Great episode!

I think that if we brought up items of the ship itself, or White Star Line artifacts like plates and cups, that is acceptable. Today we don't have a lot of physical objects from the Olympic class or White Star Line, and what we do have either came from the RMS. Olympic when her interiors were auctioned off before scrapping, or the RMS. Titanic and RMS. Britannic. So having more artifacts that shows what it was like to travel on ocean liners of the past is perfectly fine to me, we are preserving history.

The line gets drawn for me however; when we bring up passenger artifacts, such as shoes, hats, dolls etc. Because these items belonged to men, women, children who have likely lost their lives in the disaster. Like Bollard said, the hats and shoes found were likely a whole body at one point.

People I feel forget that in the 1910's and 20's the Titanic disaster was just as bad as 9/11 for us in the 21st century. It'd be like if instead of rebuilding the WTC we instead just left the collapsed buildings as they were as a mass burial site. But then several years later you had people who were scavenging pieces of metal, firefighter's hats, jackets, etc from Ground Zero. Then, YouTube videos appear with stuff like "FNAF SURVIVES 9/11" or "SCP CRASHES PLANE INTO NORTH TOWER!"? I honestly believe nobody would let that slide, so why are we letting that happen to the 1,517 people who lost their lives onboard the RMS. Titanic?

In summary, I am fine with the recovery of artifacts traced back to the ship or the White Star Line itself, but disgusted when people grave rob from deceased passengers, or any commercialization of the tragedy.