Reel Science: Ghosts of the Abyss

6:15PM | Theater Doors Open

6:30PM | Welcome & Documentary: Ghosts of the Abyss

7:30PM | Lecture  and Q&A with Don Lynch, Titanic Author and Historian

Tickets: $15A, $13S, $11Y | OMSI members receive 15% off

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 ABOUT THE FILM:

 Ghosts of the Abyss

James Cameron and Bill Paxton, director and actor of the 1997 film Titanic, travel to the final undersea resting place of the ill-fated ship of dreams.

 61 minutes  | 2003 | Rated G

 ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Don Lynch was born in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and raised in Washington State where he began researching the Titanic while still in high school in Spokane.  In the five decades since he has traveled to museums and archives throughout the United States, Canada, England, and Ireland to conduct his research.  He has met and interviewed twenty passengers from the Titanic, as well as numerous relatives of survivors and victims.  For many years he has been the official Historian for the Titanic Historical Society.

In 1992 Don wrote the text for the book Titanic - An Illustrated History which went on to spend twelve weeks on the New York Times’ best seller list.  Director James Cameron hired Don as the historian for his movie, “Titanic,” and in the Summer of 2001 hired Don as consultant to his “Ghosts of the Abyss” project, where they dove to the Titanic in a Russian submersible to film the wreck for his 3-D, large format documentary.  Don wrote the text for the companion book, Ghosts of the Abyss, and most recently was a contributor for the James Cameron book, Exploring the Deep – The Titanic Expeditions.