10.30.2005

Fake-tanic.

One of the highlighted displays at Ripley's was one about the Titanic. They had a model of the ship, plus a bunch of photos, timelines, and information about the ship and exactly why the iceberg was fatal (crappy rivets? inferior steel? weakened structure by a barely controlled fire in a boiler-room?). One of the really creepy things included in the display were a couple of port-holes that you could look through as if you were actually below-deck when the iceberg went by - there was a perpetually moving wall of fake ice passing by leaving ice shavings on the sill. Weird. There were also tanks of the fish you'd find in the North Atlantic, and another tank that included a debris-field that included jewels and a porcelain doll-head. Yikes. Then, there was the fake-terior of the punctured hull from the inside, with water rushing in; beside it was a door and stairway full-size mockup of a corridor, water spilling down the stairs in a little waterfall.

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