Failing Our Historic Ships

摘要

What the heck is going on at our maritime museums? Last year we heard the unthinkable-that the Hawaiian Maritime Center in Honolulu had given up trying to maintain the only iron-hulled, four-masted full rigged ship afloat and, to make all their problems go away, they put out the threat that unless some other organization or benefactor came to the rescue to take the Falls of Clyde off their hands, that they'd take her out to deep water and sink her. In 2010,I thought we were past that sort of thinking-that the deep ocean is a dumping ground simply because the stuff we sink is out of sight. From an environmental standpoint, you'd think that people would be in an uproar, even if they didn't care about the ship itself.