Because the necklace was in the style of mourning jewelry, researchers suspect that its owner had likely just lost someone when the doomed ship went down on April 15, 1912.

A necklace owned by one of the passengers on the RMS Titanic was recently discovered hidden inside a hunk of wreckage that was first brought to the surface 25 years ago.

In 2000, divers unwittingly recovered the necklace when they were retrieving pieces of the wreckage. For more than two decades, the beads of the necklace remained stuck between pieces of sediment and debris that had fused together due to the intense water pressure at the ocean floor.

Now, the necklace has been removed from the chunk of wreckage and has been put on display at Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition in Orlando, Florida. While the story behi

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