Just for Titanic fans(pic)

[gaspode]

This just came through on my Facebook feed.
Yes that is a picture of the Titanic anchor, made about two miles from where I live.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Interesting piece of history right there.

[Kaylyn]

I got to see the artifact exhibition at the end of last year. So fascinating...pieces of furniture and dishes and luggage pulled up from the wreck. And I purchased a piece of coal from the wreck as well. Kinda neat to have my own piece of the ship. I've been obsessed with Titanic since I was young, when the Robert Ballard special first aired when he found the wreck on the ocean floor.

[mjr]

I got to see the artifact exhibition at the end of last year. So fascinating...pieces of furniture and dishes and luggage pulled up from the wreck. And I purchased a piece of coal from the wreck as well. Kinda neat to have my own piece of the ship. I've been obsessed with Titanic since I was young, when the Robert Ballard special first aired when he found the wreck on the ocean floor.

The way Robert Ballard found the ship was quite interesting as well. He actually looked for the debris field first, knowing it was much larger than the ship, and the debris field led him to the ship.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I saw the exhibit at the Franklin Institue in Philadelphia last weekend. It was the second-to-last day. My friend is also a big Titanic buff and I went with her and another friend of hers; it was my friend's second trip - she saw it a few weeks earlier, too. She hates the movie but went to see it in 3D just for the chance to see the underwater shots of the ship.

(And when I bought my tickets online I left the box checked to get emails from the FI about upcoming events; glad I did because now I know to go back between November and April to see the Pompeii exhibit they're going to have!)

[EyeTeaGuy]

I remember seeing the artifact tour when it came through Denver - the neatest part to me was the actual piece of the hull they had there.

I have always been fascinated by that ship - probably one of the few males that willingly went and saw the Cameron movie multiple times in the theater without being dragged by a date.

I've also met Robert Ballard - when I was in middle school (1994ish), he was doing that annual "Jason Project" for science schoolkids, and that year it was the Belize rainforest. My school did a big metal frame plaster walled bat cave, and when we had a field trip to the museum to present our initial plans to everyone and the other schools, he was there. My group was the only one he asked a question of, and I was the only one who knew the answer. Damned if I could remember the question now, though!

That's not to say he was a jerk - far from it. Nice guy, was very interested in the projects. Just not too talkative that day!

Another neat bit about him finding the Titanic - it was part of an undercover mission he was on for the US Navy, where they'd help him with that IF he found the USS Thresher, a nuclear sub that was lost with all hands back in the Cold War. He got to test out the methods that led him to the Titanic on that hunt.

Sadly only the Titanic's older sister had anything but a very short career - her little sister (The Gigantic later named Brittanic, which was actually the largest of the three) was sunk in WWI while serving as a hospital ship.