace, however, future mapping and monitoring the current state of the wreckage is just fine.
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