Live Event Info
David Brown writes:
This weekend, April 16, 2005, we will be presenting virtually a "live" version of tonight's show at the Great Lakes Historical Society Museum in Vermilion, OH.
Location:
Great Lakes Historical Society Museum
480 Main Street (at the lake)
Vermilion Ohio
(440) 967-3467
Date: April 16, 2005
Time: 10 a.m. Round table discussion.of Titanic
7 p.m. Public lecture on Titanic and the White Hurricane
At 10 a.m. a group of "Titanicists" will gather at the museum to discuss their latest research into the sinking. Other than Capt. David G. Brown, there will be other leading Titanic researchers. Bill Wormstedt has done considerable research on the lifeboat launching times and boat order. The round table will continue until 4 p.m. with a short break for lunch. Everone with a serious interest in the real Titanic (not the movie) is invited.
At 7:00 p.m. in the museum Brown, Wormstedt and others will present a public lecture on Titanic and 1913 shipwrecks during the White Hurricane.
All proceeds from this event go to support the GLHS museum.
Recap
Titanic: Myth & Fact
Boating expert and author of
The Last Log of the Titanic,
David G. Brown, shared his research on the sinking of the famed ocean liner. The popular film
Titanic, he said, was more of a "mythical" portrayal of events, and not based on the hard facts.
The 60-63 ft. iceberg was seen 5-8 minutes prior to the accident (not 37 seconds) and a warning bell was sounded by lookouts, he reported. Yet, due to poor "situational awareness" on the bridge, they were not able to avert it in time. Titanic did not sideswipe the iceberg as commonly thought; it ran over an underwater ice shelf, he explained.
There was actually no gash in the ship, he continued, and
water never poured over the top of the bulkheads; rather it rose up through the bottom. Brown also discussed the 1913 "White Hurricane" disaster which happened in the Great Lakes. The storm, with 35 ft. waves, delivered the largest non-wartime casualties for a maritime fleet, with 12 ships sinking, he detailed.
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