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There she is! The BIG piece!

A little surprise from the RMST Titanic Expedition 2024!

When they send subs or ROVs to the wreck of Titanic, it's a tradition to attach a bag of Styrofoam cups to the vehicle when it makes the dive, usually with something stamped or written on the cups. The incredible pressure at the wreck site - some 12,500 feet or 3,800 meters down - squeezes any air from the foam, shrinking the cup to the size of a shot glass or thimble.

On this latest expedition, one of those cups was personalized for me and it's just about the neatest and cutest thing I've ever seen! (It's supposedly still safe to drink from them, but I won't be doing that.)

Huge thanks to RMS Titanic, Inc. and the folks who made Expedition 2024 happen, for the incredible data I'm sure they gathered, and for being so generous with their cups!

(LEGO Minifigure for scale)

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112 years ago today, RMS Titanic departed Southampton, England to begin her maiden - and only voyage. This iconic moment has been recreated time and time again in films, TV shows, musicals, paintings, video games, and elsewhere. In memory of those aboard and those yet to board in Cherbourg and Queenstown, we submit this animation to join the collection.

To borrow words from one of the great departure recreations:

“Farewell, farewell. Godspeed, Titanic.”

Be sure to join us this Sunday for our 112th Anniversary Livestream featuring our first ever Real-Time Sinking IN-PERSON/online live event only on YouTube (@TitanicHG) starting at 9pm EDT.

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TITANIC NEWS...

"RMS Titanic, Inc., the salvor-in-possession of the Titanic wreck site, will soon be conducting a research-focused expedition using remotely operated vehicles to capture high-resolution images of the wreck site and surrounding debris field. As part of our partnership with RMST, we are excited to announce that our team of researchers, 3D artists, and Titanic enthusiasts will be providing our assistance to this incredible endeavor.

RMST has graciously included our team in the planning process for this expedition and has asked for a list of recommendations to work into their dive schedule - recommendations that may aid our ongoing effort to recrate Titanic in a virtual world. Being that so much of Titanic remains a mystery to this day, this is an opportunity of a lifetime for our team.

But we hope to make this an opportunity for our community as well.

During our April 14th Real-Time Anniversary Livestream, we will announce how our community can participate in the upcoming expedition to Titanic. We will provide an email address to which Titanic enthusiasts everywhere can send their ideas and their most pressing wreck site questions. We will then sift through these ideas and submit our favorites to the expedition team. Who knows, your curiosity may lead to discovery!

So join us on April 14th for our Real-Time Anniversary Livestream and have your ideas ready to submit! The stream begins at 9:00PM EDT only on YouTube @TitanicHG.

We are so appreciate of RMS Titanic, Inc. and their genuine desire to expand our community's knowledge of Titanic and we look forward to working with them in the North Atlantic!"

For more information on this announcement and a look at our newest update to the TITANIC: PROJECT 401 Demo, join us for one of our other livestreams TOMORROW (April 6th) at 4:01pm EDT at youtube.com/@TitanicHG

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112 Years Ago: Titanic was dressed in her signal flags to greet the people of Southampton on her first day in port. This occasion is often assumed to be a celebration of Good Friday but has since been confirmed as taking place on Thursday, April the 4th.

Join us tomorrow for our next major event in our A MONTH TO REMEMBER! For a look at the full schedule, visit https://www.patreon.com/posts/presenting-month-101308623

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112 years ago tonight, Titanic arrived at Berth 44 in Southampton, England where she would stay for 6 days before her maiden departure.

Over the course of the week, she would be further fitted out with extra furnishings, fresh paint and even ivy for the walls of the Cafe Parisien.

Join us all month long for new Titanic animations, announcements and livestreams including our first ever Real-Time LIVE EVENT. For the full schedule, visit https://www.patreon.com/posts/presenting-month-101308623

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112 years ago today: April 2nd, 1912, after 2 years of construction and 10 months of fitting-out, Titanic leaves Belfast for the first and last time for her sea trials and voyage to Southampton. Her trials were scheduled the day before, but high winds prevented it them from happening. The trials consisted largely of basic maneuvers and turns, testing the engines, and adjusting compasses. Once in Southampton, she would spend a week being prepared for her maiden voyage. The preparations include a mad dash to bring aboard things that didn't make it before leaving Belfast, like additional furniture and fittings.

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Folks! We're posting on this blog after 2.5 years because a lot of things have been happening, and this April will be a good one for Titanic Enthusiasts. With that being said...

Welcome to “A MONTH TO REMEMBER.” 31 days of Titanic animations, announcements, documentaries, lectures and livestreams brought to you by TITANIC: HONOR AND GLORY and our partners.

To kick off the month, we begin where Titanic once began...

Titanic was comprised of many thousands of steel structural elements, but all of that rested upon a keel which had to be built before everything else. The very first pieces of the keel that had to be laid down in the Arrol Gantry were the keel bars, long slabs of steel some 9.5 x 3 inches thick that formed the very bottom and center of the ship.

And so, 115 years ago today, the first piece of the keel was laid for Harland and Wolff’s 401st ship on a cold slipway in Belfast. Humble beginnings for a 46,000-ton ship that will one day captivate the world.

Join us all month long for everything Titanic including our first ever Real-Time LIVE EVENT. For the full month schedule, visit https://www.patreon.com/posts/presenting-month-101308623

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Recently there was a viral TikTok video spreading the Titanic switch conspiracy theory. It's now deleted, but it got over 12 million views with many outlets sharing it and repeating its claims. This theory pops up regularly and its arguments are absurd, so I used the TikTok video as my excuse to finally talk about it.

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Returning after a long hiatus to say that I am once again thinking about the time Bright Side (one of the worst channels on YouTube) took the term "fireman" literally in one of their shitty Titanic videos

#titanic #bright side

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“The history of the R.M.S. Titanic, of the White Star Line, is one of the most tragically short it is possible to conceive. The world had waited expectantly for its launching and again for its sailing; had read accounts of its tremendous size and its unexampled completeness and luxury; had felt it a matter of the greatest satisfaction that such a comfortable, and above all such a safe boat had been designed and built- the “unsinkable lifeboat” -and then in a moment to hear that it had gone to the bottom as if it had been the veriest tramp steamer of a few hundred tons; and with it fifteen hundred passengers, some of them known the world over! The improbability of such a thing ever happening was what staggered humanity.”

- Lawrence Beesley (Titanic survivor, 1877 - 1967), from “The Loss Of The S.S. Titanic”, published in 1912.