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A first-class dinner menu from the Titanic’s ill-fated maiden voyage offering oysters, beef and mallard duck has sold for £84,0000 ($103,000), the UK auction house responsible for its sale said Sunday. The menu, for a meal served on April 11, 1912, is decorated with a red White Star Line burgee but the original gilt lettering is no longer visible. More than 1,500 passengers and crew died when the vessel sank after hitting an iceberg on […]
BOSTON, June 22, 2023 (AFP) – A “catastrophic implosion,” such as that believed to have destroyed the Titan submersible, would have happened with incredible force and speed given the crushing water pressure on the floor of the ocean. The remains of the Titanic rest on the seabed in the North Atlantic at a depth of some 3,800 meters (12,400 feet). At sea level, atmospheric pressure is 14.7 pounds per square inch (psi). Water pressure at […]
BOSTON, June 22, 2023 (AFP) – All five people aboard a submersible missing near the wreck of the Titanic died — likely in an instant — after their vessel suffered what the US Coast Guard said Thursday was a “catastrophic implosion” in the ocean depths. The somber announcement ended a multinational search-and-rescue operation that captivated the world since the tiny tourist craft went missing in the North Atlantic four days ago. Rear Admiral John Mauger […]
BOSTON, June 22, 2023 (AFP) – A multinational mission to find a missing submersible near the Titanic wreck is still focused on rescuing the five-member crew alive, the US coast guard insisted Thursday, despite fears that the vessel’s oxygen may already have run out. Two more unmanned subs were deployed Thursday as the massive hunt for the Titan, lost somewhere in a vast swathe of the North Atlantic between the ocean’s surface and more than […]
BOSTON, June 22, 2023 (AFP) – A massive search and rescue effort for a missing submersible near the wreck of the Titanic was at a critical stage late Wednesday, with just hours left before the oxygen supply for the five people on board runs out. While coast guard officials insisted they remained “hopeful,” with a surge of assets and experts joining the operation and sonar picking up unidentified underwater noises, the challenge of locating and […]
By Joseph Prezioso BOSTON, June 20, 2023 (AFP) – US and Canadian coast guard teams were racing Monday to locate a submersible vessel with five people aboard, including a billionaire tourist, that went missing on a dive to the Titanic’s wreckage in the North Atlantic. The 21-foot (6.5-meter) craft, operated by OceanGate Expeditions, began its descent early Sunday and lost contact with the surface less than two hours later, according to authorities. One of those […]
By Joseph Prezioso Agence France-Presse BOSTON, June 19, 2023 (AFP) – US and Canadian coast guard teams were racing Monday to locate and rescue a submersible tourist vessel with five people aboard that went missing on a dive to the Titanic’s wreckage in the North Atlantic. The 21-foot (6.5-meter) craft, operated by OceanGate Expeditions, began its descent early Sunday and lost contact with the surface less than two hours later. One of those on board […]
by Noel Celis and Qian Ye SUINING, China (AFP) — The Titanic is being brought back from the deep, more than a century after its ill-fated maiden voyage, at a landlocked Chinese theme park where tourists can soon splash out for a night on a fullscale replica. The project’s main backer was inspired to recreate the world’s most infamous cruise liner by the 1997 box office hit of the same name — once the world’s […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) — An astonishing collection of papers ranging from a handwritten account from a Titanic survivor to a manuscript written from prison by the Marquis de Sade is set to be auctioned in Paris. The Aguttes auction house acquired the collection from bankrupt French company Aristophil, whose founder Gerard Lheritier was charged with fraud in 2015 after suspicions he ran a Ponzi-like scheme. His company, which acquired some 130,000 pieces, was placed into […]
WILTSHIRE, United Kingdom (Reuters) — A personal letter found on the body of a man killed in the sinking of the Titanic sold at auction on Saturday (October 21) for 126,000 pounds ($166,000), a record price for correspondence from the doomed liner. The letter is one of the last known to have survived the sinking and still carries stains from its time in the Atlantic. Written by first-class passenger Alexander Oskar Holverson on embossed Titanic […]
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (Reuters) — Renata Rojas has longed to visit the wreck of the Titanic since she was a girl, decades before the ill-fated passenger liner was discovered on the seabed three decades ago. Next year, the 49-year-old New York banker and diving enthusiast should finally realize her dream, and she is shelling out more than $105,000 (USD) for the privilege. “I don’t own an apartment. I don’t own a car. I haven’t gone […]
The Unity Games International is getting nearer and nearer and the excitement is already mounting. Here’s your daily dose of fun sports facts and trivia as we wait for the Unity Games! #UnityGamesIntl2015 Infographics designed by Lianne Erica Soro Research by Mary Rose Faith Bonalos
