On this exact day, 114 years ago, the North Atlantic became a graveyard for the world’s most well-known maritime disaster. The "unsinkable" RMS Titanic sank deep into the ocean floor, taking 1,517 souls with her. In the final, freezing seconds of their lives, those men, women, and children had no way of knowing that their deaths would become the most expensive life insurance policy the ocean has ever bought. The survivors of this oceanic disaster carried with them testimonies sharp enough to impact the safety of the millions who sailed the ocean after them.
