from The New York Times
Titanic Scientist Begins Effort to Save 'Museum of the Deep'
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An incredible effort to try and preserve the actively disintegrating segments of shipwrecks, and of the Titanic in particular.

"The world's oceans are the museums of the deep," said the team's leader, Dr. Robert D. Ballard. "It is in the interest of all peoples to protect and conserve both wrecks of recent history as well as submerged sites of antiquity."

However, it presuppose that actual preservation of the physical material and evidence of the shipwreck would serve as the best means of preservation. Putting aside the question of cost-effectiveness, would having the entire shipwreck in a well-preserved state be the most appropriate way of "keeping" the memory of its history? We may have a visual and physical imprint of the actual artefact, but without active and sustained scholarship, that imprint may well end up serving as mere eye-candy - and a very expensive one at that.