The Titanic theme played on the recorder.

I feel like I’m standing in the middle of a crowded room, screaming at the top of my lungs, and no one even looks up.

Titanic references on Friends

04/15/1912, 2AM, North Atlantic.
100 years ago, the RMS Titanic set sail carrying 2,223 people. 
And exactly 100 years ago today, Titanic sank at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean causing the death of 1,514 souls after colliding with an iceberg a few hours earlier.
Today we remember all those who went down with the ship.
RIP Titanic and its victims. 

theshipwillsink:

Nearer My God To Thee - Titanic Band

Last song claimed to have been played on the Titanic.

thequietworld | janine-restrepo | sparepartsandbrokenhearts:

“The Dream”, music from the last scene in Titanic.

Only existing footage of the RMS Titanic [x]

A century ago, on the night of 14-15 april 1912, the RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.

violetcrawley:

A ridiculously long post about my feelings regarding the Titanic disaster

violetcrawley:

 I often tell people that the Titanic disaster is one of my favorite historical events because it occurred during one of my favorite time periods and because I find historical, world-altering disasters fascinating (think the Black Plague, the World Wars, etc.).  But in all honesty, my connection to Titanic goes much deeper. 

            I’d heard about the sinking in elementary school, but it never interested me.  It wasn’t until I read one of those “Historical Dear Diary” books in seventh grade that I began to understand the magnitude of the disaster.  I read the book in a few hours, and then read it again later that day because I couldn’t stop thinking about it.  A few months later, I was flipping through TV channels when I came across the scene in James Cameron’s 1997 Titanicwhen Rose almost jumps off the back of the ship.  I’d never seen the movie, but I became utterly engrossed.  The movie sparked an intense interest in me, and I decided to learn more about the sinking (I couldn’t give less of a crap about Rose and Jack, to be honest).  When I was in eighth grade, I was required to write a report on any bit of history or culture that has influenced Americans.  I chose to write about the Titanic disaster. 

            My report was 111 pages.  This is what it looks like:

            It includes a 35 page outline on every element of the ship, its passengers, and the White Star Line, 40 pages of Identification Terms (the names and detailed descriptions of every important person, place, and thing involved in the production and destruction of the ship), a book report on a newly published article about how the Titanic sank, a book report on Walter Lord’s A Night to Remember, essay questions, an objective test, and a sonnet.  I also performed “Nearer My God, to Thee,” what is commonly thought to be the last song the ship’s band played before the ship sank, on my violin, and I drew my own idea of what men and women of different classes wore when they boarded the ship.  I dragged my family on a road trip to Las Vegas to see the Titanic artifact exhibition.  I cooked the last meal members of the first class ate, and I invited my friends over to partake in the meal. 

            I wrote that report four years ago, but I still remember almost every detail of the ship and the disaster, and my interest continues to grow.  I’m not really interested in the facts and figures of the disaster, but in the people who lived through it.  Over the course of these last few years, I’ve become increasingly engrossed in who the survivors and victims of the sinking were.  It’s not that 1,500 people died in the early morning of April 15^th, 1912, but that 1,500 people would never laugh, eat, or sleep again.  Every single person that died that night was allergic to certain foods, said, “I love you” to certain people, and boarded the Titanic for a reason.  I know that all sounds clichéd, but I love clichés, so it makes sense why I am so affected by the disaster.  Those victims were just as real and complete as we are, but over these last 100 years, it seems like they’ve become just numbers. 

            My ~connection to the sinking makes sense with what I’m passionate about (people, not numbers), but it also interests me because of the affect it had on the international attitude toward science and technology.  Throughout the Industrial Revolution and the Gilded Age, the progress made in science and technology allowed people to view them as beneficial and open-ended.  The Titanic was a triumph of human creation, the largest and most grand moving vessel ever built.  It was a symbol of human achievement and the successes of industry and society at the beginning of the twentieth century.  When the ship sank, society’s attitude toward scientific and industrial progress was rocked.  The most safe and luxurious monument to mankind sank on its maiden voyage, and took 1,500 people with it.  Science and technology changed from ever-positive forces to concepts that could be dangerous.  When World War I started two years later, the world’s opinion of science and technology depleted even further.  The peacefulness and progress of Edwardian society was turned on its head by the sinking of the Titanic and even more so by the war. 

            The Titanic disaster also interests me (and makes me SUPER emotional) because so many things that could have been prevented went wrong.  As 13 year old me wrote in her report, “If the Titanic had sailed a week earlier or later, if the Titanic crew had seen the iceberg ten seconds earlier, or if the Titanic had hit the iceberg straight on, the ship would not have sunk.  If the lookouts on the ship had binoculars, if the watertight bulkheads were taller, if the ship had lifeboats for all of its passengers and crew members, if there was a moon in the sky, or if there were waves in the sea on the night of the sinking, the ship would have survived its collision, and may not have even collided in the first place.”  The sinking is a bit like a puzzle—so much went wrong so quickly, but no one even knew that what they were doing was faulty.  The ship’s crew received six iceberg warnings from other ships, the lookouts saw the iceberg only 37 seconds before the ship hit because they left their binoculars in Southampton, only 20 lifeboats were on the ship because if there were more the deck would “look too cluttered.”  The sinking is an unfortunate series of human folly—those who were so proud of the ship unconsciously worked against their conviction of the safeness of the vessel. 

            My thoughts on the Titanic have matured as I’ve matured.  I know every bit of Titanic lore there is to know (seriously, every single bit), but I also know that 1,500 hopeful people who were given the exciting opportunity to be passengers on the maiden voyage of the world’s greatest ship fell victim to human error and an unfortunate combination of natural elements.  100 years later, the tragedy and its results are still with us, not because of a famous movie, but because the people on that ship were just like us.  They had dreams, and friends, and family, and favorite books, and allergies, and skills, and if they lived a century later, some of them probably would have had blogs.  We share a connection to them because we remain part of the thread of humanity, inevitably connected to all those before us.

veronox:

eridanswigglyearfins:

hannah-ler:

doingitdisneystyle:

This is fucking hilarious. I always assumed they had the camera strapped to them on a rig omg. LMAOOOO

PERFECT SENSE O_o

I can’t stop staring at this omfg.

The camera mans legs.

FUeiwofopds I can’t.

You just know that the dude lost a bet.

If he won, they’d use a rig.

If he lost, he had to do… this.

 They called it the ship of dreams and it was…