The Titanic Gone, but Never Forgotten
Titanic has intrigued the whole world since she sank taking more than 1,500 lives in April of 1912. Titanic was known as “The Ship of Dreams” until she shattered millions of hearts with her catastrophic event. The monumental aspect of the Titanic and her tragedy that came from it allowed an extraordinary movie, which gave the audience that perspective and exposure to such an historical event.
The Titanic was considered to be the largest, safest, and most luxurious ship ever built. The Titanic departed from Southampton, England in hopes of arriving in New York City. It all started with a man named Mr. J. Bruce Ismay, he’s the one that thought of the Titanic (www.historyofthetitanic.org) . It took over
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that there was heavy packed ice and icebergs (www.titanic-titanic.com ). At 11:40pm. crew men sound the alarm saying that an iceberg is near, only about 500 yards away. First Officer William Murdoch heard the message and instantly activates the watertight doors. Because of the sudden announcement, The Titanic, did not have enough time that she made contact with the iceberg on the her starboard side. Five watertight compartment started to commence with water only ten minutes after the collision with the iceberg. At 12:25am. the order was given to start loading women and children into the lifeboats. At 02:18am. Titanic split in half. According to www.titanicuniverse.com with the deaths in first and second class combined did not equal the deaths in third class. The sinking of Titanic took 536 third class passengers, 130 first class passengers, and 166 second class passengers. The Titanic took 1,347 lives of only men, and out of 899 crew members 685 of them died. Today the Titanic lays 12,000 feet in depth on the ocean floor (www.titanicfacts.net). It took roughly 15 minutes for she can reach the ocean floor, at a speed of descent of 16 kilometers per hour. “It took over 70 years to find Titanic” (www.planet-science.com). Robert Ballard was the man that found Titanic, he used a deep-sea vehicle called “Argo”. Ballard had Argo follow a trail of debris that let them straight to the Titanic.