TRIBUNBATAM.id - Tampaknya setiap generasi manusia dibumi bakalan tahu dan 'ngeh'apa itu kapal Titanic .
Penyumbang pengetahuan mereka akan kapal berbobot 52 ribu ton tersebut tak lain dari film 'Titanic'yang dibintangi oleh Leonardo Dicaprio sebagai Jack dan Kate Winslet sebagai Rose.
Di alur cerita film Titanic , sebagian fakta disajikan bagaimana tenggelamnya kapal mewah di tahun 1912 itu.
Termasuk proses tabrakan kapal dengan bongkahan es di Samudra Atlantik Utara saat melakukan perjalanan dari Southampton Inggris ke New York City, AS.
Tapi para ilmuwan dan sejarawan mulai meragukan akan tenggelammnya Titanic bukan hanya menabrak bongkahan es, melainkan ada faktor human error.
Jurnalis bernama Sena Molony mengungkapkan jika Titanic tenggelam karena api.
Molony yang sudah mempelajari dan mendalami tenggelamnya Titanic selama 30 tahun terperangah ketika meneliti foto-foto Titanic sebelum berangkat dari pelabuhan Southampton.
Ia menemukan noda hitam besar di lambung sebelah kanan Titanic .
TRIBUNMANADO.CO.ID - Tampaknya setiap generasi manusia dibumi bakalan tahu dan 'ngeh' apa itu kapal Titanic.
Penyumbang pengetahuan mereka akan kapal berbobot 52 ribu ton tersebut tak lain dari film 'Titanic'yang dibintangi oleh Leonardo Dicaprio sebagai Jack dan Kate Winslet sebagai Rose.
Di alur cerita film Titanic, sebagian fakta disajikan bagaimana tenggelam nya kapal mewah di tahun 1912 itu.
Termasuk proses tabrakan kapal dengan bongkahan es di Samudra Atlantik Utara saat melakukan perjalanan dari Southampton Inggris ke New York City, AS.
Tapi para ilmuwan dan sejarawan mulai meragukan akan tenggelam mnya Titanic bukan hanya menabrak bongkahan es, melainkan ada faktor human error.
Jurnalis bernama Sena Molony mengungkapkan jika Titanic tenggelam karena api.
Molony yang sudah mempelajari dan mendalami tenggelam nya Titanic selama 30 tahun terperangah ketika meneliti foto-foto Titanic sebelum berangkat dari pelabuhan Southampton.
Ia menemukan noda hitam besar di lambung sebelah kanan Titanic.
The sinking of luxury cruiser, Titanic, baffled the nation and the world in 1912, after an iceberg collision resulted in the death of about 1,500 people.
Now, over 100 years later, REELZ’s new docuseries, Collision Course: Titanic, seeks to inform viewers about the unfathomable tragedy, and reveal new details about the boat’s quick collapse.
“There were three million of these that put the ship together,” Tom Lynskey, the creator of video game Titanic: Honor and Glory, says while holding a steel rivet (like those which held up the Titanic’s plates) in the show teaser.
SEE: Items recovered from the Titanic up for auction:
9 PHOTOS Items from RMS Titanic sold at auction See Gallery Items from RMS Titanic sold at auction A pocket watch recovered from the RMS Titanic is on display during the Titanic Auction preview by Guernsey's Auction House in New York January 5, 2012. The biggest collection of Titanic artifacts is to be sold off as a single lot in an auction timed for the 100th anniversary in April of the sinking of the famed ocean liner. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT DISASTER) A lunch menu for the Titanic is on display at Bonham's auction house in New York April 10, 2012. Bonham's will sell off items such as telegrams, books, newspapers, and replicas from the film "Titanic" for the auction "R.M.S. Titanic: 100 Years of Fact and Fiction" on Sunday, April 15, 2012. REUTERS/Keith Bedford (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS) An attendent displays a volume of thirty-four signals between the ocean liners Olympic, Titanic, Carpathia and other ships, dated April 14th to April 16th 1912, detailing the distress signals of the Titanic and rescue operations following the disaster during an auction of maritime items at Christie's East in New York, February 17. The volume of messages sold at the auction for $123,500 to an undisclosed bidder. A cast bronze name board from the Titanic cruise ship's life boat sits on display at Christie's in New York May 26, 2006. The board and three other pieces from Titanic life boats will be sold off during the auction house's "Ocean Liner Furnishings and Art" auction on June 1. REUTERS/Keith Bedford A cast bronze name board from the Titanic cruise ship's life boat is displayed at Christie's in New York May 26, 2006. The board and three other pieces from Titanic life boats will be sold off during the auction house's "Ocean Liner Furnishings and Art" auction on June 1. REUTERS/Keith Bedford A pair of binoculars recovered from the RMS Titanic is on display during the Titanic Auction preview by Guernsey's Auction House in New York, January 5, 2012. The biggest collection of Titanic artifacts is to be sold off as a single lot in an auction timed for the 100th anniversary in April of the sinking of the famed ocean liner. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: DISASTER) Jewelry recovered from the RMS Titanic is on display during the Titanic Auction preview by Guernsey's Auction House in New York, January 5, 2012. The biggest collection of Titanic artifacts will be sold off as a single lot in an auction timed for the 100th anniversary in April of the sinking of the famed ocean liner. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT DISASTER) A diamond-encrusted bracelet recovered from the RMS Titanic is on display during the Titanic Auction preview by Guernsey's Auction House in New York, January 5, 2012. The biggest collection of Titanic artifacts is to be sold off as a single lot in an auction timed for the 100th anniversary in April of the sinking of the famed ocean liner. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: DISASTER) A launch ticket for the Titanic is put into a case at Bonham's auction house in New York April 10, 2012. A rare original launch ticket that could sell for up to $70,000 will be the highlight of an auction in New York of Titanic memorabilia to mark the centennial anniversary of the ill-fated voyage, Bonham's said on Tuesday. The ticket, which has its perforated admission stub still intact, would have allowed its holder to the launching and christening of the Titanic. REUTERS/Keith Bedford (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS) Up Next See Gallery Discover More Like This HIDE CAPTION SHOW CAPTION of SEE ALL BACK TO SLIDE
“The theory is the cold water made the rivets and the steel itself on the whole plating weak, it made it brittle,” he adds.
