Bisnis.comSOLO – Here are 15 interesting facts about ships Titanic that Business has summarized from various sources.
The Titanic returned to the subject of conversation after the Titanic tourist submarine exploded and sank during its expedition to find the wreckage of the Titanic.
The Titanic itself is a tall ship that sank in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912.
Even though it has been missing for hundreds of years, the Titanic continues to attract the wealthy of the world. This is inseparable from the many expedition services that offer tours to explore the wreck of the Titanic.
One of them is OceanGate, a US-based company, which failed to bring five of the world’s billionaires to witness the beauty of the wreckage of the Titanic lying at a depth of 12,600 feet. .
Questions arose. What exactly is interesting about the Titanic until the wreckage still attracts the attention of many people around the world.
Here are some interesting facts about the Titanic:
1. The wreck of the Titanic is located nearly 2.5 miles below sea level, approximately 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. The ship broke in two and the gap between bow and stern was approximately 2,000 feet on the ocean floor.
2. Milton Hershey should have been on the Titanic. Milton Hershey, the man who invented the Hershey milk chocolate bar, wrote a check for $300 to reserve his cabin on the RMS Titanic.
He was supposed to be a business class passenger, but he and his wife didn’t go because they had missed the ship.
3. Some bacteria eat debris slowly. What’s left of the Titanic at the bottom of the ocean will eventually be eaten entirely by rust-eating bacteria.
4. The ship was carrying 2,223 passengers and crew. Of the 2,223 aboard Titanic, 1,517 did not survive the collision with the iceberg. The ship was not even at full capacity – it could hold over 3,500 people.
5. Around 100,000 people attended the launch of the Titanic on May 31, 1911 in Belfast. Around 100,000 people, around a third of Belfast’s population, attended the launch which lasted just one minute.
6. The Titanic was 882 feet and 9 inches long, making it the largest ship of its time. Currently, the largest cruise ship is Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas, which is nearly 1,200 feet long.
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