Kurt
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Engineers walk in the footsteps of Britains's early 20th century steel workers and coal miners, as they cast Titanic's 16 tonne steel bow anchor (the biggest anchor the world had seen)
Channel 4 now 
Sounds pretty interesting!
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leon.
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cheers sky + that mofo
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sc0ott
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Sounds interesting. I wonder if they will ever bring the remains of the titanic to land, now that will be cool.
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AndyKent
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It was on last week too. They built the front 15 feet or so of the lower hull. Was huge even for a tiny part of the ship!
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Marc
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Was good last week. I'd hate to be in the factory. Was bad enough when I used to be a welder!
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Tomnova16
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Watching it. It's bloody interesting. Makes you realise how much things have changed in 100 years. Bugger being poor in them days
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Scotty C
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Had this on in the back ground last week. Are they building the whole pissing ship?!
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bullock106xsi
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was great last week. this week too. using techniques from the past and present. definately glad not to be born back then!
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Scotty C
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Originally posted by bullock106xsi
definately glad not to be born back then!
You wouldn't know any different though...
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sc0ott
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Originally posted by Tomnova16
Watching it. It's bloody interesting. Makes you realise how much things have changed in 100 years. Bugger being poor in them days
If jobs were still as hard and dangerous as they were back in those days the streets would be a lot safer with less waste of space chavs knifing randoms for the fun of it nowadays.
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CorsAsh
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quote:
Originally posted by sc0ott
Sounds interesting. I wonder if they will ever bring the remains of the titanic to land, now that will be cool.
Will never happen. Even of they could raise the sheer mass of the two main ship sections, it'd just break up due to almost 100 years of being on the seabed.
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DannyB
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Interesting. might give it a watch later, modern ships dwarf the Titanic which is quite scary considering how big it was back then.
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Jules S
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I've watched them both, pretty good tbf 
Love the way they ticked all of the 'engineer' presenters boxes:
Good looking bloke Engineer *check*
Nerd *check*
Tattooed badgers arse rough engineer *check*
Token Woman/black person *check*
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Jamie-C
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I was at the titanic quarters last week for the first time in my life and its only 30 mins away from me 
Was quite interesting and when you see the dry dock in real life it makes you realise how big the fucker was! The dock made me weary looking down into it its that deep! And that was just the hull part that was submerged in the dock
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sc0ott
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Originally posted by CorsAsh
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Originally posted by sc0ott
Sounds interesting. I wonder if they will ever bring the remains of the titanic to land, now that will be cool.
Will never happen. Even of they could raise the sheer mass of the two main ship sections, it'd just break up due to almost 100 years of being on the seabed.
Its not impossible though. Easier said than done but still there must be some scientific person out there thats thought of the idea.
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taylorboosh
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its a tomb like that sub off scotland.... will never be brought up
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Scotty_B
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quote:
Originally posted by sc0ott
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Originally posted by CorsAsh
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Originally posted by sc0ott
Sounds interesting. I wonder if they will ever bring the remains of the titanic to land, now that will be cool.
Will never happen. Even of they could raise the sheer mass of the two main ship sections, it'd just break up due to almost 100 years of being on the seabed.
Its not impossible though. Easier said than done but still there must be some scientific person out there thats thought of the idea.
Not a chance of lifting the stern section as the whole bottom end is lying 1/2 from the rest and it caved in massively on impact compared to the bow.
Would be nice if they could bring up a few things like the anchor for a memorial museum.
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