Marconi

But recently the firm has stirred up controversy stating its desire to retrieve an object from the ship itself - the Marconi radio equipment which transmitted the Titanic’s distress calls on the night of the sinking.

The company’s original 2024 expedition plan also included possibly retrieving objects from the ship’s famed Marconi room.

The Marconi room holds the ship’s radio - a Marconi wireless telegraph machine - which broadcast the Titanic’s increasingly frantic distress signals after the ocean liner hit an iceberg.

Those could include “objects from inside the Marconi room, but only if such objects are not affixed to the wreck itself.”

Michael Marconi, a Google spokesman, said Google had prevented its photo app from labeling anything as a monkey or ape because it decided the benefit “does not outweigh the risk of harm.”