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KharmaTrain

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12. More Like 2 1/2 Hours...

Sun Apr 15, 2012, 04:13 AM

Apr 2012

...and there were passengers up to the last minutes who still didn't believe the ship was going down. NatGeo has had a fascinating series of specials...one with James Cameron going through new evidence on the sinking and correcting details he got wrong in his movie. Also Bob Ballard who found the Titanic wreck in the 80s who is trying to limit the number of "sightseers" who have visited the ship and knocked things around...accelerating the rusting process.

I've always thought of this tragedy as the collision of man's infalibility with his/her never-ending belief that they can tame and master nature.

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The Titanic goes down in about 20 minutes, 100 years ago... [View all] Larkspur Apr 2012 OP

The story always fascinated me Larkspur Apr 2012 #1

Yeah... "Women And Children First" Had A Different Meaning Then, Than It Does Now... WillyT Apr 2012 #2

Oh Lord, can you imagine if it was a DU jury deciding which people got onto life boats? The Straight Story Apr 2012 #3

Oooooh, that was wrong. Zalatix Apr 2012 #13

Juror # 2 has a point. hlthe2b Apr 2012 #15

Yeah, basically it meant "Women and Children 1st Class Passengers First" Art_from_Ark Apr 2012 #14

The lifeboat regs hadn't been changed since 1894. Liberal In Texas Apr 2012 #4

I had read that Harland & Wolf wanted enougth lifeboats for everyone because... Larkspur Apr 2012 #9

I think the class situation that existed back then Skittles Apr 2012 #5

seems to me it took more than two hours nt msongs Apr 2012 #6

I think it was about 3 hours or so Sherman A1 Apr 2012 #10

There's this Titanic artifacts expert in the James Cameron special on NatGeo. Loudly Apr 2012 #7

R-I-P nt Raine Apr 2012 #8

I always thought it was kind of weird that the Titanic hit an iceberg on the night of April 14 Art_from_Ark Apr 2012 #11

Might Lincoln have been....... dems_rightnow Apr 2012 #17

More Like 2 1/2 Hours... KharmaTrain Apr 2012 #12

The Titanic sank at 2:20AM ship time One of the 99 Apr 2012 #16

I'm sort of TuxedoKat Apr 2012 #18

I remember, when I was a kid, seeing a photo in a book Tom Rinaldo Apr 2012 #19