Titanic is dying to me

Ship at bottom of deep sea poorly maintained, study finds

Ummm a lot of it decomposed ages ago. That’s why images always show the same parts. The rest is long gone.

Unsinkable!

That pic is where Jack and I first met!

I ain’t down yet!

Elon needs to take a sub down there and check it out. Only he can save it. Don't delay, go now.

Rusting heap rusts!

I could have fit on that door with Rose. Probably.

I'm a Titanic freak, have been for years. The hooptie sub debacle reignited my obsession. I have a 3 1/2 ft long prepainted model of her that I built by hand and sits in a glass case on my mantle. Took me 2 months to finish. I prefer to remember her that way, as opposed to what she is now.

This latest expedition should produce some very interesting high res images. I'm also glad they found the Diana of Versailles sculpture which is a huge find. Something like that should definitely be in a museum and not on the ocean floor.

The ship has been 12,000 feet below the ocean surface in slat water and extreme weight pressure for over a century. Of course it is going to corrode and decay.

[quote]I could have fit on that door with Rose.

It wasn't a door, Rose.

Um. King Triton's palace did not erode or decay. Think about THAT!

Omg. Like Frances Fisher said, the whole Jack and the door argument is ridiculous. Could he have fit on it? Technically, yes. But they were floating on water so it would take them balancing correctly to get them both on top without it tipping over or flipping or submerging.

It’s not like they were on solid ground. It was on water. We see Jack try to get on and it tips so he decides to stay in the water so Rose can stay on top easily. It’s not like the film didn’t show this. People just choose to ignore it. People being Gen Z with their lack of educations.

It’s basic physics.

Why didn’t the eagles just fly Frodo to Mount Doom?

R15. Good question!

[Quote] Why didn’t the eagles just fly Frodo to Mount Doom?

Sauron would have known, and all nine nazgul would have attacked them, aided by thousands of orc archers on the Plateau of Gorgoroth.

Sneaking it in was the only way.

One does not simply fly into Mordor!

R10, there's something so poetic about that image of the statue of Diana. Diana was goddess of the wilderness; she presided over nature. Titanic is the story of humans believing they could make an unsinkable ship, only to be felled by an iceberg. And there's Diana, lying half-buried on the ocean floor...

Are there pics of Diana statue when it was on the ship? I don’t recall the statue.

I’m sure there are several titanic fans on DL-me too.I know W-A-Y too much about this ship’s story than I care to admit in person.

R20 here she is, on the mantle of the first class lounge. Often named Artemis which is the same goddess as Diana in Greek and Roman mythology respectively. About 60 cm tall.

Agree, r19. The story of the Titanic is a modern retelling of Greek mythological concepts. I think of Icarus as well.

It had a great hull but couldn’t live forever.

And here she is again, newly discovered in the sea floor.

^that didn't work, same link as OP. Sorry

The Titanic has been dead since 1912! Where’s the news?

Maybe they should have had a statue honoring Poseidon or another god or goddess of the sea.

Celine is undergoing a slow decay as well!

Titanic and her story rivet me, too. I love the little factoids, like how a regular styrofoam cup is compressed to the size of a thimble when it’s exposed to the pressures at that depth. And how the first SOS ever sent came from her as she went down.

People may be looting stuff from the ship. It’s not exactly easy to get down there but it’s also not impossible.

Titanic has been having an affair with the battleship Bismarck. Titanic is an insatiable bottom!

You can be blase about some things, but not Titanic.

Damn, it's decaying more than Donald Trump

R31 = Ghost of Stockton Rush

The Titanic?

Can we please get back to Frodo & the Eagles?

I think I saw them at Woodstock

That ship proves it was built well. You would think it would have crumbled to bits by now.

R38 Yea but it still fucked around and found out.

Have they found the Heart of the Ocean yet?

The amount of coke Leo was doing, he'd have been just fine in the water.

I watched a computer generated video about a year ago of a reconstruction of what the ship looked like inside and out. I lot of research was done and if it was correct, it was indeed, magnificent.

Max Miller did a series on Titanic menus.

R42 are you talking about Titanic: Honor and Glory?

[quote]Maybe they should have had a statue honoring Poseidon or another god or goddess of the sea.

They did. It was an Adventure.

[quote]Titanic is an insatiable bottom!

Oh you don't know the half of it!

Damn this phone! Meant to write Lusitania @ R46.

Here's how Kamala Harris has failed to reach the Titanic rust belt.

Hahaha @R48

[Quote] That ship proves it was built well.

Except the “don’t let water flow over the bulkhead walls” part.

[quote] And how the first SOS ever sent came from her as she went down.

No.

Wikipedia:

The first ships that have been reported to have transmitted an sos distress call were the Cunard oceanliner RMS Slavonia on 10 June 1909 while sailing the Azores,[17][18] and the steamer SS Arapahoe on 11 August 1909 while off the North Carolina coast.[19][20] The signal of the Arapahoe was received by the United Wireless Telegraph Company station at Hatteras, North Carolina, and forwarded to the steamer company's offices.[21] However, there was some resistance among Marconi operators to adopting the new signal, and as late as the April 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic the ship's Marconi operators intermixed cqd and sos distress calls. In the interests of consistency and maritime safety, the use of CQD appears to have died out thereafter.

It’s a shame the poor folks in steerage were trapped but then there weren’t enough life boats anyway. Nothing’s changed-2012 Concordia-that was fun. Capt. Schettino still in ‘’prison’’

R50 just think Titanic would have floated if they had invented tupperwear covers.

Wow-fantastic video. Major Titanic fan here. What dreamy woodwork from dear sis Olympic.Clips of Clifton Webb always a favorite-exudes rugged manliness.