Timeline of United States discoveries four days into the ship's maiden voyage, "Titanic" struck an iceberg and sank two hours and forty minutes later, early on April 15, 1912. The sinking resulted in the deaths of 1,517 of the 2,223 people on board, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. After nearly 74 years of being lost at sea on the bottom of the ocean floor, a joint Franco-American expedition led by American oceanographer Dr. Robert D. Ballard, discovered the wreckage of the RMS "Titanic" two miles (3 km) beneath the waves of the North Atlantic on September 1, 1985. Ballard
The Chambermaid on the Titanic The Chambermaid on the Titanic The Chambermaid on the Titanic (, , ) is a 1997 French-Italian-Spanish drama film directed by Bigas Luna, starring Oliver Martinez, Romane Bohringer and Aitana Sanchez-Gijon. It is based on the novel "La Femme de chambre du Titanic" by Didier Decoin. The film is known variously by its French title, "La Femme de chambre du Titanic", and also by the shortened English title "The Chambermaid", which was adopted in late August 1998 to avoid the impression that it was trying to cash in on the success of James Cameron's popular film, "Titanic", which was released