- Just imagine, it took almost 73 years to find the wreck of the Titanic. The image below shows the remaining debris from the Titanic wreck.
2. The Titanic was as tall as an eleven-story building and as long as almost four city blocks, making it one of the largest ships in the world.
3. Millvina Dean (1912–2009) was only a few months old when she boarded the Titanic with her family. She was the youngest victim of the accident.
4. The estimated age of the first snowflakes that formed the iceberg that the Titanic hit is 15,000 years old.
5. None of the 30 technicians on board survived. They remained on board to keep the power running as long as possible so the others could escape.
6. The Titanic carried 64 lifeboats, each capable of carrying 20 people. Most of the lifeboats were not even filled to capacity.
7. The richest passenger on the Titanic was John Jacob Astor IV. His net worth was approximately $85 million, or two billion dollars today. Astor perished with the Titanic.
8. With a production cost of 200 million dollars , this film cost more than Titanic itself.
9. The Titanic's shipbuilding company, Harland and Wolff, insists that the Titanic was never touted as unsinkable as it was portrayed in the film. They claim that the 'unsinkable' myth is a result of people's interpretation of articles in The Irish News and The Shipbuilder magazine. They also claim that the myth arose after the disaster.
10. First class
tickets
varied widely in price, ranging from $150 (about $1,700 today) for a simple bed, to $4,350 (about $50,000 today) for one of the two Parlor suites. Second class tickets were $60 (about $700), and third class passengers paid between $15 and $40 ($170-$460).
11. Hitting an iceberg wasn't the only reason the Titanic sank.
To further clarify, a 30-foot-long line mark is visible on the ship, directly in front of the coal bunker. The area where the mark is located is also the area where the ship struck the iceberg. This leads experts to believe that a fire must have damaged the area first, with the iceberg then causing further damage.
12. Jack and Rose are fictional characters, but their story was partly inspired by real Titanic passengers Henry Samuel Morley and Kate Florence Phillips.