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Good discussion! The sound of it tearing was probably ear shattering. Not sure if the sounds of 1000s of cold people trying to get off that ship could cover that up or make you not notice. Go in a high school lunchroom at lunch time and try to hear anything else but loud people. Or in a...

Could he have not actually seen it break up? Others who said it did break up might have had a better view... it was such a traumatic thing happening... there were probably questions about there being enough lifeboats, etc going on.

I like how you think ROclockCK!

^^ great point. They really didn't know exactly where it was on the bottom at the time.. just guesses I believe. So there was some amazing mystery about it. Makes me think of the ghost ship concept. There are supposed to be quite a few out there still. Google that, kind of weird.

@ Bob"...as we now know the ship could not have been raised intact. " yeeeah... I remember how cool it was to think that they could do that, have it cruising on the water again. Only in my mind did I ever see that. :9

When I was a kid I had a fascination for disasters of all kinds, a great book about treasure hunters with stories about the Andrea Doria, etc, etc.. And anticipation for this movie was endless excitement. I still have an original advertisement for it stored somewhere in a box. I wish I could...