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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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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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