Posted on 06/19/2023 8:37:11 AM PDT by mowowie
Last week I visited the Titanic Historical Museum
in Springfield MA (in the “Indian Orchard” part of
town). It’s in the back of a jewelry-gift store and
low priced. Nice woman showed me around—widow of the
founder. She and her husband are extras in the 1997
film based on the disaster.
I had to admit to her I had not seen either the 1950s
A Night To Remember nor the more recent James Cameron “Titnic”.Well a couple days later I did rent/on demand of
the ‘97 one, and later I saw the 50s one for free on
youtube. Both pretty good.
Today I saw online the scene the woman and her husband
appear in is when Leo DiCaprio’s character is teaching
Kate Winslet’s char how to spit.
Both show the efforts to get off and the mammoth ship
sinking in about 2 hours..winding up under more than
2 miles of water.
“Oh Lord the sea is so great and I am so small”
“Hope the people are ok but i kinda doubt it.”
Upside is they were probably crushed before they knew what was happening.
“Tickets cost up to $250,000.”
That’s just for four days.
These Titanic Tourists’ are getting many more days for the same very low price of a quarter million dollars.
One would expect that it has capability to transmit signals as to the whereabouts of its location. Unless God forbid it experienced some all systems failure scenario.
I’m sure it is very stressful being on tourist submarine near the Titanic.
I think the pressure got to them.
I remember the Thresher
LOL!
If you could reach it, it was there to provide that particular ‘illicit’ experience. Common exhibits technique.
“Tickets cost up to $250,000.”
People with too much money, and no common sense.
Maybe some giant undersea creature tried to eat it. Godzilla?
NOW they are saying there are 5 people on board
]and if there are technical difficulties the sub is supposed to automatically surface
so hopefully it did and will be found
lol....yea your probably right.
If i remember correctly they had water spraying on it to keep it from drying out...maybe not i can’t truly remember..
I touched a part of the Titanic’s hull in Orlando. The Titanic Museum there is especially worth visiting. One of the exhibits is a long, dark room chilled to under 50 degrees and made to look like one of the Titanic’s lounge decks, with chairs and portholes to one side and a railing with a starlit seascape on the other. There is the sound of a weak steam whistle and distant voices and confusion around you while signal rockets arc over the sea past the railing. If you are in there alone, you are transported back to the time and place very convincingly. It is sobering, especially when you walk into the next room and see a large alphabetical list on the wall of the passengers, with those who died in black and the survivors in blue.
A total-immersion experience.
At our exhibit, the hull section was covered with a plexiglass sheet, that had one hole in it. We were allowed to touch the steel at that location only. It was the only Titanic item we were allowed to touch, except for the recreation grand staircase.
Maybe mavericks like you compelled them to do it. If it was going to be touched anyway, might as well control it.
I was pleaantly surprised to see ‘Captain America’, the sole surviving chopper from “Easy Rider” at Paul Allen’s pop culture museum in Seattle several years ago - the one that Dan Haggarty saved and restored.
I told my spouse that if I could just touch it, it’d be worth getting kicked out - they must have had a really long-armed guy test the gap from the barrier to the rear wheel - just three inches short... :D
So the sub does not have any kind of device on it to let someone find it? Now that is foolish.
What is this button for?
I see these people find the biggest challenge in their lives as finding places to spend their money. I do not begrudge either capitalism or success since I have enjoyed some degree of both myself but someday you find your crap or money bucket full and have had enough. Usually the crap bucket fills up before the money bucket is comfortably loaded for most mortals.
I should not even try to understand anything about these people but instead mind my own business. However greed and stupidity irritate the snot out of me and the combination of the two is a disaster that usually extends to others making it not just their own business. Look at all the people who now have to risk life, property, time and money to go out and look for these most likely now dead people.
I do not mind irresponsibility so long as it does not involve others.
Good observation!
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