Wreck of the RMS Titanic intact and undamaged dresser behind it. Robert Ballard has suggested that areas within the ship or buried under debris, where scavengers may not have been able to reach, may still contain human remains. According to Charles Pellegrino, who dived on "Titanic" in 2001, a finger bone encircled by the partial remains of a wedding ring was found concreted to the bottom of a soup tureen that was retrieved from the debris field. It was returned to the sea bed on the next dive. The longest-lasting inhabitants of "Titanic" are likely to be bacteria and archaea which have colonized the metal
Lifeboats of the RMS Titanic lifeboat been filled accordingly, they could have only evacuated about 53% of those actually on board on the night of her sinking. The shortage of lifeboats was not due to the lack of space; "Titanic" had actually been designed to accommodate up to 64 boats – nor was it because of cost, as the price of an extra 32 lifeboats would only have been some $16,000, a tiny fraction of the $7.5 million that the company had spent on "Titanic". The reason lay in a combination of outdated safety regulations and complacency by the White Star Line, "Titanic"s operators. In