Nice video. 20/20 hindsight of course. It wasn't until Ballard found her that people even believed she broke in two, despite at least three eyewitnesses who said she did. Clive Cussler floated the idea of patching her and raising her intact in 1976.
Interesting that the bow section didn't hit bottom perpendicular--White Star Line engineers testified that she could have remained afloat had she hit the berg head on instead of a glancing blow. James Cameron scoffed at the idea saying that the way her bow crumpled and bent when it hit bottom disproved that. But the bow didn't hit bottom straight on, so I think his proof is bunk.
Seems to me the different hypotheticals on striking blows and sinking could be determined on a computer given all the data and modeling already entered on that ship (and observation of the wreck). Accident reconstruction really is a science. And the cost for Cameron to prove or disprove it would be chump change.
I do remember that fictional story, Raise The Titanic, where the survivors were living in the sunken ship and the Russians and Americans were racing to obtain a load of rare mineral that was in the ship that both sides wanted for strategic purposes. About as crazy and inplausible as Avatar, but not quite as bad.
Nice video. 20/20 hindsight of course. It wasn't until Ballard found her that people even believed she broke in two, despite at least three eyewitnesses who said she did. Clive Cussler floated the idea of patching her and raising her intact in 1976.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that the bow section didn't hit bottom perpendicular--White Star Line engineers testified that she could have remained afloat had she hit the berg head on instead of a glancing blow. James Cameron scoffed at the idea saying that the way her bow crumpled and bent when it hit bottom disproved that. But the bow didn't hit bottom straight on, so I think his proof is bunk.
Seems to me the different hypotheticals on striking blows and sinking could be determined on a computer given all the data and modeling already entered on that ship (and observation of the wreck). Accident reconstruction really is a science. And the cost for Cameron to prove or disprove it would be chump change.
DeleteI do remember that fictional story, Raise The Titanic, where the survivors were living in the sunken ship and the Russians and Americans were racing to obtain a load of rare mineral that was in the ship that both sides wanted for strategic purposes. About as crazy and inplausible as Avatar, but not quite as bad.
Very cool video.
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