The Lost Treasures of the Titanic - out from the dark abyss into light

Titanic treasures: Precious jewels belonging to passengers of doomed ship go on public display for first time 100 years after disaster
By DAILY MAIL
November 12, 2012

As part of the 100th anniversary commemorating the sinking of the RMS Titanic, a spectacular collection of priceless jewels recovered from the bottom of the ocean is set to go on public display.

Most of the precious pieces found in the wreckage of the doomed ship will be made available for the first time ever with a three-city tour starting in Atlanta, Georgia. The jewelry is from a single purser's bag found during a 1987 research and recovery mission.

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Sparkle: A platinum, 18 carat gold and diamond ring (left) that most probably belonged to one of the Titanic's first class passengers accompanies a sapphire and diamond piece for a 100th anniversary exhibit

The collection includes diamond and sapphire rings, brooches, necklaces, cuff links and a gold pocket watch.

Although single pieces of the jewelry have been on display at one or more permanent and traveling exhibits sponsored by Premier Exhibitions Inc., their Atlanta debut is the first time the majority of the collection has been available to the public.

  
Priceless: The jewellery was recovered from a purser's bag in a 1987 research mission

 
Dazzle: The collection of stunning necklaces, rings and other precious items will tour three cities starting in Atlanta and is the first time all the pieces have been made available for public viewing at once

In a nondescript industrial office in north Atlanta, Premier Exhibitions Inc. and RMS Titanic Inc. officials previewed the artifacts before they go on display Friday in Atlanta.
Exhibition company Premier is the parent of RMS Titanic, which owns the rights to salvage from the luxury liner's wreck on the bottom of the North Atlantic.

Alexandra Klingelhofer, vice president of collections for RMS Titanic Inc., said the purpose of the exhibit is to show the public the wonder of exploration.

'Going down two and a half miles below the ocean, recovering a bag, bringing it back up and opening it and finding ... jewelry,' Klingelhofer said. 'We're able to give them a glimpse of how it must have been to have opened that for the first time and to see, together, the beautiful jewelry of the Edwardian Period.'

Conservators and curators have been studying and preserving the jewelry to gain a better understanding of individual passengers' lives aboard the ill-fated voyage.

'Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition' opened in Atlanta earlier this year to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912. Klingelhofer said this jewelry mini-exhibit is being added to provide personal insight.

'We are constantly researching the artifacts, learning more about their story, and we thought jewelry is so beautiful and responds well to people,' she said.

After a two-month exhibit at Premier's display gallery at the Atlantic Station development, the jewels will travel to Orlando, Florida, and Las Vegas.

View the original Titanic 1912 B&W images in full stunning color

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Video tribute to Titanic's 100th Anniversary

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Colorized by Anton Logvynenko

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Who Sank the Titanic? (2008) Discovery Channel

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Another look at the Titanic disaster and the actions of those held responsible.

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Return to Titanic (2005) National Geographic Channel

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Robert Ballard returns to Titanic 20 years after her discovery.

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Titanic: Untold Stories (1998) Discovery Channel

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Using actual recordings of survivors, the story of Titanic is once again told in this emotional documentary made by Discovery Channel.


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Deep Inside the Titanic (1999) Discovery Channel

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Plans to build "Titanic II and launch by 2016,"...no really I`m not kidding

The 'zombie-like' Titanic replica
An Australian mining tycoon says he'll launch the Titanic II in 2016. Will anybody book a passage?

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Posted on May 2, 2012, 9:35 am

(Image left): Clive Palmer poses in front of an artist impression of the Titanic II at MGM Studios, Los Angeles: The Australian billionaire promises his new ship will be state-of-the-art -- and safe. Photo: AP Photo/Crook Publicity

Just weeks after the 100th anniversary of the loss of the Titanic, a billionaire Australian mining magnate, Clive Palmer, has announced plans to build a scale-sized replica of the ill-fated ship, which hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in 1912. Palmer says the new ship, Titanic II, "will be every bit as luxurious as the original Titanic," but safer. What will the new version of the Titanic be like... and will anybody dare book a passage on it? Here, a brief guide:

Will Palmer's ship be exactly like the Titanic?
In many respects, yes. Palmer has hired a research team to make sure the new ship looks and feels as much like the Titanic as possible. The replica will have the same dimensions as the 886-foot, 40,000-ton original ship, making it small by today's standards. It will also have 840 luxury cabins designed like those of the Titanic's era. The new ship will even have four funnels on top, just like the coal-powered Titanic.

