"Time" for a bit of a change. I thought I'd share with you my experience in witnessing the sinking of the Titanic. Its a story full of mystery, human error, and panic.

Since I've been aboard its decks I can guarantee you my intimate experience will enlighten you to why this maritime disaster continues to be such a major topic.

I have been trained in remote viewing techniques; to time travel in my astral body is a lot easier than looking for fuel for a Flux capacitor. You get to see the world as it was, in flashes and distorted jumbled thoughts.

Thats how it works for the human brain, anyway. Since I don't have a body to call my own anymore, its like watching a very high definition, slightly interactive DVD.

Behind every tragedy is often a storied history. The Titanic is no different. What caused the demise of White Star's biggest, baddest, most awesomest steam liner? This would be a long string of events that ended up breaking the hull's back. But as its often said, hindsight's a blind spot.

To understand what exactly was transpiring here, I'll need to mention a few things. Keep in mind, also, that by the time the Titanic dropped into the sea for its maiden voyage "ironclads" had only been around in any major form since 1861. That said, the liner company (White Star) was bought by a prominent person-- Thomas Ismay. Secondly, White Star was going bankrupt. Their most "successful" business was shipping cargo across the world. They had only just begun trafficking humans around in a ship specifically designed for creature comforts.

Their first line dubbed the "Oceanic Class" was financed in part by two people: Gustav Christian Schwabe and Gustav Wilhelm Wolf. Wolf owned a company that built ships. And Schwabe had the funds. A partnership was made between these three people, and the rest makes for a lot of movies.

The Titanic was built some forty three years after this bond was made. And it was all in reaction to a rival steam line company, Cunard. Cunard was building faster and larger ships, hauling more and more people because of the wave of Immigration coming to a new land called North America via Canada or the United States.

White Star wasn't looking to capture the market for just mere immigrants, nope. They were going to build big beautiful cities on the sea and throw into them swimming pools (a new concept, at that time.), Turkish Bathes, one of those crazy new fangled electric gizmos called an "elevator," a grand stair case that reached down approximately nine decks, a wireless Marconi, work out rooms and equipment, and of course, one relatively new amazing feature.

You see, men had conquered the sea with water tight doors. If Titanic struck something it could bare to have up to four compartments flood without worrying about taking a swim in concrete shoes.

What could open up more than five compartments? World War I had yet to begin, and submarines weren't yet the weapons of warfare they would become. But of course, this is only the tip of an iceberg. Or perhaps field of pack ice.

And the rumor mill of the White Star's new Olympic class ships were being spread through word of mouth and printing press. There had already been one vessel keeled, primped, primed and put in the ocean. But the Titanic was going to be the master piece 2.0.

Anyone, who was positively anyone with any money, had to take a cruise on this fine vessel. On this triumph of man over God's ocean.

You can bet White Star didn't want to disappoint, the ship was full of ornate wood panelling and gold fringes. It would take a whole slew of sinful touches to make someone pay up to $4,350 dollars (or more than 80,000 U.S. dollars today) for a simple one way trip to every one's favorite new holiday getaway, America.

You may be familiar with some of the prominent and famous (some made after the sinking) people aboard, but if not, allow me to list a few:

Captain Edward J. Smith, a captain who had a long career in sea faring. He had some issues with the first Olympic class ship (cleverly named the Olympic) and was involved with a collision with a British naval vessel. The Olympic wasn't severely damaged, and it got back to port safely (thanks to those water tight doors!) and when the Titanic was completed, he was put in command. Its often said it was going to be his last voyage, but this actually wasn't the case. He was going to helm the ship until the next one was built.

There was of course the passengers: Isidor Straus (owner of Macy's.), The Unsinkable Molly Brown, who was a millionaire, writer W. T. Stead (who wrote two works about ships sinking and how they needed more life boats.) And so many more.

There was also Thomas Andrews, the ship's builder and J. Bruce Ismay, White Star's managing director.

