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| 4:59:24 PM - Tue, Apr 10th 2012 |
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Titanic: The Final Word With James Cameron
If you didn't catch the National Geographic 2hr special on Sunday it will be repeating all week. I have been a Titanic buff since I was in elementary school, it's probably what lead me to my interest in state hospitals. This special was quite interesting as all they focused on was the sinking, how it sank, and getting all the facts right. The special even debunked some of the major scenes in James Cameron's movie. The two parts I found most interesting were at the end. One was when Cameron proposed the question of what you would do different after hitting the berg. And two, his summation of the whole Titanic tragedy and comparing it to how messed up our society and the world is today. How 100 years later we basically have learned nothing.
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I saw the special too. I also am a subscriber of National Geographic magazine, which started back in the early 1980's coincidentally because I was fascinated with their issues on the discovery of the Titanic!
I thought the special was good too, it was interesting to see all those experts converge and discuss. It was done as a companion piece to the current print issue of National Geographic.
If you're a Titanic buff then clear out your DVR for this upcoming weekend. There is a ton of stuff coming up. There is 5 part series on (NGC??) called Rebuilding the Titanic that looks pretty interesting.
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| 2:16:13 PM - Wed, Apr 11th 2012 |
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Sure we have, we have gps now so you will only have to swim for like 6 hours instead of 12  The fact the Carpathia was close enough to actually get to people before they died of exposure or hypothermia is the most amazing part of the whole titanic story to me. I wish documentaries covered more on that ship, especially since it was sank by a German U-boat (U-55) in 1918 (it was requistioned as an army transport after it finished it's service as a Canard class cruise liner).
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| 2:31:01 PM - Wed, Apr 11th 2012 |
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| I've always liked ships in general. Like Thomas said, the Titanic disaster showed how messed up society was and in some ways still is. I'll have to go and look for those specials this weekend and DVR them. Thanks for the heads up.
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| 6:06:51 PM - Wed, Apr 11th 2012 |
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| There is a show I watched last night (maybe PBS or NGS) called Save the Titanic w/ Bob Ballard. It's a really good show and highlights the danger of unauthorized "looting" of the site as well as talking about the story of the "guarentee crew" a group of about 8 people specially selected from the shipyard that built Titanic to go on it's maiden voyage make sure there were no issues or problems with the boat!
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The thing that really gets my blood boiling every single time I start thinking about Titanic is how her sister ship was tossed to the scrap heap like she never mattered. Out of the three Olympic class ships built (RMS Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic) The RMS Olympic was the only one that actually completed a transatlantic crossing. The Britannic wasn't even finished being fitted out when she was called into WWII and was sunk. Of course we all know Titanic. The Olympic sailed for 20+ years and was almost identical to Titanic. Then in 1930s she was just scrapped, like she was some fishing trawler or something. I mean, how can there not be someone back then to stand up and say.. Hey, we should save this ship for future generation to see! They did it with the Queen Mary, why not Olympic? This photo on Wikipedia really just guts me when I look at it, knowing that was probably the last photo of her before she was hacked up into nothingness.
On a lighter note, yeah my DVR queue is pretty well maxed out with Titanic specials this week. I have not watched the Bob Ballard one yet. The rebuilding special I believe I saw last year, though it is showing it as new on my guide. If it's the one I already watched it is pretty neat. It's basically a team of people that recreate or reenact certain aspects of Titanic using methods from that time period.
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| On a side note: there are precious few ships from Titanic's era still floating. Like maybe one or two. The one that is still floating and is near you is: USS Olympia (Built 1888). It's a great white fleet era cruiser. (Pre-WW1) It's in Philadelphia across the river from the battleship USS New Jersey. Heck, she even has simular engines as the Titanic, just a bit smaller though.
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| 2:44:32 PM - Thu, Apr 12th 2012 |
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Quote:Thomasp94 Thu 12th 1:10 am The rebuilding special I believe I saw last year, though it is showing it as new on my guide.
My guide on the TV says it was made in 2012, so I think it's new.
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Update: I watched the "rebuilding" show and it sucked big time. It was a bunch of junkyard mechanics basically rebuilding very small components or simulating a type of construction process. I watched two of the 5 shows I recorded then deleted the rest.
I did however see another show that was on NGC that piggybacked on the James Cameron show and was the second companion show to the NG magazine. It was really fascinating and mainly focused on the detailed maps they have just made that focus more on the debris field. It was really cool in that they explained the concept that EVERYTHING in, on, and of the ship sank that night and is all still down there. They were able to pinpoint a lot of objects in the maps that they send down robots to take a closer look at. A lot of the objects had never been seen before like the glass ceiling from the first class stairway and the hatch for the forward cargo hold that was blown off when the bow slammed into the ocean floor!
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| 1:18:37 PM - Tue, May 8th 2012 |
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| I caught the rebuilding shows as well and yeah, they were the ones that aired last year. NGC just relabeled them as 2012 so people's DVRs would pick them up (kinda shady). The other show you spoke of was good, but it had waaaaaay too much filler. It was once of those shows that you can pretty much keep fast forwarding 30 seconds or more past the commercial breaks and not even miss anything.
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| 5:34:34 AM - Sat, Jun 9th 2012 |
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Sort of on-topic, it appears Napa State Hospital (CA) had a Titanic survivor as a patient. He died there in 1958 and was buried in an unmarked plot reserved for patients at a local cemetery, he's now getting a gravestone.
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