Scientists Unveil New Discoveries At Titanic wreck

BostonChannel ^ | 12/5/05

[Tijeras_Slim]

"A Night to Remember"

They only used that line because I let my copyright lapse.

[Mr. Lucky]

Sort of a long walk for a short drink of water wasn't it?

[BluH2o]

Many of the survivors of the Titanic who were nearby when the ship went down described accurately how it appeared when it sank. These same people were consulted by the artist and approved the final rendition of the painting which shows the Titanic going down bow first with the stern high in the air. What happened with ship as it plunged 13,000 feet to the ocean bottom is open to speculation ... Ballard has his theory, which is essentially correct ... except for a smaller portion of the hull which broke off. The Titanic lies on the bottom of the Atlantic in two large pieces ... a smaller portion that broke away lies nearby.
What's the big f***ing deal?

[Taylor42]

There's a movie about the Titanic?

Geez, I gotta get out more...

[camle]

sorry, i forgot that night...

[Tijeras_Slim]

***OOOFFFF!****

Limps away, holding self gingerly....

[The_Victor]

This flip is still legit under this scenario. Indeed, it make the mechanical design failure only that much more egregious.

I wasn't aware that structural integrity while sinking was a design criterion. :)

[AndrewB]

Yes, and did you know that Kerry was in Vietnam?

[Kenny Bunk]

Which was the Titanic with Clifton Webb and Robert Wagner? That one wasn't too bad, neither.

[MrLee]

Ah, "A Night To Remember"! Now there's a movie.

[camle]

heh heh - gotcha!;-)

[Tijeras_Slim]

Good and square! :)

[Constitution Day]

Definitely.

[camle]

and since it was all verified, it had the added benifit of being true - the heroism, the panic, the woman who refused to leave her busband - was all true, and not some made up fantasy.

[najida]

This Titanic was made in 1953.

A Night to Remember was made in 1958. Interesting, just 5 years between each version.

[camle]

that first version was fiction, wasn't it?

[tob2]

"..... more lifeboats than mandated...." What they had was less than needed for the entire ship. I don't think the White Star Line had envisioned such a cataclysmic occurring. It would have been nice if the lifeboats they had were filled to capacity. Many many people survived the sinking of the Titanic but froze to death in the cold waters of the North Atlantic.

[MeanWestTexan]

LOL.

I can't exactly remember the controversy, but it had something to do with water coming up "over" the supposed water-tight hull dividers -- which did not go up to the deck, but only 3/4 of the way or somesuch.

I can't remember the details, but the way you got the tail-up flip was filling the forward compartments first, then one-by-one filling the next as the ship pointed down.

I think the issue was White Star contended that a flooded forward compartment (or two or three) would not give you enough "dip" to flood the next (and then the next, and next!).

[najida]

I don't remember.

I think it was like all the other movies,
some fact and a lot of fiction.

[tob2]

I've heard that the steel in the hull was made improperly, causing it to fracture in the cold water. There are numerous accounts of survivors hearing snapping and crackling sounds, which was the the steel fracturing.