4 The crew had no idea the iceberg had cut open the ship
The most unbelievable incident was the collision itself. When the ship collided with the Iceberg that seemed to have appeared out of the haze, it was 11.40 pm on the 14th of April. With warnings from the lookouts, the crew reversed the ship and the lookouts were actually relieved. NO One had even guessed that the iceberg had opened up the ship with a 300 foot gash below the ships waterline.
By the time the Captain could even assess the situation; five compartments were already filled with water. The ship was jinxed. Thomas Andrews gave the ship and hour and a half to stay afloat. That was the only positive point when the ship outlived expectations because it sank in three.
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5 The final hours of the Titanic
What transpired next was a drama of human cowardice, bravery gallantry and raw emotion? Men kissed their wives and children goodbye as families were separated in the confusion. Although it was an accepted rule of women and children first, the majority of victims were women and children.
1500 people perished on that tragic day of 15th April 1912. At 2am, broken in two, The Titanic stood up perpendicular in the North Atlantic, its lights still on and eerily dove into the dark icy depths of the ocean. That was the end of the Titanic. It was the Cunard line’s Carpathia that dodged floes to rush to the Titanic’s aid but it was too late. The ship managed to pick up just 705 survivors most of them from the lifeboats.
6 Even State of the art technology can be flawed
John Maxtone Graham the historian of the Titanic compared the disaster to the Challenger space shuttle disaster of 1986, when it exploded into oblivion. Both objects built with the latest sophisticated technology of the timer collapsed revealing that man’s presumptions of such infallible technology could be flawed. The Titanic may not be the largest disaster in maritime history but it could well be the most tragic as the Titanic was doomed from day it set sail. Today it still lies at the bottom of its watery grave in the waters of the North Atlantic Ocean off Newfoundland.
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