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The 1997 Movie

Titanic Heart of the Ocean Diamond

August 24, 2010

Specific to the Titanic movie, the Heart of the Ocean is a fictional diamond contained within a necklace that is thought to be in the wreckage of the Titanic. In the film, treasure hunter Brock Lovett (played by Bill Paxton) is searching for the diamond in the sunken Titanic. The necklace was fashioned from a […]

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Titanic Movie Love Quotes

August 24, 2010

One of the most well known contemporary love stories of the last few decades, the Titanic has captivated the hearts of many individuals over the years. The tale of triumph and tragedy has resonated in the minds of movie lovers all over the world and supplied us with many different Titanic movie love quotes. Here […]

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Titanic Bloopers, Movie Extras, & Interesting Facts

August 23, 2010

Titanic Bloopers Camera is visible in a few scenes. One is when it is reflected in Rose’s television, and the other is when Jack Dawson approaches the door to the grand staircase of the Titanic the first time, the camera can be seen reflected in the glass. The Titanic’s midde propeller is a Parson’s steam […]

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Titanic 1997 Cast List of Actors

August 23, 2010

Leonardo DiCaprio – Jack Dawson – A third-class passenger on the Titanic, Jack Dawson got on the boat by winning a poker game with two of his friends. In love with first class passenger Rose Dewitt Bukater, much of the 1997 Titanic movie focuses on their affair. Jack was arrested when the Titanic began to […]

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The Sad Story

Under the command of Edward Smith, the ship leaved Southampton with 2224 passengers aboard, including some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of poor emigrants from Europe seeking a new life in North America. The ship had advanced safety features, but there were not enough lifeboats to accommodate all of those aboard. Only 1,178 people can be carried in lifeboats.

Four days into the crossing and about 375 miles (600 km) south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 pm ship's time. The glancing collision caused Titanic's hull plates to buckle inwards along her starboard side and opened five of her sixteen watertight compartments to the sea; the ship gradually filled with water. Meanwhile, passengers and some crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which were launched only partly loaded.

By 2:20 AM, the giant ship broke apart and foundered, with over 1000 people still aboard. Just under two hours after the sinking, the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia arrived and brought aboard about 705 survivors.
Small Numbers

74: The number of years it took to find the wreck of the Ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

64 : The number of lifeboats supposed to be aboard the ship.

20 : The number of lifeboats she actually carried.

65: Maximum capacity of a lifeboat.

28 : The number of people on board the first lifeboat.

2 : The number of workers killed during the construction process.

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The Unsinkable Ship !

Who doesn’t know about Titanic? The famous British ship that was designed to be unsinkable, but it finally sank on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during its long trip from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. About 1,500 people died, and the largest ship made at the time led to one of the biggest disasters in modern history.
Big Numbers

$7,500,000 : The total cost of building the RMS Titanic.

12,600 feet : The depth at which the wreck of the ship lays.

882 feet : The length of the ship.

3,547 : The maximum number of people the ship could carry.

2,223 : The number of people aboard, including passengers and crew.

1,178: The number of people that could be carried in the lifeboats.

705 : The number of people who survived the tragedy.