Bruce talks with Dave Shuttle from the Titanic Society - Audio

Dave Shuttle is the membership officer for the International Titanic Society, Bruce relives that fatal day at sea. Dave was born in 1949 in Erie, Pa., where he lives and runs a business in the beer industry. He has a bachelor’s degree in business management from Penn State University. Dave’s interest in Titanic began while watching a Discovery Channel program in 1997. The program revealed that letters written by his family had been recovered from the wrecksite. His particular interest is salvage and legal issues. He is also interested in steamships and wooden sailing ships. A member of TIS since 1997, he was elected a trustee in 2003. He is in charge of member services, a task he has helped with since 1999. He has been a participant in court proceedings opposing the efforts of the salvage company, RMS Titanic, Inc., to sell Titanic artifacts. He has contributed numerous articles to the TIS journal Voyage and researched, with his ex-wife Barb, the story of Pearl Shuttle, Howard Irwin and Henry Sutehall and how the family letters came to be aboard Titanic.