The Agreement Concerning the Shipwrecked Vessel RMS Titanic sought to sort out and regulate public access, artifact conservation and salvage rights within 1 kilometer of the wreck site, situated hundreds of miles off the coast of Canada in the North Atlantic.As deadly clashes erupted after Iraqi supporters of an anti-Iranian nationalist stormed the heavily secured government compound at Baghdad known as the green zone, where several foreign embassies are situated, helicopters were seen hovering over the American embassy in a scene reminiscent of the fall of Vietnam.Īmerica has long given up on Iraq, yet Washington is adamant that all is under control. Ghani's comments cap a long and winding journey for the deal, which representatives from the U.K., the U.S., Canada and France officially agreed to as part of a 2003 treaty. 'This momentous agreement with the United States to preserve the wreck means it will be treated with the sensitivity and respect owed to the final resting place of more than 1,500 lives,' Ghani said in remarks released Tuesday by the Maritime Ministry. Senate report published the following month. Within days, the ship's maiden voyage would end on the underwater spur of an iceberg, sending all but 706 of its 2,223 passengers to a cold and watery grave, according to a U.S. have implemented a formal agreement on how to safeguard and manage the ill-fated steamship's remains.īritish Maritime Minister Nusrat Ghani confirmed the news Tuesday during a visit to Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the ship was built before it set off from the English port city of Southampton in 1912.

More than a century after the RMS Titanic sank to the bottom of the sea - and nearly a quarter-century after its memory was dredged up for a Hollywood blockbuster - the U.S. Now the underwater wreckage of the historic vessel is getting some new protections. The Titanic set out from Southampton, England, in 1912 - and infamously dragged more than 1,500 of its passengers and crew to their deaths not long afterward.

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