"DIVE FOOTAGE AROUND THE MARCONI ROOM AND FIRST-CLASS AREAS OF BOAT DECK, D-DECK, AND E-DECK". Description: This video tour of the wreckage of the Titanic was shot by the submersible Jake, with light from the Mir submersibles in view at most times. It begins at the D-Deck First-Class entrance vestibule (to port), with its grilled gates, bronze-grilled doors, and intact paneling. We proceed to the number 3 elevator room on D-Deck, then to the port-side First-Class Reception Room, with its intact windows. Onward to the Dining Saloon, pass through some bronze-grilled doors to starboard, and back to the D-Deck entrance vestibule gates. Then, the view takes us past the Reception Room windows and down to the E-Deck landing outside the Turkish Baths, where the camera takes a closeup of the Electric Sign box though does not venture into the baths. Next, we ascend to the Boat Deck, where we tour Staterooms W, U, and T; some of the intact accoutrements of these room are a complete electric fan, fallen wall racks, wooden bed frames and mattress springs, and collapsed wash cabinets. We continue on to the elevator machinery room with its intact motors, cable drum, and pulley, then it is on to the Marconi Suite. This suite, which is in danger of imminent collapse from corrosion, contains a bedroom, office, electrical panels, skylight, and some of the Marconi equipment in the so-called "Silent Room." _________________________________________________________________________ Boat Deck Information The RMS Titanic's Boat Deck was the uppermost deck of the ship. Much of it was open to passengers for promenading and leisure. Dividing the deck along much of its length were deckhouses constructed around the boiler and machinery casings, as well as raised roofs over the several First Class public rooms located on the deck below. The majority of the ship's ventilators were located here as well, but owing to the use of Sirocco fans to assist with moving air, Titanic's Boat Deck was not obstructed with the typical unsightly forest of ventilation heads prominent on so many other ships of the period. Also conspicuous by their absence were the huge cowls which delivered air to the forced-draft systems in the boiler spaces of ships like Cunard's Mauretania. A large continuous deck area, sheathed in yellow pine, extended along both sides of the ship and around the after end of this deck. The raised roofs of the First Class Reading and Writing Room and the First Class Lounge, which extended upward through the Boat Deck by several feet, were also sheathed over in yellow pine, and provided space for deck games. The majority of the Boat Deck space was reserved for First Class passengers, while a smaller area aft was reserved exclusively for Second Class passengers. In addition, the engineers and officers each had their own areas reserved exclusively for them; the latter space also served as a natural barrier which prevented uninvited 'visitors' from wandering forward onto the Bridge. As the height of the Boat Deck above the water afforded commanding views in all directions, it was the natural location for the Navigating Bridge and Wheelhouse. These were located at the very forward end of the deck, adjoining the forward end of the deckhouse that also housed the Chart Room and other related spaces, the Officers' Quarters, the Marconi rooms, six First Class staterooms, the First Class Gymnasium and the forward First Class Entrance. Other deckhouses, some of which surrounded the bases of the funnels themselves, held the Officers' Mess, Tank Rooms, Engineers' Smoke Room, and forward Second Class Entrance. The skylights enclosing the domes above both First Class staircases were also situated here -- the after one at deck level, and the forward one located on top of the deckhouse roof over the First Class Entrance hall. The light and air shafts above the Reciprocating and Turbine Engine Rooms terminated here as well at the roof level of the deckhouses surrounding them; the former was capped by a skylight while the latter opened into the base of the No.4 Funnel. Flanking both sides of the Boat Deck were the ship's 30ft main lifeboats and 25ft emergency cutters. by, Alexandre De Araújo.

• published: 30 Dec 2012
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