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    The RMS Titanic, one of the largest and most luxurious ocean liners ever built, struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on April 14th, 1912. Despite its designers believing it to be unsinkable, the Titanic sank into the North Atlantic Ocean early in the morning of April 15th after filling with water from five ruptured hull compartments caused by the collision with the iceberg. Over 1,500 passengers and crew perished in the sinking due to a lack of sufficient lifeboats and emergency procedures. The wreck of the Titanic was located in 1985 at a depth of 13,000 feet in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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    The RMS Titanic, one of the largest and most luxurious ocean liners ever built, struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on April 14th, 1912. Despite its designers believing it to be unsinkable, the Titanic sank into the North Atlantic Ocean early in the morning of April 15th after filling with water from five ruptured hull compartments caused by the collision with the iceberg. Over 1,500 passengers and crew perished in the sinking due to a lack of sufficient lifeboats and emergency procedures. The wreck of the Titanic was located in 1985 at a depth of 13,000 feet in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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    The RMS Titanic, one of the largest and most luxurious ocean liners ever built, struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on April 14th, 1912. Despite its designers believing it to be unsinkable, the Titanic sank into the North Atlantic Ocean early in the morning of April 15th after filling with water from five ruptured hull compartments caused by the collision with the iceberg. Over 1,500 passengers and crew perished in the sinking due to a lack of sufficient lifeboats and emergency procedures. The wreck of the Titanic was located in 1985 at a depth of 13,000 feet in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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    Titanic Was Designed by The Irish Shipbuilder William Pirrie and

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    The RMS Titanic, one of the largest and most luxurious ocean liners ever built, struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on April 14th, 1912. Despite its designers believing it to be unsinkable, the Titanic sank into the North Atlantic Ocean early in the morning of April 15th after filling with water from five ruptured hull compartments caused by the collision with the iceberg. Over 1,500 passengers and crew perished in the sinking due to a lack of sufficient lifeboats and emergency procedures. The wreck of the Titanic was located in 1985 at a depth of 13,000 feet in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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    At2:20a.m.

    onApril15,1912,theBritishoceanlinerTitanic
    sinksintotheNorthAtlanticOceanabout400milessouthof
    Newfoundland,Canada.Themassiveship,whichcarried2,200
    passengersandcrew,hadstruckanicebergtwoandhalfhours
    before.
    OnApril10,theRMSTitanic,oneofthelargestandmost
    luxuriousoceanlinerseverbuilt,departedSouthampton,
    England,onitsmaidenvoyageacrosstheAtlanticOcean.The
    TitanicwasdesignedbytheIrishshipbuilderWilliamPirrieand
    builtinBelfast,andwasthoughttobetheworldsfastestship.It
    spanned883feetfromsterntobow,anditshullwasdividedinto
    16compartmentsthatwerepresumedtobewatertight.Because
    fourofthesecompartmentscouldbefloodedwithoutcausinga
    criticallossofbuoyancy,theTitanicwasconsideredunsinkable.
    Whileleavingport,theshipcamewithinacoupleoffeetofthe
    steamerNewYorkbutpassedsafelyby,causingageneralsigh
    ofrelieffromthepassengersmassedontheTitanicsdecks.On
    itsfirstjourneyacrossthehighlycompetitiveAtlanticferry
    route,theshipcarriedsome2,200passengersandcrew.
    AfterstoppingatCherbourg,France,andQueenstown,Ireland,
    topickupsomefinalpassengers,themassivevesselsetoutat
    fullspeedforNewYorkCity.However,justbeforemidnighton
    April14,theRMSTitanicfailedtodivertitscoursefroman
    icebergandrupturedatleastfiveofitshullcompartments.
    Thesecompartmentsfilledwithwaterandpulleddownthebow
    oftheship.BecausetheTitanicscompartmentswerenot
    cappedatthetop,waterfromtherupturedcompartmentsfilled
    eachsucceedingcompartment,causingthebowtosinkandthe
    sterntoberaiseduptoanalmostverticalpositionabovethe

    water.ThentheTitanicbrokeinhalf,and,atabout2:20a.m.on
    April15,sternandbowsanktotheoceanfloor.
    Becauseofashortageoflifeboatsandthelackofsatisfactory
    emergencyprocedures,morethan1,500peoplewentdownin
    thesinkingshiporfrozetodeathintheicyNorthAtlantic
    waters.Mostofthe700orsosurvivorswerewomenand
    children.AnumberofnotableAmericanandBritishcitizens
    diedinthetragedy,includingthenotedBritishjournalist
    WilliamThomasSteadandheirstotheStraus,Astor,and
    Guggenheimfortunes.
    Onehourand20minutesafterTitanicwentdown,theCunard
    linerCarpathiaarrived.Thesurvivorsinthelifeboatswere
    broughtaboard,andahandfulofotherswerepulledoutofthe
    water.ItwaslaterdiscoveredthattheLeylandlinerCalifornian
    hadbeenlessthan20milesawayatthetimeoftheaccidentbut
    hadfailedtoheartheTitanicsdistresssignalsbecauseitsradio
    operatorwasoffduty.
    Announcementofdetailsofthetragedyledtooutrageonboth
    sidesoftheAtlantic.Inthedisastersaftermath,thefirst
    InternationalConventionforSafetyofLifeatSeawasheldin
    1913.Ruleswereadoptedrequiringthateveryshiphavelifeboat
    spaceforeachpersononboard,andthatlifeboatdrillsbeheld.
    AnInternationalIcePatrolwasestablishedtomonitoricebergs
    intheNorthAtlanticshippinglanes.Itwasalsorequiredthat
    shipsmaintaina24hourradiowatch.
    OnSeptember1,1985,ajointU.S.Frenchexpeditionlocated
    thewreckoftheTitaniclyingontheoceanflooratadepthof
    about13,000feet.Theshipwasexploredbymannedand

    unmannedsubmersibles,whichshednewlightonthedetailsof
    itssinking.

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