Tag: Titanic

Never-Before-Seen VIDEO of Sunken Titanic Released—Marks First Time Humans Feast Eyes on Wreck

The crew of human-occupied vehicle (HOV) Alvin drank in the spectacle of a shipwreck’s haunting bow, recording the historic moment with their vehicle’s underwater video camera. The three researchers were the first humans to lay eyes on the “unsinkable” passenger liner, RMS Titanic, since her ill-fated voyage in 1912. Their 1986 expedition captured video near…


Rare Footage of Titanic Wreckage Shot in 1986 Released

Rare video footage showing the Titanic ocean liner on the floor of the Atlantic is being released on Wednesday, decades after the discovery of the wreckage and more than a century after the ship hit an iceberg and sunk. The footage from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) was shot about 2 miles (3 kilometers) below…


Greed Finds a Way

Commentary Forgive me as I steal a line from The Critical Drinker, a movie critic on YouTube. “Greed finds a way…” he said of Jurassic World: Dominion, the latest movie in the Jurassic Park franchise. It is a description that need not contain itself to Hollywood dinosaur flicks when the same could be said of…


‘Titanic’ and ‘The Omen’ Actor David Warner Dies at 80

LONDON—David Warner, a versatile British actor whose roles ranged from Shakespearean tragedies to sci-fi cult classics, has died. He was 80. Warner’s family said he died from a cancer-related illness on Sunday at Denville Hall, a retirement home for entertainers in London. Often cast as a villain, Warner had roles in the 1971 psychological thriller…


Anniversary of the Titanic Tragedy: 110 Years of Mystery and Discovery

Commentary On the night of April 14/15, 1912, the Royal Mail Ship Titanic, a British luxury passenger liner, sank in the icy waters of the western North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. The liner was making its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York when tragedy struck, resulting in the death of approximately 1,500 passengers…