I am Norwegian, I was born in 1944. I read "A Night to Remember" when I was around the age of 11 and was hooked on the Titanic from page 1. I have since spent more than 50 years studying the ship and the tragedy. I ran away from home in 1962 and traveled the world (east from Europe to China) between 1963-1967. I was awarded a British Government grant to study linguistics and English language at the University of London. I had been a teacher of English as a foreign language since 1976. My wife and I moved to Spain in 2000 and opened our own language school. I plan to retire when I am 70 and spend more time on astronomy, a hobby I discovered recently.