ocean liner

"You enjoyed being on a huge ocean liner like that, and the life it afforded while you were on there," Larter, now 85, tells BBC Sport.

He was as enthused about the set-free processes of making “Avatar” as he had been about building an ocean liner for “Titanic.”

But as happened elsewhere in the country, much of L.A.’s public German community went to ground after May 1915, when a German U-boat sank the British ocean liner Lusitania.

That didn’t rescue the Pike, nor did another new name for the area: Queen Park, after the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary, permanently anchored on the Long Beach landscape.

The pool’s mechanical room looks like the boiler room of an ocean liner — with giant tanks that purify pool water and another system that stabilizes the temperature.