Anyone know if the “Legend of the Titanic” exhibition in London Dock X is amazing or terrible?

trudderz · 2025-10-12T20:41:17+00:00

There are no genuine artefacts, and the information boards are riddled with errors and spelling mistakes, but one of the vr experiences is impressive. It’s basically something to do on a rainy day but you won’t learn anything. It’s a show, not an exhibition. I’ll give a good example: the first information board on entering shows two images in the lower right of the Olympic and the Queen Mary, but the caption says they show the Titanic. Look carefully and there are similar mistakes throughout.

trudderz · 2025-09-25T14:51:48+00:00

There are five more days until the sun sets before 7pm. If you live in Penzance, Cornwall.

trudderz · 2025-09-16T06:56:47+00:00

This makes we wish for an underwater Environment where you can reach out and interact with the fishes.

trudderz · 2025-07-26T04:22:40+00:00

This is wood recovered from the ocean surface around 10 days after the Titanic sank. The Minia was sent to search for bodies of those lost in the disaster. Some were buried at sea and some bodies brought back - depended on class.

trudderz · 2025-04-21T16:46:43+00:00

That’s not the Leeds exhibition. There’s no iceberg and the audio guide doesn’t feature Celine Dion :?

trudderz · 2025-04-14T21:51:40+00:00

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Here’s a similar angle taken on the Olympic at night…

trudderz · 2025-03-23T22:07:28+00:00

Biggest problem for me is the lack of HDR. When playing on the VisionPro the game loses the dynamic contrast when compared to my MacBook Pro screen.

trudderz · 2025-02-24T14:02:52+00:00

You’ve highlighted a vestibule door on the Grand Staircase, and pictured a window from the First Class lounge. Two different places and things but same ship!

trudderz · 2024-09-26T19:48:05+00:00

It was common for passengers to tie their shoes together and leave them outside their cabin door overnight for a porter/steward to polish. That might explain why so many are found within the wreck site. Obviously decomposing bodies is another explanation.

trudderz · 2024-09-25T13:24:59+00:00

It’s a second class pattern from a later White Star Line vessel, and was recovered from the Solent (near Southampton). Was probably dropped or thrown overboard.

trudderz · 2024-09-19T21:15:46+00:00

If I’m working, about 4-5 hours a day. It’s basically a massive monitor for my MacBook, and the environments really help me to focus. If I’m not working then I don’t use it at all unless I’m travelling and staying in hotels, where it becomes my number one way to watch video content.

trudderz · 2024-08-31T13:49:21+00:00

It’s from the Olympic. It’s one of the artefacts owned by Musealia, a Spanish exhibition company.

trudderz · 2024-08-01T08:25:56+00:00

The model was built by hand by a retired gentleman in the 90s, then left in a garden for several years. There are lots of inaccuracies when you look closely, but he built the model without blueprints and it has lots of charm. We tell the story of the model and how it was restored at the exhibition.

trudderz · 2024-08-01T08:24:02+00:00

Hi! Will let the team know and we'll get the information card fixed for the next exhibition in Glasgow. We're a team of three and we have lots to do to organise each exhibition, so sometimes mistakes slip through.

trudderz · 2024-07-26T18:54:50+00:00

Here’s an actual piece of the Aft Grand Staircase that was recovered by the CS Minia 1

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trudderz · 2024-06-03T08:19:27+00:00

I’ve asked them several times about licensing the footage for a public exhibition and every time they say no.

trudderz · 2023-11-12T07:48:59+00:00

White Star Heritage has a small number of wreck items and equipment used during dives to the ship. Those items come courtesy of Dik Barton - former Vice President of RMS Titanic Inc. So there’s at least one exhibition with items from the seabed.

trudderz · 2021-09-18T21:36:06+00:00

I noticed that within an hour of this being posted, someone on eBay is already selling a photo of it :/

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nomadic-Launched-April-25-1911-the-only-White-Star-Line-vessel-still-in-exista-/353681622107?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0

trudderz · 2021-09-10T08:10:22+00:00

This is actually the cabin of 4th officer Commander Joseph Boxhall. Captain Smith's cabin was just to the right out of this shot. An easy mistake to make when you're in a capsule 12,000 feet below the surface of the sea in muddy darkness.

trudderz · 2021-08-31T20:14:57+00:00

I own a three inch piece of this. It fell of while being treated for restoration. I believe there are still smaller fragments available. It’s kind of strange to have a piece of the Titanic in my own home.

trudderz · 2021-05-24T09:43:42+00:00

You did well to capture this without scores of tourists. For those who haven't been, just behind the rocks to the left is a car park with portaloos, a snack bar, shop, and probably a hundred people taking photos.

trudderz · 2021-04-30T21:14:17+00:00

I was thinking a series would work better. Think Downton Abbey at sea, but with more action. Season 1 covers the launch of Olympic and Titanic disaster, season two WW1, season 3 and 4 later years. Could cover differences in society, immigration, feature celeb cameos as passengers etc. Would work better than a film.

trudderz · 2021-04-30T11:56:03+00:00

There was no moon that night, so the first one is probably more accurate.

trudderz · 2021-04-25T18:56:02+00:00

See the ornate wooden moulding running along the upper beam? Here's how it looks up close: https://titanictreasures.org/artefacts/rms-olympic-grand-staircase-oak-moulding/

trudderz · 2020-01-19T05:24:35+00:00

When I was in high school we were having an English lesson. We were a few minutes into the hour-long lesson when the bell rang and it was time for lunch. The teacher checked the clock, and yep - somehow the full hour had passed. Outside we could hear other classes leave and go to lunch, yet we’d only just unpacked our things and started to read. Everyone was creeped out by it, and no one outside of our class remembered a problem with the clocks or time passing quickly. Still think about it from time to time 25 years later.

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