Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark: Yes the North Atlantic can be that calm. I don't know about the North Sea though. We will have to get an opinion from Greg Locke who has spent some time with the offshore projects near Newfoundland. As for the bodies, I think who ever said they just sunk the third class bodies rather than take them ashore ought to come to Halifax sometime and see the many gravestones in the cemetaries of victims of the Titanic. A first class passenger would probably have been shipped home rather than buried here. The morgue boats sailed out of Halifax to retrieve the bodies. It been freezing rain all day and I am waiting for my driveway to get a good coat of ice to see if my M6 will slide down it as quickly as Greg Locke's did in St John earlier this week. Regards, Robert At 12:34 PM 2/20/99 -0800, you wrote: >Amilcar de Oliveira wrote: >> >> The romantic scenes on the prow are impossible in a real ship. The prow is >> off limits because sometimes a high enough wave gets it underwater. When the >> prow is shown from above, you may see a V-shaped wall that is intended to >> deflect the water away from the rest of the deck. Also, on the route the Titanic >> was, the air is cold. Add to that the windspeed caused by the ship's advance and >> you have a very unconfortable chill factor. > >Later the North Sea is shown calm as glass with all the lifeboats >sitting around. Is this the stuff of legend... Could the North Sea ever >look like this when not in the confines of the Hollywood digital back lot? >Mark Rabiner > > > >