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Titanic: Sinking
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Although the Titanic sent out distress calls, few vessels carried wireless radios, and those that did staffed them only during daytime hours. The eastbound liner Carpathia, some fifty miles away, responded to the Titanic's signals and began taking on survivors. The Carpathia rescued 705 people, but 1,523 died.
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Iron-loving bacteria have been feeding off the rusting hulk of the Titanic for 87 years. If there is a bright side to this tragic story it is the chance for new life the ship offers the underwater world.
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Just as Titanic breaks apart, the compass platform (seen in front of the third funnel when the lights were still on) suddenly disappears. The water isn't even high enough to have reached its aft-most legs. The white projection on the deck that held the chandelier in the lounge is ... gone, and the ventilator that sits on it is flush with the deck.
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Bill Paxton as Brock Lovett: A treasure hunter looking for the "Heart of the Ocean" in the wreck of the RMS Titanic in the present. Time and funding to his expedition is running out.
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![[Titanic Photograph]](http://retrieverimages.lycos.com/images/t/i/t/titanic/i/048.gif)
Titanic has gone from being called the most expensive flop of all time to winning 11 Oscars ! See what all the fuss is about and visit the unique film set pictures in these pages.
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Titanic's radio call sign - MGY - will be remembered in the special call sign for the event - GB90MGY - issued to the Group by the UK Radiocommunications Agency. The station will be on-air and manned continuously from 9.30am on Saturday 13th until 6.47am on Monday morning 15th April when the transmitter will fall silent at the exact time in the UK when, ninety years ago, the last distress message went out from the Titanic.
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