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Message: [QUOTE="Michael Friedman, post: 284557, member: 197921"] James, Right on all counts. Shipwreck contains accounts of people being cut down by flying glass, moving human fireballs, etc. Maybe it actually happened, maybe it didn't. Maybe the authors got their information from histrionic news accounts; I don't know. But you're right, it does begin to sound more like a screenplay for a made-for-TV movie than a serious piece of research ("exit fireball, stage left"). Re: Passengers & birds. You make a good point. Recently I read an account about Elizabeth Nye saving a canary when she escaped from the Titanic (I think it was in Judith Geller's book, but I'm not sure). It wouldn't have struck me as so odd if I hadn't read a copy of a book assembled at Ohio State University - one of various newspaper accounts of the sinking of the Central America in 1853 (by the way, a very interesting piece of research). It tells about a woman who rescued a canary in the folds of her dress, & carried it safely to the rescue vessel. The account about Mrs. Nye saving a canary from the Titanic seemed a veritable echo of the Central America story. "Urban Legends take to the High Seas!" [ATTACH=full]32280[/ATTACH] Tomorrow I will post what I consider the glaring error from Shipwreck - I want to check my sources again to make sure I have it right. By the way, Thomas & Witts had at least one of their books, "Voyage of the Damned" made into a film. Perhaps also "The Day the World Ended". So you may not be too far off at all about having an eye on the screenplay market. By the way, I do enjoy their books very much, but I can't help but wonder about the overall accuracy sometimes. More tomorrow. Mike [/QUOTE]

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