The Discovery Of The Titanic

On April 15, 1912 at 11:40 P.M. the Titanic collided with an iceberg and by 2:20 A.M. it was at the bottom of the ocean; over 1,500 people died. The massive loss of life was a shock to the world. The “unsinkable” ship had sunk. Despite the Titanic’s claims about being “unsinkable” and completely safe, many avoidable things led to the immense number of fatalities, such as the shortage of lifeboats, lowered bulkheads, and the lack of binoculars. Bruce Ismay, the designer of the Titanic and director of Whitestar line, often chose the comfort of his passengers over their safety. While Ismay was designing the Titanic he thought that the deck was too cluttered so he decided to keep only a third of the lifeboats needed to save all of the passengers

Before the Titanic even set sail, something with the building of the ship was wrong. They used iron for rivets and used number three iron instead of the normal

April 15, 1912 the “unsinkable” Titanic had almost three hours before it was no longer afloat, but plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean. Blueprints, journal & logs, and tons of witnesses were thoroughly inspected over the past 100 years to help solve the question agonizing question, why. For the 100-year remembrance of the tragic event, Smithsonian Channel released a documentary, Titanic’s Final Mystery. Dedicated Titanic detective and historian, Tim Maltin releases his theory on how the “unsinkable” sank.

Imagine having to balance your weight on a pack of pencils, and that’s how brittle the steel used on the Titanic’s hull was. There was a piece of the hull that had been recovered and scientists had gone forward to examine that piece of steel. They concluded that the steel was of very poor quality. “Jagged and sharp, the edges of the piece of steel appeared almost shattered, like broken china.” (Bassett 44). The Titanic had a sister ship, Olympic, which collided while leaving the harbor on September 20, 1911. A similar outcome had occurred when another cruise ship had collided into Olympic. “A 36-foot high opening was torn into the starboard side of the Olympics’ hull when a British cruiser broadsided her. Failure of the riveted joints and ripping of the hull plates were apparent in the area of impact.” (45). The build of the Titanic was more cheap and bad built than quality made and

The “unsinkable” Titanic’s maiden voyage was a disaster because she split in two from crashing into an iceberg. 1,517 people died from the horrible tragedy, only 706 people survived.

“She brushed the berg so gently that many on board didn’t notice it, but so lethally that she was instantly doomed (Lord).” The Titanic sent out her first distressed call at 12:15 a.m. (Lord). At 12:45, she began to fire rockets (Lord). At 1:10 when the first lifeboat pulled away, the water was up to the ship’s portholes (Lord). Fifty-five minutes later, at 2:05, the last lifeboat had left and there were 1,600 people stuck on the sloping decks (Lord). At 2:17, the Titanic majestically stood on end (Lord). It was at 2:20, on April 15, 1912, when the Titanic, the unsinkable ship had slipped beneath the sea (Lord). The sinking of the Titanic was known as the most famous disasters at sea (“Edward J. Smith”

It ripped between the third and fourth funnels of the ship. The iceberg scraped the bottom of the ship causing it open in six different places on the bottom half of the ship. There were watertight compartments that got filled with water. Four of the watertight compartments could have been filled and the Titanic would still be floating, but six of them got filled so it sank. ( Facts About Titanic )As people scrambled to get to a lifeboat they started to realize that there were not going to be enough lifeboats for everyone. The lifeboats started leaving before they were even full. Some lifeboats could hold up to sixty four but they would only let about thirty two onto the boat. ( Pipe

The deluxe steamship, Titanic set sail from Southampton, United Kingdom on April 10, 1912. The Titanic was a luxurious ship that carried some of the wealthiest people of the world as well as emigrants searching for a new way of life, it was said to be a “floating palace.” The technology that was present on this ship was remarkable for the time period. It had high-tech capabilities and was one of the best accomplishments. As the palace was on its voyage to the Port of New York, it ran into a large iceberg. The impact was so large that the ship’s hull plates were forced inwards, allowing water to rush in. The ship slowly sank on April 15, 1912. The Titanic’s crash became the most iconic shipwrecks in history and grasped headline after headline. This paper has article reviews from James P. Delgado, David

