Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition’ will take place at Citywest Event Centre until 30th June 2010 and is open from 10am to 8pm Monday to Sunday.Tickets are available from
www.titanicdublin.com or ticketmaster ticket line 0818 719300, Box Office 01 4010505 01 4010505 or tickets are also available at the door.Tickets are priced at €18.00 for Adults, €14.00 for Students and seniors aged 65 and over, and €12.00 for children.Children under four years of age go free and group and family rates are available. Audio tours are highly recommended at €4 for both adults and children.City west Hotel is offering a special 1 Night Bed & Breakfast rate for 2 Adults and 2 Children plus a family Pass to Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition at €158.
Info on Diver Rory Golden:
Rory Golden fulfilled a lifelong ambition when he became the first Irish diver to visit the wreck of the world’s most famous shipwreck, the RMS TITANIC, in the summer of 2000. He was part of an official salvage expedition that raised hundreds of new artefacts from nearly 4,000 metres depth below the Atlantic Ocean.In August of 2005, he made a repeat visit, bringing memorial plaques from Belfast to place on the bridge of the ship, alongside one he had left from Cobh in August 2000. His dives took place in one of two Russian MIR submersibles, from the Russian Academy of Sciences research vessel, “Akademik Mstislav Keldysh”. These mini submarines have a life support pressure hull of only 2 metres diameter for three persons, and an operating depth of 6,000 metres. More people have been to outer space then the depths of the ocean that he has been.
Titanic Facts:
. Construction of Titanic started on March 22, 1909.
. At 840 feet long and 228 feet high, it was the largest scaffolding in the world.
. Titanic left Southampton on 10th April 1912.
. On the 14th of April 1912, an iceberg punctured 250 feet of the hull.
. 3hrs hours later the largest moving object the world had ever seen would slip under the surface of the sea and disappear.
. Captain John Smith was to retire after this voyage.
. The Titanic sank somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, south of Newfoundland, Canada.
. There were 2228 people on board of the Titanic, 337 in first class, 285 second class, 721 in third class and 885 crew members.
. Only about 700 survived.
. Cork Harbour was the last port of call of RMS Titanic.