How will Titanic II be different?
For one thing, the smokestacks will be purely decorative; the new ship will be diesel-powered, so it won't need them. The dummy funnels won't be wasted space, though. They'll house an internet cafe, restaurant, and theater. In the spot where the coal boilers were on the original ship, Titanic II will have space for an exhibition on the Australian territory of Queensland, where Palmer has tourism investments. The ship will also have changes in the bow and hull to make it more fuel efficient and maneuverable, and, Palmer says, it will have "state-of-the-art 21st-century technology and the latest navigation and safety systems."

So it'll be safe?
Yes... although, remember, the original Titanic was thought to be unsinkable, until it hit an iceberg and went down in the icy North Atlantic, killing some 1,500 passengers and crew. The new ship "is going to be designed so it won't sink," with all of the modern technology available to prevent a disaster, Palmer says. "Of course," he tells the Sydney Morning Herald, "it will sink if you put a hole in it."

When will it set sail?
Palmer says construction will start late next year. He has signed a preliminary deal to have Titanic II, and three other cruise liners, built in China. (The deal isn't yet a firm order, but merely a "memorandum of understanding.") Palmer hasn't said how much building the ship will cost, but if all goes as planned, the ship will set sail on its maiden voyage in 2016, carrying 1,680 passengers from England to New York, on a route similar to that of the original Titanic.

Will people really want to board a new Titanic?
That remains to be seen. Palmer realizes that some people won't want to set foot on a ship meant to conjure up memories of one of the deadliest peacetime maritime tragedies in history. "Of course, if you are superstitious," Palmer says. "you never know what could happen." Also, cruise aficionados might find Titanic II a bit cramped, as it will offer less than half the space per passenger as the luxurious Queen Mary 2. Still, Titanic nostalgia is still going strong, so there will be plenty of morbid curiosity about this "zombie-like" resurrection of the ill-fated ship, says Maura Judkis at The Washington Post. "Here's hoping the second time around, the Titanic's journey will be smooth sailing."

Sources: ABC News, Associated Press, Cruise Critic, Sydney Morning Herald, Washington Post

"Ghostwalking in Titanic" James Cameron`s final thoughts on the Titanic (National Geographic)

Ghostwalking in Titanic

Wandering room to room through the sunken wreck, the explorer and filmmaker finds himself at home among the spirits.

By James Cameron

Photograph by Stewart Volland

It had been five hours since my intrepid robot Gilligan left its garage on the front of the submersible Mir 1 and disappeared inside the cavernous shipwreck. Our sub was parked on the upper deck of the most famous wreck in history, surrounded by eternal blackness and over 5,000 pounds per square inch of pressure, both thanks to a two-and-a-half-mile column of water over our heads.

Safe inside the Mir, I flew the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) with gentle nudges of the joystick, its thrusters maneuvering it into the ship’s treacherous interior. The “bot” had penetrated to F Deck, paying out a thin fiber-optic cable like Theseus in the labyrinth, with only Ariadne’s twine to guide him back. Though the tiny vehicle was now seven decks below me, I felt as if my consciousness were inside the bot, its cameras my eyes, staring down the corridors of the ship. Its jeopardy was also mine, and my pulse raced with each new hazard. Turning a corner, I barely escaped being pinned by a falling “rusticle,” one of the stalactite-like formations created by the bacteria that are slowly devouring the steel of the ship.

As I passed through an entrance, suddenly revealed in my lights were sparkling reflections off a wall of gleaming blue and green tiles. Teak chaise lounges lay upturned on the floor, incredibly well preserved, and above them was an arabesque dome covered in gold leaf. I had entered the elegant spa on the most luxurious ship of its time. “Tell them we’re in the Turkish baths,” I said to Mike Arbuthnot, the marine archaeologist sitting next to me. He keyed the microphone and relayed the message up to the surface.

