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U.S., Britain to protect Titanic wreckage

Written by DeadGirl
Friday, 18 June 2004
By DIANE SCARPONI ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The United States signed a treaty Friday with Great Britain to protect the undersea wreckage of the Titanic from damage and looting, the State Department said. The treaty, which Britain signed in November, still must get approval from Congress before it takes effect. The treaty would set up regulations to control visits to the site, John Turner, assistant secretary of state, said in a telephone conference call. It also designates the Titanic as an international maritime memorial and would set up a system to document items removed from the site and make them available to the public. The details and enforcement of the treaty will be decided by the countries. The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank April 15, 1912, killing 1,500 people. Its wreckage is in international waters 225 miles off the coast of Newfoundland. The treaty came at the urging of undersea explorer Robert Ballard, who found the Titanic 18 years ago. He revisited the wreck this month to chronicle the damage to the ship, caused both by natural forces and by visitors and salvagers. Ballard said he hopes other countries, including France, Canada and Russia, will also sign the treaty. "I'm encouraged now to see the momentum picking up, and I think several things would need to go on before I could `call the Titanic safe,' but it's absolutely the right thing to do," Ballard said. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Titanic%20Treaty

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries