Titanic Persuasive Essay

The Titanic was built on March 31st, 1909, and finished on March 31st, 1912. The Titanic set out on May 31st, 1912, and set sail on its maiden voyage from Southampton on April 10, 1912, with 2,240 passengers and crew on board. On April 14th, 1912, after striking an iceberg, the Titanic broke started sank to the bottom of the ocean, killing more than 1,500 passengers and crew. The Titanic’s wreckage was first discovered on September 1st, 1985, there is still information and data being found as recently as May 17th of 2023. According to the New York Times, roughly 16 terabytes of data, or 715,000 still images and a high-resolution video were collected over a 6-week time period, starting in the summer of 2022. As researchers continue to find

According to Britannica “In hindsight, it seems almost silly that anyone would assume that a ship weighing more than 46,000 tons (when fully laden) was unsinkable. And indeed, many myth busters have claimed that few people were actually calling the ship “unsinkable” before it sank.” When you think about a ship of this size you would think it would be harder to sink, but all it took was scraping the side of the ship to cause major flooding and of course the sinking of the ship. The only main reason it was described as such was because the safety of the ship was the best it could be during that time period so people assumed that it was perfectly safe, this rumor was enough to convince people the ship was still safe even as it was actively sinking. “The widely circulated articles detailed the design of the liner and its technologically advanced safety features. Chief among those features were 16 compartments within the hull whose doors could be shut by the flick of a switch. It was believed that the ability to quickly close off the compartments if any of them were breached could keep the ship afloat even if it suffered damage.” Having features like the closing doors, without needing to be present in the room was thought to be able to fix any flooding issues or sickness, keeping it “trapped” in one section of the