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I saw Titanic 3D again today! Old people are the best people to share screenings with. It was so quiet! To be fair though there was only five other people in the cinema.
Titanic’s bow and starboard profile as captured in 2012. [via]
Anyone else find this hilarious?! Ugly laughing right now.
A light projection of the TITANIC on a 500-meter-long iceberg in the Northern Polar sea of Greenland, during the night of 13 April 2012. Mike Kessler / Gerry Hofstetter Marketing via EPA
I think I’ve watched four Titanic documentaries today. I regret nothing.
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg (on April 14th) during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,514 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. She was the largest ship afloat at the time of her maiden voyage. One of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line, she was built between 1909–11 by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. She carried 2,224 people.
Her passengers included some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as over a thousand emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere seeking a new life in North America. The ship was designed to be the last word in comfort and luxury, with an on-board gymnasium, swimming pool, libraries, high-class restaurants and opulent cabins. She also had a powerful wireless telegraph provided for the convenience of passengers as well as for operational use. Though she had advanced safety features such as watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, she lacked enough lifeboats to accommodate all of those aboard. Due to outdated maritime safety regulations, she carried only enough lifeboats for 1,178 people – a third of her total passenger and crew capacity.
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I watched a documentary about the Titanic the other day, this expert (I forget his name) started crying as he described vials of perfume that he salvaged from the Titanic wreck. I was lucky enough to smell the perfume at a Titanic exhibition in London last summer, it made me want to describe my own experience with them.
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Overwhelmingly strong floral, yet musky scents graced my nostrils, just as they graced others a hundred years before. These vials of perfume contained life that had survived so much death and destruction. They confronted me with sheer opulence, with lives that had been, and ultimately the fragility of life. Beauty was rediscovered in the depths of tragedy and I’m grateful that I was able to savor a small piece of it.
