It turns out that raising the Titanic would be about as futile as rearranging the deck chairs on the doomed vessel. After a century on the ocean floor, Titanic is apparently in such bad shape it couldn't withstand such an endeavor for a variety of reasons. ...

Can the Titanic ever be raised why or why not?

Nothing so large from the Titanic had ever before been raised to the surface from its inky grave nearly two and a half miles down. Four large diesel-filled rubber bags were attached to the rusting hull plate as it rested on the ocean floor and were set free to rise toward the surface.

Are bodies still in the Titanic?

— People have been diving to the Titanic's wreck for 35 years. No one has found human remains, according to the company that owns the salvage rights. ... “Fifteen hundred people died in that wreck,” said Paul Johnston, curator of maritime history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.