Information about the ship

The Titanic was once proudly called the "unsinkable ship" in the history of world navigation. The ship's hull was equivalent to the length of three and a half residential buildings. It was praised by the European and American press as "the unsinkable ship." "Sea City". In the early morning of April 15, 1912, when it was on its maiden voyage carrying 2,207 passengers and crew, the same floating iceberg collided in just 10 seconds, causing the tragedy of 1,513 passengers. This glorious maiden voyage actually brought it the misfortune of being buried at the bottom of the sea. The Titanic cruise ship set sail from Southampton, England, to New York on April 10, 1912. The wealthy businessmen and celebrities from Britain and the United States who boarded the ship all wanted to board this new and miraculous ship. Have a wonderful week of relaxation. Below deck, in low-class cabins were hundreds of immigrants, who were crossing the Atlantic to start a new life on the other side. The first few days passed peacefully, but on the fourth day, the operators received an emergency telegram from a ship sailing ahead, which reminded them that the iceberg was unusually floating southward and had reached nearby waters. On Sunday, April 14, the Titanic received another emergency telegram with the same content. However, these warnings were not taken seriously by the proud crew. The first warning was thrown aside and was not reported to the captain for several hours. , and the subsequent two times were simply not sent to the command room. Just after dusk, the temperature began to drop sharply. Although the signs of the iceberg's approach were obvious, the Titanic neither changed its course nor reduced its sailing speed. As night fell, Captain Edward Smith posted a lookout to keep an eye out for the icebergs. At 23:40, the people on the lookout first spotted the iceberg, and the officer on duty ordered a sharp turn to the right chord. But it was too late. The iceberg had already opened a 100-meter-long crack in the outer wall of the ship. Most passengers only felt a slight vibration, which hardly attracted anyone's attention, but after inspection, the engineers on board the ship determined that the ship was beyond saving. They believed that if only 4 of the 16 waterproof tanks on the ship were filled with water, the ship could still float on the water. Unfortunately, the outer walls of 5 of the bilge tanks were torn apart by icebergs. Most of the passengers in third class got up because the seawater had flooded the floors of their rooms. The operator used Morse code to send out the latest SOS distress signal. This was the first time that this signal was used in a shipwreck. At 12:05 midnight, the lifeboat began to launch according to the captain's order. Passengers did not know that there were only 1,178 seats on all lifeboats, which could only accommodate half of the total number of passengers. However, according to the laws at the time, this life-saving condition was considered quite sufficient. At first, there was no panic among the passengers. They did not believe there would be any danger at all, because the Titanic was "unsinkable!" It was not until the hull tilted dangerously that they lost their previous calmness. Women and children were the first to leave the ship. Passengers in first class boarded the lifeboats first, and only four women among them died in the shipwreck. Of the 272 women in second and third class, only 96 survived. For a time, the third-class deck doors were even locked to prevent passengers from below from swarming onto the deck. On the increasingly sloping deck, the band played ragtagong without stopping. At 2:40 in the morning, the Titanic almost stood upright in the water, and then sank headfirst into the Atlantic Ocean at a depth of 3,000 meters. Those immigrants who stayed in the dark cabins were buried at the bottom of the sea together with the Titanic. All the people on the deck were thrown into the icy water and became the funerary objects of this famous shipwreck in the ice sea. The iceberg that caused the sinking of this luxury ship is actually not a mysterious thing. It is a huge ice cube floating in the polar sea. Every spring and summer, polar ocean ice is formed due to the breakup of polar ocean ice as temperatures rise, and gradually disappears as it drifts toward temperate and tropical zones. Their sizes vary greatly, and large icebergs can be several kilometers long. Such giant icebergs are a huge threat to ships traveling on the sea.

The sinking of the Titanic shows that the power of nature is huge. Human beings must not be blindly arrogant and must pay enough attention to various natural phenomena, otherwise tragedies will not be avoided