proggieus

years ago, when the traveling exhibit came to St Paul MN. I designed and installed the Audio and Video for the exhibit.

One day i was doing some final tuning and tweaks to the audio system when one of the conservators came and asked if i could lend a hand with something.

I am a bigger guy 6'1" and about 230 and they needed some muscle. I was asked to help hang the ships whistles on a mount. about 10 feet in the air. they lifted them with a fork lift but me and two other guys were in ladders with the little white gloves on guiding them onto the mounting points. Once we got them hung the pipe fitter hooked them up to an air line and for about the next hour or so they tested the whistles to see what air pressure they needed to sound but not enough to damage them.

There was about 8 people in the exhibit at that time and it was the first time that the whistles had sounded since the ship had gone down since they had just finished getting them cleaned and conserved.

A day or two later they had a giant press conference to sound the Titanics whistles for the first time. It was actually about the ninth or tenth time and i was one of only 8 or so that actually heard them for the first time.

the St. paul show was also the first showing i believe of the gigantic hull piece, they still had to show it while it was underwater since the were still trying to stabilize it after recovery.

So thats my little bit to add to the titanic discussion

Do you honestly believe that anybody cares?

you can bring in watever you want just no glass containers,

Do you have any plans to try and answer more than 2 questions per hour or is this going to be the longest AMA in history?

Caught in a landslide-

Edit. whoo hoo its my cake day