Neil, Greg and Jeff speak with Jeff Jensen, a Titanic historian living in Saratoga Springs about the Titanic and his favorite US presidents.

Episode Highlights

  • Jeff shares about his online teaching job, specifically teaching history
  • Diverse experiences of passengers aboard the Titanic based on their class of travel
  • Finding good within tragic instances and how that applied to the Titanic tragedy
  • Older advice about getting off a ship if one thinks it's sinking
  • How history is often perceived as boring but is essentially storytelling
  • The theory of the coal fire on the Titanic, which claims that a fire in the ship's coal bunkers weakened the bulkhead and contributed to the severity of the iceberg collision

Episode Resources

  • Connect with Neil Bryce, Jeff Beck and Greg Spencer
  • Left of the Lake Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/288869046622439/?ref=share
  • https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/?next=/leftofthelake/
  • Connect with Jeff Jensen
  • https://livingtitanic.com/index.html