| Message | Just want to say how very much I've enjoyed visiting your site (or blog). Although not being "of the sea" I nevertheless am fascinated with Ocean Liners and Cruise Ships; their design, their safety (or lack thereof), their successes as well as their tragedies. The only ship on which my wife and I have sailed, the Explorer of the Seas, is at 138,000 tons almost 20 times larger than was the Oceanos. I should have been born shortly after the turn of the last century of the gentried set as I am quite comfortable in formal surroundings and appreciate what I refer to as a more "civilized" way of life when a gentleman truly insisted on "women and children first" and if necessary, the Captain went down with his vessel. Sadly, even in April of 1912 many of the crew of the Titanic didn't conduct themselves any differently than those of the Oceanos. Alas at age sixty and definitely not being of the gentried set, I am forced to rely on my own memories of our cruise until perchance we are fortunate enough to repeat the experience, hopefully without the concomitant drama associated with a "Final Voyage." |