This paper is dedicated to one of one of the most famous ships in the history of humankind – the "Titanic". More than eighty years have passed since the frosty night of April 14th and into the 15th of 1912, when the giant "Titanic", the biggest and most luxurious ship of the century, sank after it collided with a drifting iceberg. At sea, to the south of the island of Newfoundland, over 1,500 ship’s crew and passengers died. Despite two investigations conducted immediately, after the floating palace was absorbed by the wave, many details remain unclear. There continues to be some "white spots", some incomplete evidence, and some of the findings, even after detailed study, are not convincing. Therefore, this event gave rise to numerous conjectures and speculations, as well as, the most incredible legends. One of the reasons that gave rise to the "white spots, was that, in the drowning of the "Titanic", there were only four people, who could provide very important information about the conditions of navigation, during the most critical hours, radio reports, warnings, and notices of appearance of icebergs near the route of the vessel. These four were the second mate, who was carrying out the watch on the bridge just before the tragedy, the fourth mate, who was also on the watch at the time, a telegraphist, who received some of the cautionary radiograms, and finally CEO of the shipping company, "White Star line ", J. Bruce Ismay, who knew everything about the situation.

When the Titanic hit the iceberg, the iron rivets and steel failed because of fractures. Failure in structural materials caused brittle fracture due to low temperature and extreme impact loading. The night of the collision, water temperature was below freezing, the ship travelled normal speed it was these fast speed that made the watertight compartment to bust open, the hull steel had high levels of sulphur. Too much sulphur in steel mixed with cold it becomes brittle.instead of the steel deforming or denting the steel it cracks and splits.

The causes of the titanic sinking are unbelievable.One of the reasons the titanic did not stay afloat is, when they got the alert for the iceberg straight ahead, they reversed the engine so they would slow down.After they started to turn hoping that they would miss the iceberg. Unfortunately they hit the iceberg causing them to puncture 5 air chambers which was bad because if they punctured more than 4 air chambers they would sink. Another reason they did not stay afloat is that they used delicate steel for the hull of the

A sort of calamitous failure in basic materials, fragile break happens without earlier plastic disfigurement and at amazingly high speeds. The reasons for fragile crack incorporate low temperature, high effect stacking, and high sulphur content. On the night of the Titanic catastrophe, each of these three components was available: The water temperature was underneath cold, the Titanic was going at a rapid on contact with the ice shelf, and the frame steel contained large amounts of sulphur. The first hint that brittle fracture of the hull steel contributed to the Titanic disaster came following the recovery of a piece of the hull steel from the Titanic wreck. After cleaning the piece of steel, the scientists noted the condition of the edges.

When analyzing this disaster the first thing to consider is the engineer’s design of the Titanic. The Titanic was employing many new and innovative designs that were believed to make the Titanic the safest ship ever built at that time. The engineer’s of the vessel made claims that the Titanic was “unsinkable” and that “even in the worst possible accident at sea, the ship should have stayed afloat for two to three days.” One of the features that lead them to this claim was the 16 watertight compartments in the hull of the ship. The way they were designed allowed for up to four compartments to be breached and they ship would still carry

Since the catastrophic night of the sinking of the Titanic, the ship had been unfounded for about seven decades. Nearly 12,460 feet deep in the ocean, a team of people from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution found the Titanic in September of 1985 (Brewster & Coulter). The ship was split into two, despite popular belief that the Titanic had sank in one piece (Brewster & Coulter, 1998). If anyone were to try to raise part of the 60 foot buried Titanic, it would fall apart (Brewster & Coulter, 1998). After 73 long years, the mystery of the

The RMS Titanic; A Tragedy Based on Class. In April, 1912, the so called "unsinkable" Titanic set sail to New York. The great ship was as big as five city blocks, and weighed thousands and thousands of tons. Everyone who was everyone grabbed a room on the luxurious ship for the trip of a lifetime. On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg an sank into the icy depths of the North Atlantic.