Lynskey says that after the sinking tragedy of 1912, new rivets were made in the same shape, from the same steel and were tested using the same temperature water, up against the same force of an iceberg impact.
“They hold up quite well,” he said.
Lynskey is not the only person who’s wondered why an iceberg was able to cause such damage to a large, 882 feet, ship like the Titanic. For decades, baffled family members of the victims and boat experts have come up with theories regarding the incident. Some even suggested that the vessel had other technical difficulties that resulted in its destruction.
“It was not the rivets that failed,” says Lynskey.
Collision Course: Titanic, airs Sunday, August 19 at 10:00 ET / PT on REELZ.
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WITH sunglasses perched on her head, the woman knelt and put a bunch of flowers at the gravestone marked J Dawson.
Kissing the tips of her fingers, she tenderly touched the top of the headstone before walking back to the waiting tour bus.
9 There is so much to do and see in Halifax
Everyone who saw the movie Titanic, released in the UK in 1998, remembers handsome Jack Dawson, the romantic liner passenger played by Leonardo DiCaprio.
Twenty years on, many of the cruise- ship crowd and other tourists who visit Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Canada’s eastern coast make a beeline for the J Dawson grave in Fairview Cemetery — where 121 victims of the 1912 maritime tragedy are buried.
There is just one thing, though. It was erected in memory of a different Dawson — Joseph, rather than Jack. But a local tour guide friend later advises me over a drink in a downtown bar: “If you spot a female fan of the fictional Jack Dawson putting flowers next to the J Dawson headstone, my advice is, ‘Keep shtum!’.”
For anyone interested in RMS Titanic — the supposedly unsinkable ship that hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank in the North Atlantic with the loss of more than 1,500 passengers and crew — a trip to Halifax is a must.
9 A visit to Halifax is not all about doom and gloom
The one-time British garrison town has a good claim to be the place with the strongest link to the doomed ship. Not only was it the nearest major seaport to the site of the sinking, about 400 miles off the Canadian coast, but it is the final resting place for more Titanic victims than anywhere else. There are 150 in all, buried in three cemeteries.
The excellent Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, on the downtown harbourfront, should be your first port of call if you want to learn more about the sinking.
Among the many exhibits are a deck chair from the liner and the original transcript of the ship’s distress call, all of which help bring to life the full horror of the disaster. But a visit to Halifax is not all about doom and gloom. There is much more to this handsome city than its Titanic link.
You are just as likely as in Glasgow or Edinburgh to see a kilt being worn or the bagpipes played, as the locals are proud of their Anglo-Scottish roots.
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Head up to the Citadel, the mighty star-shaped fortress above the city’s old town, which is now “guarded” by actors dressed in period uniforms worn by troops 200 years ago. The views from the top are magnificent, though it can be pretty blowy on some days.
The Pier 21 immigration museum is also well worth a visit. It is housed in a former immigration terminal which hundreds of thousands of British people passed through from 1928 to 1971 en route to a new life in Canada. They included my dad, who later returned to the UK after several years across the pond.
Halifax also has much to recommend it on the food and drink front, with more pubs and clubs per head than almost any other city in Canada.
Try a warming seafood chowder at the Five Fishermen restaurant, enjoy a pint of Halifax-brewed Alexander Keith’s beer at the Old Triangle Alehouse and, last but not least, sample a delicious Cows ice- cream on the waterfront boardwalk. The waterfront also has plenty of shops.
9 The Pier 21 immigration museum is also well worth a visit
9 You are just as likely as in Glasgow or Edinburgh to see a kilt being worn or the bagpipes played, as the locals are proud of their Anglo-Scottish roots
9 Halifax has more pubs and bars than almost any other city in Canada
You can hop aboard the oldest running saltwater ferry service in North America to head along the harbour shore to Dartmouth, with its own quaint shops, galleries, restaurants and pubs.
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Farther afield, McNabs Island at the mouth of Halifax Harbour is a hidden gem with hiking on secluded trails and a beautiful beach to relax on.
But for all Halifax’s historical and culinary charms, it is the Titanic connection — and the thought of all those lives snatched away by the unforgiving Atlantic more than a century ago — that is most likely to linger in your mind as you wait for your flight home.
God bless their souls.
GO: HALIFAX, CANADA GETTING THERE: Air Canada offers return flights from Heathrow to Halifax from £616.77. See aircanada.com or call 00 800 6699 2222.
STAYING THERE: Rooms at the Westin Nova Scotian in Halifax are from £125 per night.
See thewestinnovascotian.com or call 001 902 421 1000.
OUT & ABOUT: See novascotia.com
