DID YOU KNOW

At the time the Titanic foundered, the temperature of the water was only 28 degrees Fahrenheit, or -2 degrees Celsius.

RMS Titanic, Inc. is the salvor-in-possession of the wreck site and has conducted eight research expeditions to the Titanic’s wreck site in 1987, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2004 and 2010, recovering artifacts in seven.

Milton Hershey was supposed to be on the Titanic. Milton Hershey, the man who invented the famed Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar twelve years earlier, wrote a $300 check to reserve his stateroom on the Titanic, but Milton had a meeting, so he and his wife missed the Titanic’s departure.

There were only two bathtubs for use by over 700 third-class passengers.

Although countries and borders have changed since 1912, fifty-six modern-day countries were represented on board.

It is believed that there were 12 dogs traveling in the Titanic’s kennel, including John Jacob Astor’s Airedale named Kitty.

The cost of an “average” first-class ticket on the Titanic to New York was $450, approximately $13,100 today. A firstclass suite would cost $2,500, or approximately $73,000 today. A third-class ticket on the Titanic cost $40, which is approximately $1,170 in today’s currency.

Titanic is approximately 12,500 feet below the surface of the North Atlantic, twice the depth of the Grand Canyon.

In 1914, at the Safety of Life at Sea Convention, the United States was charged with managing the International Ice Patrol which led to the modernday United States Coast Guard. Since the publications of their iceberg warning products, no ship that has heeded their warnings has collided with an iceberg and sunk.

RMS Titanic, Inc. has recovered more than 5,500 artifacts from the wreck site, ranging from delicate porcelain dishes to a 17-ton section of the hull. You can experience them at TITANIC: The Artifact Exhibition in Orlando or Las Vegas.