RMS Titanic over 1,600 ships being built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast Harbour, Queen's Island became renamed after its most famous ship, Titanic Quarter in 1995. Once a sensitive story, "Titanic" is now considered one of Northern Ireland's most iconic and uniting symbols. In late August 2018, several groups were vying for the right to purchase the 5,500 "Titanic" relics that were an asset of the bankrupt Premier Exhibitions. Eventually, "Titanic" Belfast, Titanic Foundation Limited and the National Museums Northern Ireland joined with the National Maritime Museum as a consortium that was raising money to purchase the 5,500 artifacts. The group
Wreck of the RMS Titanic objects. A joint Russian-Canadian-American expedition took place in 1991 using the research vessel "Akademik Mstislav Keldysh" and its two "MIR" submersibles. Sponsored by Stephen Low and IMAX, CBS, "National Geographic" and others, the expedition carried out extensive scientific research with a crew of 130 scientists and engineers. The "MIRs" carried out 17 dives, spending over 140 hours at the bottom, shooting of IMAX film. This was used to create the 1995 documentary film "Titanica", which was later released in the US on DVD in a re-edited version narrated by Leonard Nimoy. IFREMER and RMS Titanic Inc., the successors to the