the titanic story

Why is the RMS Titanic story so popular?

I mean before the 1997 movie came out it still was very popular? it had a bunch of documentaries on the History Channel and Discovery channel! People still bought all kinds of memorabilia on it!
I mean a life vest/jacket from the real titanic cost upwards of almost $100,000.00! So what is it???
Thanks

The sinking of the Titanic has been the subject of several books and films, so yes, it was a popular thing before the Hollywood blockbuster Titanic (1997). The movie did help influence intereast. It was not until September 1985 that the actual wreck was found resting under about 3,800 m (about 12,000 ft) of water. (This was the original explosion of its new populartity) The area was photographed by a joint French-United States expedition through the use of robot submersibles equipped with television cameras (see Deep-Sea Exploration, Submersible Craft). In July 1986 the U.S. researchers, led by American deep-sea explorer Robert Ballard, explored the Titanic in the three-person Alvin submersible; they took pictures of the interior, but recovered no artifacts. The following year a controversial French salvage effort retrieved dishes, jewels, currency, and other artifacts, which were exhibited in Paris in September 1987 and in Hamburg in 1997. In August 1998 a substantial section of the ship’s outer hull was recovered from the sea floor. A 2004 expedition led by Robert Ballard found noticeable damage from treasure hunters and visitors, as well as modern litter at the wreck site.
This latest event has pretty much tripled the popularity.

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