Thomas Dyer
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Re: Empress of Ireland
I'm reading a realy good book about the Empress of Ireland called "Fourteen Minutes" by James Croall.
(I will tell you all about it when I finish reading it)
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(Translation of part of the Welsh National Anthem)
The land of my fathers, the land of my choice,
The land in which poets and minstrels rejoice;
The land whose stern warriors were true to the core,
While bleeding for freedom of yore.
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Jul/10/2003, 4:59 pm
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Teamtunafish
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The thing that gets me is taht, despite the dark and cold, the ship has been practically stripped by divers anyway (and so much for the fact it, like the Titanic, is a gravesite)
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Nov/3/2003, 9:30 pm
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Teamtunafish
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Actually, Titanic is unusual in that she wasn't stripped, unlike so many other ships - but it was not for want of trying. (There were plans for salvage to begin before Carpathia made it to New York.) The only reason she was not stripped is where she is - inaccessible to all until recently, and almost on the heels of discovery, we have people down there illegally taking stuff.
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Nov/18/2003, 2:10 pm
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Ooh, I won't even get started on this particular line of thought! I get my helm royally jammed in the wrong direction every time I think of victim's bones being carried away from the site! Bad enough to steal personal effects....even worse to steal remains!
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"What I remember about that night- what I will remember as long as I live- is the people crying out to each other as the stern began to plunge down. I heard people crying, 'I love you.'"
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Apr/6/2004, 5:53 pm
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Well, yes, but on Titanic, there are no bones left - they've either been consumed by bacteria and the fish, or destroyed by the pressure.
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Apr/6/2004, 8:04 pm
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Thomas Dyer
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I've moved this topic back to the The Disaster Forum from other ships, April 16th 2004. 
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Apr/16/2004, 2:32 pm
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I know that bones eventually dissolve or are consumed, but I never knew that hydrostatic pressure can destroy bones. Really?
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No matter how much experience diving one has this still sounds like something not for the faint of heart. The story went on to say that this ship was commanded by Captain Henry Kendall and carried 1,477 people passengers and crew put together. Of that number 1,012 died the morning she sank, 840 of them being passengers. Very sad.
