The Titanic Disaster : The Disaster Of The Titanic

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

They soon discovered the submarines bow planes were buried; the bow tanks full of sand. The propellers were torn off, steering gear ruined, stern tanks flooded, and all the hatches were desperately jammed.

The next key piece is the crew members who didn’t take enough steps to help prevent the crash. The first one is John Phillips who was the transmission officer on the Titanic. He was tired from the mountains of transmissions he revived that day alone and had to fix the radio after it

The setting is yet another critical component playing a more active role in this scene. Choosing the stern to be the best place for her to commit suicide is where the vitality of this set comes to play. Director James Cameron chose this particular location and the hand rails for her to accidentally trip was to create a dramatic helpless effect which he knew will trigger the minds of his audience. This significant setting is at the very end of the ship where no one usually wanders at night. It is quite and peaceful. In such a setting where the only two people to stand the stern are the two main characters when Jack (a complete stranger at this point) walks in ready to give his life to save her’s leaves him a heroic charm of

If all of the lifeboats had been on board more people would have been able to get off of the Titanic before it sank and then they would have been rescued. Ismay also made the decision to lower Titanic’s bulkheads in order to build a grand staircase. Bulkheads are compartments below the deck of a ship that hold water that enters the boat in the event of a crash, allowing the ship to stay afloat longer. If too many bulkheads fill with water the ship sinks (Titanic: How it Really Sank). When Titanic hit the iceberg too many bulkheads filled with water, causing the ship to sink rapidly. If they had been taller each bulkhead would have been able to hold more water and less of them would have overflowed, allowing TItanic to stay afloat long enough to be rescued. Another event that led to the massive loss of life was the return of the Titanic's sister ship, Britannic. In the video Titanic: How it Really Sank, Britannic returns home early for emergency repairs, leaving most of its crew without jobs. The officers from Britannic joined Titanic's crew resulting in all of the Titanic's officers being demoted, except for one who was

With advancing technology Dr. Ballard was able to recreate and gather images of what the ship looked like before it sunk.

Water was starting to cover the whole boat. They tried to get the life boats from one side of the boat to the other. In the process it killed some people when they were transferring the life boats from one side to the other (Preston 217-220). The crew was trying to get all the women and children in the life boats before the Lusitania sunk. At this point there was already a significant amount of people that already died and that was hurt. All this time that was passing and the Lusitania was steadily sinking. It was sinking very fast. Finally after all the panic and stress they had all the life boats filled with people away from the Lusitania (Preston 220-230). Many people died before the Lusitania even sunk. Some were hit by falling pieces of the boat. Other people fell off the Lusitania when it was sinking because of how horrible the conditions were. The Lusitania winded up being perpendicular in the water because of how fast it was sinking and breaking (Preston 231-232). After a while the Lusitania was almost completely under water. Most of the people that was in the water had got pulled under by the boats funnels when it was starting to

of the ship. The hole began to flood, causing the front of the ship to sink and eventually the

With the seafloor scanned and analyzed we can now find out what really happened here when Titanic went down under water, to retrace on how she possibly sank. Titanic made this two mile descent to the bottom of the ocean and the way the debris is spread around the ship gives us clues on how she went down to the bottom. The over size of the debris field is a key clue on how Titanic hit the seafloor, how fast and how she impacted the floor. Evidence over the years have given us answers to questions we have had for years and the debris field itself gives us clues of what happened below the ocean.

This would have strengthened the bow stern and although we are uncertain whether this may have stopped the ship from sinking, it would have at least stopped the ship from sinking as fast as it did. However we learnt a lot from the failure of the Titanic and because of this failure the maritime industry has changed the testing criteria of things such as metal plates and rivets. Materials must now pass a series of tests such as the Charpy test and other rigorous tensile tests. Tensile tests conducted in different conditions to show whether the material can cope with a series of different environments. Improvements in design of ships have also come about as a result of the Titanic; double-sided hulls were added to ships to prevent minor hull punctures such as the tears on the Titanic from causing major damage. Furthermore with the development of the metal welding industry, the need for rivets in applications such

After that impact the ship snapped in half. The section where it snapped in half was between the wrought iron rivets and steel rivets. The wrought iron rivets side is what sank

Second, the principle of floatation states that a floating object displaces a weight of fluid equal to its own weight. In the case of the Titanic, the volume of water

I have read and studied my collection of books about the Titanic many times, and have done research on the Internet.

In the early 1900s ocean liners were a lucrative business. Carrying passengers across the vast ocean was the most efficient way to travel. White Star Lines had to find a way to lure passengers away from their competitor, Cunard Lines (Encyclopedia Britannica). They decided to build bigger ocean liners, which focused on comfort, as opposed to speed. The Titanic’s hull was designed to withstand a breech in four of its watertight compartments; this made many believe that the ship was unsinkable. Sadly, for those on the ship, this couldn’t be further

As a bubble surfaced, the water rose dramatically, creating a sphere of water. Yes, the ship would slide off the sphere, but as the bubble burst a huge jet or column of high-velocity water would slam onto the ship and in a matter of seconds drive it down into the murky depths.