Billions of people around the world watched Leonardo DiCaprio drown in the movie Titanic. This tape is based on true events that took place around midnight on April 14, 1912, aboard the luxury liner Titanic. You will find myths, facts, photos dedicated to this event in our top 10 little-known facts and surprisingly interesting stories about "Titanic".
10. A ticket for a small fortune
For first class passengers, the ticket price was $ 4,350, which is now the equivalent of $ 106,310. This cost of travel was due to the highest standards of service and increased comfort of the cabins.
9. Rescued dogs
Despite the fact that the Titanic did not have enough boats to rescue all the people, three dogs were listed among the 712 surviving passengers. One Pekingese and two Pomeranians. And one of the passengers of the "Titanic" refused to leave the board without her dog and died with her.
8. Spoiled honeymoon
If you've watched the movie about the "unsinkable" liner, then remember the emotional scenes with Jack and Rose in the last minutes when the "Titanic" was sinking. The historical facts are as follows: 13 couples celebrated their honeymoon on this giant ship. Unfortunately, they were probably among the 1,513 passengers drowned.
7. Fatal mistake of the captain
The captain of the Titanic, 62-year-old Edward John Smith, had a huge track record. Only he had a rich experience in sailing ships and a small one - steamers. Due to his lack of knowledge, Smith continued to command the crew to go at full speed (22 knots), even as the Titanic entered the dangerous ice zone. The result is known.
6. Profit from disaster
There are several films and television shows that more or less reliably “exploit” the facts about the Titanic. Among them: "Titanic" (1943), "Unsinkable Molly Brown" (1964), "Secrets of the Titanic" (1986), "Ghosts of the Abyss: Titanic" (2003), "Titanic: Blood and Steel" ( year 2012). And James Cameron's Titanic movie, filmed in 1997, brought the creators a billion dollars in profit, and also won 11 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director.
5. A real hero
Charles Herbert Lightoller was the second mate on the Titanic and did his best to evacuate women and children. The officer himself miraculously escaped by jumping off the ship and swimming to a folding boat floating upside down, on which there were 30 people. By the morning they were picked up by sailors from the Carpathia ship. Lightoller lived to a ripe old age of 78.
4. All sorts of things
"Titanic" ran into an iceberg on its first exit. And this is the only ocean liner that went to the bottom because of the iceberg. In addition, the former leader and founder of North Korea, Kim Il Sung, was born on April 15, 1912 (when the Titanic sank).
3. Drank and survived
Interesting facts about the Titanic include the story of the drunken ship's chef Charles Jufin. The temperature in the Atlantic Ocean during the tragic events on the Titanic was about 0.56 degrees Celsius. Because of this, people could not survive in it for more than 15 minutes.And Jufin, who drank a lot of intoxicating drink, froze in the water for two hours until his rescue. He proved that drunk is not only one knee-deep sea, but the ocean shoulder-deep.
2. The long search for the Titanic
It took 73 years to discover the wreckage of the Titanic. This happened in 1985. The hull of the liner was divided into two parts and carried to a depth of 3784 m.
1. Cursed mummy
It is known exactly how the sinking of the Titanic happened. The scientific facts are undeniable: the handsome liner sank because of the iceberg. But there were a lot of rumors about the cargo that the Titanic was carrying. One of them: the mummy of the soothsayer Amenophis IV, which was taken on board by order of the British historian Lord Canterville, was guilty of the accident. As a particularly valuable item, the mummy box was located near the captain's bridge.
Some time after the disaster, newspapers began to publish stories from passengers on the Titanic. Some of them claimed that shortly before the disaster, the captain was near the box of Amenophis IV. After that, his behavior became extremely strange, and there was no timely response to the message about the ice threat.