Life jacket worn by Titanic passenger who survived auctioned for $900,000
The item is believed to be one of only a handful of Titanic life jackets still in existence, the auction house said.
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The item is believed to be one of only a handful of Titanic life jackets still in existence, the auction house said.
A gold pocket watch that once belonged to a couple last seen holding hands on the deck of the Titanic as it sunk has sold for a record price.
The U.S. Coast Guard issued its final report on the deadly 2023 incident, which killed five people aboard OceanGate's Titan submersible when it imploded on an expedition to see the wreckage of the Titanic.
Archibald Gracie wrote of the ill-fated steamship: "It is a fine ship but I shall await my journeys end before I pass judgment on her."
The 18-carat Tiffany & Co. watch was given by three women survivors to Capt. Arthur Rostron for diverting his passenger ship, the RMS Carpathia, to save them and others after the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the north Atlantic.
Submersible pilot Karl Stanley said he felt the implosion ultimately stemmed from Stockton Rush's desire to leave his mark on history.
The scientific director for OceanGate testified that the Titan sub malfunctioned only days before the deadly dive.
RMS Titanic Inc., which holds the legal rights to the 112-year-old wreck, completed its first trip since 2010 and released images from the expedition.
RMS Titanic Inc. plans to use remotely operated vehicles to capture high-resolution images of the famed shipwreck.
He worked with director James Cameron on the "Titanic" and the "Avatar" series.
Ohio billionaire Larry Connor said he wants to prove that the imploded Titan sub "was a contraption" and that the ocean can be "kind of life-changing if you go about it the right way."
A gold pocket watch recovered along with the body of John Jacob Astor, the richest passenger on the Titanic, is up for auction.
The U.S. government may end its legal fight against a planned expedition to the Titanic, which is treated as a gravesite under federal law.
A rare menu from the Titanic's first-class restaurant and a pocket watch owned by a man who died in the catastrophe are being sold at auction in the U.K.
The expedition has been organized by RMS Titanic Inc., a company that owns the exclusive salvage rights to the remains of the Titanic.
The government cites a law that treats the wreck as a hallowed gravesite. Its objections have nothing to do with the Titan submersible implosion.
One expert said implosion would have happened in a "thousandth of a second" — so fast that passengers didn't have "time to realize what happened."
Passengers on OceanGate submersible included noted adventurer Hamish Harding and Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son.
The U.S. Coast Guard said the sub experienced a "catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber," and confirmed that a debris field found on the sea floor was pieces of the missing sub.
The U.S. Coast Guard said two new vessels had reached the area and deployed their ROVs to scan the ocean floor.
Brand new images of the Titanic may shed new light on how the iconic liner sank more than a century ago.
