Our son Sam has had an interesting fascination with the Titanic lately. We’ve let him watch the 1997 movie “Titanic” and the early 1958 “A Night to Remember.” We’ve checked out additional documentary DVDs from the library along with books. He’s taken one of his giant Lego planes and converted it to be Titanic, complete with funnels and a break-away hull which allows him to sink it (from the couch to the floor) in dramatic near-real play action into two pieces. It’s pretty cool actually. I even helped him find the underwater 3D representation on the sea floor in Google Earth.
All this has re-kindled my own childhood interest in the story and the wreck. I recall being intrigued by the idea of this unsinkable ship having sunk in 1912 and the fact it hadn’t been found. I, like many others thought how cool it would be if someone did find it and was able to raise it. I read Clive Cussler’s book “Raise the Titanic” and watched the movie of the same name. These of course only kindled a belief the Titanic might one day be found and actually brought back to the surface. Many people thought the same thing. But tonight I got to thinking what a folly that was.
I’m sure before the Titanic was discovered by Bob Ballard, many people truly believed we’d find her and be able to affect a patch on her hull that would allow us to bring her up. I’m certain there were grand visions of turning her into a museum, monument or sailing her again just to take the “unsinkable” meme and shake it in the face of God.
But God had other plans.
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