This year cinema´s remake of (course) of the "Poseidon Adventure"!
In 1972 it was the movie that make me love ships. After a while I discover that warships were a lot more fun than passenger liners, being the Titanic, the Doria and the fiction Poseidon the exceptions.
Let´s hope it´s a bonus.
New Poseidon Movie
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My dad who sailed on the Queen Mary (the ship used in the original 1972 movie) back in the 50ies told me that what happens in the Poseidon movie nearly happens for real.
In WWII the QM was sailing with troops from NY to Great Britain when somekind of gigantic wave hit her starboard side and list her more or less 30 to 35 degrees. The QM almost went upside down. Later I found an article on Smithonian about it and that Paul Galico, the novelist who wrote the book, took his idea from that incident.
I think that such a huge ship, if suddenly turned uypside down, with a lot of air trapped in her hull can float a lot in that condition. As far as I know when the rescuers drill a hole in her hull to extract the survivors there can be something like a explosive decompresion or such, and the sinking will be then a matter of minutes.
In WWII the QM was sailing with troops from NY to Great Britain when somekind of gigantic wave hit her starboard side and list her more or less 30 to 35 degrees. The QM almost went upside down. Later I found an article on Smithonian about it and that Paul Galico, the novelist who wrote the book, took his idea from that incident.
I think that such a huge ship, if suddenly turned uypside down, with a lot of air trapped in her hull can float a lot in that condition. As far as I know when the rescuers drill a hole in her hull to extract the survivors there can be something like a explosive decompresion or such, and the sinking will be then a matter of minutes.
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