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Websites
20th Century Liners – White Star Line
www.20thcenturyliners.com/wsl_titanic.htm
Great site with loads of information on the big liners of the 1900s. This page is dedicated to Titanic and has an incredibly detailed 'Ships Specifications' section that lists everything about the ship, from who the underwriters were to how many oyster forks were onboard.
A Day to Remember
www.divernet.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl?id=3040&
section=&action=display&show=Day%20to%20Remember
Article from 2003 in which the divers of the wreck of Titanic describe their experiences, with accompanying photos from the two Mir submersibles.
Last Mysteries of the Titanic
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/titanic/titanic.html
Discovery Channel website with a virtual dive, video stories, a quiz and puzzles.
On Floating Bodies
www.math.nyu.edu/~crorres/...
From the website on all things Archimedean, this is an article continuing on from Archimedes' original book On Floating Bodies, with lots of video demonstrations and links to related works.
RMS Titanic
www.deepimage.co.uk/wrecks/titanic/...
Website of the expedition that went down and filmed the wreck of Titanic in 2003. The site has images, science and an historical account.
Titanic: A beginner's guide
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/t-z/titanic.html
Guide to where novice Titanic enthusiasts should begin their search for useful information.
Titanic Disaster
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia...
In-depth look at the evidence that has emerged from the various dives at the wreck site of Titanic. It explains how freezing waters, weak rivets, imperfect brittle iron and the speed of knots conspired to sink the vessel.
Titanic's Riveting Quandary
www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0699web/tech.html
Interesting piece from well respected scientists at Johns Hopkins University. They describe the technology they used to examine the rivets that held the steel plates in Titanic's hull. The rivets, they reveal, were weak and ultimately helped to sink the ship.
Water Displacement
www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy99/phy99x34.htm
Q&A section from the US Department of Energy where a student asks about the law of buoyancy.
Books
Last Dinner on the Titanic: Menus and recipes from the great liner by Rick Archbold and Dana McCauley (Hyperion Books, 1997)
Aboard the Titanic in 1912, hundreds of first-class passengers dined in opulence on gourmet fare such as quail eggs with caviar while steaming unknowingly into oblivion. This fascinating recipe and history book offers descriptions and anecdotes, illustrated with archive photographs and period paintings, resulting in a visual journey back in time.
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The Lost Ships of Robert Ballard: An unforgettable underwater tour by the world's leading deep-sea explorer by Robert D Ballard and Rick Archbald (Thunder Bay Press, 2005)
Depicts the five most famous ships that have been lost at sea in modern times: Empress of Ireland, Lusitania, Andrea Doria, Brittanic and Titanic. Contains excellent photography and illustrations.
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The Ocean Railway: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Samuel Cunard and the revolutionary world of the great Atlantic steamships by Stephen Fox (Perennial, 2004)
An epic social history of steamship travel during the 19th century. This fascinating history chronicles the tragedies that marked the evolution of the ocean liner, including the 1852 sinking of Arctic, with the loss of 322 lives, and the early 20th-century losses of Lusitania and Titanic.
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Return to Titanic by Robert D Ballard and Michael Sweeney (National Geographic Books, 2004)
Examines the changes in Titanic since its original discovery in 1985 and how it has been damaged over the past two decades, finally calling for the preservation of such wrecks as historical monuments. The book has excellent photographs of the wreck.
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The Story of the Titanic as Told by its Survivors edited by Jack Winocour (Dover Publications, 2003)
This is a collection of stories told by four survivors of the disaster; two were passengers and two were crew.
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Titanic by Simon Adams (Dorling Kindersley, 2004)
Part of the Eyewitness Guides, this is an excellent children's book in which the reader is eyewitness to Titanic's maiden voyage and can learn everything about the luxury liner, from the fate of the captain and hundreds of passengers to the treasures that went down with the ship.
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Titanic – Triumph and Tragedy: A chronicle in words and pictures by John P Eaton and Charles Haas (Patrick Stephens, 1994)
Features information on the wreck and its artefacts and the controversy surrounding various attempts at their recovery.
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DVDs
Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)
Directed by James Cameron
Cameron and a team of experts take us on a journey, using state of the art technology, to the resting place of the ill-fated ship, Titanic, where 1517 lost their lives almost 100 years ago.
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Titanic (1998)
Directed by James Cameron
Winner of 11 Academy Awards, this is a fictional epic love story mixed with an historical account of the ill-fated luxury liner that sank on that fateful night, 14 April 1912.
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