[Patrick]

Originally Posted by Conor

1- Titanic was built in Ireland (now Northern Ireland)

2- This ship was the biggest moving thing and fastest most state-of-the-art ship on Earth when it was completed. Millions of pounds was thrown at it and it was famous before it even left Belfast. Many of the worlds richest and most famous people at the time were on board. The ship sank on its maiden voyage loosing over 1500. Today, the same equivalent would be the Burj Khalifa (worlds tallest building) collapsing in Dubai. That is what makes it so famous. Decades were spent searching for the ship and in the 1980s they spent millions trying to raise the wreck- all of this without the help of the film. If anything, if the ship had not been so famous in the first place then it was unlikely that James Cameron would have been given the biggest movie budget in history (at the time) to make a film about it.

3- The balloons are one of many installations around Belfast in the build up to Titanic week. They have been installed in recognition of a brand new £100 million Titanic Experience centre opening in the Titanic Quarter area of the city. The ship has always been a proud part of Belfast's history and with or without the film, that balloon installation would have been standing in Victoria Square this week.

Originally Posted by Smithy

A lot of ships were made in england charlie, but hardly any of them sank on their maiden voyage with such a big loss of life

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