In this episode, Nelson and Alexandra talk Titanic's rescue with Kelly Skwarcan. She is an author, speaker and researcher weaving in the stories of three ship's captains in her book - The Full Tale of the Titanic: Iron and Ice and into her interactive case study presentation “Leadership in Crisis: The Titanic, Carpathia, & Californian”.

Two ships were close to Titanic as she sank. The Carpathian and the Californian. Captain Lord ignored Titanic's SOS signals despite being only ten miles away and during the official enquiry he tried to cover up his failings. In an opposite demonstration of leadership, Captain Rostrun of the Californian turned his ship around and steered through a field of icebergs to help pick up survivors. Hear about how Kelly uses the stories of the two captains' different responses to train military cadets in the art of leadership combining her research and passion for the Titanic with the HEXACO personality test.

LINKS ~
Kelly's Book IRON & ICE: The Full Tale of the Titanic on Amazon
Kelly's website ~ kellyskwarcan.com
Instagram ~ @kellyskwarcan

Listen to Kelly's Narativ Leadership Story Talks podcast episode HERE

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Find out all about the workings and origin of the British Titanic Society from their chairman David Scott-Beddard, who also owns White Star Memories, one of the premiere Titanic exhibition companies in the world. He was also a key player in finding, raising awareness, raising funds and restoring one of Titanic's tender ships - the Nomadic.

Listen to this fascinating new episode where Nelson and Alexandra hear also about David's new venture restoring two train carriages that travelled Titanic passengers from Waterloo to Southampton.

LINKS for this episode ~

Nomadic is dry docked at Titanic Belfast

TitanicBelfast.com/explore/ss-Nomadic

David's collection of memorabilia White Star Memories

Exhibition Hub, the immersive Titanic exhibition: www.exhibitionhub.com

Sculpter Allen St Geroge: alanstgeorge.com

Titanic Boat Train Heritage: titanicboattrainheretagetrust.org

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This is a solemn and unusual episode, Nelson and Alexandra speak with Clinton Bonelli. They met their new Titaniac friend on the Queen Mary over Titanic Weekend 2025 and immediately found each other to be kindred spirits.

Clinton's is a mortuary science specialist and death care professor, so Nelson had the idea to invite him on to Titanic Talk to tell us about the recovery of the bodies of Titanic's victims and how they were treated in 1912. It's well known that only one lifeboat returned to pick up survivors in the water, many passengers would have gone down with the ship and many didn't survive longer than fifteen minutes in the freezing water of the Atlantic.

Clinton's background in funeral arrangement and embalming and his research on who was buried at sea, who was laid to rest in Halifax in the cemetery and whose bodies were returned to their families outlines, even in death, the unbalanced distinction of the classes.

Follow Clinton on Instagram @clintonb1979 and @pedantictitanic

SHIP OF DREAMS: TITANIC MOVIE DIARIES is on Amazon Prime, Apple TV etc

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