While it s definitely a dramatic moment until now you probably assumed it wasn t anything other than a fictional scene meant to make our jaws drop.
Titanic heart necklace real.
Inspired by the heart of the ocean a 171 carat necklace with a real blue sapphire was crafted and ultimately sold for 1 4 million dollars the necklace designed by jewellers asprey garrard was worn by celine dion as well as the actress who played rose as an old lady in the film titanic gloria stuart.
The necklace was shown in a titanic display in belfast for some years.
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If you ve seen titanic you know that there isn t a person alive whose heart didn t sink just like the boat when rose gently dropped the heart of the ocean in the sea at the end of the film.
It is based off the real hope diamond.
Her heart is still going on.
The depiction is so moving and dramatic that many believe the story to be entirely hollywood fiction but they would be incorrect even the heart of the ocean was based on a real necklace.
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The heart of the ocean was a rather large heavy diamond and as rose dewitt bukater said an overwhelming necklace that disappeared on the titanic.
They recover a safe containing a drawing of a young woman wearing only the necklace dated april 14 1912 the day the ship struck the iceberg.
The origins of the necklace date back to revolutionary france when it was worn by louis the xvi and was known as the blue diamond of the crown.
In 1996 treasure hunter brock lovett and his team board the research vessel akademik mstislav keldysh to search the wreck of rms titanic for a necklace with a rare diamond the heart of the ocean.
The heart of the ocean blue diamond might just be a fictional necklace in the movie titanic but the jewellery item has still enticed people in creating the real thing.
More than two decades after the release of 1997 s titanic celine dion stepped out in paris on wednesday sporting the actual blue diamond.