Wednesday Walk - The Titanic

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Here is a walk through The Titanic exhibit for this #wednesdaywalk

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As you enter they have a large scale model of the ship. Some of my projects at work involve building models like this and I bet this thing was super expensive to build at this scale.

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It also looked like most of it was hand made rather than 3d printed. Lots of labor went into this thing. As this is a traveling exhibit I wonder if they even made backup parts as this thing was quite delicate looking.

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Some theming made it look like you were boarding the ship near the entry. My designer brain is looking at the chains and hoping they are ADA compliant...

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Now we are boarding the ship, what a nice cruise this will be...

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Ah the good old days of smoking rooms, gentlemen only. No cancer for you ladies yet...

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What a posh looking smoking room they had on the ship. Must have been tough trying to sweep the cigarette ashes out of the carpet.

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The exhibit featured quite a few artifacts recovered from the wreck. Here are some tobacco products that made it off the bottom of the ocean.

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Here is the grand staircase. I took a closer look at how they built the set and you can see how it all comes apart for travel to the next exhibit location.

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I would not like to be traveling 3rd class on this thing. Bunk beds for everyone in very close quarters.

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Here is the boiler room. The lighting and theming made you feel kind of sweaty in this area.

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Here is a themed deck overlooking the sea at night. What a nice time to go out for a smoke and look across the ocean...

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Oh look they were warned about icebergs, but the captain kept going forward instead of waiting until morning to continue on...

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Kapow, now the ship has hit the iceberg and you get to sit in a themed lifeboat and watch the wreck go down.

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And the band played on. I doubt this was a real artifact as the violin looked too pristine to have survived a wreck.

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The rest of the exhibit was about how submarines recovered a number of artifacts from the bottom of the ocean. Fortunately these submarines were not 3d printed by billionaire hobbyists...

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A drawing from the corny movie.

That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)

Wednesday Walk - The Titanic | Ecency