Our interior archaeological survey of the ship had begun in 1995, as I was wrapping up shooting the wreck for the movie Titanic. Back then we had an unwieldy ROV called Snoop Dog, which was little more than a movie prop, but we flew it down inside the ship’s grand staircase nevertheless, all the way down to D Deck. Its lights revealed that much of the ornate wood paneling remained intact. Snoop reached the end of its tether and could go no farther, but I could not help wondering what lay in the shadows just beyond its lights. After the movie was released, I commissioned the building of two revolutionary new robotic vehicles so we could return and truly explore the interior. In 2001 and again in 2005 I made multiple dives to the Titanic wreck and flew our bots deep inside, exhaustively surveying her interior. Ultimately we imaged and documented 65 percent of Titanic’s surviving internal spaces, including the first-class cabins, first-class reception and dining rooms, steerage cabins and open space, cargo holds, and Marconi room.

One incredible discovery followed another, in dizzying succession. In the first-class dining saloon and reception rooms, we found the tall leaded windows still intact. The hand-carved mahogany paneling on the walls and columns remains, some of it with the original white paint still visible. There are cut crystal chandeliers and, in the first-class staterooms, immaculately preserved brass beds. Filigreed iron grilles cover the yawning elevator shafts. When I first laid eyes on the intact brass call button, I felt as if I could reach out and touch it, and a ghostly elevator might still arrive. Titanic sank on her maiden voyage before her interiors could be photographed, so most of the archival images used as references for the movie’s sets were photos of her sister ship, Olympic. For the first time we were learning how Titanic herself was actually built, and the details of her decoration have now been painstakingly reconstructed from the bot videos. I now know where the movie is accurate, and where it’s not.

Of all our discoveries, the most evocative are the relics that suggest the human hands that touched them. In Henry Harper’s D Deck cabin, his bowler hat remains in the ruins of his closet, right where he left it. In Edith Russell’s cabin on A Deck, the mirror still gleams in her washstand, reflecting back the bot’s LED lights instead of Edith’s terrified face as she rushed back into the room to get her lucky toy pig before running to board a lifeboat. In another stateroom, a glass decanter and water glass sit, impossibly, still on the washstand. Had the glass been empty, it would have floated out of its holder when the room flooded, and been lost. But someone took a drink and left it half full, and there it sits today.

In the soundproof Marconi room, the wireless apparatus survives, the knife switches still in the positions left by the young operators, Harold Bride and Jonathan Phillips, revealing that they cut the power when they abandoned their post as the water rushed up the deck outside. We even imaged the transformer they had repaired just the night before the sinking. Acting against guidelines, the two young wireless geeks managed to restore the set to full power—an act that may have saved 712 lives, since without this power they might not have reached the rescue ship Carpathia with their historic SOS. Capturing these precious bot images was like touching history itself.

In 2001 I had wanted to get into the C Deck suite of Ida and Isidor Straus, the elderly couple famous for choosing to die together rather than be separated by the evacuation rule of “women and children only.” Their suite was the most ornately decorated on the ship, and in fact had been the basis for Rose’s suite, the room in which Jack Dawson draws the heroine’s portrait in my fictional narrative. I got our stalwart bot Jake as far as the purser’s office, discovering the tall purser’s safe in the process, but I couldn’t penetrate to the Straus suite next door. In 2005, determined to find a way, I wriggled the slightly smaller Gilligan through a constriction, knocking rusticles out of the way, and emerged into an open space. The bot’s lights revealed gleaming gold sparkles. Not only was the ornate mahogany fireplace still intact, but sitting on it was the gold-plated clock, just as it appeared in the archival photo, and just as we had re-created it for the movie. It was a surreal moment, fiction and reality merging in the stygian depths.

After 33 dives to the wreck, averaging 14 hours each, I have spent more time on the ship than Captain Smith himself did. In all that exploration, the strongest memories are these out-of-body experiences of ghostwalking through the corridors and stairwells of Titanic via my ROV avatar. Its gothic ruin exists now in a ghostly limbo, neither in our world nor completely gone from it. The rusticles have transformed Edwardian elegance into a phantasmagorical cavern, a surreal underworld ruled only by dream logic. But despite the sheer alienness of the place, I felt a tingling déjà vu exploring there. Having walked the faithfully built movie set for many weeks, I would turn a corner in the wreck and already know, before the bot’s video camera revealed it, what would be there. It was an eerie feeling but also strangely comforting, as if I were somehow home.

