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    On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage across the North Atlantic Ocean. Though the ship was believed to be unsinkable, the iceberg opened five of the Titanic's sixteen watertight compartments to the sea. Within two hours, the Titanic sank, resulting in the deaths of over 1,500 of the 2,235 passengers and crew. It was the worst maritime disaster in history at the time. Survivors described feeling a slight shudder from the collision, but it was only noticed by those on the bridge who saw the iceberg and attempted to steer around it. However, the maneuver caused the ship to scrape along the submerged part of the iceberg,

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    On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage across the North Atlantic Ocean. Though the ship was believed to be unsinkable, the iceberg opened five of the Titanic's sixteen watertight compartments to the sea. Within two hours, the Titanic sank, resulting in the deaths of over 1,500 of the 2,235 passengers and crew. It was the worst maritime disaster in history at the time. Survivors described feeling a slight shudder from the collision, but it was only noticed by those on the bridge who saw the iceberg and attempted to steer around it. However, the maneuver caused the ship to scrape along the submerged part of the iceberg,

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    On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage across the North Atlantic Ocean. Though the ship was believed to be unsinkable, the iceberg opened five of the Titanic's sixteen watertight compartments to the sea. Within two hours, the Titanic sank, resulting in the deaths of over 1,500 of the 2,235 passengers and crew. It was the worst maritime disaster in history at the time. Survivors described feeling a slight shudder from the collision, but it was only noticed by those on the bridge who saw the iceberg and attempted to steer around it. However, the maneuver caused the ship to scrape along the submerged part of the iceberg,

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    The Titanic Story

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    On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage across the North Atlantic Ocean. Though the ship was believed to be unsinkable, the iceberg opened five of the Titanic's sixteen watertight compartments to the sea. Within two hours, the Titanic sank, resulting in the deaths of over 1,500 of the 2,235 passengers and crew. It was the worst maritime disaster in history at the time. Survivors described feeling a slight shudder from the collision, but it was only noticed by those on the bridge who saw the iceberg and attempted to steer around it. However, the maneuver caused the ship to scrape along the submerged part of the iceberg,

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    The Titanic Story On that fateful night of April 14, 1912 there were 2,235 souls crowded aboard

    the R.M.S. Titanic. There was no wind to speak of. The frigid, dark sea was calm, like a plate glass mirror beneath the star-spangled heavens. It was an hour before midnight on a starry, moonless night. While the band played on beneath the decks in the first class lounge, and while the night watch paced the Bridge high above, the greatest maritime tragedy in the history of sailing, stealthily, silently awaited them in the ice-strewn midnight waters of the North Atlantic. Survivors recalled a gentle shudder that briefly shook the 900 foot long vessel. It came and went so quickly that nobody gave it much of a second thought. Except for the occupants of the Bridgewho in the split seconds before that collision, saw the towering iceberg ahead, floating in their unlighted pathway. The helmsman swerved to miss the icebergbut they would have been better off to have struck it head on. In narrowly avoiding a head-on collision, they suffered an even worse fate!

    Three-fourths of the iceberg lay unseen beneath the calm ocean surface. When the Titanic swerved, it brushed the iceberg's underside on the starboard side of the bow, slitting a quarter of an inch wide opening more than 300 feet down the side of the vessel. Like a titanic can opener, the iceberg knifed open the side of the iron hull. The damage was just enough to cause the metal plates to buckle so that six watertight compartments began taking in sea water. So scientifically had this great sailing ship been constructed, with 16 watertight compartments in a 1/6 mile long hull, that the captain had made a pre-voyage boast, "Not even God himself could sink her". The builders had calculated that even if four of the compartments should burst, the ship would still float! But on that starry night, six of them exploded and began to suck in the frigid water of the North Atlantic! Mathematically, the "unsinkable ship" was mortally wounded. And, in two hours she was gone. Commander Lightoller, one of the few crew members who survived the tragedy, described the moment she sank. Of the 2235 occupants, 1522 met their death in those dark waters including most of the men, most of the third class, most of the crew, and all of the band. Only 713 people were rescued. And the world lined up for hours to relive their tragic story in the most watched movie ever in human history. Why? Could it be that Titanic is more than a tale about love and death of heart throbs Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio? Could it be that there's a deep, subconscious sense the world over that this tragedy at the beginning of the 20th century was in fact a warning parable of an ominous unnamed tragedy that hangs like Damocles' sword over our planet, while we're partying to beat the band?

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