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This is a great place to find great bargains on discounted marine, water & boat safety equipment, including discount life jacket, life raft, and life vest personal flotation devices and water survival gear.

At the outset, I had though that splashoflife.com would be a great website name for a boating safety equipment website, and I set it up as such. As I was setting up this website, I happened to stumble across the book named "Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters" edited by Logan Marshall in 1912. I was absolutely stunned by this historical account of the sinking of the Titanic. I found that the whole book was old enough to be in the public domain, so I dedicated two rather long days to getting it published it on this website for all to read. The full text of the book is reproduced here without the original graphics. Individual chapters of "Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters" are linked together at the top of each of the chapter postings. Furthermore, you can find a full listing of the chapters of "Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters" in the sidebar.

While doing this, and in honor of Captain E. J. Smith of the Titanic, I decided to adopt the pseudonym of Edward Smith as the webmaster of this website. You can reach me at edward dot smith at splashoflife dot com.