~~~TITANIC FANATIC~~~

[Lady Cop]

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Researchers have pieced together what is believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire Titanic debris field in the North Atlantic.



This image shows the main body of the vessel



This image shows debris surrounding the stern of the Titanic on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean. An expedition team used sonar imaging and more than 100,000 photos taken from underwater robots to create the map



image shows debris surrounding the stern of the Titanic on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean. An expedition team used sonar imaging and more than 100,000 photos taken from underwater robots to create the map


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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...floor.html

[Midwest Spy]

LC, I'm assuming you saw this, but maybe other Titanic Fanatics did not:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...-sky-sink/

[Lady Cop]

LC, I'm assuming you saw this, but maybe other Titanic Fanatics did not:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...-sky-sink/

i did...thanks!
an interesting theory indeed.

[Lady Cop]

photos of debris field on previous page.
i'll sure be looking forward to the History Documentary. it's the 100-year anniversary coming up.

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine -- Researchers have pieced together what's believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-mile-by-5-mile Titanic debris field and hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened the night 100 years ago when the superliner hit an iceberg, plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic and became a legend.

Marks on the muddy ocean bottom suggest, for instance, that the stern rotated like a helicopter blade as the ship sank, rather than plunging straight down, researchers told The Associated Press this week.

An expedition team used sonar imaging and more than 100,000 photos taken from underwater robots to create the map, which shows where hundreds of objects and pieces of the presumed-unsinkable vessel landed after striking an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people.

Explorers of the Titanic -- which sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City -- have known for more than 25 years where the bow and stern landed after the vessel struck an iceberg. But previous maps of the floor around the wreckage were incomplete, said Parks Stephenson, a Titanic historian who consulted on the 2010 expedition. Studying the site with old maps was like trying to navigate a dark room with a weak flashlight.

"With the sonar map, it's like suddenly the entire room lit up and you can go from room to room with a magnifying glass and document it," he said. "Nothing like this has ever been done for the Titanic site."

The mapping took place in the summer of 2010 during an expedition to the Titanic led by RMS Titanic Inc., the legal custodian of the wreck, along with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, Massachusetts and the Waitt Institute of La Jolla, California.

They were joined by the cable History channel and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Park Service is involved in the mapping. Details on the new findings at the bottom of the ocean are not being revealed yet, but the network will air them in a two-hour documentary on April 15, exactly 100 years after the Titanic sank.

The expedition team ran two independently self-controlled robots known as autonomous underwater vehicles along the ocean bottom day and night. The torpedo-shaped AUVs surveyed the site with side-scan sonar, moving at a little more than 3 miles per hour as they traversed back and forth in a grid along the bottom, said Paul-Henry Nargeolet, the expedition's co-leader with RMS Titanic Inc. Dave Gallo from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was the other co-leader.

The AUVs also took high-resolution photos -- 130,000 of them in all -- of a smaller 2 mile (3.2 kilometer)-by-3-mile area where most of the debris was concentrated. The photos were stitched together on a computer to provide a detailed photo mosaic of the debris.

The result is a map that looks something like the moon's surface showing debris scattered across the ocean floor well beyond the large bow and stern sections that rest about half a mile apart.

The map provides a forensic tool with which scientists can examine the wreck site much the way an airplane wreck would be investigated on land, Nargeolet said.

For instance, the evidence that the stern rotated is based on the marks on the ocean floor to its west and the fact that virtually all the debris is found to the east.

"When you look at the sonar map, you can see exactly what happened," said Nargeolet, who has been on six Titanic expeditions, the first in 1987.

The first mapping of the Titanic wreck site began after it was discovered in 1985, using photos taken with cameras aboard a remotely controlled vehicle that didn't venture far from the bow and stern.

The mapping over the years has improved as explorers have built upon previous efforts in piecemeal fashion, said Charlie Pellegrino, a Titanic explorer who was not involved in the 2010 expedition. But this is the first time a map of the entire debris field has looked at every square inch in an orderly approach, he said.

