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Robbie Parry
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I couldn't get to the end of TITANIC, for many of the reasons mentioned here.
There's been a lot of articles about the Titanic in the papers recently, including one which stated that no-one ever said the ship was unsinkable. If that was never said, then it hasn't stopped people writing about it in history books. I suppose it's an example of something that becomes "fact" even though it isn't.
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Joe Alexander
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I had a chance to see an exhibit on Titanic when it was in Tampa quite a few years ago. It traveled the country I believe. It was very interesting. Had quite a few items from the ship: some vegetables still somewhat preserved in their bottles, a huge anchor, plates, etc. The most poignant thing that was pointed out was that one of the crew, in his log that was marked each time he left the ship and then was signed when he would re-board--on his log he had taken time to make his final entry-"dispatched at sea"---sad. I wonder if he could ever have imagined decades later all the people who would be looking at it and be touched by it. Another interesting thing was on this huge wall they listed all the passengers and those that had died. They were listed by which deck they were on and to see such a huge portion of them coming from the lower decks was also very sad. Though I had already been aware of that beforehand, just seeing the names listed made it more moving.
Edited by Joe Alexander on 10 April 2012 at 2:16pm
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Kevin Brown
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I have never seen the Cameron TITANIC, nor will I. I think I have seen approximately 5 minutes of that movie in bits and pieces. It's hard to believe that it's been 100 years since it set sail though...
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Phil Kreisel
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A theatre company that I do sound design work for mounted a concert version of Titanic - the Broadway Musical last week. Brought the audience to tears when the ship sank. As a sound designer, it was my task to create the sound of the ship hitting the iceberg, and then beginning the tearing in half effect. So, I guess the disaster (simulated on stage) was my doing. Fortunately, the concert was very well received and not a "disaster".
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Bill Collins
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There is a brand new Titanic museum/interactice experience just opened in Belfast,as my mom is visiting relatives in July i am looking forward to hearing what she thinks of it.
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Brad Teschner
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NatGeo just did a two hour special in which Cameron and a group of
specialists attempt to create an accurate simulation (basically an
update to the 30second simulation the elderly Rose character is shown
in the movie) detailing what happens to the ship in the hours after it
strikes the iceberg. I found it pretty interesting.
Another interesting tidbit was a roundtable discussion where Cameron
asked what could have been done immediately following the impact
that could have saved additional lives. Cameron proposed dropping
survivors off on the iceberg, which was a couple of hundred yards
away. Apparently there were also reports available to the crew
indicating sheet ice at a reasonable distance that the ship could have
made a run for.
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Dan Marcoux
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Cross-posting from the Internet Thinking thread...
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Carmen Bernardo
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I have only seen parts of the Cameron movie, and maybe one of the documentaries produced for TV around the time it was released. A sure sign that they were trying to entice people to go watch the film is when Discovery Channel, History Channel and H2 start stuffing their programming slots full of rather cheaply-produced and poorly scripted "documentaries". I can recall seeing a much better documentary that aired on PBS back in the late 1970s.
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Brian Tait
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I've never seen the Cameron film, and I don't plan to. I have seen "A Night to Remember" and also highly recommend it.
I have been to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia where, a couple of years ago we went to a large exhibit that had a lot of items from the Titanic. It may be a permanent exhibit, I'm not sure, it has been a couple of years since I was there.
It's a very odd sensation looking at some of the artifacts they had on hand.
There is also, in the middle of downtown Halifax, a small graveyard surrounded by a wrought iron fence where a lot of passengers were buried. Very surreal standing there looking at those worn headstones.
It's oddly very quiet there.
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Armindo Macieira
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I wonder what was the iceberg size compared to Titanic...
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William Roberge
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This is a scanned copy of the photographic print of the iceberg with which the RMS TITANIC supposedly collided on April 14, 1912 at latitude 41-46N, longitude 50-14W. 
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Wallace Sellars
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I have never seen the Cameron TITANIC, nor will I.
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Ditto.
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