Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Oceanliner Designs" channel.

@jamedmurphy4468 I work with young people. Most of them are kind and try to be courageous in a mentally challenging world. I respect them greatly.
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Brave perhaps, intelligent definitely not. They could have spent that time searching for things that would increase their own chances of survival. "Stiff upper lip" was a piece of emotional manipulation perpetrated upon the victim class by the powerful.
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Mines truly are an incredibly evil way of waging war. Completely indiscriminate, and they lurk for up to decades waiting to kill.
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Can you imagine how loud their hearts were pounding when the first images came in?
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@Randomstuffs261 Oh, that sounds like a reasonable guess.
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I don't know why, but there's something particularly poignant about stricken ships. Maybe it's their size representing the lives on board, or the size representing the scope of human achievement yet frailty.
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@dfuher968 I get that, but the choice was not "Do nothing, and let the family survive." There was a "Do something else and try to survive" option as well.
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Frankly, if I could remove every single remaining thing of value from the ship, I'd do so in a heartbeat without remorse or moral quandary. We extract treasures from the actual graves of dead people all the time, and there's no reason the Titanic deserves to be any different. Leaving everything down there to decay or get buried is by FAR the greater disrespect to their memories, and it's not like they PLANNED to be buried down there.
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Newspapers have always been the enemy of truth. The principle of the captain, let alone the owner going down with the ship is an utterly moronic piece of macho BS. If the captain has done all he can, why should he die? And if Ismay was simply just a passenger, what obligation does he have to sacrifice himself? Reprehensible pseudo morality.
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@joemcken Fair use is not the same with photographs and the owner was COMPLETELY within his rights to assert ownership. If someone stole photos that cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars to take, I'D possibly be rude too! Just because a thief is friendly, doesn't make them less of a thief.
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The idea of the man's son, forever wearing his dead father's watch, and the woman wearing her dead husband's jewellery is incredibly poignant. The loss that never stopped hurting.
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I wonder why we are so fascinated with places where lots of people died, and why Titanic is the second or third most famous coffin of all time?
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@GrahamCStrouse Fascinating!
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The thought of it sitting alone all that way down in the dark, filled with the metaphorical echoes of its passengers is so poignant. It's dying on a different timescale to its them, but its end is just as inevitable.
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Much as I trust the shipping and insurance and investigative expertise of a plasterer with a romanticised obsession, on this occasion, I'm going to go with the assessment of the experts including the insurance assessors who had so much at stake, the safety board, and all the other contemporaneous experts with far more at stake than a decorator writing fan fiction.
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@Balrog-tf3bg Exactly!
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Hear hear - I was just admiring his superb craftsmanship.
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Do you even know what or why it was struck? They may have a perfectly reasonable case.
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@zombiedoggie2732 If you steal from somebody without malice, you are still stealing from them. Reaching out after you stole and used the thing is meaningless. "It's easier to say sorry than to ask permission." Mike knows that copyright exists on every single photo. If he takes the risk of using their work without permission, then the owner is morally and legally within their right to assert their copyright AND be pissy about it.
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Why is it dystopian that people continued with their lives after someone was lost? Literally every day, multiple people within half a mile of you dies. That's life - you don't dwell on it. I do think cruise ships need to be held a LOT more accountable for their deliberate part in lowering people's judgement, or not making it harder to fall overboard. Simply raising the glass an extra metre would save everybody.
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If one square metre of water weighs a ton, imagine just that hitting your car at a speed of 20 knots. Now times it by the amount spread across the surface of Titanic...
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Excellent presentation.
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A lot of these image restorations are clearly done with Topaz Image AI, a one-click photo restoration tool that in the early days changed every face horribly. Personally, I LOVE colourised restorations if they are done right, because they bring the drama into the modern world, changing those people from tragic echoes on the cold ocean floor, and honouring their memories. But frankly, if you're going to get angry about this, get 10x more angry about the entire storylines added to Cameron's yawnfest movie, or the character assassination he perpetrated upon the lead figures. The one thing I have zero tolerance for, is stealing other people's work then posting it as your own.
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@OceanlinerDesigns Mike, I'm pretty amazed that you can make a show of compassion now, when a few months ago, you stood back and said NOTHING when a handful of your audience savaged me for the same thing. Guess not losing subs meant more than doing the right thing eh?
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@BoldlyBased14 I can deal with negative comments (harder now that you5tube is so censorious and I can't give them the responses they deserve), but if Mike can bother to put love hearts and positive comments on half the posts here, he can damned well show a spine when people are acting deplorably elsewhere. As it, I've now developed the opinion that half his followers are bigots and he supports that behaviour.
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What a heartbreaking tale.
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Whenever I see the Titanic wreck, my mind is filled with the last moments of its passengers: the tears of the doomed, the terror of the few lucky survivors, the panic of people trying to figure out how to keep alive, the stoicism of men too uptight to demand that there were enough lifeboats. It's like a scream of anguish, frozen in time at its very worst moment.
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I always think of Titanic as just the mausoleum, but what I find the most profoundly moving are the indicators of the people that were on it. It's ironic that long after the ship has decayed to complete invisibility, for thousands of years, the jewellery and ceramics will continue to exist in a debris field covered with silt. THAT is what I find deeply poignant.
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