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From: brian@sequent.UUCP (Brian Godfrey)
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Subject: Re: The TITANIC
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Date: Tue, 29-Jul-86 18:00:42 EDT
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>myself....), but the story is that the little camera-robot that's cruising
>around inside the ship has captured pictures of the chandelier HANGING in the
>main ballroom of the ship.
>	Has anybody seen this??.... I thought the whole thing was lying on
>its side, which would make it difficult for the chandelier to be hanging...

   Yup, it's there. A crystal chandelier, still hanging, with a piece of 
feathery looking coral growing on it. Titanic hit the bottom bow low, but 
upright.  The tremendous weight of the ship made her slide very rapidly 
through the water on her way down. This stripped off at least one of the 
funnels and made a mess of the bridge deck, but the hull apparently remained 
intact until she struck bottom, at which time the after 200 feet of her hull 
went to pieces and the bow dug deep into the mud. I presume she dug a bit of 
a trench in the bottom before coming to rest, but I have heard nothing to that
effect.

--Brian