The last one was so bad I was rooting for the iceberg.
Posted on 12/05/2005 12:02:23 PM PST by ZGuy
The discovery of two large pieces of the Titanic's hull is changing the story of how the luxury ocean liner sank 93 years ago.
Undersea explorers said Monday that the Titanic broke into three pieces, not two pieces as commonly believed and portrayed in James Cameron's 1997 film version of the catastrophe. That means the ship likely sank faster than believed.
The hull pieces were found this summer by an expedition sponsored by the History Channel. Its leaders called it the most significant find at the site since undersea explorer Robert Ballard discovered the wreck 20 years ago and declared that the ship had broken in two.
"The breakup and sinking of the Titanic has never been accurately depicted," Parks Stephenson, a Titanic historian, said Monday at a conference at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, where scientists discussed the findings.
The 46,000-ton luxury liner was billed as "unsinkable" by its owner, the White Star Line. But it sank after striking an iceberg on April 14, 1912, on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic. About 1,500 people were killed.
Ballard discovered the bulk of the wreck in 1985 in 13,000 feet of water, about 380 miles southeast of Newfoundland. A portion of the ship's bottom was missing, and Ballard's team presumed it had fragmented into hundreds of small pieces.
The discovery of the two hull pieces about 500 meters from the rest of the wreck indicate that the piece came off the ship intact and later broke into two large sections, the explorers said.
"That's X marks the spot," said Richard Kohler, who led the expedition. "Right above that is where the Titanic broke."
Ballard did not immediately return a call for comment.
Titanic (1997)sinking scenario total fiction then... lmao
The last one was so bad I was rooting for the iceberg.
13,000 feet. Amazing !
ping.
Next they're gonna tell me that Kate Winslet's figure was computer generated.
the White Star line never said it was unsinkable - that was thier marketing wizards. They had more lifeboats than mandated, and sophisticated compartmentalization.
what they had was simply overwhelmed.
That was my first thought, as well.
Titanic II - the missing piece.
Not total fiction; it's big controvesial addition was that the tail end flipped up vertically --- which is was the survivors saw, but which was hotly disputed by the White Star line for various reasons.
This flip is still legit under this scenario. Indeed, it make the mechanical design failure only that much more egregious.
I wish they would do a decent movie with the modern special affects. There were too many interesting stories about the people on the Titantic--Cameron didn't need to do some fictional love story about a couple of bozos. I liked the special affects, but the story was ridiculous.
broke in two...broke in three...doesn't really matter to the thousands who perished does it?...but the gazillions to find it and come to this conclusion was so worth it! Zzzzzzzzzzz.......
"Captain, are you worried about icebergs?"
"Certainly not. This ship is made of special steel and can withstand any collision."
"Where did the builders get such wonderful steel, sir?"
"From a firm named Halliburton ..."
My thought during the movie was "just sink already."
Nothing about Aniston's latest melodrama?
Chic Flick
And will Leonardo freeze to death in the sequel as well?
I only sat through it to see Leonardo drown anyway.
Hmmm.... Do Ocean Liners have a center fuel tank?....
Maybe that's why I didn't like it. I'm a chick but not so much into chick flicks.
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