“People Are Stunned by How Expensive the Cheapest Room on the Titanic Was — ‘The Economy Is so Bad I Can’t Afford a Bed on a Boat That Sank.’” YourTango, 27 Jan. 2024, www.yourtango.com/money/people-stunned-how-expensive-cheapest-room-titanic-cost.

The most luxurious accommodations, a “first-class parlour suite” complete with its own veranda, like the room Kate Winslet’s Rose DeWitt Bukater, her shrew of a mother and her snake of a fiancé had in the movie, went for 512 British pounds, 6 shillings, and 7 pence.  That’s a cool $49,680 in today’s money — the sort of spot billionaires like the Kardashians and Bezoses of our day would tuck into for the Titanic’s roughly seven-day trip from Southampton, U.K. to New York City. Knocking off the private veranda but keeping all the other finery cuts your ticket roughly in half to $24,033 for you mere millionaires out there, and if you still want first-class fare but don’t mind not having any windows you can come all the way down to $2,573. A bargain!

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 “SECNAV Celebrates the Naming of USNS Robert Ballard (T-AGS 67)(Press Release).” United States Navy, www.navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Releases/display-pressreleases/Article/3658452/secnav-celebrates-the-naming-of-usns-robert-ballard-t-ags-67.

“…tenured professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography and National Geographic Explorer at Large, Ballard is widely known as a discoverer of the final resting place of the RMS Titanic. The name selection of T-AGS 67 follows the tradition of naming survey ships after explorers, oceanographers and distinguished marine surveyors.”

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 “Titanic in Colour: Channel 4 to Air Documentary Set to Colourise the Black and White World of the RMS Titanic.” NationalWorld, 26 Jan. 2024, www.nationalworld.com/culture/television/titanic-in-colour-channel-4-documentary-interview-with-survivors-when-did-the-titanic-sink-when-is-it-on-4493545.

But thanks to painstaking research and unique colourisation techniques, the world’s most famous sunken ship will be presented in full colour with “Titanic In Color.” The series, set to air on Channel 4 later this year, brings in living colour a brand new look on the cruise liner that was meant to become synonymous with sailing in style and glamour, rather than becoming a word to describe a colossal disaster or failure as it has been used for many years later.

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