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Titanic Movie Summary

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August 25, 2010

Beginning with treasure hunter Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton) searching the Titanic wreck for the fabled necklace named the Heart of the Ocean, the Titanic movie features actual footage of the wreckage. After recovering a safe that was thought to belong to first class passenger Caledon ‘Cal’ Hockley, played by Billy Zane, Lovett hopes to find […]

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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 JAMES CAMERON CONSPIRACY THEORY

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May 13, 2010

Note: this copy of the James Cameron Conspiracy Theory contains never before seen information that wasn’t in the previous online version. This HTML version is divided into three 6.5 page sections for easier reading. WARNING: The information contained within the 19.5 pages of this document will shake the core of all your belief systems. If […]

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Titanic vs Avatar: Sales & More

February 12, 2010

Titanic vs Avatar Like him or not, James Cameron sure knows how to make a movie. His latest film Avatar has recently became the highest grossing film of all time, raking in a ridiculous $1.859 billion. This number eclipses the previous movie Titanic, also directed by Cameron that brought in $1.843 billion. It cannot be […]

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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.