I am watching Ghosts of the Abyss right now. I've seen Titanic, and the TV one, Titanic Blood and Steel, the Smithsonian channel one about cold water mirage, and others I can't think of right now. Got any Titanic or other maritime disaster movie suggestions? I'll take Doña Paz, I'll take Andrea Doria, Edmund Fitzgerald. I'm a shipwreck fiend.
I've seen Poseidon and Poseidon Adventure. I'm mostly interested in real wrecks.
I'll take the S.S. Minnow for the win!
share3 hour tour my ass!
shareI'd say they got their moneys worth.
Extended tropical vacation and met many new and exciting people .
Even the Globetrotters!
How you doin bud?
White Squall (1996)
All is Lost (2013)
For something a little ridiculous...Ghost Ship (2002)
"Every night in my dreams
I see you, I feel you
That is how I know you, go ooon!"
I remember when it came out they had radio edits that had dialogue from the movie spliced in. It doesn't get more 90s than that and I loved it.
shareI love how one radio station would always end the song with the sound of bubbles, as if Celine was going down with the ship!
The Titanic is one of those disasters that just intrigues me. Every now and then I get the urge to look up information, about what exactly went wrong and the individuals on board. One of the three Dutch passengers on the Titanic, all of whom died, came from my hometown (he was a director at a Dutch shipping company who was actually invited by The White Star Line and knew Ismay personally). I've been trying to figure out where exactly he lived!
As I said, I am obsessed. The grandeur of it, the scale, the tragedy, the engineering genius and the mistakes and hubris. Most of all, the mystery.
shareThere is a Titanic cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia which I have visited a number of times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairview_Cemetery,_Halifax,_Nova_Scotia#/media/File:Titanic_Grave_Markers_Halifax.jpg
Thanks, I was unaware of it. I will try to go at some point. What else should I do when I'm in Nova Scotia?
shareWonderful seafood/whale watching/Irish folk music/vineyards/day cruises
shareAll sounds great except seafood. I eat nothing that lived underwater, just one of my things. I'd love to go whale watching though, and vineyards and Irish folk music sound awesome.
shareThe Maritime Museum has a Titanic section which I have also visited
https://maritimemuseum.novascotia.ca/what-see-do/titanic-unsinkable-ship-and-halifax
That (Halifax) is where there was a gigantic explosion 6 December 1917---that killed 1600 people instantly. It was the biggest explosion in history till the atom bombs in WW2.
Two ships collided in the thruway. A fire commenced and all the people came to their windows and the docks to see it. They were blasted apart, when one the ships ignited it's payload of bombs and munitions.
Over 2,000 people were killed and another 1,000 injured. The entire town was wiped out.
A steam explosion I presume. Steam boiler explosions were no joke.
Even far smaller locomotive boilers exploded when the engineer wasn't paying attention to the water level above the plate. I was reading about a locomotive explosion that threw the 100lb bell two miles away from the explosion..
As far as other maritime disasters, the Sultana in the U.S. was more deadly than Titanic:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonianmag/civil-war-boat-explosion-killed-more-people-titanic-180963008/
No, some barrels of benzol flooded the deck of one ship after the slight collision with the other ship and ignited.
[[[At 9:04:35 am the out-of-control fire on board Mont-Blanc set off her highly explosive cargo.[56] The ship was completely blown apart and a powerful blast wave radiated away from the explosion at more than 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) per second. Temperatures of 5,000 °C (9,000 °F) and pressures of thousands of atmospheres accompanied the moment of detonation at the centre of the explosion.[57][25] White-hot shards of iron fell down upon Halifax and Dartmouth.[58] Mont-Blanc's forward 90 mm gun, its barrel melted away, landed approximately 5.6 kilometres (3.5 mi) north of the explosion site near Albro Lake in Dartmouth, and the shank of her anchor, weighing half a ton, landed 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) south at Armdale.[59]]]]
[[[A cloud of white smoke rose to over 3,600 metres (11,800 ft).[60] The shock wave from the blast travelled through the earth at nearly 23 times the speed of sound and was felt as far away as Cape Breton (207 kilometres or 129 miles) and Prince Edward Island (180 kilometres or 110 miles).[25][61] An area of over 160 hectares (400 acres) was completely destroyed by the explosion,[59] and the harbour floor was momentarily exposed by the volume of water that was displaced. A tsunami was formed by water surging in to fill the void;[62] it rose as high as 18 metres (60 ft) above the high-water mark on the Halifax side of the harbour.[63] Imo was carried onto the shore at Dartmouth by the tsunami.[64] The blast killed all but one on the whaler, everyone on the pinnace and 21 of the 26 men on Stella Maris; she ended up on the Dartmouth shore, severely damaged. The captain's son, First Mate Walter Brannen, who had been thrown into the hold by the blast, survived, as did four others.[65] All but one of the Mont-Blanc crew members survived.[66]]]]
[[[Over 1,600 people were killed instantly and 9,000 were injured, more than 300 of whom later died.[25] Every building within a 2.6-kilometre (1.6 mi) radius, over 12,000 in total, was destroyed or badly damaged.[62] Hundreds of people who had been watching the fire from their homes were blinded when the blast wave shattered the windows in front of them.[67] Stoves and lamps overturned by the force of the blast sparked fires throughout Halifax,[68] particularly in the North End, where entire city blocks were caught up in the inferno, trapping residents inside their houses. Firefighter Billy Wells, who was thrown away from the explosion and had his clothes torn from his body, described the devastation survivors faced: "The sight was awful, with people hanging out of windows dead. Some with their heads missing, and some thrown onto the overhead telegraph wires." He was the only member of the eight-man crew of the fire engine Patricia to survive.[69]]]]
shareThanks for that.
That jogged my memory. That incident was featured in a History Channel segment earlier this year I believe.
Good one, strntz. It's over on YouTube big as you please.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFg8ANIlOBw
Obsessed,eh? Where did I heard this word before,I wonder🤔
shareRaise the Titanic (1980) is not too bad. ⤵
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0081400/?ref=m_nv_sr_3