"This is quite a significant map," he said. "It's quite a significant advance in the technology and the way it's done."

At Lone Wolf Documentary Group in South Portland, producers are putting the final touches on the History documentary. Rushmore DeNooyer, the co-producer and writer of the show, points out the different items on the map, displayed on a screen.

They include a huge tangle of the remains of a deckhouse; a large chunk of the side of the ship measuring more than 60 feet long and weighing more than 40 tons; pieces of the ship's bottom; and a hatch cover that blew off of the bow section as it crashed to the bottom. Other items include five of the ship's huge boilers, a revolving door and even a lightning rod from a mast.

By examining the debris, investigators can now answer questions like how the ship broke apart, how it went down and whether there was a fatal flaw in the design, he said.

The layout of the wreck site and where the pieces landed provide new clues on exactly what happened. Computer simulations will re-enact the sinking in reverse, bringing the wreckage debris back to the surface and reassembled.

Some of those questions will be answered on the show, said Dirk Hoogstra, a senior vice president at History. He declined to say ahead of the show what new theories are being put forth on the sinking.

"We've got this vision of the entire wreck that no one has ever seen before," he said. "Because we have, we're going to be able to reconstruct exactly how the wreck happened. It's groundbreaking, jaw-dropping stuff."

[Lady Cop]

oh boy...a Titanic museum just opened in Tenn.
more at link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-ship.html

[Lady Cop]

with the 100^th anniversary of the sinking coming up in April, i expect to see many more Titanic articles.
here are some awesome pictures from national Geographic,
more at link:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/0...sides-text

New images from the April 2012 edition of National Geographic magazine show the complete wreck of the Titanic for the first time ever. The luxury passenger liner sank about 375 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada, after striking an iceberg on its maiden voyage from England to New York, killing 1,517 people.

New images of the wreck of the RMS Titanic reveal for the first time ever the full stretch of the “unsinkable” boat -- sprawled silently 12,500 feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean.

The set of new photographs, released in the April 2012 edition of National Geographic magazine to coincide with the 100^th anniversary of the shipwreck, reveal the full expanse of the ship, rather than the dim images of bits of the hull or pieces of wreckage seen to date.

The meticulously stitched-together mosaic took experts at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) months to construct, the magazine said.

“Now we know where everything is,” Bill Lange, head of WHOI’s Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory, told National Geographic. “After a hundred years, the lights are finally on.”

The images were created by layering optical data onto the sonar images, Lange explained. They reveal a site strewn with man-made detritus and cratered by boulders dropped over countless years from melting icebergs.

[Lady Cop]

Michel and Edmond Navratil must have felt a sense of relief when they finally made it on to the last lifeboat to be successfully launched from the sinking Titanic.

Despite their tender years, the brothers - aged just four and two - would have been aware of the terror and hysteria that had engulfed those still trapped on the stricken vessel.

They were placed on the lifeboat by their father - but it was the last time they ever saw him.

As the 100^th anniversary of the disaster approaches, Michel and Edmond's incredible story of survival has been resurrected through a series of photographs documenting those who escaped.

The boys became known as 'Louis and Lola' - the only children to be rescued from the Titanic without a parent or guardian.

After placing them on the lifeboat, their father died during the sinking.

daily mail

more photos--->
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1q9ypINOj

[cladking]

I just watched the movie again a few days ago for the second time. It's a better movie than I remembered it from the first time. It seemed like too much of a chick flick the first time.

This disasater and the ship itself has long interested me. The concept of a ship that can't be sunk going down on its first voyage is something that will remain for a very very long time. Mans' hubris will get him every single time. There's nothing to fear but fear itself and the belief that we know everything.

[QueenBee]

This is probably nothing new...but there is also an article in the current Reader's Digest about it. The online edition has video and pics.

http://www.rd.com/true-stories/the-unsinkable-titanic/

[Lady Cop]

A Titanic-headed letter by the captain’s personal steward in which he wrote of his fears that the doomed liner was cursed with bad luck is tipped to sell for £36,000.


