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Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of the death of five people in a Titanic shipwreck-bound submersible after their disappearance triggered a high-profile search party and had the world on edge for five days. The rescue operation was called off after authorities and experts found debris from the privately owned submarine on the ocean floor. They concluded that it had imploded just a few hours after initiating the dive. David Concannon, a former adviser to OceanGate, the company that owned the Titan submersible, said he would mark the anniversary privately with a group of people who were in...
Euronews (English)
Für Hollywood-Schauspielerin Kate Winslet (48) war der Dreh der berühmten Kuss-Szene in «Titanic» mit Leonardo DiCaprio (49) rückblickend vor allem schmierig. «Oh Gott, es war so eine Sauerei», erzählte die Britin dem US-Magazin «Vanity Fair» zu der Szene, in der Winslets und DiCaprios Charaktere, Rose und Jack, erst mit ausgebreiteten Armen an der Reling stehen und sich dann küssen. Sie hätten die Szene einige Male aufnehmen müssen und sie habe helles Make-up getragen und er dunkleres, erklärte Winslet. «Und nach jeder Aufnahme sah ich aus, als hätte ich einen Karamell-Schokoriegel gelutscht,...
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Bernard Hill (1944-2024) falleció en la mañana de este domingo a la edad de 79 años. Queda en la memoria de los que disfrutaron su interpretación como el inmortal Rey Théoden, de Rohán, cuando arengó a las tropas rohirrim en los campos del Pelennor: "¡Cabalgad, galopad! ¡Hasta la desolación y el fin del mundo!". Ha sido el único actor que ha participado en dos películas ganadoras de 11 Premios Óscar. Su encarnación de Edward Smith, capitán del Titanic, dirigido por James Cameron, vive en el recuerdo de todos los que disfrutaron de su aplomo de actor de teatro clásico. Casi medio siglo en el es...
Euronews (Spanish)
Un reloj de bolsillo de oro recuperado del cuerpo del pasajero de mayor fortuna económica del Titanic se vendió por la cantidad récord de 1,4 millones de euros a un coleccionista privado de Estados Unidos. La subasta tuvo lugar el sábado en Henry Aldridge & Son en Devizes, Wiltshire, marca la cantidad más alta jamás pagada por recuerdos del Titanic, según los subastadores. Un recuerdo de la familia AstorEl reloj, que pertenecía a John Jacob Astor IV, de la acaudalada familia Astor, se vendió diez veces más que el precio de subasta previsto, de entre 117.000 y 175.000 euros. En el momento del h...
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A gold pocket watch retrieved from the body of the Titanic's wealthiest passenger has been sold for a record-breaking £1.2 million (€1.4m) to a private collector in the US. The auction took place on Saturday at Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes, Wiltshire, marking the highest amount ever paid for Titanic memorabilia, according to the auctioneers. The timepiece, belonging to John Jacob Astor IV of the affluent Astor family, fetched ten times its expected auction price of £100,000 to £150,000 (€117,000 to €175,000). At the time of the sinking, the 47-year-old Astor was one of the richest people on...
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We all know the story. On 15 April 1912, the passenger ship RMS Titanic, operated by White Star Line, hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from England to New York and sunk, killing around 1,500 of those on board. The story of the Titanic has been memorialised throughout popular culture, most notably via the 1997 James Cameron film Titanic starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Now, fans of the naval disaster can get their own piece of the tragic story for themselves. Henry Aldridge & Sons Ltd is holding an auction of memorabilia from the Titanic on 27 April. The lots on sale are expected...
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Paris (AFP) - A major exhibition dedicated to the Titanic opened in Paris on Tuesday, with many of the objects on display brought up from the ship's wreck by a French deep-sea explorer who died in a submersible disaster last month. Henri-Paul Nargeolet, who was nicknamed "Mr Titanic", was one of five people onboard the Titan tourist sub when it lost contact with the surface after plunging down to visit the wreck in mid-June. An attempted rescue operation in the North Atlantic briefly captivated the world before it found evidence that the vessel had imploded underwater, killing all on board. T...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - The company that operated the sub which imploded during a dive to the Titanic wreck, killing all five people aboard, said Thursday it had halted all activities indefinitely. The Titan sub was reported missing on June 18 and the US Coast Guard said on June 22 that the vessel had suffered a catastrophic implosion, ending a rescue operation that had captivated the world. US-based OceanGate said on its website that it had "suspended all exploration and commercial operations" two weeks after the tragedy, in which company CEO Stockton Rush was among the dead. Also on board were Br...
AFP
By Srijit Das A video showing some passengers inside a submarine recording the underwater view has recently been shared falsely claiming that the clip shows the final moments of the five passengers before OceanGate's Titan submersible met a tragic accident under the ocean. BOOM found that the video is from 2021 and does not show the last moments of the five passengers who went on an expedition to find the Titanic shipwreck in June this year. Five people reportedly lost their lives after they took part in a trip organised by OceanGate Expeditions to visit the historic Titanic wreckage. Their jo...
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Ottawa (AFP) - Mangled debris recovered from the small submersible that was destroyed when it imploded during a recent dive to the Titanic wreck was offloaded Wednesday in eastern Canada, bringing to an end a difficult search-and-recovery operation. Television images showed what appeared to be the Titan sub's nose cone and a side panel with electronics and wires hanging out being hoisted from a ship onto a flatbed truck at a Canadian Coast Guard terminal in St. John's. Pelagic Research, the New York company that owns the Odysseus remote-operated vehicle used in the search for the ill-fated su...
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