If you want to imagine the romantic characters of Jack and Rose in the epic love story behind the historic sinking of the RMS Titanic, visit the Titanic Museum in Branson. When the RMS Titanic left Southampton in England in April, 1912 for its maiden voyage, it sunk in the Atlantic Ocean when it struck an iceberg. Treasure hunter Brock Lovett and his team searched the wreck of RMS Titanic in 1996 and recovered a safe that contained a drawing of a woman wearing only the necklace. The woman by the name Rose Dawson Calvert, claimed she is the person in the drawing and visited Lovett and told her love story aboard the Titanic.
Rose Bukater, a 17-year-old first-class passenger and her fiancé Cal Hockley and mother Ruth were both onboard the Titanic. Cal’s mother emphasized that Rose’s marriage to her son will resolve Bukaters’ financial worries. Rose considered committing suicide upon hearing the engagement by jumping from the stern. A penniless artist Jack Dawson convinced her not to and saved her. Rose indicated recognition and offered Jack to dine with them in first class the next evening.
Jack and Rose developed an intimate friendship. After the dinner, Rose secretly joined Jack at the steerage. After spending a great moment on the ship’s bow at sunset, Rose took Jack to her stateroom and displayed Cal’s engagement, a rare diamond necklace. At her request, she posed nude wearing only the necklace as Jack sketched it. They enjoyed a very intimate moment inside the automobile in the ship’s cargo section. They later visited the ship’s forward deck and witnessed a collision with an iceberg and overheard the ship’s officers discussing the serious situation.
When they attempted to tell Cal of the collision, his manservant slipped the necklace into Jack’s pocket and accused him of theft. Jack was arrested and handcuffed to a pipe. When the ship was sinking, Rose tried to free jack in desperation. She fled Cal and her mother who already boarded a lifeboat, and tried to rescue Jack. Cal told Rose to board the lifeboat and he and Jack can get off safely. As her boat was being lowered, she jumped back on board and fled together with Jack. Cal took his manservant’s pistol and chased Rose and Jack into the flooding first-class dining saloon. Cal later boarded a lifeboat and realized he gave the diamond necklace to Rose.
When Jack and Rose returned to the boat deck after braving several obstacles, they noticed all lifeboats have already departed and passengers were falling to their deaths as the stern risen up from the water. The ship broke in half, lifting the stern into the air. Jack and Rose managed to cling in a wooden panel but enough for one person only that made Jack submerged on chilly water. Jack died from hypothermia but Rose survived.
Upon hearing Rose’s story, Lovett abandoned his search and Rose alone on the stern of the salvage boat of Lovett; she dropped the diamond necklace into the sea over the site of the Titanic’s wreckage.
On your visit to the Titanic Museum, you can imagine a young Rose is reuniting with Jack at the ship’s Grand Staircase, being applauded by those who perished in the tragic sinking of the RMS Titanic.
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