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Titanic at 100: Mystery Solved – The Best Titanic Documentary to Date

February 16, 2014

In 2012, the sinking of the RMS Titanic turned 100 years old. There were many things that came out to commemorate the occasion like books, authentic replicas for sale, movies being released on Blu-ray, and of course, there are were many documentaries that came out. While some documentaries were released on DVD for the first […]

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Titanic: How It Really Sank – A Review Of the Documentary

January 19, 2014

The RMS Titanic sank to the bottom of the ocean after striking an iceberg, and over 1500 people died the night of April 15, 1912. However, while these are all facts that cannot be disputed, there is a documentary that claims that the RMS Titanic was doomed from the moment of her construction.  There have […]

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A Statue For a Titanic Hero – Captain Edward James Smith

January 8, 2014

There is an old saying that the captain goes down with his ship, and there have been many disasters at sea in which the captain did indeed stay on the ship, and was hailed as a brave man and hero for seeing to it that all the passengers were safely away.  When a captain does […]

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Secrets of the Titanic Documentary – A Review of Bob Ballard Exploring the RMS Titanic

December 22, 2013

In 1985, underwater explorer Dr. Robert Ballard held a press conference in which he told the world that he had found the most famous ship ever, the RMS Titanic.  That same year of Ballard’s discovery, National Geographic came out with an issue of their famous magazine that had the Titanic on the cover. One year […]

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A Night To Remember – A Review of the Movie From Walter Lord’s Best Selling Book

December 22, 2013

The opening scene of A Night To Remember is a christening of the great ship Titanic, which is something that never happened. For those that earn their living on the sea, it is considered bad luck for a ship to sail without being christened, and many feel that the lack of christening is what doomed […]

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Titanic: The Shocking Truth – The Biggest Conspiracy Theory of Them All

December 15, 2013

Everyone loves a good conspiracy theory; there are conspiracy theories that exist for everything from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln to the destruction of the Twin Towers on 9/11. One of the most interesting conspiracies involves the RMS Titanic and her sister ship the RMS Olympic. Everyone knows the story of the greatest marine disaster […]

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A Titanic Controversy – Was Stanley Lord to Blame For The Entire Titanic Disaster?

December 15, 2013

When Carpathia arrived in New York City with the Titanic survivors, people were not able to rest from their ordeal because an ambitious senator named William Alden Smith decided that there were questions that had to be answered as to what happened. Who better to answer the questions that the whole world was asking than […]

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A Review of S.O.S. Titanic – The Alternative Version – “God went down with the Titanic…”

December 14, 2013

In 1979, S.O.S. Titanic was a miniseries that ran on ABC on September 23, 1979. The miniseries aired over two nights and totaled two and half hours of run time without commercials. The miniseries was cut to a total of 103 minutes, and was then released in theatres in Europe and DVD everywhere else.  In 1990, the […]

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Floating Titanic Hotels

January 25, 2013

This week “The Titanic Sinking Boutique Hotel” will open at Liverpool’s Salthouse Dock.  This ten- room, three-bedroom hotel will have a replica of the first class dining room, state-of-the-art living quarters, and a luxury ballroom.

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Is Clive Palmer Really Having a Replica of the Titanic Built?

October 31, 2012

This 58 year old Australian billionaire is planning on doing just that.  Using copies of the original plans for the “unsinkable ship”, the design is being completed in Europe.  The actual construction of the Titanic II will begin sometime in 2013 at CSC Jinling Shipyard in China and should be completed in 2016.

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Life Beneath The Seafloor: Thermal Vents

September 16, 2012

In February, 1977, Bob Ballard and his team of geologists, geochemists and geophysicists discovered hydrothermal vents on the Pacific Ocean floor.  This discovery has changed our understanding of life on Earth and possibly the universe.

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