graham 01
Cedric Member
Registered: 02-2004
Location: Middlesbrough UK
Posts: 5797
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Why it stands out for me
Hi All
The following is out of todays paper and it stood out for me not for the fact it was a titanic piece but the word Myrtle. This was the pet name of my Ex Father law for my EX wife.
Titanic exhibit good family fun
By Jan A. Igoe
The Sun News
At first, it seems odd that the Titanic exhibit at Ripley's Aquarium is subtitled "Island of life," considering that the ship's demise cost 1,500 lives.
The most technologically advanced ship of her day - touted as unsinkable by "God himself," according to a deck hand - went down on her maiden voyage in 1912 after nine warnings about the 300,000-ton iceberg in her path were ignored.
The wreckage was unreachable for decades until 1985, when new technology made it possible for oceanographer Robert Ballard to reach uncharted ocean depths and reveal Titanic's evolving wonders to the world above.
Today her massive hull hosts a massive and intricate 65-ton life form known as "rusticles," which scientists say may be a precursor to complex multicell life. The exhibit introduces opportunistic undersea creatures that now colonize Titanic's remains. Where death once staked the only claim, life has triumphed.
For Ripley's visitors, 28 fascinating exhibits are sure to please trivia buffs and fish fanciers alike. You'll experience what passengers might have seen as they passed within inches of the monstrous iceberg, minutes before tons of icy water flooded Titanic's bow.
Learn how the ship's demise changed winter trade routes, revolutionized reliance on ships' radios, and how simple changes could have spared all on board if arrogance and ignorance had not conspired so successfully.
"With a deadly mix of rank over reason and submission over substance, quiet followers empower flawed leaders," says one exhibit sign.
--- Why dont people do what they say nowadays http://www.freewebs.com/hms-kellington/
http://www.freewebs.com/graham7760/index.htm
http://www.freewebs.com/hmsroyaloak/
|
Jul/24/2004, 9:31 am
|
Link to this post
Send Email to graham 01
Send PM to graham 01
Blog
|
Unsinkable
Celtic
Registered: 07-2004
Posts: 57
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Why it stands out for me
Graham, this reads like it's from the Myrtle Beach paper, the Sun. Myrtle Beach is in my state, SC, and we frequently go there.
The Ripley's exhibit is a quality work, though I did not attend the opening of the Titanic exhibit in March of this year. I did have a friend who attended it.
Myrtle Beach received its name from all the crepe myrtle trees growing in the area.
|
Jul/25/2004, 3:01 am
|
Link to this post
Send Email to Unsinkable
Send PM to Unsinkable
|
wills
Cedric Member
Registered: 02-2004
Posts: 4308
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Why it stands out for me
thank you graham for sharing that. i have always wanted to go to a titanic exhibit but never got to.
wills
--- Suicide is a permenant solution to a temporay problem........
Whatever obstacles control,
Go on, true heart,
thou'lt reach the goal.
http://com4.runboard.com/bthetitanicshack
wills~~~~~
|
Jul/25/2004, 6:12 am
|
Link to this post
Send Email to wills
Send PM to wills
Blog
|
graham 01
Cedric Member
Registered: 02-2004
Location: Middlesbrough UK
Posts: 5797
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Why it stands out for me
Hi Unsinkable,
First I apologise as yes it is and I do always put source lines on and in this occation I seem to of missed it out. So I do apologise but yes it is from the sun.
Thank you for the information on the name it is most interesting, Not been to a exhibit mysellf as yet either I do not know what are good or bad ones. I just post the news now and then .
But at least now I know my ex wife was named after a tree :-)
--- Why dont people do what they say nowadays http://www.freewebs.com/hms-kellington/
http://www.freewebs.com/graham7760/index.htm
http://www.freewebs.com/hmsroyaloak/
|
Jul/25/2004, 8:23 am
|
Link to this post
Send Email to graham 01
Send PM to graham 01
Blog
|
graham 01
Cedric Member
Registered: 02-2004
Location: Middlesbrough UK
Posts: 5797
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Why it stands out for me
Hi Wills
Sorry forgot to answer you, I hope one day if you want to you will go to a exhibit. They say they are good just not for me that is all. Although I am willing to make a exception on the Scotland one.
Graham
--- Why dont people do what they say nowadays http://www.freewebs.com/hms-kellington/
http://www.freewebs.com/graham7760/index.htm
http://www.freewebs.com/hmsroyaloak/
|
Jul/25/2004, 8:25 am
|
Link to this post
Send Email to graham 01
Send PM to graham 01
Blog
|
wills
Cedric Member
Registered: 02-2004
Posts: 4308
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Why it stands out for me
oh just forget it. im sorry but the fact that i'll never get to go is become an exceptance to me. so you dont need to go.
wills
--- Suicide is a permenant solution to a temporay problem........
Whatever obstacles control,
Go on, true heart,
thou'lt reach the goal.
http://com4.runboard.com/bthetitanicshack
wills~~~~~
|
Jul/26/2004, 2:51 am
|
Link to this post
Send Email to wills
Send PM to wills
Blog
|
graham 01
Cedric Member
Registered: 02-2004
Location: Middlesbrough UK
Posts: 5797
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Why it stands out for me
I know I dont need to go . And ok will forget it.
Graham
--- Why dont people do what they say nowadays http://www.freewebs.com/hms-kellington/
http://www.freewebs.com/graham7760/index.htm
http://www.freewebs.com/hmsroyaloak/
|
Aug/1/2004, 9:08 am
|
Link to this post
Send Email to graham 01
Send PM to graham 01
Blog
|
7th officer
Cedric Member
Registered: 04-2004
Posts: 417
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Why it stands out for me
I only just now read this thread. I get to Myrtle Beach once or twice a year or so (we sometimes dive out of Little River) and have seen the Ripley museum. Didn't know they had a Titanic exhibit--have to check it out next time I'm there. Hell, I'll see/watch/read anything about Titanic. I'm a Titanic slut.
|
Aug/13/2004, 12:33 pm
|
Link to this post
Send Email to 7th officer
Send PM to 7th officer
|
Unsinkable
Celtic
Registered: 07-2004
Posts: 57
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Why it stands out for me
7th, if you're a diver, go to www.offthewalldiving.com
A friend runs a charter service on the Cooper River and off the coast of Wilmington. He always comes back with lots of megladon teeth from Wilmington, and lots of relic as well as teeth from the Cooper. If you see a young man on a motorcycle, it's my son. We live about 20 miles from "the wall" as seen in Deliverance.
I'll bet lots of things will be uncovered after the storms go through.
Your fellow diver... Unsinkable
|
Aug/13/2004, 8:29 pm
|
Link to this post
Send Email to Unsinkable
Send PM to Unsinkable
|
wills
Cedric Member
Registered: 02-2004
Posts: 4308
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: Why it stands out for me
quote: Graham 01 wrote:
I know I dont need to go . And ok will forget it.
Graham
if you wantto graham you can i mean you dont need my permission lol. i was just saying that wish i could go to one would be interesting i think.
wills
--- Suicide is a permenant solution to a temporay problem........
Whatever obstacles control,
Go on, true heart,
thou'lt reach the goal.
http://com4.runboard.com/bthetitanicshack
wills~~~~~
|
Aug/14/2004, 5:29 am
|
Link to this post
Send Email to wills
Send PM to wills
Blog
|