Awesome, but still haunting.

RIP to all the people that perished in that awful event.

During the days of its inception, most believed the Titanic was unsinkable. I wonder how many still think "God himself couldn't sink" it?

Ahhhh anything will sink....Ask the Italians!

"During the days of its inception, most believed the Titanic was unsinkable. I wonder how many still think 'God himself couldn't sink it'?"

Well, considering it's at the bottom of the ocean, I'm guessing about zero people.

These are great! Wouldn't it be cool if they found a person still alive down there! Aha.

man, i wouldn't think anyone could hold their breath that long!

A seafood diet is said to be good for you but seriously, noone could still be alive down there.

that's just wrong to say that. You know everyone on board was dead well before it hit the bottom! So cruel!!!

Yeah, that was so creepy.

Yes, "creepy" is the perfect word.

You really don't need to say such nonsense.Waaay off topic there Greg.

Amen to that!

Ignorant comment much. The latest episode of Jersey Shore more your type of excitement?

Well Johnny, from St. Patty's Day to Independence Day must be a long time without a parade to piss on,

Yep, it's still on the bottom of the ocean. I'm glad to have that confirmed.

Interesting opinion Hog Lover. To say it was an act of judgement from God might be taking it too far. I like to think of it as a pure accident due to the ignoring of ice berg reports, steaming too fast through an ice field and a ship that cornered badly! Do we blame God for warm moist air colliding with upper cold air producing devastating tornadoes that have to vent! I share your frustration with the upper 1%. But, this ship's demise could have been avoided.

cheetah...AWESOME!

OBXRon, Please use your mind and imagination, if you can......this vessel was termed to be "UNSINKABLE" when she was first drafted from paper. The horrible truth of the matter here is the Captain (Smith) made a VERY COSTLY ERROR of judgement wanting to "push" the ship beyond a safe speed for the weather conditions. Over 1500 lost their lives that fateful night. However, one good thing became of that horrible cold night. The United States Coast Guard and other countries set up what was know as the International Ice Patrol. They would identify and track these HUGE floating masses of ice so that hopefully the event WOULD NEVER take place again as we know modern history.

Lets not forget that this led to ships carrying enough life boats for all rather than an arbitrary rule based on length/tonnage. How many more lives were saved due to this 1 change?

hahahahah OBXRON

The ship was built to haul immigrants in the hold to the new world.

Please stop blaming the Lord for everyone on this planet who cannot drive/fly/steer/walk/or are just plain stupid.

I agree. I can't see why these people spend so much time trying to figure out what happened when it hit the ocean floor seriously the involved governments should make this MASS GRAVE off limits and let the researchers go figure out why Pluto is so far away or why humans don't come in more colors ?

anyone who tries to even think of blaming God for this disaster or any disaster at all is just so degrading and insulting. God doesn't cause bad things. People do!!!

No Nick1970, I wouldn't think of blaming god for any disaster. That would be like blaming them on Santa Claus or The Easter Bunny.

I refer to that as "too much grant money out there". Heard one of the researchers today say that as far as technology and engineering is concerned there is no reason to study this. They study everything about Titanic over and over like baseball fans memorize the plays of a game that happened 50 years ago, except these researchers get paid for it. Modern science and tech are far away from Titanic technology. Yet new studies are going on analysing tide tables from a hundred years ago, atmospherics, and other concepts irrelevant to modern business and life. If you will fund it, some PhD will study why dogs bark - oh wait........ that's been done recently.

Totally sad obviously! We found the ship and we know it sank by hitting an ice berg! We got some cool pictures.THE END! Let the grave site be! Just like everything else we spend endlessly and wastefully. Like kicking a dead horse. (No disrespect intended) We go way overboard with these projects. (No pun intended) Hmmm! How about spending for the future! Fix bridges or social security or homeland security or feed the hungry or stop the international drug traffic or lower taxes or medical insurance or or or or! These senseless projects add to billions. Duh! Stop spending needlessly! Oh! what about lowering the gasoline prices!

I can't get passed the fact that some real brave men got into those life boats. We are to believe that God dose'nt punish but maybe this one time he hopefully made an exception.

Really ?

Starvin Marvin, What was your great Aunts name, I have the book that came out after the Titanic Sank, it was written in Memory of all who died in the Titanic, it is very old, I wanted to see if her name was in it. I came about this book when I bought a house from a man who's wife died, he left all her books in it and that was on of them.. I have had it since. I have always been interested in the Titanic.

Nice idea Starvin but you can see what is

happening now and more of that in the coming days—man cannot leave anything alone, even when it isn’t his..

As long as someone can make a buck off it, they'll never let it go.

It's called "history", Rob99. It's pretty useful to examine it and learn from it. Try it - you might like it.

