(Related: "Titanic Was Found During Secret Cold War Navy Mission.") "We're trying to bring the actual hard data to the people who can make those determinations," Lange said. The goal: to virtually preserve Titanic in its current state and to finally determine just how far gone the shipwreck is, and how long it might last. John's, Newfoundland (map)-roughly 350 miles (560 kilometers) from the ship's 2.4-mile-deep (3.8-kilometer-deep) resting place ( Titanic wreck-site map). With Lange as optical-survey leader, a new expedition sets sail Sunday from St. "But others say it's going to be there for hundreds of years." "Some people think the bow will collapse in a year or two," Lange said. "Everyone has their own opinion" as to how long Titanic will remain more or less intact, said research specialist Bill Lange of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. (Watch an animation of Titanic's iceberg collision, breakup, and sinking.) Now, scientists say, the legendary liner-beset by metal-eating life-forms, powerful currents, and possibly even human negligence-could be vanishing for good.Īlready explorers have documented caved-in roofs, weakening decks, a stern perhaps on the edge of collapse, and the disappearance of Titanic's crow's nest-from which lookout Frederick Fleet spotted history's most infamous iceberg.
Titanic famously disappeared from view until 1985, when it was rediscovered on the bottom of the North Atlantic ( pictures of Titanic's rediscovery). Players On Level Three: “We lash our bellhops together into a raft and jump off the ship!”Īnd that’s how five stubborn adults rage-quit a children’s board game.Slipping beneath the waves on April 15, 1912, the R.M.S. also roll high enough to move to the side of the board. Player On Level One: “I jump out the porthole.” The player rolls high enough to move to a space on a game board next to a porthole. Player On Level One: “That’s it! I’m done!” Then, the person who has the best chance of winning and ending this torment for us all lands on a square that sends them back to level one. Nope! Due to questionable game design and terrible luck with die rolls, in four hours, only three people have progressed to level three, two of whom have acquired all the bellhop tokens, and two players are stuck on level two.
The approximate playtime is ninety minutes.
Each player also starts with a bellhop token that can be used to gain certain benefits and can be acquired by other players if they land on your space. To progress through the three levels of a ship, the players must land on specific spaces in each level. My friends buy what looks like a silly board game simulating an escape from the Titanic and we sit down to play.
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