What actually made Titanic sink? What errors caused the lives of over 1500 people? Who was to blame? Was the story of Jack Dawson & Rose Dewitt Bukater just a fiction that only depicted the lives of the first class society during that time, as stated in books and reviews?
I asked those questions myself after hearing about the coming back of the James Cameron movie in 3D last April this year to celebrate its 100 years.
I had to go looking over websites to hopefully get latest discoveries to the largest ship ever fared in 1912. It's no doubt that I still hold spellbound with every details and facts about the ship and the movie. And I have satisfied myself enough from watching the movie again in 3D.
If I only had more time and resources I could have also brought myself into the Titanic Artifact Exhibition that was held in the Art Science Museum in Marina Bay Sands, Singapore that started last October, 2011 until the 29th of April, 2012.
Scads of attempts were already made about the epic tragedy that happened to the ship that only remained in pretext for many years. The supposedly irenic voyage of the unsinkable White Star Line fragmented in the frozen seabed of North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912. What we mostly know is that an iceberg caused its doom.
Recently, the History channel gathered a team of scientists, engineers, and top underwater experts for another expedition that would map out in detailed portions, the wreck site and where actually the error is found. This time it's no romantic-suspense kind of film but a new documentary to the never-before-seen findings about Titanic.
The documentary film premiered last April 15,2012, 8pm on History channel, exactly 100th year of Titanic.
Schedules for repeat airings are:
16 April (Mon): 1am, 9am, 8pm
17 April (Tues): 2pm, 11pm
18 April (Wed): 7pm
18 April (Wed): 7pm
20 April (Fri): 10pm
21 April (Sat): 2pm
23 April (Mon): 2pm
28 April (Sat): 7pm
29 April (Sun): 3am, 10am
28 April (Sat): 7pm
29 April (Sun): 3am, 10am
They used a virtual hangar in the two-hour special documentary to show in complete picture the breaking and sinking of Titanic.
Aircraft accident investigation experts used a holographic reconstruction of the wreck site and pointed the areas of greater impact.
Images of the most popular parts of the ship were identified; the decks, engines, boilers, parts of the grand staircase and many others.
They documented every piece of the ship exactly where it landed in the ocean floor.
A high technology gadget was also used to improve the earlier discoveries and footage of the RMS Titanic which was first discovered by an expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard.
Experts exchanged opinions and exhausted all possibilities to give a clearer view on who was the real person to be blamed in the downfall of the ship.
Was it Captain Edward John Smith, Sir Thomas Andrews, or the people responsible in maneuvering the boilers?
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| Capt.Edward John Smith, 62, Sea Captain of RMS Titanic |
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| Thomas Andrews Jr.,39, Irish Businessman and Naval Architect of the RMS Titanic |
Watch Titanic: Mystery Solved full below:
Still another question surfaces, were Jack Dawson and Rose Dewitt Bukater real or fiction?
There are many speculations, to most reviews they say the characters of Jack and Rose portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet including some characters like Ruth Dewitt Bukater (mother of Rose) were only fiction to depict the life of the elites during that time.
But one account says that a certain Beatrice Wood, was the one modeled by James Cameron as Rose Dewitt Bukater Calvert in the movie hit.
No significant accounts were found to exactly find the real identity of Jack Dawson.
Few facts about Titanic:
It started its voyage on April 10, 1912 from Southampton, England to Cherbourg, France, to Queenstown, Ireland before heading towards New York. It sailed through calm waters for three days heading to New York until hitting an iceberg on April 14 at 11:40 PM. It carried 20 lifeboats with capacity for 1,178 people, 3,560 inflatable life jackets and 49 life buoys.
Tell me what else you know about Titanic. For the meantime to end this post, let me take you back to the time before Titanic faced a fatal death.
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