You can argue it’s a hell of a collectors’ item but it never actually was tested as a flotation device in the frigid waters that so many perished in. CBS News reports that a lifejacket worn by Laura Mabel Francatelli, a first-class passenger on the doomed Titanic and signed by her as well as other survivors, sold for $906,000 to an unidentified enthusiast who called in the bid via phone at auction by Henry Aldridge and Son auctioneers in Devizes, western England on Saturday.
That amount would’ve bought nearly four tickets on the Titan submersible to actually see the Titanic up close… If OceanGate was still running those tours. And the Titan was still in operation.