Can’t justify a new thread - still want to post it though, (Part 2)

[Anzacday]

Not sure where to post something - do it here.

 

[Black_White]

As a young teen I was a bit of a Titanic nerd.
After reading the book “a night to remember” I devoured everything I could about the great ship and its demise.
Long before Hollywood popularised it.
So yesterday I fulfilled a life long dream.
I touched the Titanic.

 

[Obese Arachnid]

As a young teen I was a bit of a Titanic nerd.
After reading the book “a night to remember” I devoured everything I could about the great ship and its demise.
Long before Hollywood popularised it.
So yesterday I fulfilled a life long dream.
I touched the Titanic.

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How old are you???

 

[The Phantom]

As a young teen I was a bit of a Titanic nerd.
After reading the book “a night to remember” I devoured everything I could about the great ship and its demise.
Long before Hollywood popularised it.
So yesterday I fulfilled a life long dream.
I touched the Titanic.

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That’s super cool.
Where did you do that?

 

[Raveneyes]

As a young teen I was a bit of a Titanic nerd.
After reading the book “a night to remember” I devoured everything I could about the great ship and its demise.
Long before Hollywood popularised it.
So yesterday I fulfilled a life long dream.
I touched the Titanic.

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Very cool. Glad you didn't implode!

 

[The Phantom]

Not sure where to post something - do it here.

On another forum, we used to call this kind of thread “Snippets”

 

[neilk]

How old are you???

Richard Basehart. That's a blast from the past. He was in "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" on TV. Definitely a link between that and the Titanic.

 

[Vicky Park]

That’s super cool.
Where did you do that?

I assume he did that at the Titanic exhibition at Museum Victoria. Saw it a few weeks ago - and it’s very good.

They even have an iceberg (although not to scale…)

 

[Books]

An interesting fact re the Titanic.
When it was finally discovered after so many years, many things had rotted away but there was STILL water in the swimming pool !!

 

[Pistol Night]

An interesting fact re the Titanic.
When it was finally discovered after so many years, many things had rotted away but there was STILL water in the swimming pool !!

Did the people in the pool at the time realise it had even sank?

 

[JB1975]

The obsession with the Titanic has always baffled me.

I don't see the point of interest, at all, so if anyone can explain it then I'll finally be at ease with the world.

 

[sideswipe]

The obsession with the Titanic has always baffled me.

I don't see the point of interest, at all, so if anyone can explain it then I'll finally be at ease with the world.

Bit too mainstream for a history snob is it? Must say, the Indianapolis is my personal favourite, Chief.

 

[JB1975]

Bit too mainstream for a history snob is it? Must say, the Indianapolis is my personal favourite, Chief.

A magnificent speech in a classic film.

I share many joys and interests with the common folk, I think about the Romans at least 5 times a day, but yeah the continued curiosity for a ship which sank in 1912 strikes me as odd.

Why are the wrecks of other ships less interesting? Why are the lives of the unfortunates on other ships of less concern? I wouldn't walk across the road to bother touching a 'relic' of the Titanic, but others are willing to spend hundreds of thousands (and even their lives) just to get a look.

I also tend to view old shipwrecks as burial grounds which should be left alone, not stripped and sold for the curiously curious, unless it's one of those Spanish ships with a bajillion of gold in it.

 

[Pistol Night]

The obsession with the Titanic has always baffled me.

I don't see the point of interest, at all, so if anyone can explain it then I'll finally be at ease with the world.

Biggest ship ever built gets labelled “unsinkable” and the campaigners sinks on the first trip. Absolute pisser

 

[Vicky Park]

The obsession with the Titanic has always baffled me.

I don't see the point of interest, at all, so if anyone can explain it then I'll finally be at ease with the world.

Agree. I went to the exhibition with my 11 year old granddaughter who kept saying ‘I know that’.

 

[Vicky Park]

A magnificent speech in a classic film.

I share many joys and interests with the common folk, I think about the Romans at least 5 times a day, but yeah the continued curiosity for a ship which sank in 1912 strikes me as odd.

Why are the wrecks of other ships less interesting? Why are the lives of the unfortunates on other ships of less concern? I wouldn't walk across the road to bother touching a 'relic' of the Titanic, but others are willing to spend hundreds of thousands (and even their lives) just to get a look.

I also tend to view old shipwrecks as burial grounds which should be left alone, not stripped and sold for the curiously curious, unless it's one of those Spanish ships with a bajillion of gold in it.

I used to work with maritime archaeologists employed by the State Govt. We called them ‘shipwreckers’. They spend a lot of their time trying to prevent looting of wrecks discovered in Victorian waters. Not easy.

 

[sideswipe]

I used to work with maritime archaeologists employed by the State Govt. We called them ‘shipwreckers’. They spend a lot of their time trying to prevent looting of wrecks discovered in Victorian waters. Not easy.

Did they start all their stories with, "The sea was angry that day"?

 

[Vicky Park]

Did they start all their stories with, "The sea was angry that day"?

They were on a good wicket. Had a dedicated boat and a depot on the Surf Coast somewhere, so they could more easily access the wrecks. Someone has to do it I guess.

 

[Abdul_The_Bull]

Did they start all their stories with, "The sea was angry that day"?

The sea was angry that day, my friend...... there seemed to be something blocking its airway.....

 

[sideswipe]

They were on a good wicket. Had a dedicated boat and a depot on the Surf Coast somewhere, so they could more easily access the wrecks. Someone has to do it I guess.

There's a reason those wrecks would have been where they were. Probably not hanging out at the nicest of boating spots. But they would have no doubt bagged plenty of crays whilst "protecting".

 

[Black_White]

That’s super cool.
Where did you do that?

Melbourne Museum.

 

[Black_White]

The obsession with the Titanic has always baffled me.

I don't see the point of interest, at all, so if anyone can explain it then I'll finally be at ease with the world.

The obsession stems from the absolute belief that mankind had built something that could defy nature.
Unsinkable.
Had it struck the iceberg on crossing one hundred I doubt that the obsession would be what it is today.
Bit to sink on its maiden voyage, beaten by one of natures most awesome creations?
That my friend, is the stuff of legend.

 

[Black_White]

I assume he did that at the Titanic exhibition at Museum Victoria. Saw it a few weeks ago - and it’s very good.

They even have an iceberg (although not to scale…)

The “iceberg” is a wall of ice that you can put your whole hand on to feel the temperature of the berg.
Around the exhibition are signs giving you facts on the temperature of the water on the night.
Minus 2 degrees Celsius at the time of sinking. No wonder you didn’t last long in the water.

 

[Black_White]

How old are you???

Haha!
Maybe not that old.
”A night to remember“ was a 1958 movie (doco) based on the book.
I read the book and didn’t see the movie until many, many years later. You couldn’t stream movie on demand back in the dark ages.
Funningly enough, there were scenes from that movie playing at the exhibition!

 

[The Phantom]

Haha!
Maybe not that old.
”A night to remember“ was a 1958 movie (doco) based on the book.
I read the book and didn’t see the movie until many, many years later. You couldn’t stream movie on demand back in the dark ages.
Funningly enough, there were scenes from that movie playing at the exhibition!

I think I had an old hardcover copy of the book with an illustrated blue dust wrap.