Re: Steve Santini's new book "Titanic: Touchstones of a Tragedy" and artifacts "washed ashore" Greetings to all! My name is Steve Santini and this is my first posting in any form to this board. Regarding the mention in my new book "Titanic: Touchstones of a Tragedy" of a damaged panel from a life jacket which was found in the Canadian Maritimes, I meant in NO WAY to imply that this particular item was "washed ashore" nor can I imagine how any reader could deduce this from what I wrote. "Found" in the Canadian Maritimes refers to the fact that I found this object myself in the Canadian Maritimes when I lived there many years ago. As for other items "washed ashore", I often heard this story during the course of my Titanic resreach in Eastern Canada. ALL of the items I encountered which were claimed to have "washed ashore" from the wreck of Titanic were bogus and fake. The currents which exist off of the Eastern Canadian coast simply do not allow for any object as far out as the surface debris from Titanic to ever come ashore, at least in Canada. Ocean currents would carry such surface debris in an gradual South/ East direction. I hope this answers both what I meant by the quote "found in the Canadian Maritimes" as well as the earlier question as to wether or not any items from the Titanic ever "washed ashore". Regarding the index of my book "Titanic: Touchstones of a Tragedy", I must agree with the person who mentioned in a recent posting that it is somewhat out of whack. The firm who published the book, Writer's Club Press, accepts submissions only on an electronic publisher's template which they send and recieve by e mail to the author. Upon proofing the final manuscript, both my editor, as well as myself, had a book of over 120 pages. In this state, everything fit into the publisher's template and the index as published DID work properly. However, when Writer's Club Press fed THEIR OWN template into THEIR OWN computer, it somehow read the book wrong, and, in the final printing, the correct content was in the book, only on a fewer number of pages and also now housing a partially defective index which makes mention of page numbers which do now not exist. I apologize for any confusion this PUBLISHER ERROR may have caused anyone who bought my book but I wish for the Titanic community to know that this fault is not mine. For all who have bought and/ or read "Titanic: Touchstones of a Tragedy", I sincerely hope you have enjoyed the numerous images of rare Titanic related objects, many of which do not appear in any other Titanic book out there. Best wishes to all, Steve Santini.
