When I was in Girl Scout camp, they had this song, "It Was Sad When the Great Ship Went Down" that gort my interest because it was a bouncy little tune, but it was about this awful shipwreck. Then when Bob Ballard actually [i:e36803dd97]found[/i:e36803dd97] the thing, that's when it really took off for me.

[quote:33b86bb652="JimmyV"]How did everyone come to be interested in the Titanic? For me it was when I was 7 and seen Ghostbusters 2 :) . After seeing the movie I was interested as to what that big ship was. A week or so later I seen the childrens book written by Ballard in a mail order catalog at school and it was all down hill from there :)[/quote:33b86bb652]

I think I was in 2nd grade when I first heard about the Titanic, and loved it ever since.

I was 5. I went to a freinds house, he was in the middle of building a model of the Titanic. He told me the ship sank and a lot of people died. From then on I was hooked. The movie exploded in a few years later and I bought everything Titanic-related available.

For me it started when I was a pre-teen. I was a total geek (Actually I still am) and loved to watch discovery channel and what not. One day, a documentary about the Titanic was on, and that got me interested. So, I did a little research and was majorly hooked, and ever since then I've been collecting things. My step dad had a lot to with it because whenever he went to a book store or something he'd buy me anything he saw dealing with Titanic. I have 3 books now, but I had a lot more...I think I lost them when I moved over the summer. I also had 2 peices of Titanic coal and a newspaper copy from the time. Along with copies of their distress calls and pics of the rescue the Carpathia made...it was very cool. I had a packet of copies of documents made during the investigation....but...I think I also lost that in the move because I cannot find it anywhere. But that's how I got my start! :D

I keep trying to remember how I first got started being a "Titanic Addict" and cannot pinpoint the exact thing. I think I saw an ad in a newspaper for Titanic coal? Not sure. Anyway when I first got online I was hooked, when I saw the amount of information that was out there. Our local library did not have many books at all on the subject and the malls/stores in the area had next to nothing.

So getting online got my collection going and I still get on Ebay and other sites to buy and research things. I absolutely love it.

I became inerested in the Titanic when she was fownd in 1985 .

she just has a plays in my hart . she will allways be remenerd

may she rest in peace ( but sumhow i dont think that she will .