The reports I have heard have been quite scant on the condition of
the interior of the vessel. I am waiting for the photos to start
appearing on the news...... Does anyone have any new info on the vessel?
or on her exploration.
Jack Stanley
I'd also be interrested in any info at all having to do with the Titanic.
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As Attila The Hun said when he returned home from the wars,
"Hi homely, I'm Hun."
I am looking forward to seeing the Titanic here in Vancouver in a year or so
(though how it is going to manage to cross the Prairies I don't know).
Has anybody seen this??.... I thought the whole thing was lying on
its side, which would make it difficult for the chandelier to be hanging...
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The pictures (and videotapes) have been shown on news programs and in the
papers. The front half of the ship is pretty much upright, but I don't know
about the back...
Edward Hoffman
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Yup, it's true. I saw a picture of it in this past week's US News and World
Report (I think thats the one I get - I never look at the title:-)
They said they were gonna mark the ship as a memorial (after all, what else
are they gonna do with it?)
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Yup, it's there. A crystal chandelier, still hanging, with a piece of
feathery looking coral growing on it. Titanic hit the bottom bow low, but
upright. The tremendous weight of the ship made her slide very rapidly
through the water on her way down. This stripped off at least one of the
funnels and made a mess of the bridge deck, but the hull apparently remained
intact until she struck bottom, at which time the after 200 feet of her hull
went to pieces and the bow dug deep into the mud. I presume she dug a bit of
a trench in the bottom before coming to rest, but I have heard nothing to that
effect.
--Brian
Complete passenger lists, hundreds of fascinating
anecdotes, and lots of interesting facts can be found
in Walter Lords' "A Night To Remember", available at any
library worthy of the name. It's a classic and a must-read
for anyone interested in TITANIC.
Since this is going on the net - TITANIC is upright on the
ocean floor - or at least the part of her forward of her
number three funnel is. Stern section, can't say - it really
pisses me off the way network news shows edit out all relevant
facts. The TITANIC report was cut short so they could show a
squirrel raiding a candy machine.
As for the explorers' comment that TITANIC did not have a gash
from her encounter with the berg, but rather just a bunch of
burst seams - I'm skeptical. TITANIC had a double
hull starting with the fifth watertight compartment, and it
was the flooding of the fifth and sixth compartments that
doomed the ship. These compartments flooded pretty quickly.
And as for raising the ship - I did some rude calculations,
and an underwater balloon filled with gasoline (and
approximately the volume of the HINDENBURG) will do the
trick. Get one of the oil companies to supply the gas
and the tanker to carry it. Set the TITANIC up as a theme
park in New Jersey, sell bones as souvenirs. THAT would be
something the network news would know how to cover.:-)
What really got me was that in practically the same breath they said
that she was buried in mud up to the anchor. The anchor rides above the
water line. The gash, if any, would be below the water line, and
presumably below the mud line as well.
There seems to be a bit of an inconsistency here.
Larry Wall
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