There's a tourist industry built around taking people to see the Titanic by submarine.

I didn't know, and it does seem weird. Like the top of Mt. Everest, there's now a garbage problem around the Titanic.

You can't make this stuff up.

A Fragile Tourist Attraction on the Ocean Floor

Already, knowing the exact positions of thousands of parts, structures and artifacts has allowed the government and the International Maritime Organization to draw up recommendations for the operation of the mini-submarines that ferry tourists more than two miles down to the bottom of the North Atlantic for a glimpse of the great ship.

“People have the right to see, explore and learn,” said James P. Delgado, director of maritime heritage at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which monitors the wreck. “But you want to put down guidelines like those at Gettysburg and the Acropolis, so visitors can experience it in the same way.”