TITANIC sinking being remembered near and far today , 15 April 2012

TITANIC sinking being remembered near and far today ,15th April 2012.

It is 100 years since the great passenger liner  TITANIC ,designed as unsinkable , sank .

When I  read the news on Titanic sinking being remembered near and  far … I  wish to pay homage to the departed souls  in the disaster of  the wonderful creation , Titanic , 

a century ago, as a distant admirer of the ship . I had once been on board  I.N.S Vikrant  , Indian Navy War Ship   many years back in chennai and another vessel M V Doulos , The Floating Book Fair with my  very young nephew Vignesh , when it called Chennai port. 

I know about Titanic ship only in 1997 from the world famous movie TITANIC , directed by  James Camaron and the enchanting music by James Horner and Celine Dion’s song .

My son , who was just 13 years at that time , literally moved  in the last scene  in the theatre along with us , when Jack Dawson died in the icy ocean. He had many collections of paper cuttings on the movie and copied a book on original TITANIC , borrowed from his friend. I made it in a spiral binding and still preserving it.  The impact of the love story is believed as true by the viewers , though it is made for a movie !

The history of Titanic must be known to all but I just want to recall it from the internet.

RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,514 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. She was the largest ship afloat at the time of her maiden voyage. One of three Olympicclass ocean liners operated by the White Star Line, she was built between 1909–11 by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. She carried 2,223 people.

 The 710 survivors were taken aboard from the lifeboats by RMS Carpathia a few hours later.

Since its rediscovery in 1985, thousands of artefacts have been recovered from the sea bed and put on display at museums around the world.Titanic has become one of the most famous ships in history, her memory kept alive by numerous books, folk songs, films, exhibits and memorials.

The Titanic storyline goes like this :

84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.

Yesterday I saw a documentary in History TV18 Channel , “TITANIC Mystery Solved “

By many scientists with the latest electronic gadgets and virtual reality in the space . They found a new piece between the front and rear portion of the ship and trying to solve the mystery and speculations on the ship design, rivet quality , speed of the ship and the iceberg and sand mounds under the sea.

So recalling the historical loss of an unsinkable ship and human lives ,  a hundred years before made me to write this blog. A few photos taken from IBN news website is attached for the interest of viewers and let us pay homage again to the souls left mother earth in the ocean.

 In the past hundred years many would have reborn  by virtue of their karma but without the past memory. Let us pay homage to them as it is 100 years passed and they would have left their body again and pray for their souls rest in peace.

 Good or bad . It is karma . Let us Chant Hare Krishna and Be Happy.