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The Lydia Frenzel Conference Center |
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The Titanic Experience |
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The metal is dark and pitted; some of the rivets would fall out if it weren't for the layers of corrosion . Standing next the piece of the Titanic is like falling back through a time warp. The feel of something on the "other side" is overwhelming. I imagined voices and the sounds of an orchestra tuning up, the glimpse of formal dress passing in review just beyond the thick glass of the porthole. Something seemed to be "almost" happening, and I was waiting for the stroke of the clock to precipitate the event. I was very pleased to be part of the team that had helped to conserve this priceless piece of history. One of the most interested audiences I've had was a group of people, some of them marine archeologists, in Wellington, New Zealand. Some of these folks had been in the Pacific diving on sunken Japanese shipping full of live ammunition left from WWII! The surprising thing (to me) was that their hulls seemed better preserved in warm waters than ours at the bottom of the cold Atlantic. Of course, I'd be happy to come talk to you about your own special problems...just in case you were about to pull up a piece of steel from the bottom of the ocean! Lydia Frenzel |
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