No matter what the movie is named, if it is about the sea it is going to have people dying. That is because the number one thing there is to do in the sea if you are a human is die, that’s right, die. In other words, humans and the sea were never meant to get together in that way.

There are even people out there who think that it’s funny to live near the sea and consistently go out on or in it and in some rare cases under it. These people are stupid. That is why we call them seamen. They don’t know there is a rather gross joke there. That is how dumb they are.

Many men have gone out to face the sea in increasingly large vessels, think that the sheer size of the ship would be able to tame the ocean. Fools. Atlantis sunk and it was a freaking world man, a world. That would be a kin to Australia sinking.

The point here is that the sea is pretty much the king of its own territory. It doesn’t care how rich you are or how many multi-platinum albums you have made. There is plenty of room in its belly for whoever you are. It simply wants to eat your face. That is what it does.

Today I watched the History Channel coverage of a 2006 expedition to the Titanic. It was being headed by Russians who thought it would be a good idea to see if 2 1/2 miles under the oceans surface was colder than Siberia. There is literally nothing else to do in Russia.

So the basic premise of the expedition was to take a large ship, somewhat smaller than the Titanic itself, to the exact location of the shipwreck to see how it sunk. Sadly enough their ship managed to stay afloat so they needed to go down and see if they could figure it out by looking at the wreckage though a window.

So two guys got into an oversized sardine can that ran on a couple of double a batteries and had a crane drop the thing into the ocean. The basic concept was to drive this little metal bubble down to the wreckage and look around for a bit, returning before the batteries wore out and they got stuck there. Smart, right?

So, the long and short of the documentary is that they discovered that the Titanic took more damage from the iceberg than previously expected. This damage, of course, coming from running a ship in the same waters that these people had chosen to take their vessal.

Also, as a last note, you always here about shipwrecks. When is the last time you heard about a successful voyage? Oh yeah, you feel me.