Subject: Re: what metal is used in school rings and how are they manufactured

From: Albrecht Kadlec <[email-masked]>
Date: 13 Sep 1996 17:30:27 +0200

[email-masked] (Steve Rayner) writes:

> In a previous article, [email-masked] (Dan F Evans) says:
> 
> >Chris Marlow wrote:
> >> 
> >> We do not have such things. Knowing the Brits, if a bridge fell down, the
> >> last thing we would want to do was remember it with a ring! We would forget
> >> it like all the other cockups!!!!!
> >> 
> >> Just my tupence worth!!!!
> >> 
> >> Regards Chris [email-masked]
> >> 
> >> Steve Wellcome <[email-masked]> wrote in article
> >> <[email-masked]>...
> >> 
> >> ----------BIG SNIP-------------------------
> >> 
> >> > No class rings in England?!?
> >> > call it "the brass rat.")  I've heard that there is an
> >> > engineering school (or an engineering society?) in Canada
> >> > that has rings made from iron taken from a bridge that failed
> >> > disasterously, as a reminder of an engineer's responsibility.
> >> >
> >
> >It's too bad that section of the Titanic's hull couldn't be recovered
> >the other day; they could have made a few class rings out of it.  
> >
> >I read an article a couple of years ago about how the steel in the
> >Titanic had an excessive amount of sulfur in it and when they hit the
> >iceberg it shattered like glass.
> >
> 
> Well, you could always take a scuba diving holliday in Greece.  The 
> Titanics sister ship, the Olympic, was sunk there by a mine in WW1.  It 
> is in somewhat shallower water!  The latter ship was being used as a 
> hospital  at the time.  Then again, it may be too deep for scuba, but 
> Costeu ( Sp? ) dived on it with a mini-sub.

you mean those mini-subs called bathyscap's (sp?), designed to get a
glimps of -11.000 meters ? (philippine & japan trench (voc?))

albrecht