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Originally Posted by JWBear
I never new you were a fellow Titanic enthusiast! Girlfriend, we need to talk!
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I had a friend who was a big muckety-muck on the Queen Mary. She was giving us a private tour, and showed us the below-decks ballroom where the annual meeting of the major Titantic enthusiasts club is held. One year, there was a major plumbing leak that flooded the entire ballroom in a foot of water during their meeting! Hahahah, I'm sure they LOVED it.
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Originally Posted by JWBear
Again, I have to disagree. Murdoch was hardly a moron – he couldn’t have gained the position he did if he was – and it’s not his fault the ship hit the iceberg.
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Well, perhaps the hastily re-jiggered position he assumed for the sailing had something to do with it (
most officers were effectively reduced in rank one notch when a new 1st officer was appointed for the maiden voyage at the last minute) ... but all the top officers were trained during the Titanic's shake-down cruise on her insanely wide turning radius. Hard a'starbord and full reverse engines was a combination contrary to a successful turn to avoid the berg. Murdock killed them all with his incompetence, and I love the idea of him shooting himself ... even if he likely suicided by the more practical means of simply drowning.
That never would have happened if Batman had been on the bridge!