What Went Wrong??
As pretty much anyone knows, the Titanic was sunken by an iceberg while in the Atlantic ocean.
Four days into her journey, at 11:40 P.M. on the night of April 14, she struck an iceberg. Ultrasonic scanning of the wreck shows that the hole inflicted on the Titanic by the iceberg was only 12 square feet, but was spread across the length of the ship, allowing water to pour into 5 of the watertight compartments. The boat could stay afloat with a maximum of 4 compartments flooded. The great ship slowly slid beneath the waters two hours and forty minutes after the collision
The next morning, the liner Carpathia rescued 705 survivors. One thousand five hundred twenty-two passengers and crew were lost. Subsequent inquiries attributed the high loss of life to an insufficient number of lifeboats and inadequate training in their use.
The Washington Post announces the disasterShe was touted as the safest ship ever built, so safe that she carried only 20 lifeboats - enough to provide accommodation for only half her 2,200 passengers and crew. This discrepancy rested on the belief that since the ship's construction made her "unsinkable," her lifeboats were necessary only to rescue survivors of other sinking ships. Additionally, lifeboats took up valuable deck space.
John Thayer witnessed the sinking from a lifeboat. "We could see groups of the almost fifteen hundred people still aboard, clinging in clusters or bunches, like swarming bees; only to fall in masses, pairs or singly, as the great after part of the ship, two hundred and fifty feet of it, rose into the sky, till it reached a sixty-five or seventy degree angle."
The map on the top shows the position of the Titanic when it sank, as well as where the wreck lies today.
Four days into her journey, at 11:40 P.M. on the night of April 14, she struck an iceberg. Ultrasonic scanning of the wreck shows that the hole inflicted on the Titanic by the iceberg was only 12 square feet, but was spread across the length of the ship, allowing water to pour into 5 of the watertight compartments. The boat could stay afloat with a maximum of 4 compartments flooded. The great ship slowly slid beneath the waters two hours and forty minutes after the collision
The next morning, the liner Carpathia rescued 705 survivors. One thousand five hundred twenty-two passengers and crew were lost. Subsequent inquiries attributed the high loss of life to an insufficient number of lifeboats and inadequate training in their use.
The Washington Post announces the disasterShe was touted as the safest ship ever built, so safe that she carried only 20 lifeboats - enough to provide accommodation for only half her 2,200 passengers and crew. This discrepancy rested on the belief that since the ship's construction made her "unsinkable," her lifeboats were necessary only to rescue survivors of other sinking ships. Additionally, lifeboats took up valuable deck space.
John Thayer witnessed the sinking from a lifeboat. "We could see groups of the almost fifteen hundred people still aboard, clinging in clusters or bunches, like swarming bees; only to fall in masses, pairs or singly, as the great after part of the ship, two hundred and fifty feet of it, rose into the sky, till it reached a sixty-five or seventy degree angle."
The map on the top shows the position of the Titanic when it sank, as well as where the wreck lies today.
The Iceberg that The Titanic Hit
The Iceberg that the Titanic hit. There were metal scrapes and red paint on this iceberg, leading investigators to believe this was the fatal iceberg.