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Monday marks the 101st anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. If you need something to do for the next few hours, you can follow @TitanicRealTime on Twitter as it live-tweets the last moments of the unfortunate voyage.
Created last year by The History Press, TitanicRealTime’s first-person tweets put a distinctly personal spin on the disaster instead of just a historical one.
#officer Water is only 2ft of F Deck, although it seems to have slowed down. Nevertheless it is still rising and we have to abandon ship.
— TitanicVoyage (@TitanicRealTime) April 14, 2013
#bandmaster No questions, I have received an order to play, and play we will.
— TitanicVoyage (@TitanicRealTime) April 14, 2013
If live tweets aren’t quite real enough for you, you’ll just have to wait until 2016 when the Titanic II, a full recreation of its predecessor, sets sail. What could possibly go wrong?
See also: Check out these never-before seen, stunning images of the Titanic
(hat tip Steve Streza)
Image Credit: John Moore/Getty Images
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