rising to the surface as the ship sank, according to the auction house. Cameron regularly visited the Maritime Museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia while preparing for the film and the prop door ...

and the ship's brass engine order telegraph ($81,250) — another sign that the public's fascination with the century-old shipwreck isn't going anywhere. The prop is modeled on a real-life ...

Several other “Titanic” props were also put up for sale, including the pastel chiffon evening gown Rose wears in the movie on the night of the sinking and the ship’s helm wheel, which sold ...

It's hard to get any real sense of scale with something this massive, but check out the picture above and notice that the props are almost the same height as the ship's freeboard.The USS Stethem ...