When the AFL declared bankruptcy in 2009, the league minimum was $31,000 and the average salary was $80,000, with some players hauling in six-figure contracts. On the surface, the financial situation for players is tenuous.
Titanic (1997 film) Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance-disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage.
There were approximately 2,224 passengers and crew members onboard the RMS Titanic on April 14, 1912, 11:40 pm when the ship hit an iceberg 375 miles of the south coast of Newfoundland. By 2:20 am, April 15, 1912 when the liner sank, their fates as Titanic passengers, the 705 survivors and over 1,500 fatalities, were delivered. The RMS Carpathia is famous for rescuing survivors from their lifeboats in the frigid North Atlantic Ocean waters.