Since it sank on its maiden voyage more than a century ago, the Titanic has maintained an unshakeable grip on public imagination. | News24Arts
A monument to the technological progress of its time - and the hubris of men who thought they had built an unsinkable ship - one of the world's deadliest ocean disasters has inspired books, blockbuster movies, stage productions and countless adventurers who want to see what happened when the luxury liner hit an iceberg.
On Thursday, however, a US Coast Guard official announced at a press conference that they had died in what appears to have been a"catastrophic implosion".At the time, it was the largest ship ever built, a vast floating palace of luxury, where first-class passengers had the run of a gymnasium, squash court, swimming pool and top-notch dining options or could retire to their lavish cabins where a staff of hundreds waited on their every whim.
Around 1 500 people died in the disaster. Just 700 were picked up by RMS Carpathia, a transatlantic steamship that had answered the Titanic's distress calls.The exact location of the wreck remained a mystery for 70 years until a Franco-American expedition discovered where it lay, 3 700 meters below the waves.
It is just one example of how the story of the Titanic"never seems to end for people," Cameron told a press conference held for the 25th-anniversary re-release earlier this year. Tom Zaller, who runs the company behind Titanic: The Exhibition, a collection of artefacts and interactive experiences that has toured the world, said people find the ship fascinating."It's such an incredibly human story," he told AFP."We all can relate to some passenger on board that ship, right, because they call it the ship of dreams.
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