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The boat or the movie? I've never seen the movie, but I'm a huge Titanic buff. I know like a million things about it. Unfortunetly I can't really spout my knowledge at the dinner table, because my mom thinks it's too depressing. I don't know why.
But it's like totally awesome.
i have a similar problem! i'm a WWII buff and my dad don't let me talk about WWII much because he don't war
Ya, the other night we somehow got on the subject of the Titanic (I probably started it.
But I don't remember), and my dad and older sis are both kinda mini-buffs, so we're exchanging random facts like:
Me: "And the Titanic was actually on fire since the day it left Queenstown, until it sank. They just kept it a secret because they didn't want to alarm the passengers."
Brother: "How'd it catch fire?"
Me: "Well the big stacks of coal in the boiler room were watered on the top to keep them from catching fire, but on the bottom they dried out enough that they cought on fire from the heat put off from the boilers. There were firemen working to try and contain it for the whole voyage, even until the ship almost sank. But when the ice cold water from the ocean contacted with the red hot coal, there were a bunch of explosions, so the fireman (still alive) abandoned the fire and ran up to the boat deck to try and beat there way to the lifeboats with their shovels."
After a while my mom was like "Guys! Stop! This is sooo depressing!!"
