A U.S. company has plans to "unpack" the rapidly decaying Titanic wreckage to extract and put on display the precious artefacts that sank with the ship over 100 years ago, The Telegraph reports.
RMS Titanic Inc, a subsidiary of the Atlanta-based Premier Exhibitions, has been the wreck’s sole legal salvager since 1994, which makes it the only entity permitted to retrieve items from the wreck site.
It has recovered more than 5,500 items from Titanic in eight expeditions in recent decades, from parts of the ship’s heavy metal structures to personal items like binoculars and a child's marbles.
The firm said that it now wants to remove a section of the deckhouse roof using underwater robots in its hunt for artefacts inside the ship.
Titanic may be cut open to recover hidden relics inside
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