Dead bodies, still as plastic dolls, frozen in the ocean. This was the dreadful sight that rescuers were likely to of born witness to, after the Titanic had sunk. The Titanic had been designed to be unsinkable, and if it were to become flooded, it was designed in such a way that would allow it to float. There was even a renowned and skilled captain in control. However, when its hull was torn open by the iceberg, letting in 400 tons of icy water per minute, drowning hundreds. The compartments filled and flooded into each other, making the ship sink twice as fast. These events, which followed one after the other, doomed hundreds, resulting in a horrific tragedy that has yet to be forgotten.
Captain Edward Smith. He went down with the ship.
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The weather was flat and calm, which meant there were few waves. The men didn’t have binoculars; the officer who had left the ship had taken the keys to the locker which contained them. They were relying upon their own eyesight, which would inevitably fail them. When the iceberg came into view, the ship was unable to turn in time. It scraped its hull against the iceberg, which was 4 times larger than the ship itself. To most on board, the collision wasn’t as startling as one would expect. According to survivors, it was more of a lurch, or was unnoticeable. None of the passengers above were aware that the hull had popped open due to weak rivets, and was now flooding the boiler room with over four-hundred tons of icy water per minute. Due to the ships small bulkhead, the compartments were flooding into one another, filling up quickly. Before all the compartments were shut, flooding began in the fifth compartment, which meant the ship couldn’t float as predicted. Instead of the estimated four, the Titanic would only have two more hours above water.
Captain Smith ordered the ship’s personnel to prepare the lifeboats, and to put women and children first. However, it was interpreted as “women and children only.” This caused unnecessary death for many. However, Ismay still took a seat in the