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From: dwren@rb-dc1.UUCP (Doug Wren)
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Subject: Re: The TITANIC
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Date: Thu, 31-Jul-86 11:46:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 31 11:46:51 1986
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Summary: pointer to passenger list, listing ship


Tried to mail this - it bounced.

Complete passenger lists, hundreds of fascinating
anecdotes, and lots of interesting facts can be found
in Walter Lords' "A Night To Remember", available at any
library worthy of the name. It's a classic and a must-read
for anyone interested in TITANIC.

Since this is going on the net - TITANIC is upright on the
ocean floor - or at least the part of her forward of her
number three funnel is. Stern section, can't say - it really
pisses me off the way network news shows edit out all relevant
facts. The TITANIC report was cut short so they could show a
squirrel raiding a candy machine.

As for the explorers' comment that TITANIC did not have a gash
from her encounter with the berg, but rather just a bunch of
burst seams - I'm skeptical. TITANIC had a double
hull starting with the fifth watertight compartment, and it
was the flooding of the fifth and sixth compartments that
doomed the ship. These compartments flooded pretty quickly.

And as for raising the ship - I did some rude calculations,
and an underwater balloon filled with gasoline (and
approximately the volume of the HINDENBURG) will do the
trick. Get one of the oil companies to supply the gas
and the tanker to carry it. Set the TITANIC up as a theme
park in New Jersey, sell bones as souvenirs. THAT would be
something the network news would know how to cover.:-)