All accepted with NO up front cash security deposit. Of the 1,959 people aboard, including millionaire Alfred Vanderbilt, nearly two-thirds will die. Many are trapped inside the great ship as she sinks in just eighteen minutes.
Survivors recount a mysterious, massive second blast following the torpedo hit.
Some think so, but explorer and scientist Dr. Robert Ballard, discoverer of R.M.S. Titanic and the German battleship Bismarck, has doubts.