Posted on 04/15/2025 6:00:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
Fenway Park opened 3 days earlier!
Thank you for that information. I was unaware of that drill.
Watched a new documentary on National Geographic last night. It’s titled: “Titanic: The Digital Resurrection.” Over two years they sent down two submersibles to take thousands of pictures of the wreck and the debris field, then pieced them all together for a life-size image of it all. It was pretty interesting. I would have liked to have seen more of the debris field, which they said is over a 15 mile area. From the debris field images, they were able to find outside parts of the ship, from both sides of the ship, and piece them together to find out where they had been on the ship before it went down.
All 35 ship engineers were lost that night. They’d relived the men in boiler room 2, and continued shoveling coal into the last boilers working. It’s the reason the power stayed on so long while the ship was sinking. The ship broke apart at boiler room 2, which is visible in the new National Geographic program “Titanic: The Digital Resurrection” that I watched last night.
I did too. I went to a Titanic exhibit in Boston several years ago. They had a side panel of the ship on display that they had retrieved from the ocean floor. It was in an outside tented area. Still had water being washed over it for preservation purposes. It clearly had a sign on it not to touch it. A guy next to me said: "Oh go ahead, touch it. You know you want to." So I did. Didn't get caught thankfully.
I watched the “Mystery Solved” episode yesterday.
They recreated a section of the hull to test the rivets. They applied pressure to the recreation to see if the rivets “unzipped” therefore opening up the hull.
I see a flaw in the testing procedure. The pressure applied to the test piece was done slowly. I’m not a professional engineer (I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn last night) but I call BU££$}{!T !!! The ship didn’t slowly move up against the iceberg. That would be like putting your fist on a wall and pushing as hard as you could.
The Ship impacted the iceberg. That means that the impact would be like punching a wall with your hand.
I await Y’All to present an opinion on My analysis of the test.
Correct. The impact would have created Pressure Points that would have been more powerful than a slow application of pressure at one point.
Plus, analysis of the rivets with modern technology found that they were sub-standard and brittle. The sister ship Britannic sank in 1916 during WWI in the Mediterranean after hitting a German mine. The other sister ship, Olympic, had been in a collision with HMS Hawke, seven months prior to the Titanic sinking, though neither ship sank, SAME CAPTAIN!
Another odd thing:
ONE PERSON had been on ALL THREE SHIPS, at the time of their accidents, a lady named Violet Jessop:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop
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Same here, in Boston.
I mentioned this a few years ago here and was berated by a fellow freeper for doing it.
See post 26 from mass55th.
Same exact story same place..
Well, I don't think that either of us committed a mortal sin by touching that piece of the Titanic. Plenty of other people touched it too, I'm sure.
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