Of May Balls in Cambridge as Titan adventure' leads to tragedy

“O Bachchoo why do we believe That God wants to be flattered. Yes, give him love With hymns he’s probably just bored…” From The Lota Rota, by Bachchoo Photographs of the salvaged wreckage of the submersible vessel Titan, in which five people died when it imploded, are all over the world’s media. The London Times newspaper reported that on the day the Titan started on its journey down and lost all contact, Pembroke College, Cambridge, was celebrating their annual May Ball with a theme entitled “Nautilus into the Depths”. The reason I repeat the fact here is that 20 years before Mr Harding, I graduated from Pembroke College, Cambridge, and like him, I “read” Natural Sciences. There was a lot of soul searching but in the end the May Ball committee concluded that cancellation or stripping the courts and hall of its nautical decorations and paraphernalia of diving to view the wreck of the Titanic wouldn’t save the Titan or its passengers.