And so, Royal Mail Steamer Titanic set sail from Cherbourg, picked up people in South Hampton, did the same in Queenstown, then set into open water heading for New York.

Full of people, neat stuff, beautiful furniture, and plenty of mail. It was heading right for Sunday, April 14th, 1912. And Frederick Fleet yelling "Iceberg, dead ahead!"

A lot of people think that those guys in the wireless Marconi room were there to talk to other ships, keep track of icebergs, and get the latest baseball scores. Or Rugby, whatever.

But this isn't the case. Wireless Marconi Devices had only been around since 1897. It took a lot of capital, a lot of money to develop this technology. And where do you think it came from? Patrons, people using said service to transmit to their friends how awesome the Titanic was and you suck for not coming. That's it. That was the whole shebang. Receiving and sending messages for other people was the only reason the Marconi was put into the Titanic.

Obviously, yes, they could hear reports of ice and all that. But the Marconi room was owned and operated by The Marconi Company Ltd. In other words, all the equipment, its use, and the people operating it were not crew members aboard the Titanic. They were employees for a wireless company.

Granted, when Titanic hit the iceberg, they began to send out S.O.S. messages. Reports vary; some did not believe the Titanic had been fatally wounded, others were too far away. One rather close ship just didn't respond. Help would arrive, however, about two hours after the last of the Titanic had forever disappeared beneath the frigid waters.

That ship was the RMS Carpathia.

But, of course, as many might know, the Titanic didn't have enough lifeboats for all passengers aboard. Many may ask how this is possible, how it was possible for it to pass inspection and go out to sea. Its rather simple: it did pass inspection. The maritime laws in 1912 didn't require lifeboats for every man woman and child aboard, and so not only did the Titanic leave port without enough, nearly every ship in its day did too.

It would take a lot of reassurance that the lifeboats were alright, and still more convincing that the RMS Titanic was doomed. Many passengers did not want to leave the ship until they absolutely had to. And of course, when we wait to the last minute to do anything, especially saving our butts, panic sets out. It all became too apparent, as the band played on and the ocean got closer and closer to Titanic's decks.

in New York was already full of controversy. Everyone knew the Titanic had struck even before the Carpathia had hit land because of those wireless Marconi devices. In fact, J. Bruce Ismay had repeatedly ignored communications from the President of the United States, William Howard Taft.

Taft wanted to know exactly what the hell happened, and why. The United States Senate created a Board of Inquiry and went to work the day after the Carpathia arrived at Pier 54. J. Bruce Ismay, who was ready to jump ship and head back to England's waters was greeted by some nice Americans and taken into custody to await trial.

At the end of the trial, someone had to take a fall. And that fall guy was Stanley Lord, captain of the S.S. Californian. The inquiry figured, you see, that a ship was in the area when the Titanic struck an iceberg, and they were pretty sure it was the Californian. Who sailed away from the lights, from the rising panic, and into the night.

The Californian, however, did eventually respond. The Captain was asleep, and when they began receiving a distress call from the Titanic the Second Officer aboard the Californian just didn't know what to do. The Titanic was launching rockets, but the standard "I Need Help!" color of a rocket flare was white. He couldn't tell what color they were, and figured those crazy people aboard that bad ass ship were partying.

It only became apparent, later on, as the ship was no longer visible that it had met an untimely end, disappearing beneath the waves until Robert Ballard found the ship again on September 1st, 1985 via side scan sonar.

Since then, many have come to the wreck via submersibles and remotely controlled vehicles. James Cameron has fallen in love with the ship, its story, and even produced 1997's epic "Titanic."

Today the ship's remains is steadily decaying, and its only got about fifty more years until it turns into a pile of rubble on the sea bed, finally collapsing into a hulk of poorly produced iron.

Only about 33% of the passengers aboard the Titanic made it back alive, and this ship was quintessential to reforming maritime law and regulations. Thanks to this disgusting loss of life, there is now a lifeboat for every person aboard a ship in case it finds it's self filling with water and plunging beneath the waves.