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RMS Titanic: Theories, Exploration & Madness!

This is so over hyped it's incredible. The railings, being thin metal, were bound to be amongst the first to succumb.
It's when the really thick shell plating starts to collapse that will be a signature of more of important corrosion. It'll also allow easier visual inspection of the interior.
We have a very good photographic record of the wreck since 1985 and it's inconceivable that it will be unrecognisable in six years. What we will see is more of the superstructure and areas of the stern deteriorate.
 
In the 1997 movie Titanic, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio are hanging on the front of the Titanic railing making love with the wind blowing into their faces.

At that time all the women in world wanted to do this.
 
A special "no prize" if you can tell me what was wrong with that scene.
 
DrPaulLee said:
A special "no prize" if you can tell me what was wrong with that scene.
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Access to the prow area is usually restricted to crew, isn't it? There tends to be machinery there that silly passengers shouldn't play with.
 
Salmonellus said:
Access to the prow area is usually restricted to crew, isn't it? There tends to be machinery there that silly passengers shouldn't play with.
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I thought that too (honest!), but Jack was obviously sneaking around where he shouldn't, so would probably have ignored "no passengers" signs.
 
charliebrown said:
The latest Titanic information is that the famous deck railing has fallen off the ship onto the ocean floor.

The cold water microbes that eat iron will make the ship on the ocean floor unrecognizable by 2030.
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I've seen some predictions the main hull will still be there in 100 years time.
 

The OceanGate Titan implosion left a 30,000-square-meter debris field​


On June 18, 2023, OceanGate’s surface vessel lost contact with Titanabout 105 minutes into its fifth overall mission’s nearly 2.5 mile descent to the Titanic. The subsequent international search effort scoured over 10,000 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean over the next four days. On June 22, officials confirmed the discovery of submersible remains indicating a near-instantaneous “catastrophic implosion,” which likely occurred shortly after OceanGate lost contact. All five passengers, including Stockton Rush, died in the accident.

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A USCG spokesperson confirmed pieces of the privately owned submersible deposited across an area of approximately 30,000-square-meters (322,917-square-feet), roughly 1,600 ft away from the Titanic’s bow.

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The wreck is located 12,400 ft below the ocean surface in what’s known as the dark bathypelagic, or midnight, zone. Pressures there reach around 375 atmospheres, which exerts the equivalent of 5,500 pounds per square inch (psi) of force on an object.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/oceangate-titan-debris-map/

maximus otter
 
Surely no-one is dumb enough to go and see the wreck of the Titan...?

Oh, who am I kidding? Some people will do anything, especially if it's ghoulish or in poor taste....
 
I have a feeling that it just wasn't actually possible for passengers to reach the bow.
 
It wasn't that, but yes @Min Bannister they weren't allowed that far forward. There were signs on the bulwarks saying that passengers were not allowed forward (these were omitted by James Cameron, probably to make the "King of the World" sequence work). However, there are a few conflicting incidents of people passing forward. For instance on the Olympic's maiden voyage, a passenger snapped a photo from this vantage point. But who's to say that the passenger didn't ask a friendly crewman to nip forward and quickly take a pic?

http://paullee.com/titanic/Bdeckforwardcomparison.jpg
 
DrPaulLee said:
It wasn't that, but yes @Min Bannister they weren't allowed that far forward. There were signs on the bulwarks saying that passengers were not allowed forward (these were omitted by James Cameron, probably to make the "King of the World" sequence work). However, there are a few conflicting incidents of people passing forward. For instance on the Olympic's maiden voyage, a passenger snapped a photo from this vantage point. But who's to say that the passenger didn't ask a friendly crewman to nip forward and quickly take a pic?

http://paullee.com/titanic/Bdeckforwardcomparison.jpg
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Were there signs saying no entry or railings stopping people going that far forward?
 
DrPaulLee said:
There was indeed.
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It took me ages to work out that photo.

I thought it was taken from land at the ship aside a dock.

But it is taken from the bridge and that wall is on the ship.

Looks like the bow was a prohibited area.

But you can't ruin the film.
 
I think it was taken from A deck starboard looking forward towards the bow. It was taken in Southampton just as the near collision with the "New York" was averted.
 
Swifty said:
I've never heard of Bluesky before but I've just registered so you've got one more follower. Does Bluesky do email alerts? .. otherwise I might forget. No offense.
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Sorry, I meant to reply. No it doesn't do email alerts.
At the the moment, its just a news and current affairs channel.

I've attached a little poster for my real-time recreation in April, which I'm working on at the moment. Sadly, unlike twitter, the URL is unwieldy, so the best thing to do is look up titanic1912 if/when you register.
 

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ChrisBoardman said:
There is a documentary on the titan tonight on channel 5 at 10pm.
The paper says R for Repeat but I have not seen a 90 minute documentary on it before.
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Turns out it is the same program shown as two one hour documentaries just crammed into 90 mins, wasn't new.
 
Since the Titanic has been mentioned elsewhere, here's an update on my Bluesky project.

As you know it originally ran on Twitter and amounted to nearly 2000 tweets. Since early November I've been converting them to run on Bluesky and software tests have confirmed that the new code works. So far, I've done 870 "tweets" and am now up 11pm GMT on April 18th 1912 and the Carpathia is approaching New York.
 
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