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RMS Titanic simulation

Anyone who is a fan of the Titanic or of steamships of that era would find it worth their while investigating this url:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/t...-glory-phase-3

The ambition of the team is astonishing and the detail is spectacular. The demo is well worth checking out, and I hope that they manage to publish this.
Here's their youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX9...C2290NcBa_FsPA

The early sinking test video is particularly eerie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey6XGv8ddTI

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Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 2305569)

The early sinking test video is particularly eerie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey6XGv8ddTI

Very eerie indeed, no need for music to create that feeling just the moaning of the ships hull being pulled under.

Ha, I thought it was a "can you avoid the sinking" simulator. I was like, slow down and turn left. There, done.

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Originally Posted by HunterICX (Post 2305684)

Very eerie indeed, no need for music to create that feeling just the moaning of the ships hull being pulled under.

Rgr that :yep:

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Originally Posted by Gargamel (Post 2305739)

I was like, slow down and turn left. There, done.

That's exactly what they did! :haha: :har:

Murdoch ordered the rudder to hard starboard and engines to full astern in an attempt to 'port around' the iceberg by swinging the ship to the left but the speed was too high and the distance too short for the ship to avoid the iceberg.

There's another school of thought that says that if the Titanic had hit the iceberg head on that it might not have caused as much damage as the glancing blow to the starboard side of the ship did.

I meant way earlier.

This looks really cool. Hope it gets fully funded :up:

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Originally Posted by Gargamel (Post 2305855)

I meant way earlier.

That would have helped, but there was no way of knowing that there was an iceberg ahead until the lookouts spotted it. Going slower in general would have helped though, especially after the warning was received, but Smith had a deadline to meet and a lot of pressure on him...he still should have taken the safety of the ship first, but hindsight and all that. :dead:

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Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 2305844)

That's what I was going to say, but then decided against it. Ships actually turn tighter the faster they go. If they had turned and kept to full speed they might have missed it altogether. Slowing down was the wrong thing to do.

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There's another school of thought that says that if the Titanic had hit the iceberg head on that it might not have caused as much damage as the glancing blow to the starboard side of the ship did.

I subscribe to that school. A head-on collision would have crushed the bow, but would not have exposed several sections to flooding at the same time.

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 2305880)

I subscribe to that school. A head-on collision would have crushed the bow, but would not have exposed several sections to flooding at the same time.

I did do a brief search into that theory, and found this article:
http://www.rmstitanicremembered.com/?page_id=282

It makes some interesting points in detriment of the theory, in particular the force of the collision.

I'd love to see this get made. I love old ocean liners. I wish I could get my Titanic:Adventure out of Time game to work.

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Originally Posted by Hans Schultz (Post 2305899)

I'd love to see this get made. I love old ocean liners.

Me too man.
They were so classy and beautiful.
Not like modern liners that are just giant swimming hotels.
They disgust me. Would love to torp all of them.

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Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 2305898)

Good article. Lots to consider.

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 2305880)

There is some evidence that the turn was made at the speed the ship was going at before the collision.

*rummage rummage rummage*

Source: http://www.titanicinquiry.org/

I thought at first it'd be a sim and you'd drive the boat!