Movie & Tragedy... equally worth?

We have to admit that at the ending of the movie Titanic we start to get a little teary. Come on, it's not only romantic it's tragic! Ofcoarse most guys and even girls wont tear or even admit to crying. But what if I gave you a deeper insight on the Titanic, some real facts?

On April 10, 1912 first class parlor suites for The Titanic cost an equivalent of $90,000 today. That day 2,227 passengers got on board, 705 of those passengers survived. Only one 1st class child died when 49 steerage children died. Did you remember one of Rose's conversations with Thomas Andrew when she asked him how many lifeboats there were? Well, not enough was a correct answer! The ship could have carried 32 but only carried 20 because the extra 12 hid the ship's beauty. A law actually required for there to be 962 lifeboat seats, they carried 1,178, when in reality 2,708 were needed. As shown in the movie, Thomas Andrew gets upset when he realizes that the lifeboats were not carrying enough people. When a lifeboat could have carried 64 passengers, it only carried 28. 472 lifeboat seats were not used. Remember how the character Cal manages to safe himself by taking a girl he found and pretending he was all she had to get on the lifeboat? Well that was made up. A true and similar fact about a coward aboard the Titanic is that about a man named Daniel Buckley. This man dressed himself up as a woman! It was also true that the band played to calm the people down, they actually played minutes before the ship took them with it. One of their last songs played was "Songe D'Automne." If you payed close attention, and if you remember there were a couple dogs shown in the movie. Well many dogs actually rode the Titanic but only 2 survived. Ofcoarse maybe the tragedy could have been avoided or not been so tragic, if only they listened to the warnings they were given by other ships about the icebergs ahead, if they hadn't exceeded the ships top speed, if they carried more lifeboats, and if other ships near by hadn't ignored their calls.

As I read all these facts and put them together, I realized something quite interesting, disturbing but interesting. The Titanic carried hundreds of wealthy passengers. Do you know how much money they were all worth on the ship combined? 600 million... Does this ring a bell? Yes, that was as much as what the movie was worth!