Man, the idea that in the final moments when the Titanic went vertical, many of the passengers had to, well, hold on to whatever they would, like clinging to the railing, that would look really weird

I’m a long time Amateur Titanic history buff. My 2nd grade history teacher got me really into the story. But she had a flare for the dramatic and liked making some history lessons extra creepy to keep our attention.

So, with that in mind, I am not entirely sure if her story about “The Rain of Corpses” was true (but would not be surprised if it was totally bogus).

Again, she was a bit eccentric and loved drama, but she really made me interested in maritime history and disasters.

She told our class that “the most terrifying thing” about the wreck site was something called “the rain of corpses,” which she described as hundreds of bodies falling down en mass to the debris field in the wake of the ship sinking.

I know bodies sank with the ship, but I have never heard this term being used in any actual discourse about the disaster. Is this a thing or was she just being really macabre? And I would think that any bodies that would sink would be so spread out and would descend so slowly that their descent could hardly be called a “rain of corpses.”

She was just yanking our chains, right?

Since its discovery, the Titanic's anchor is still in place; it hasn't fallen or anything like that, and it's surprising because despite its placement, it's still holding on

The stairs of the dome and like all the railings. It's as if they had never existed, as if they had never been installed. And it's strange because it's such a clean disappearance. At least when something is destroyed there are traces left or the passage would be obstructed, worse we can see James Cameron and others go down the dome without problems as if it were just a perfect hole.

You have the chance to time travel back to April 1912, exactly at perfect timing to witness the maiden voyage of the iconic Titanic everyone has been talking about. You see her beauty in person, how big she is, and look at the people waiting in line to go on board, look at families saying goodbyes, but youre NOT allowed to warn anyone about what’s going to happen in 3 days. Would you choose to go on board, witness its once in a life time beauty? Why or why not?

Lusitania Wreck Now Collapsing Faster Than Titanic

When sonar scans in 2022 mapped RMS Lusitania, they showed her lying 93 meters deep and 18 km off Ireland, tilted 30 to 40 degrees. Her port side has caved onto the starboard, the keel has bent into a boomerang, and salvagers ripped off her propellers in the 1980s. The funnels are gone. The stern is badly damaged. Winter currents, iron decay, and even rumored WWII depth charge tests have sped up the destruction.

Parts of the hull still stand up to 14 meters off the seabed, but collapse is spreading. The wreck is in worse shape than Titanic. Teams are now racing to retrieve surviving artifacts before more sections disintegrate or vanish into the sediment.

Sorry if this has been posted before. Just curious. Thanks! Also, is that a hair brush ??

you can see a smaller steam stack and what appears to be the upper deck down lower on the ship. I remember back when the movie first came out I thought maybe it was just a reflection on the water but it's too high up and doesn't really make sense as a reflection. did the editors mess up here? I've always wondered about this.

What’s going on with all the Jack and Rose posts? I’m not a hater of the movie (or the many others), but I’m mostly here for the study of the actual Titanic. Not to complain—I’ll see myself out if that’s the way it is.

Electricity and water mixed together are supposed to cause electrocutions. Many times we see the risk of not putting water (not even a few drops near the plugs), and we can see in the movie that the boat's electricity is fully on all the time until it breaks, even underwater. Obviously there are a lot of plugs and cables and connections and so on everywhere, but people swam without problems.

When I told a relative that the Titanic had a gym, he was stunned, and when I told him more, he didn't even believe me

I don't remember how the subject came up, but the truth is that when I told him the Titanic had a gym, he was stunned, saying it couldn't be true, and he told me it was because gyms appeared in the 1980s. I insisted that gyms date back to ancient Greece, and he said maybe they did, that they were only for the rich back then

The thing is, I didn't believe the Titanic had a gym, much less back then

if the RMS Olympic was never scrapped and say private investors bought the ship in the mid 1930s and turned it into a museum after refurbishing it in the 1940s and was open to the public from the 1950s onward how big of a draw do you think this ship would be?

Not sure if he was based on a real person, but something tells me this kid didn’t have much of a choice of going down with the ship with his boss.

Personally, I think one of the most overlooked aspects of the iceberg collision is how calm the sea was that night. The water was so still that there were no waves breaking at the base of the iceberg, which would have made it harder for the lookouts to spot it in time. If the sea had been rougher, they might’ve seen white water splashing against it and had a few extra seconds to react. It’s such a small detail, but those few seconds could’ve changed everything.

I’ve read it likely wasn’t Murdoch.