The captain goes down with the ship The captain goes down with the ship "The captain goes down with the ship" is an idiom and maritime tradition that a sea captain holds ultimate responsibility for both his ship and everyone embarked on it, and that in an emergency, he will either save them or die trying. Although often connected to the sinking of RMS "Titanic" in 1912 and its captain, Edward J. Smith, the phrase precedes "Titanic" by at least 11 years. In most instances, the captain of the ship forgoes his own rapid departure of a ship in distress, and concentrates instead on saving other people.
Wreck of the RMS Titanic Leibowitz and Kimberly Miller – caused controversy when they were married aboard a submersible that had set down on the bow of "Titanic", in a deliberate echo of a famous scene from James Cameron's 1997 film. The wedding was essentially a publicity stunt, sponsored by a British company called SubSea Explorer which had offered a free dive to "Titanic" that Leibowitz had won. He asked whether his fiancée could come too and was told that she could – but only if she agreed to get married during the trip. The same company also brought along Philip Littlejohn, the grandson of