Hasta La Ideas

A mere 100 days remain before the 100th anniversary of the Titanic sinking, and while the tragic event has already been immortalized in books, films, exhibitions, and a crowd-pleasing Broadway musical, expect a surge of interest in the doomed ocean liner come spring. One enterprising travel agent is planning a series of Titanic Memorial Cruises, on which history buffs and tempters of fate alike will set sail for the site where the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage, “to pay their respects at a special memorial service to take place at the exact time the Titanic sank 100 years before.” Meanwhile, a cache of approximately 5,500 artifacts recovered from a series of expeditions to the wreck are to be auctioned in April at Guernsey’s in New York. The only catch? The artifacts will be sold as a single lot. Seller RMS Titanic, Inc., a subsidiary of Premier Exhibitions and the only company permitted by law to recover objects from the wreck of Titanic, puts the value of the artifacts at $189 million, a 2007 estimate that includes the costs of salvage, lab operations, and exhibition rights but not the intellectual property acquired from the 2010 expedition. No word yet as to what is among the stuff to be sold. In the meantime, treat yourself to jewelry made from bits of coal recovered from Titanic or invest in some replica china.

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