Source: National Geographic Mag., April 2012: Cameron Text - Ghostwalking in Titanic

• Watch: The Final Word with James Cameron (2012) w/ new updated CGI model on sinking

• View the 'Unseen Titanic' (NGM) Image Gallery :
At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the “unsinkable” R.M.S. Titanic disappeared beneath the waves, taking with her 1,500 souls. One hundred years later, new technologies have revealed the most complete—and most intimate—images of the famous wreck.

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Read: The Unseen Titanic (National Geographic April 2012)

By Hampton Sides
National Geographic Magazine
April 2012 Issue

Photograph by Walden Media

Unseen Titanic

At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the “unsinkable” R.M.S. Titanic disappeared beneath the waves, taking with her 1,500 souls. One hundred years later, new technologies have revealed the most complete—and most intimate—images of the famous wreck.

The wreck sleeps in darkness, a puzzlement of corroded steel strewn across a thousand acres of the North Atlantic seabed. Fungi feed on it. Weird colorless life-forms, unfazed by the crushing pressure, prowl its jagged ramparts. From time to time, beginning with the discovery of the wreck in 1985 by Explorer-in-Residence Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel, a robot or a manned submersible has swept over Titanic’s gloomy facets, pinged a sonar beam in its direction, taken some images—and left.

In recent years explorers like James Cameron and Paul-Henry Nargeolet have brought back increasingly vivid pictures of the wreck. Yet we’ve mainly glimpsed the site as though through a keyhole, our view limited by the dreck suspended in the water and the ambit of a submersible’s lights. Never have we been able to grasp the relationships between all the disparate pieces of wreckage. Never have we taken the full measure of what’s down there.

Until now. In a tricked-out trailer on a back lot of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), William Lange stands over a blown-up sonar survey map of the Titanic site—a meticulously stitched-together mosaic that has taken months to construct. At first look the ghostly image resembles the surface of the moon, with innumerable striations in the seabed, as well as craters caused by boulders dropped over millennia from melting icebergs.

On closer inspection, though, the site appears to be littered with man-made detritus—a Jackson Pollock-like scattering of lines and spheres, scraps and shards. Lange turns to his computer and points to a portion of the map that has been brought to life by layering optical data onto the sonar image. He zooms in, and in, and in again. Now we can see the Titanic’s bow in gritty clarity, a gaping black hole where its forward funnel once sprouted, an ejected hatch cover resting in the mud a few hundred feet to the north. The image is rich in detail: In one frame we can even make out a white crab clawing at a railing.

Here, in the sweep of a computer mouse, is the entire wreck of the Titanic—every bollard, every davit, every boiler. What was once a largely indecipherable mess has become a high-resolution crash scene photograph, with clear patterns emerging from the murk. “Now we know where everything is,” Lange says. “After a hundred years, the lights are finally on...”

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Watch: Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) - Cameron returns to the Titanic yielding the best detailed images yet

Published on Mar 10, 2012 by WaterDocumentary
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Director James Cameron returns to the site of the wreck of the RMS Titanic. With a team of history and marine experts and friend Bill Paxton, he embarks on an unscripted adventure back to the final grave where 1,517 people lost their lives. Using technology developed for this expedition, Cameron and his crew are able to explore virtually all of the wreckage, inside and out, as never before.

RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,517 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time.
Producer & Director James Cameron
Cast Bill Paxton, Dr. John Broadwater, Dr. Lori Johnston, Charles Pellegrino, Don Lynch
Director of Photography Vince Pace
Music Joel McNeely, Lisa Torban
Released by Walt Disney Pictures & Walden Media
Release date 2003
Running time 90 min.

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Titanic`s 100th anniversary: The deep sea graves at the wreck site

Haunting pictures of boots and a coat show deep sea graves of Titanic victims for first time

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PUBLISHED: 08:15 EST, 15 April 2012 | UPDATED: 11:32 EST, 15 April 2012

Newly-released photos show the haunting images of Titanic victim's clothing lining the bottom of the ocean floor 100 years after the New York-bound ship sank in the North Atlantic.