We don't learn from any other history, what makes you think we'd learn from this?

loveblue2

Exactly.

omgandromeda

Just because we might not "learn anything" from it does not diminish it's place in history. I don't see anyone saying, "Why can't we just let it go?" about ANY single war EVER. Wars are all documented history referred to and referenced probably daily in some form worldwide. And yet it is quite obvious we haven't learned one damn thing from any of them.

Oh wait, my bad we have learned from all of the wars. Yep, we learned how to make better weapons and better ways of killing large numbers of human beings.

Rob99 - I bet you're the type who favors building shopping malls on Civil War battlefields. Gotta move on!

I just gotta shake my head at some these people saying we have to "move on". So, do we tear down all memorials that were ever built to remember lost loved ones? That means the 9/11 memorial, the vietnam war memorial, the memorial for WW II when we took Iwo Jima, the Pearl Harbor memorial dig up the Arizona, Pave the Civil war memorials and not to mention anything that has to do with our battle for independence, Oh wait those have to with wars and those people mean more than those who die that aren't in combat. Idiot

I liked what U said TC. I live at the last stand of the civil war and alot of history is all around me, but i do live in oklahoma. to forget ones past only makes them weak in the mind. so we know what is wrong with alot of people

I'm like you.... I wish they would stop all this and let everything they have found "Rest In Peace". I do believe there are many many people who feel the same as I do.

How can you let go of an American tragedy? There were Americans on that ship. So if we should forget about Titanic, then let's forget about 9/11, let's forget about Pearl Harbor. Get the point now?

I am in no way trying to belittle the loss of life on the Titanic, or 9/11, or Pearl Harbor, but I can name a much greater American tragedy in terms of lives lost for senseless reasons that hardly grabs headlines. Motor vehicle crashes. Since the Titanic sunk we have lost 3.4 million Americans to motor vehicle related crashes including 32,885 in 2010. That number has been steadily decreasing since its peak in 1972 of 54,589. Just in this country in 2010 we lost the equivalent of one 9/11 event every 4.7 weeks! That's 5.5 times higher than the number of Americans killed in all the wars our country has been involved in over the past 100 years. But it isn't sensational enough to grab headlines when one or two die at a time. Spread the word... and drive safe.

I agree. For those who "Don't get it" the Titanic is a part of modern archeology, most people are very interested in this kind of stuff, myself included. There are an incredible amount of people who had relatives who were involved with anything from the building of the Titanic to passengers and crew, or even the crews on the ships who replied to the SOS calls. Don't knock history, it's part of what makes our ships even better built than they were when the Titanic and her sister ships were built. It's just to bad our modern day captains aren't better prepared for such disasters. It's history people, if you who are knocking it don't understand that then you obviously didn't get very good grades in History in school. Same people who don't know where the Leaning Tower of Piza, or the Eiffle Tower are? How about who was the Vice President under George W. Bush, how about our current V.P.?

I agree with Jersey girl...I find the Titantic both tragic and fascinating. I love learning new things about her.

Thank you, Jersey Girl. Some people are trolls who have nothing better to do than to post inflammatory remarks on sites like this, and really should just be left alone.

The Titanic DOES still fascinate 100 years after the fact for a variety of reasons, the human tragedy being one of them. There are a lot of "What If's" associated with the Titanic such as what if the ship hit the iceberg head on instead of sideswiping it. What if the lookout spotted the beg a few seconds earlier or later. Even what would I do if I were in a situation like that.

Yes, we can read about the disaster in books and see it in movies. But you can never grasp the full horror of it all unless you talk to someone who was actually there. My great-grandmother was. She died when I was 6 years old, and I'm now 50, but I still remember vividly finding some Titanic related items in a box in her attic one day and asking her about them. She didn't want to talk about it at first but you know how persistent a 6 year old can be! Some of what I know about that trip I heard from her and other details came from other family members over the years who managed to get her to tell more of the story before she died.

She was 29 years old at the time, and she and her husband had finally saved enough money after 10 years of marriage to take their honeymoon trip to Europe, and they were very excited to go. They wanted to travel in the best style they could afford, so they sailed over second class on the Olympic in late 1911 to tour England and to visit distant family members. By April they were ready to come home and booked second class on the Titanic. The maiden voyage of the biggest ship in the world would be a fitting end to a wonderful vacation. So they thought.

To make a long story short, she became a widow on that trip, and she could never go to a sporting event or any large gathering where there was a lot of cheering because it reminded her too much of the people in the water calling for help after the ship sank. Even being within earshot of a sports stadium was difficult if she could hear the crowds. She eventually had to leave Michigan a couple years later and move to southern California for the milder climate because the cold midwestern winters reminded her too much of how cold it was that night floating in the north Atlantic in a crowded lifeboat.

She very rarely ever talked about the Titanic after that, and she refused for years to ever see any of movies that depicted the Titanic or any other shipwreck. When she did finally steel herself to go see a Titanic movie, it was the 1958 British film "A Night To Remember". She left the theater crying like a baby because it brought back all those horrible memories. I guess you could say that she suffered from a sort of PTSD for most of her life because of the Titanic.

