Channel 5 Titanic documentary....
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Any thoughts? It was interesting but too much going over old ground (no pun intended) when more footage of the wreck would have been better.
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There was another one? :eek: i only watched one last week on the history channel, wow these people are really making loads of money on the titanic, what a publicity this ship is getting, my god this ship gets more publicity then John Lennon and he was also famous.
2.2 million for a show at 8pm (must be one of their highest ever audiences for a show at that time)
That will probably be in the Five top 10 for the week when the final BARB's come out! :cool:
All the survivors who actually have memories of the incident are dead now. The remaining ones were less than a year old at the time of the disaster.
The wreck was found 73 years after the sinking so by the time people were discussing it and investigating up these theories, there were'n't all that many survivors left anyway.
I wish I'd been in to see it . I hope they repeat sometime soon.
As the previous poster said, there isn't anyone alive now who remembers the sinking. And even when there was, there was many contradictory stories surrounding the sinking, not least on the subject of whether the ship sank in one piece or not. Don't forget that before the wreck was found, it was considered by most that the ship sank in one piece. And even now, we cannot be sure exactly how the ship broke apart, although it probably wasn't how James Cameron showed it. The only real certainty is that the ship broke apart at, or very close to the surface, because the bow and stern sections are a good 2000ft apart, and facing in opposite directions.
In the earlier days of it happening though would they not of had inquests into what and how it happened, I would of thought servivors would of said what happened and would it not of been recorded for future refferance.
So even back then thier was contradicting reports
She hated it and & it took her 3 years to save the money for her ticket home.
She fancied returning on the Titanic when it sailed back to Blighty............
I'll bet they've only ever beaten 2.2 mill on a normal Tues at 8o'clock a handful of times in nearly 10 years!
It's good ratings, considering their big guns normally go out at 9pm or 10pm
Back to the Titanic. I was reading a discussion on the Titanic on the pages of Harvard University and they were talking about 'ownership' rights of the vessel.
They posed 2 questions,
1) Does the Titanic and its potential treasures remain property of the shipping company
2) If the Titanic were to be raised, who would object? There's nothing to stop a multi-million dollar project raising the vessel, morals or not
I doubt either are likely
Yes,it's haunting and historic,but it's been done to death.Same with Loch Ness,was there a monster blah blah.... :mad:
Personally,I think that the Loch Ness monster sank the Titanic.Let them all rest in peace,please. :sleep:
No-one knows what happened in its final moments and its like any event in history that is 'unknown' - people thirst to find out what happened - just think of the Mary Rose!
RR I believe there is an international agreement that no country will ever try to claim ownership over the Titanic and that would prevent anyone trying to raise it or claim the lost 'treasures' as their own
It was an unfortunate accident Spruce - but one that many could argue was fuelled by arrogance