I found the Boston Globe article to which you refer.
First, let me say, this is one article by one Boston Globe editor who seems very mad that anyone should profit over the Titanic. Period.
He doesn't agree George Tulloch should charge people money for coming out to see the Titanic... that it should be "free"?...
Expeditions cost money... Charging people to come out and see the ship
seems a very normal thing to do... that's how SOST makes back some of the expedition costs... (contrary to belief, riding out to the Titanic costs money...)
The editor is also mad that SOST is making money by displaying the artifacts for public display... he'd much rather a museum to be enjoyed by all.
And he's even mad that SOST sells lumps of coal from the Titanic for profit... not normal coal, mind you, but coal that has been compacted by 13,000 feet of water pressure.
Yes, I admit... SOST is there to make money.
SOST is guilty as charged.
All except for that auction reference... RMS TITANIC INC. (SOST) isn't the company making auction claims... another company is.
It's 2300% increase in revenues for the first quarter of 1998 are its result.
Here is the link to the article... see if this guy doesn't seem a little bit disturbed that SOST wants to actually make money off the Titanic.
boston.com
Titanic's Tulloch: How low will he go?
By Alex Beam, Globe Staff, 08/07/98
My old friend George (''I am not a huckster'') Tulloch - ''old friend''
meaning someone I've crossed swords with in the past - is up to his tricks
again.
Tulloch has taken on a patina of legitimacy of late, and hates being reminded
of previous goofball schemes, like his involvement with the 1987 television
show ''Titanic ... Live,'' hosted by Telly Savalas. In that little episode,
Savalas opened what was purported to be the Titanic's purser's safe, which
Tulloch's pals had hauled up from the briny deep. Did you already guess that
the safe contained nothing of value?
It was just two years ago that Tulloch was hawking lumps of Titanic coal for
$25 a shot, and then invited a boatful of suckers, at a cost of up to $6,000
per person, to come watch him raise an 11-ton portion of the Titanic hull
from the ocean bottom. That effort crapped out, leaving Tulloch ''overcome
with grief,'' according to a spokesman. Tulloch stopped grieving long enough
to open up yet another Titanixploitation event, the artifact exhibition under
way at the World Trade Center.
But now George is preparing to cross an ethical line that no one has
breached before. When Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution discovered Titanic's hull in 1985, he observed the maritime
version of the famous Sierra Club vow: He took only pictures, and he left
only bow wakes. Ballard viewed the ship as a graveyard, and promised not
to disturb the site. Tulloch, who has collected hundreds of artifacts from the
debris field surrounding the hull, has also vowed not to disturb the ship
proper. ''He made that promise to our faces,'' says James Delgado, director
of Vancouver's Maritime Musuem.
Like other Tulloch promises - that he would never break up the exhibit, that
he would build a Titanic museum - this vow is soon to be history. Tulloch is
now in the North Atlantic, bobbing over the Titanic site. His primary aim is
to raise that chunk of the hull that slipped his grasp two summers ago. But he
has also promised the Marconi family that he will bring back the famous
radio that broadcast the ship's ill-fated SOS. (If recovered, the radio would
be loaned to the Guglielmo Marconi Foundation and Museum of Bedford,
N.H.) ''It's hanging by a wire and the family has asked us to recover it,''
Tulloch told me via radiophone, hinting darkly that rival Russian divers also
covet the transmitter. ''We're going to attempt to get it because it's a pretty
important piece.'' The device is inside the ship's radio room.
Tulloch's numerous critics say his divers have already monkeyed with the
wreck. For instance, they pried the masthead light from the exterior of the
wreck. And it would appear that yet another Tulloch promise is about to be
deep-sixed. A promotional letter from Titanic Exhibitions Pty. Ltd. mailed to
potential sponsors of an artifacts exhibit in Australia mentions '' the Auction:
At the completion of the exhibitions, most artifacts will be auctioned in either
Los Angeles, Sydney, London, or New York, in what promises to be one of
the most exciting auctions of all time.''
Did I mention that Tulloch also vowed never to sell off Titanic curios?
Tulloch said he has been contacted by promoters in Australia, but knows
nothing of any auction. ''You're the first person to tell me about this,'' he
said, adding, ''You come up with the darnedest things.''
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A humorous article.
Good Trading!
-DavidCG |
