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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.
 
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