OASIS OF THE SEAS vs RMS TITANIC
RMS TITANIC is dwarfed by the new OASIS OF THE SEAS - A comparison in size.
Size Matters: Big Media Coverage For The World’s Biggest Cruise Ship Creates Cruise Ship History
Cruise Ship History: Before Royal Caribbean’s new “Oasis of the Seas” begins its first voyage on December 1, it will already have drawn more pre-inaugural media attention than any cruise ship in modern history. To begin with, WABC’s top-rated “Good Morning America” show will be... Read Full Story
FIVE TIMES BIGGER THAN THE RMS TITANIC - THE OASIS OF THE SEAS Departs Finland. A new chapter in Cruise History. The Oasis has also been voted one of the ugliest ships in the world.
THE OASIS OF THE SEAS - Aft view.
THE DOOMED TITANTIC
CRUISE HISTORY: OASIS OF THE SEAS, the world’s largest cruise ship, passes the island of Ruissalo shortly after departing the Turku, Finland shipyard of STX Europe, where she was built. The above YouTube footage was recorded October 30, 2009 at 08... Read Full Story
WHO OWNS THE REMNANTS OF THE RMS TITANIC?
Cruise History - The sinking of the RMS Titanic has captured the imagination of the world for decades. Because of that interest anything associated with the ship takes on additional weight. An ongoing legal battle over ownership of the remnants of the ocean liner is currently heating up.
Thousands of artifacts have been recovered from the ship which went down in the north Atlantic in 1912 killing 1,522 people. The artifacts could be worth... Read Full Story
Three ships lost at sea..., and their stories live on in books, movies, our minds and hearts..., and you've probably seen them all, except maybe number 2 ... Andrea Gail: The Perfect Storm (2000) ... a sword fishing boat out at sea with six men when a storm stronger than any in recorded history hit the coast off Gloucester, Massachusetts on October 30, 1991. The movie The Perfect Storm, based on Sebastian Junger's best-selling novel, so called because it was three storms combined into one... Read Full Story
Cruise Ship History: SS Balmoral cruise ship to trace RMS Titanic route.
RMS Titanic.
Let’s do a little cruising in the past aboard the SS Balmoral.
The SS Balmoral in heavy seas. For most, the notion of a bad time on a luxurious vacation aboard a cruise ship would be eating some bad shellfish at a local port. For the unlucky passengers aboard the British cruise ship Balmoral, their 10 days of basking in the lap of luxury went awry when the ship encountered 50 ft. seas and 60 mph... Read Full Story
Titanic in Digital 3-D Will Put the Iceberg Right in Your Face
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in the movie TITANIC.
CRUISING THE PAST: RMS Titanic to Crash Into Iceberg, Theaters Again in 3-D!
What’s nearly two billion dollars look like in 3-D?
More than 10 years after becoming king of the movie world, James Cameron’s Titanic may soon be padding its $1.8 billion worldwide gross with a 3-D re-release, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The RMS Titanic is the ultimate focus... Read Full Story
The RMS Empress of Ireland sinking resulted in the deaths of more passengers than the RMS Titanic disaster.
Why has the RMS Empress of Ireland tragedy been forgotten? The sinking of the RMS Empress Of Ireland hit Canada hard and was the worst maritime disaster in Canadian history. Occurring just two years after the RMS Titanic disaster, and a year before the loss of the RMS Lusitania, it is essentially forgotten.
Why?
The Empress disaster does not have the drama of the Titanic’s... Read Full Story
Cruise History: The sinking of the actual RMS Titanic and the fictitious sinking of the Titan. Was it coincidence?
Art doesn’t just imitate life — sometimes it anticipates it. Fourteen years before the RMS Titanic was built, the American Morgan Robertson wrote a novel called Futility or The Wreck of the Titan (1898) that prefigured the real ship’s destiny with remarkable precision.
The Titanic and the Titan were both triple-screwed British passenger liners with a capacity of 3,000 and... Read Full Story
Barbara Stanwick says goodbye to Clifton Webb in the 20th Century TITANIC
NIGHT TO REMEMBER.
The band plays as the TITANIC sinks.
Scene from the 1943 Nazi produced version of the Titanic.
The TITANIC Movies - Complete List - From the Cinema to TV
Cruise History: The RMS TITANIC has been the subject of many films. From the Cinema to TV. From Nazi produced to James Cameron’s over the top Titanic. Here is a list of Titanic movies - including many of the posters along with... Read Full Story
The federal budget includes $3 million to restore the deteriorating Bodie Island Lighthouse on North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk reported Thursday that the money is the estimated amount for a complete restoration of the 1872 lighthouse structure north of Oregon Inlet.
Bodie Island light was damaged when the National Park Service acquired it in 2000 from the Coast Guard. Some of the 205 metal steps in the building were corroded and pieces of cast iron... Read Full Story
