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RMS Titanic: Theories, Exploration & Madness!

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.
 
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?
 
There was indeed.
 

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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.
 
My heart sank when I watched this. Vid at link.

Man turned his shed into replica of Titanic cabin​

A Titanic enthusiast who turned his shed into a replica of one of the ship's cabins will be spending Christmas Day inside it.

John Siggins, from Ripley in Derbyshire, finished the project 10 years ago and says eating his Christmas dinner inside has become an annual tradition.

The shed is fitted with authentic panels and original items from the Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic, which was scrapped in 1935. Although the interior would look identical to items found on the Titanic, Mr Siggins does not own anything from the sunken ship itself.

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c2kx4lyv210o
 
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