Eoin McGarry, from Dungarvan, County Waterford, working under the permit of the Ministry for Heritage found the machine. He has been plunging at the site for a long time, more than whatever other jumper. He finished this operation having already raised the platform for the extension broadcast machine, early this year. McGarry, alongside the disaster area's proprietor, Greg Bemis, a US multimillionaire financial speculator, plan to recoup the ship's scaffold transmit machine in 2017.
Among the dead were 140 Irish people including the art collector Sir Hugh Lane, James McDermott, the ship’s surgeon, his assistant, Dr Joseph Garry, and the composer Thomas O’Brien Butler.
The passenger ship went down just 11 miles off the coast of Cork and the locals worked tirelessly to rescue remains from the water and deal with the massive tragedy. On May 10 1915 a mass funeral for over 145 victims of the tragedy took place in the Old Church Cemetery, in Cobh. Thousands turned out to pay their final respects to the victims.
All diving operations involving the 101-year-old wreck require a license from the Ministry under the National Monuments Act. The Lusitania is also covered by an underwater heritage order, because of its international and historical importance.
Minister Heather Humphreys, speaking about the newly recovered telegraph machine, said it “will now be conserved by Mr Bemis, who hopes to place the artefacts recovered from the Lusitania on display locally, which, of course, would be of great benefit to the people of Kinsale.”
Owner of the wreck, Bemis, also congratulated the diver, McGarry, and his team “for their diligence and success in very difficult recovery efforts, made all the more difficult by weather, tides, and lack of visibility at 90-plus meters.”
Here’s a full documentary on the sinking of the RMS Lusitania:
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