The Titanic Cordovan and ten other curiosities, 107 years after its collapse

Between the night of April 14, 1912 and the morning of the 15th, the RMS sank.

Titanic

. The largest British transatlantic in the world at that time hit an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. The accident made a balance of 1514 deaths of the 2223 that were on board.

Among the data still mentioned about the gigantic ship, it is known that its construction took three years, among its pbadengers were some of the richest people in the world, who traveled with a good part of the Scandinavian and British immigrants for the purpose to reach New York and that there was a series of mistakes made during the accident.

However, there are so many curiosities that have not transcended the wreckage, whose history could reach the cinema. Then 10 of them:

1- On board the Titanic, between crew and pbadengers, 2,223 people traveled. Of this number, only 706 people survived: 492 pbadengers and 214 crew members. Water 333 lifeless bodies were recovered.

2- It was not until 1985 that the location of the RMS Titanic was discovered. According to
Unesco was found on 1 September at a distance of about 340 nautical miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

3- The crew received five ice warnings that day, but the ship continued its journey at 41 km / h. The clash against the iceberg took place at 23:40 on the night of Sunday, April 14 and at 2:20 on Monday morning, the steel giant disappeared under the waters, which recorded a temperature below zero at 1 ° C.

4– The book Futility, by Morgan Robertson, predicts the sinking of the Titanic in 1898. The work tells the sinking of a monumental transatlantic under circumstances incredibly similar to the real ones. With the curious fact that the craft of fiction called Titan.

5- One of the transatlantic pbadengers was the silent movie star, Dorothy Gibson, who, in the same year of the sinking, would play in a film entitled Saved from the Titanic. She wrote the script, as she also used her wardrobe: the same dress that she wore the night of the sinking.

6– The captain of the Titanic called Edward Smith, he had sailed in the sea for 43 years. In addition, he had led a total of 18 ships during his career.

7- The last survivor died in May 2009, at age 97. She called Millvina Dean. I had 9 weeks when I was traveling on the boat.

8- In the Titanic, because of superstitions, there was no booth with number 13: the idea was to avoid bad luck.

9– The cost of the sinking film, directed by James Cameron, was $ 200 million. An amount greater than what it cost to build the Titanic itself. The ship was worth $ 7.5 million of its time, the equivalent of about $ 130 million in 1997, the year in which he made the film.

10- The Titanic is located at an altitude of about 3,800 meters on the high seas. In other words, in international waters, no state can claim exclusive jurisdiction over the site and is under the protection of the sea. 39; Unesco.