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Soon all the ice will be melted, so..
It definitely wasn't a Olympic class liner with insurance problems that continued to be in service for 20+ years
Well we could cancel him /s
Before going down, legend says that he asked "Where is the horse and the rider?"
"Where is the horn that was blowing? "
Wtf does that mean? Or was he just batshit crazy?
It is a reference to the lines of the film actor of the captain of Titanic in the 1997 film being the same actor who played King Theoden of Rohan (a horse-riding people) in the Lord of The Rings trilogy by Peter Jackson.