So all you trolls can continue to make your little jokes. But remember, this tragedy affected literally millions of people at the time, directly and indirectly, and still continues to affect people today, particularly those who have a family connection to that ship.

Up Uranus: thank you for that moving story. I can only imagine... What a perfect explanation as to why this tragic event is still so important to so many people, and the effect that it has had in the years since it happened.

UP, man thats hard. Id love to hear more of her story, you should write her story.

Up Uranus: Thank you for sharing that wonderful story, I don't personally have any family members that were involved with the Titanic, but I've had a love affair with it for as long as I can remember.

These pictures are absolutely amazing.

Up Uranus

Your post brought me to tears. How sorry I am for your great-grandmother. If she were here today I would tell her so while giving her a really long and tight hug. May she rest in peace.

Being a survivor of a tragedy like this is often very difficult. Survivors often are left to deal with the unanswered question of, "Why was I spared?"

Jersey Girl-2035641

They are the type of people who were probably bullies in school.

Thanks for the kind words, all. Yes, it was very hard on her, losing her husband at a young age and all. His body was never recovered, and just like the other stories you hear about the women who lost their husbands in the sinking, the last time she saw him was when he put her in a boat and stepped back with the other men as it was being lowered away. She never knew how he died, whether it was in the water from hypothermia or if he went back inside the ship and was taken to the bottom along with hundreds of others. Perhaps it was just as well she didn't know.

She did go on to remarry and raise a family in San Diego. I still remember my mother taking my sister and me to visit her when we were little. She was a special lady and I was very close to her. To this day I still miss her as does my mom, who was her grand-daughter. My sister was a little too young to remember very much about great-grandma.

So as you can see, even though the Titanic sank 100 years ago and all direct survivors are now gone, the ship and her history are still very much alive for me and my family as well as other family members of those who were aboard, both survivors and those who died.

We're all very much Titanic survivors as well.

Up Uranus, What a sad and powerful story. The Titanic needs to be remembered and the memories of all who were on that ship and their families who live with that legacy need to be respected. Thank you for sharing your family's story. These stories need to be told and remembered.

well for one i believe they should leave her alone. why must they dig up a grave yard no matter where it is at. the old rule of the sea is if a person dies on a boat it is there grave yard. LEAVE IT BE

I'm afraid I'd be right there in the water with your aunt, both or niether. couldn't, wouldn't leave my beloved dog there to die.

williamkromer

Another post that made me cry. These stories are so incredibly sad! My dogs are my life and I can't imagine saving my life, but not theirs. No way, I too would have done what your cousin did. But then again I might have been a total bitch and told them to take a flying F and thrown my dog in right before I got in. Then I would have declared to the entire boatload, "If you value your life don't lay a single hand on my dog."

Read the story about the dogs of the Titanic.

It relates your aunt's story:

"Perhaps one of the saddest stories is that of Ann Elizabeth Isham, who was already in a lifeboat when she got out to go to the ship’s kennel to retrieve her Great Dane. She never made it back.

“Two to three days later, a passenger ship’s crew member, not too far from the site of the sinking, found her,” said Edgette. “She was clutching a Great Dane.” Isham’s body, along with 326 others, was retrieved from the water, but no dogs were, he said."

Although it DOES say her body was recovered. HHmmm.

You must be a laugh a minute to live with, bz24444. I'm just going out on a limb here, but, I think you need to lighten up a little. Would it have killed you to say anything good about this article - ANYTHING???

TyroneE,

What are you doing to help those children? Are you one of those who like to tell people what to do with their money yet do nothing but spout hate and discontent yourself? Who are you to tell these people what to do with their money? And who cares if you are impressed or not?

Temper, temper. Too much venting is bad for your blood pressure.

Tyrone=troll

Seeing these photos really makes me want to have that $12,000.00 last dinner served on the Titanic. This is to be done on the 100th anniversary. Amazing how some people waste money while 20,000.0 children die each day of starvation and curable diseases. Here's an idea. Tell the organizers to give $200.00 from each plate sold to a reliable foundation that assist the starving children of the world. That would really impress me.

Tell that to the people who spend $35,800 on an Obama fundraising dinner plate there, chief (of which event is hidden from the media including the wine list). Don't hear much whining about those Obama fundraising dinners for the millionaires from liberals for some reason. Hmmm....

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-30/lifestyle/30457794_1_obama-pecan-onion

one could say that about everything, why spend money on vet care for animals when the chillens are starving. why buy a boat- you know the chillens are starving. Those kids are starving not because we bought something/didn't donate enough they are dying because their own people cannot run a nation and do gooders keep giving them food which destroys any ability for local farmers to survive and ensures a larger than ever population of people the local landscape cannot support.

The Obama's are con artists!

I'm told there are thousands of children in Bangladesh that will never own a pinball machine... ever.

Tragic.