"The Sinking of the Titanic"

Jim Earthman and Ian Nieves

Debut: Titanic under full power

  

Maiden Voyage

On April 12th, 1912 the White Star luxury liner Titanic left Southhampton, England, bound for New York. Constructed with state of the art steam technology and metallurgy, she was declared Unsinkable. The manifest of the Titanic listed some 2,208 passengers, including the crew, numerous technical personnel, and wealthy vacationers such as the millionairess Molly Brown.

	Stairway galley
View of the engine room	Steam stack under construction

 

Final Resting Place

On September 1st, 1985, the research vessel Knor, under the command of Dr. Robert Ballard, located the ruins of the Titanic on North Atlantic seabed. In July of 1986, Ballard and his research staff returned to the Titanic aboard the submarime Alvin, whose robotic camera took pictures of the wreckage.

 

Personal affects: crewmens boots

 

What Happened???

The inquest into the sinking of the Titanic determined that an iceberg collided with the ship, rupturing its hull and fooding its interior. However, the 1986 expedition found no evidence of large cavities in the hull that would indicate such a collision occured. Therefore, why did the Titanic sink so fast?

 

Two views of the bow of the Titanic, now resting at the bottom of the North Atlantic

 

 

The remains of the high pressure cylinder from the engine room

 

 

 

 

 

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