Today your local hosts take you to tour and explore the Titanic highlights of old St. John’s and the nearby fishing villages.  We will visit the most easterly point in North America and stand at the birthplace of the Information Age - where the tale of the rescue of Titanic’s survivors truly starts.  Newfoundland’s Marine Institute (part of Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador) is one of the finest ship’s officers training institutions in the world; and they possess the country’s largest marine simulator.  We will experience a remarkable simulated voyage on Titanic without the terror of facing the North Atlantic at night.  We will be watching the ocean by day – if there is an iceberg nearby we will take you to visit it by land and – if possible – by sea.  We will work with the weather and the highlights to ensure an enticing day full of authentic stories and experiences.  You are on your own for your evening meal and activities but there are many fine restaurants near our hotel, the downtown is filled with charming pubs and dinner theatre; plus the newly released Titanic 3-D by our friend James Cameron will be at a nearby theatre.  Your Receiving Titanic hosts will have lots of suggestions and information for you.  (Breakfast, Lunch) 

April 14:  Today Titanic’s tragic Centennial truly begins.  Ponder this historic date and enjoy a morning at leisure in old St. John’s.
 
Your Receiving Titanic Symposium hosts are experienced at dealing with the early springtime and - depending on weather over the symposium - we may well be making special morning arrangements to ensure you experience the best of the local sites and flavors before our noon-time departure (with delicious packed lunch) for the southern part of Newfoundland’s Titanic Trail and Cape Race.
 The finale of our International Receiving Titanic Centennial Conference in St. John’s and Cape Race, NL, Canada will be the Cape Race themed centennial program and commemoration including a visit to the actual Cape Race site (weather and road conditions permitting) that received Titanic’s distress messages. Learn the many Titanic and transatlantic tales of this historic outpost.
 
Later, in the communities surrounding Cape Race, conference participants, citizens of the Cape Race area, and other Titanic commemorators will participate in our Centennial Remembrance Program that features minute by minute chronicling of the historic events at Cape Race and at sea on the night of April 14, 1912. We will be communicating with vessels at sea floating over the Titanic Site using the best of 21st century satellite technology and using a reproduction wireless system similar to that used in 1912.  
 
The Titanic’s final hours were documented at Cape Race and by ships at sea.  We will spend a late evening reliving these events until 2:30 a.m. on the morning of April 15 after which you can snooze during the comfortable late-night coach ride back to your hotel. (Breakfast, Boxed lunch, Cape Race themed commemorative dinner)