Titanic families slam ‘disgusting’ tours — shipwreck should be treated as ‘graveyard’
By Natalie O'Neill
June 22, 2023 3:49pm
Relatives of people aboard the ill-fated Titanic cruise liner, which sank in 1912, say tourist trips to the shipwreck site — like those offered by the missing OceanGate Titan sub — are “disgusting” and disrespectful to those who perished in the disaster.
The wreckage should be treated like an underwater “graveyard” of the 1,496 who died, not a “Disneyland” for adventure-seeking tourists, the family members told the Daily Beast.
“They died a horribly tragic death. Just leave the bodies resting,” said John Locascio, 69, whose uncles, Alberto and Sebastiano Peracchio, died in the tragedy.
Locascio said his uncles were working as young waiters on the ship in April 1912 when it hit an iceberg and sank.
He called it shameful that OceanGate has been capitalizing on visits to the sacred site.
“I think it’s disgusting, quite honestly,” he said. “What do you want to look at, you want to ogle?”
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https://nypost.com/2023/06/22/titanic-shipwreck-should-not-be-used-for-tours-family-says/I am assuming John Locascio means his great or great great uncles..