A 2004 photograph, released to the public for the first time this week in an uncropped version to coincide with the disaster's centenary, shows a coat and boots in the mud at the legendary shipwreck site.

It came as the passengers of a cruise ship retracing the route of the ill-fated liner RMS Titanic held an emotional memorial service at the exact spot where the ship sank on its maiden voyage a century ago.

'These are not shoes that fell out neatly from somebody's bag right next to each other,' said James Delgado, the director of maritime heritage at the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration.

What remains: The fact that the pair of boots were found so close to each other implies that they were probably on the feet of a victim whose body has since disintegrated,
photo credit: AP/Daily Mail

The way they are 'laid out' makes a 'compelling case' that it is where 'someone has come to rest,' he said.

The image, along with two others showing pairs of boots resting next to each other, were taken during an expedition led by NOAA and famed Titanic finder Robert Ballard in 2004. They were published in Ballard's book on the expedition. Mr Delgado said the one showing a coat and boots was cropped to show only a boot.

The New York Times first reported about the photographs in Saturday editions.

Filmmaker James Cameron, who has visited the wreck 33 times, told the newspaper that he had seen 'zero human remains' during his extensive explorations of the Titanic.

'We've seen shoes. We've seen pairs of shoes, which would strongly suggest there was a body there at one point. But we've never seen any human remains,' Mr Cameron said.

More findings: A number of pairs were found near a coat and some other items in the sea bed, photo credit: AP/Daily Mail

For Mr Delgado, who was the chief scientist on an expedition in 2010 that mapped the entire site, the difference in opinion is 'one of semantics.'

'I as an archaeologist would say those are human remains,' he said, referring to the photograph of the coat and boots specifically.

'Buried in that sediment are very likely forensic remains of that person.'

He said in an email that the images 'speak to the power of that tragic and powerful scene 2 1/2 miles below' and 'to its resilience as an undersea museum, as well as its fragility.'

Extrapolating: Though previous expeditions, like that of film-maker James Cameron, said that they did not see human remains, others feel that it is obvious that the victims bodies were there at one point, photo credit: AP/Daily Mail

'This is an appropriate time to note the human cost of that event, and the fact that in this special place at the bottom of the sea, evidence of the human cost, in the form of the shattered wreck, the scattered luggage, fittings and other artifacts, and the faint but unmistakable evidence that this is where people came to rest, is present,' he said.

He said the images are also evidence that society could do a better job protecting the site.

There has been a long fight to protect the Titanic since it was rediscovered by Mr Ballard in 1985, beginning with a federal law passed by Congress aimed at creating an international agreement to transform the shipwreck into an international maritime memorial.

Senator John Kerry introduced what some observers see as stronger legislation April 1 aimed at protecting the site from 'salvage and intrusive research...'

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Last Mysteries of the Titanic (2005) Discovery Channel

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James Cameron returns to Titanic for the last time intending to go deeper into the wreck than ever before and film parts of the interior not seen since the night Titanic sank in 1912.

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Rebuilding the Titanic (2011) National Geographic Channel

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The American airing of the UK's Titanic: The Mission series in which four engineers toil to bring iconic sections of the RMS Titanic back to life using technology of a century past.

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Watch: Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron (2012 NatGeoTV)

Titanic: The final word with James Cameron

National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence James Cameron leads a forensic investigation to determine how Titanic sank. (National Geographic)

James Cameron’s epic 1997 film Titanic won 11 Oscars and grossed well over a billion dollars worldwide. Now, National Geographic Channel joins the director and explorer-in-residence for the ultimate forensic investigation into the most infamous shipwreck of all time in Titanic: The Final Word With James Cameron. Cameron, who has made more than 30 dives to explore the Titanic, brings together a team of engineers, naval architects, artists, and historians to solve the lingering mysteries of why and how an “unsinkable” ship sank. With their combined expertise, they’ll examine the feature film and determine what technology has revealed since its release. An investigation of this magnitude has never been attempted before, and some of the revelations may alter the fundamental interpretation of what exactly happened to the Titanic on April 14, 1912.



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James Cameron presents new and final CGI of how the Titanic actually sank:


James Cameron and his team pull together a new CGI of how they believe the TItanic sank and reached the ocean floor.
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