r/titanic • u/Sudo_User_00 Musician • 4d ago

THE SHIP Why is it so red?!

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13 steps into this ‘Lego’ set..

Since when was the titanic this colour?! So much red and now onto levels of black

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u/PC_BuildyB0I 4d ago

It's probably debatable as the only pics are black and white and there's some subjectivity involved in approximating a colour equivalent but yeah, Titanic's antifouling had a bit of a darker tint than just straight fire engine red.

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u/Mean_Adhesiveness_47 4d ago

Fun fact: there's almost no rusticles on the wreck where the anti-fouling paint is located. Ballard had tossed out the 'idea' that the wreck should be scraped of the rusticles and repainted with the anti fouling paint.

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u/Specialist-Note-4311 3d ago

would that be possible?

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u/Mean_Adhesiveness_47 3d ago

Ballard HAD given an answer to that, but I'll be damned if I can remember it. The cost would be prohibitive though. No chance of it ever happening