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TimeLordParadox — Titanic Wreck, Raise the Titanic
Published: 2012-02-06 16:13:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 9934; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 3
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A drawing of the Titanic Wreck as she appeared in Raise the Titanic. The drawing is based off an original concept of the wreck with minor differences, most noticably being the first somke stack still being in place and the second one having broken off instead as she apeared in the movie.Viewers of the movie would also notice the two vents on the bow that were used on the Titanic model to mirror the ones on the standin ship for the raised Titanic wreck, these were obviously not on the real Titanic. To be different I've also given the ship back her bow railing which was replaced by a solid barrier on the Raise the Titanic ship model (Same reason for the vents), which I didn't like.
Unlike in the film the missing stack is placed quite near the ship rather then a long way away, this was because I had a missing patch with nothing in it and decided just to add a little extra detail.
Anyone not having seen the film will obviously notice that the ship is still in one piece. This is due to the general belief at the time that Titanic did not break in half as she sank. It wasn't until 1985 when the real wreck was discovered that the condition of the ship was finally known.
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these titanic drawing are AMAZING (especially the request ones) it makes me wonder what kind of wreck variations you would make of britannic and lsuitania ETC.
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Maybe I'll go back to doing these types of drawings again but right now I'm busy with other projects.
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The latest word on the actual 55-foot model that was used in the movie, Raise the Titanic, is that it was finally removed from the studio lot it sat on for over 30 years. It's said to have been sold for scrap and demolished earlier this year.
It was in such bad shape that it was uneconomical to attempt restoration.
The studio that owned it never attempted to sell the model or accepted bids for it.
Many sad pictures of its final states of deterioration have appeared over the years on websites and YouTube videos.
The model was actually built and painted in the United States to resemble Titanic in a pristine state. After filming of the ship's sinking (footage cut from Raise the Titanic and later used in an episode of the science fiction TV series, "Voyagers"), the model was renovated and repainted to resemble the ship as it lay on the bottom of the ocean in the 1980 film.
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That's sad to hear, I heard it was slowly falling appart in some out door prop store somewhere.
Studios back then never want to take care of movie props even if the movies did very well. An example is the Time Machine from the original movie, once the film was done they just shoved it into an auction and sold it, and even then the prop was already in a bad condition and being handed down from careless owner to careless owner didn't help. Though happily after years of abuse it was restored to its original glory in the 80's and I think lives in a museum somewhere. Shame they couldn't do it with that Titanic model.
It's a shame they cut the prologue of the film, I still wonder why they did it because the grand staircase scene after the raising would've had so much more impact if we saw it in its former glory. But I have seen the clips of the sinking Titanic prologue on youtube and I've noticed the model is missing the two vents either side of the main mast which it had upon raising. Maybe they added them later and decided for the sake of continuity to not use the prologue in the final cut.
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I saw a bit of it and I disliked it. I know it's a complete work of fiction but to me it just looks wrong to raise the wreck when so many died on it.
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Don't worry mate, the condition of the real wreck is far too deteriorated to ever be raised anyway. I'm sort of in two minds about Raising the Titanic, on the one hand you're right it is a grave yard and should be respected, on the other hand I don't want to see the great ship eaten slowly by bacteria and disapear
If the Titanic is ever raised it looks like it'll have to be in bits because the stress would probably shake her appart anyway
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I saw the movie, and I liked it overall. I know many others didn't.
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I think people damned it because it differed so much from Clive Cusslers original idea. Plus Cussler himself said he hated the movie so that was more bad stuff for the news papers to run about it. I didn't think it was that bad, I just wished they'd kept a little more of the original story in it.
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AWESOME! I love Raise the Titanic! I even have a fan fiction of this that I need to re upload here.
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Really? I'll need to have a look at it when you upload it.
When I first saw the film I thought it was the most fantastic idea and concept. Looking back at it I realise it drags in places but on the hole its still good to me. 
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My fan fiction is a combination of both the film and Cussler's novel. However instead of Titanic being raised 75 years after her sinking, I've wrote that she's raised 68 years instead because the film was realised in 1980 so I decided to put that in as sort of tribute to film and Titanic has a hybrid appearance in my version.
Also I've got some other things that you might look forward to when you see my version of RTT and I have the part where Titanic is caught in a hurricane. My fan fiction focus more on saving the Titanic.
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Nice! I look forward to reading it
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I'm glad you asked. I wanted to keep this as a surprise but I think it's best you know anyway.
The Titanic plays a big role in my fan fiction and RTT is a sequel to her sinking. Here's my version of describing Titanic's wreck. She is found intact, sitting heavily in the ooze, with a slight list to port, revealing her (at the time) 300 foot fatal wound on her starboard side where the iceberg had tore into her when she collided into it. Two of her smokestacks are gone; the forward two are nonexistent, the first one is missing, the second is like in the film, half cracked off as she sank. The third stack lies fallen across the After Boat Deck, while the fourth is still standing in its mount intact. Her forward mast has collapsed while her aft mast remains intact. The ship is well-preserved and suffers little corrosion but parts of her steel hull does later begin to show sighs of getting being eaten away by underwater microbes known as rusticles. But she's still surprisingly sound in the story and the salvage team lead by NUMA take good care of her in getting her prepared for her return from the depths.
Titanic's raising will be left with a surprised for you to see since that is the climax of the whole story.
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Nice, your version of the wreck would be more accurate to how it was beleived to have sank prior to its discovery then it was in the actual film. It also sounds slightly similar to how the wreck was found in the novel.
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Yes, the Titanic, like I said before, is a mixture of her appearances in both the novel and the film. For example the remains of her No. 2 funnel (like in the film) is still there.
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Yeah, I always thought the wreck in RTT was a little too well preserved, it needed to be damanged a little more like collapsing the masts and so on. But I guess that would've added to the cost of dressing up the standin vessel they used for the deck shots. Oddly the vessl they used -can't remember her name- was due to be scrapped anyway so they could've just demolished the masts regardless and no one would've cared.
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Well unlike the real Titanic the atlantic preserves her so well although she does show signs of rust and decay as well as little corrosion and rusticuls on her. Her role in my fan fiction is huge and she's the main focus of it too (mainly because of my deep feelings and care for the liner).
you will be amazed when you read my version of RTT when I re upload it here.
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very nice rendition, i've done my own image of Raise the Titanic as a side profile
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Yeah I saw it. Its really detailed and must've taken ages to make.
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the original did yea, thats a recolour of it
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