Titanic

R.I.P the Titanic folk, sunk 100 years ago today

Not trying to be a smartarse but it was april 15th 1912.
got one year and one more day.

They must of had global warming then too???

Hey your right Joel! (maybe I'm a year younger😊)

1500+ dead the greatest peace time loss of life at sea.

I've always been interested in the titanic for some reason? Maybe it was the grand nature of it's design, or the complete demise of someones fantastic dream. Either way, I think it's a pretty amazing event- i'd love to go down and observe the wreck one day

I had this crazy idea once, of getting an army of marine robots to fill millions of balloons of air inside each half of the titanic, then surface it, and restore it.

Had sick would that be 👍
A titanic project, titanic bill, but titanic awesumness.

Remember i did say it was a crazy idea 😎
Isn't it a case that what ever wrecks are in international waters you can claim or sumfin??

annosL wrote:Hey your right Joel! (maybe I'm a year younger😊)

I've had a fascination with it for a good 20 years or so now 😉

bajachris88 wrote:I had this crazy idea once, of getting an army of marine robots to fill millions of balloons of air inside each half of the titanic, then surface it, and restore it.

Had sick would that be 👍
A titanic project, titanic bill, but titanic awesumness.

Remember i did say it was a crazy idea 😎
Isn't it a case that what ever wrecks are in international waters you can claim or sumfin??

are you on crack Chris ? ?🙅

Just watch too much McGuyver

Give him a straw, a napkin and 3 paperclips and he'll be able to do it for us 👍

It's a shame. Such a grand machine.

And they have predicted that where won't be anything of it left in 90 odd years. Is slowly being eaten away by a form of underwater corrosion.


Did anyone else read the book 'Raise the Titanic!' by Clive Cussler.
The protagonist uses a similar method as described by Chris above. BUT, this book was written before the wreck was discovered and they made the realisation that it had broken in two pieces while sinking. So in the book the ship is in one piece. They float it to the surface, and tow it to America, completing it's journey some 80 odd years later.

A good book, I would recommend it.

Shame it is such a logistical and monetary nightmare to try and recover the ship in two pieces.



Smiley 😎

Smiley wrote:It's a shame. Such a grand machine.

And they have predicted that where won't be anything of it left in 90 odd years. Is slowly being eaten away by a form of underwater corrosion.

Another 90 years it will literally be nothing, probably only be another 20 and the bow won't even resemble a ship anymore as it's already collapsing in on itself it wont be much longer till the whole structure caves in.

Just seeing the before and after pics Robert Ballard took on his last dive of how much it's gone to shit in just the last 15 years unreal.

is there a link to the Titanic pictures before and after?

Baja Chris, i believe that salvage rights are permissable so long as the wreck is not declared a grave site, which i think it is, so things are "supposed" to be left with the victims. i understand the stuff in the exibitions etc were brought to the surface before it was declared a grave site.
Back in the UK i knew a few guys who would take brass and copper from U-boats etc (which are war graves) if they got cayght the Sht would hit the fan!! they told me that they tried to salvage the mercury from the dive tanks of a submarine, they filled a metal bucket but it was way too heavy to lift from the sea bed, so its probably still there!

It was in a National Geographic but they may have pics on their website?

name the Titanic s 2 sister ships.....and their fates ! .....😉

Olympic was ship No3, crashed several times but was scrapped in the UK
Titanic was ship No2, sank by an iceberg on maiden voyage,
Britanic was ship No1, either torpeadoed or mined and sank off the Greak coast.

interesting reading here! http://www.starway.org/Titanic/Sister_Ships.html

Damn it Patty you coulda atleast made it challanging.

Actually what sank Britanic has always been a contentious topic.
Some say mine, some say torpedo and many believe she was secretly carrying ammo that exploded.

Ballard did find that some plates are bent outwards like it had an internal explosion but meh who knows.

It's a good thing that we have made sure this kind of disaster will never happen again by melting all the icebergs.

Joel wrote:Damn it Patty you coulda atleast made it challanging.

Actually what sank Britanic has always been a contentious topic.
Some say mine, some say torpedo and many believe she was secretly carrying ammo that exploded.

Ballard did find that some plates are bent outwards like it had an internal explosion but meh who knows.

coal dust in the bunkers of the Britannic could have been responsible for the secondary explosion !

the Olympic actually turned on a u boat in ww1 gave chase and rammed her...there goes the theory on the rudder being too small.....if the first officer hadn't ordered engines full astern the titanic probably would have missed !
but then again if my aunty had balls she would be my uncle 🙅

Brittanic sank in relitively shallow water and is believed to be mort intact that its sister on the sea bed!!

Found this on you tube not Titanic but interesting none the less...

Joel wrote:

Smiley wrote:It's a shame. Such a grand machine.

And they have predicted that where won't be anything of it left in 90 odd years. Is slowly being eaten away by a form of underwater corrosion.

Another 90 years it will literally be nothing, probably only be another 20 and the bow won't even resemble a ship anymore as it's already collapsing in on itself it wont be much longer till the whole structure caves in.

Just seeing the before and after pics Robert Ballard took on his last dive of how much it's gone to shit in just the last 15 years unreal.

The corrosion is a biological agent which is why it's happening so fast. It's not rustig, it's being eaten!

phatratpat wrote:.if the first officer hadn't ordered engines full astern the titanic probably would have missed !

Very true, reversing the engines lost all there steering power

A tragic loss of life but it served as the wake up call mankind needed
The first ship they call unsinkable sinks on it's maiden voyage.

Aint that Irony for ya.

It's sitting at just the right depth that the organisms eating it are in Paradise.

If it was a bit deeper it would be safe.
The Bismarck which sank in WW2 is sitting at 4.7kms down is too deep for anything to survive so it's beautifully preserved

You can still even see the swastikas painted on the deck floorboards after 66 years

the swastika on the bow still has the red paint around it
still reckon it was scuttled by the crew