Disasters At sea;

[Jim Brady]

Next episode Channel 4 Sunday 8PM "Why Ships Sink".April 1st.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Tony Morcom]

Hope that's not an early April Fool Jim. It will probably be more entertaining than Titanic if last Sunday's episode was anything to go by.

[Doc Vernon]

Hi Jim
I am not sure but i may be able to watch that on the Puter come your time Sunday Night!
Just found the Link to Ch4 there and managed to watch the News,so it may work for other programs!
Cheers

Disasters at Sea: Why Ships Sink - Channel 4

[Lou Barron]

I started watch a picture last night of the sinking of the Laconia it was not very good .Mind you it is very hard to make a picture of somethink that happened years ago .The Brits are better than the Americans for doing that .the Bridge on the Kwai for the first part it was not to bad then they hadto get these guys to blow the bridge up that i think spoilt it .Also another picture with Bogart in it it was something about the Battle of the Atlantic .I think it might give the wrong impressions to the younger generation when watchiing these movies not that theye do they like to watch the more sci movies

[Tony Wilding]

Problem is Lou that dont stick to facts, too many embellishments are added, and the research is often faulty, i too thought the Kwai film was good but spoilt by the plan to blow it up. a film was made on TV last year i think of a passenger ship torpedoed, the bridge scenes and dialog was crazy, the Americans are not good at making true to life , they change history to suit themselves.

[Ivan Cloherty]

]Problem is Lou -change history to suit themselves.

[/I]Watching a lot of sea scenario movies, you wonder who is the technical advisor, if they have one at all, 1st mates with one stripe, 3rd mate with 3 stripes, watched a few "Titanic" pseudo documentaries lately and as well as the foregoing she had 8 strand plaited ropes stowed on deck, coloured charts in the chartroom, a leading firemen directing engineers in damage control, a captain who casully strolls on the bridge sometime after the vessel collided with an iceberg, a man who had his foot trapped by a 20 tonne watertight door, whereas in reality the foot would have been immediately severed as the door dropped the last 6 inches, , a woman who jumps two decks into a lifeboat, picks herself up and sits on a thwart the list is endless, even non seafarers must despair at this oh so obvious mistakes. It a little forethought and little research would make it enjoyable for all

[Tony Wilding]

technical advisors in name only, to make film about the life aboard ship you need someone who has been at sea. or a nautical historian. spoils the whole film when you see such mistakes. too much rubbish is added to a story that needs no unfactual events.

[John Pruden]

wasn't the commander US navy who wrote a paper on the Japanese bombing pearl harbour years before it happened drummed out of the US navy? another objective Burma Errol Flynn totally made up film? has anyone watched PACIFIC or BAND OF BROTHERS were the survivors had a part in the planing of the films i have a friend who worked in the special effects on band of brothers and one day the shooting was so real the veterans cried and the filming was stopped for the day.thats the type of films that should be shown they are fact.john

[Willie Saunders]

The explanation as to why ships sink is simple. They just achieve a state of negative buoyancy. Sorted !

[happy daze john in oz]

Th eproblem with programs such as the new Titanic, we have yet to see it here in Oz, is that it distorst the facts to such an extent that the whole thing becomes unbelieveable to anyone. It is also a denigration of the memory of those who died in the event.