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The complicated legal case involving salvage rights to the RMS ‘Titanic’ continues, 40 years after the famous shipwreck was rediscovered.
A blend of bureaucracy and saltwater is conspiring to keep any of the ship’s remaining secrets from being brought to the surface.
‘Return to the Titanic: Live!’ cracked open a safe from the ship on live TV—and though the special was a ratings success, it faced plenty of criticism. ‘The Washington Post’ even declared that it “added little to the ‘Titanic’ story.”
Whether real wrecks or ghostly sightings, these ships bear stories of unexplained deaths, flying orbs, and screams from the depths of the sea.
Richard Norris Williams dreamed of being a tennis great. The ‘Titanic’ nearly cost him his legs.
People have spread incorrect information long before the invention of the internet.
Songs about ‘Titanic’ go way beyond Celine Dion’s smash hit “My Heart Will Go On.”
The 8-foot hunk of balsa wood led to one of the great debates in film: Could Jack have fit on it, too?
There are few tales of the ‘Titanic’ left unexplored. Joseph Laroche’s story is one of them.
Everything from a cursed mummy to a steering mistake have been floated as the real causes of the ‘Titanic’ disaster—and some conspiracy theories claim the ship never sank at all.
Box office success does not always equal critical acclaim. But many of the biggest hits of the 1990s are still being talked about, and revisited, today.
There’s a reason nobody’s referring to the missing ‘Titanic’ submersible as a submarine.
The 'Titanic' sinking became the most infamous shipwreck in history—but what really happened on that unusually calm night in the North Atlantic?
In honor of the 25th anniversary of James Cameron’s ‘Titanic,’ WHOI has released never-before-seen footage of the real-life shipwreck.
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