CT - Mystic Aquarium: Titanic – 12,450 Feet Below - Marconi Room
A reproduction of the Titanic's radio room, known as the Marconi Room, was created for the Titanic - 12,450 Feet Below exhibit. The Marconi Room was situated on the Boat-Deck. The Titanic's "wireless' equipment, belonging to the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd, was the most powerful in use at the time. It was operated by two Radio Officers, or as they were known in those days Marconi Wireless Operators or Telegraphists. It was in this room that the fatal ice warning from the Californian was missed when operator Harold Bride shut down the telegraph for a while on April 14th, 1912...Titanic – 12,450 Feet Below, an exhibit at Mystic Aquarium, was opened in 2012 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The exhibit was created by Dr. Robert Ballard, a former United States Nav officer and professor of oceanography known for his maritime and underwater archaeology, most notably his discoveries of the Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1999, and the USS Yorktown in 1998, and Tim Delaney, a former Walt Disney Imagineer and was funded by a $1 million donation from United Technologies Corporation...Mystic Aquarium, part of the Sea Research Foundation, was opened on October 6, 1973 as a privately owned corporation behind the financing of Kelvin Smith. The aquarium features Steller sea lions—it is one of three facilities in the United States that does, a large colony of Africa black-footed penguins, and one of the largest outdoor Beluga whale exhibits in the country, a 1-acre space with 750,000 US gallons of water, that was part of a $52 million expansion in 1999. An Ocean Exploration Center features maps, diagrams and models from Dr. Robert Ballard’s explorations of the Black sea and of the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
CT - Mystic Aquarium: Titanic – 12,450 Feet Below - Marconi Room
A reproduction of the Titanic's radio room, known as the Marconi Room, was created for the Titanic - 12,450 Feet Below exhibit. The Marconi Room was situated on the Boat-Deck. The Titanic's "wireless' equipment, belonging to the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd, was the most powerful in use at the time. It was operated by two Radio Officers, or as they were known in those days Marconi Wireless Operators or Telegraphists. It was in this room that the fatal ice warning from the Californian was missed when operator Harold Bride shut down the telegraph for a while on April 14th, 1912...Titanic – 12,450 Feet Below, an exhibit at Mystic Aquarium, was opened in 2012 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The exhibit was created by Dr. Robert Ballard, a former United States Nav officer and professor of oceanography known for his maritime and underwater archaeology, most notably his discoveries of the Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1999, and the USS Yorktown in 1998, and Tim Delaney, a former Walt Disney Imagineer and was funded by a $1 million donation from United Technologies Corporation...Mystic Aquarium, part of the Sea Research Foundation, was opened on October 6, 1973 as a privately owned corporation behind the financing of Kelvin Smith. The aquarium features Steller sea lions—it is one of three facilities in the United States that does, a large colony of Africa black-footed penguins, and one of the largest outdoor Beluga whale exhibits in the country, a 1-acre space with 750,000 US gallons of water, that was part of a $52 million expansion in 1999. An Ocean Exploration Center features maps, diagrams and models from Dr. Robert Ballard’s explorations of the Black sea and of the wreck of the RMS Titanic.