In his note days before the ship sank, Arthur Paintin said he hoped a near-collision Titanic had with another vessel when it left port was not a sign of things to come.


Chillingly, he also told his parents in England that he expected to be away at sea all summer ‘bar accidents’.


Mr Paintin was very close to Captain Edward Smith and was last seen standing on the bridge next to him moments before the liner sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912.


When the ship docked at Queenstown, Ireland, three days before the disaster, Mr Paintin took the opportunity to post the letter to his parents in Oxford.


In it, he warned of how the Titanic may have been followed by bad luck associated with her sister ship the Olympic, which had accidentally collided with a battleship the year before.


He wrote: 'We have now commenced the quick voyages all the summer (bar accidents).


'I say that because the Olympic’s bad luck seems to have followed us.'


He then gave a detailed account of how the Titanic and the liner the New York nearly collided at Southampton on April 10.


In a well-documented near-miss, the New York slipped her moorings under the pressure of Titanic’s suction, causing it to drift towards the ‘unsinkable’ ship.

much more at link:
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1qRr0bZR5

[cladking]

PBS has a new documentary on the disaster which is excellent.

It is told from the perspective of the engineers who all perished.

I've always found it remarkable that they were able to maintain lights and power until the last moments. This film speculates on how they might have done it. It's available on their website. If you can't find it at PBS it should be at ("WTTW" Chicago).

[Cracker]

The Titanic exhibit opens in Atlanta this week.

http://www.titanicatlanta.com/

[cladking]

The Titanic exhibit opens in Atlanta this week.

http://www.titanicatlanta.com/

How appropriate.

A ship that couldn't sink memorialized in a city named after a continent that couldn't sink. :

[Cracker]

I think Atlanta is named after a railroad, something Atlantic. It used to be named Marthasville, then they called it Terminus because that is where the railroad line ended (or started, don't remember, guess it doesn't matter which), then Atlanta from the feminine form of Atlantic.

If they changed it back to "Marthasville" a lot of hoodrats would be regretting their ATL tattoos.

[Lady Cop]

Clad, i saw that docu about the ship engineers. they were heroic in their efforts.

[Maggot]

A few articles I have from a book I bought in a yard sale for a couple bucks.

I wonder if it would be a good time to sell this book?
http://mockforums.net/thread-3997-page-2.html

[Lady Cop]

A collection of stamps marking the 100^th anniversary of the Titanic disaster will be launched on April 10 - a century after the doomed ship set sail from Southampton on its maiden voyage.

The 10 first class stamps feature the story of the ill-fated cruise liner from its construction to the tragedy.

The stamps include photos of the Titanic being built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, it's launch in Southampton and a New York Times report the day after it sank.

[Lady Cop]

For nearly a century this rare collection of postcards mourning the loss of the Titanic - rushed out in the aftermath of the sinking - have only been seen by a privileged few.


But now the striking images are to adorn memorabilia after a ten-year search reunited them with their original publisher Bamforth’s - allowing them to appear on licensed products for the first time since 1912.

weeks of the sinking of the Titanic on April 15 1912 Bamforth & Co, based in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, published six postcards commemorating the tragic event.














more at link:

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1rHSoveLI

[Lady Cop]

the excellent Nat. Geo. special will be repeated tonight, friday, at 8 PM eastern.


some contemporaneous news articles here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...aster.html

On Tuesday, April 16, 1912 - the day after the Titanic met its tragic fate - the Daily Mail told the nation: 'She sank at 2.20 in the afternoon (7.20 in the afternoon). No lives were lost.'




this ticket to launch just sold for $56,000.

[Lady Cop]

100 years. RIP

Human remains may be embedded in the mud of the North Atlantic where the New York-bound Titanic came to rest when it sank 100 years ago, a federal official said Saturday. of course there are.

A 2004 photograph, released to the public for the first time this week in an uncropped version to coincide with the disaster's centenary, shows a coat and boots in the mud at the legendary shipwreck site.