Anyone Else Fell Down The Titanic Rabbit Hole Recently?

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To this thread, this whole submarine-Titanic thing had me look up modern cruise sinkings. Most of them were pretty well evacuated but one, the staff left the boat and didn’t tell the passengers they were sinking, the damn entertainers held it together and were the ones to help get all the passengers off…this is like 2-4 hours after the staff knew they were sinking :snoop:
 

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The main part that most people don't know about is the fact that it was literally pitch black




I found this part out the other day

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They only found 3 survivors, 1 died after being rescued. One of them balanced himself on his hands and knees while on a table in that pitch black ice cold water for over an hour. The will to survive is something else
 

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Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche was born in 1886 in Haiti. At the age of 15, he went to France to study engineering. He spoke French, Creole, and English fluently. After obtaining a degree in engineering, he married Juliette Lafargue, a white French woman with whom he was fast friends when they first met through a mentor. Due to rampant racial discrimination, he had difficulty finding a job despite his qualifications. When he did get jobs, he received poor pay from racist employers. He decided to look outside of France for new opportunities to support his two young daughters and his pregnant wife. The couple decided they would move to Haiti, where Laroche’s uncle, Cincinnatus Leconte, was the President of Haiti and who promised he would appoint his nephew to a professorship in mathematics.

Tickets were bought to board a ship called La France to journey to Haiti. However, due to the ship’s policy on separating parents and children, the couple decided to instead trade their first-class tickets for second-class tickets on RMSTitanic so that they could stay with their daughters, one of whom often fell sick. From New York, Titanic’s destination, they planned to take another ship to Haiti. However, the fateful night/early morning of April 15, 1912 struck. Juliette and one of her daughters, Simonne, managed to get on a lifeboat. Laroche’s last known actions are rushing to make sure his second daughter, Louise, was placed on the same lifeboat as her mother and sister. After ensuring his family was in a lifeboat, he promised his wife they would see each other soon. His body was never recovered; he was 25 years old when he died.
 

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Man fukk that boat :camby: I went down a rabbit hole with James Cameron. Here's a question tho: Why isn't the boat crushed from all the pressure?

Solid steel doesn’t compress. Once the boat filled with water there wasn’t much to crush. The main things that could crush were windows and those did collapse.
 

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This info in this thread is fascinating :ohhh:


It is but honestly the entire situation fascinates me. I've watched the movie a few times. Each time I'm like if they would've just slowed down this may not have happened

The fact that JP Morgan, a Vanderbilt and other industry titans bought tickets but had circumstances that lead them to make other plans is wild

Another weird fact, the man who eventually got one of their spots on the ship was the one who was panini pressed to go faster which caused them to not have enough time to avoid the iceberg. He was the chairman of the White Star Line, the ship owners, and wanted to show off by arriving earlier than the scheduled time to generate press. In the chaos, forced his way on to a life boat and survived

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@Orbital-Fetus downloaded titanic VR and was onside the submersible controling it and shyt :mjlol: they even had the
Underwater ROVs,,, i may play it again,,, idk


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So you saw the Titanic with a playstation controller and lived to talk about it? :wow:
 

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Another weird fact, the man who eventually got one of their spots on the ship was the one who was panini pressed to go faster which caused them to not have enough time to avoid the iceberg. He was the chairman of the White Star Line, the ship owners, and wanted to show off by arriving earlier than the scheduled time to generate press. In the chaos, forced his way on to a life boat and survived
Clout chasing been a hobby for centuries
 

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My algorithm has been throwing videos at me recently but I went on a Titanic binge years ago, back when youtube was way less censored

There are a lot of documentaries that have been scrubbed from the internet

For instance, a lot of people don't know that the Titanic wasn't the only ship of its line/model.

The titanic had like 2 sister ships built damn near identical to it

One of those sisters ships had horrible maintenance issues and was a money pit

There's a belief that the real titanic was swapped out with the crappy sister ship before its first voyage, and that the crappy ship was sunk on purpose for the insurance money
 

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To this thread, this whole submarine-Titanic thing had me look up modern cruise sinkings. Most of them were pretty well evacuated but one, the staff left the boat and didn’t tell the passengers they were sinking, the damn entertainers held it together and were the ones to help get all the passengers off…this is like 2-4 hours after the staff knew they were sinking :snoop:

Costs Concordia?

The worst thing was staff telling people don’t worry go back to your rooms
 

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Has the skeletal and cellular structure of life at that depth been studied? fukk that boat
 
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