Titanic have been my favorite subject since 1998 when I watched alone the movie directed by James Cameron. The 'Cathay' theater was not big but significantly lived up the small city of Segamat at that time. Least attracted and affected from the lovemaking scene of the leading actor and actress in the film, I was really touched with the greatest maritime disaster in history. The story of Titanic indirectly inspired me to enroll for marine engineering studies in tertiary education. The growing of internet during the study time allowed me to get exposed of what is really happened to Titanic, the facts, the assumptions, the myths and the unrevelation. Not mentioned the jokes made that lookout Frederick Fleet at crow nest was more concentrated peeping the love scene of couple at forward deck of the ship that resulted he overlook sighted the iceberg in advance. Haha. Titanic story also attracted me to made the final project in university related to the sinking ship. Herewith I written the Titanic stories with referring to the source from internet, movies and documentaries....
Titanic prior departure
RMS Titanic is the most historical ship for all the time. Inception and built in Harland and Wolf Shipyard, Belfast, Ireland, she set sailed maiden voyage from Southampton to New York on 10 April 1912. She was 269.06 meter in length, 28.19 meter in breadth and 10.54 meters in draught with 52,310 tons. Powered by two-reciprocating four cylinder steam engines and low-pressure turbine altogether driving three propellers which propelled the ship at maximum 21 knots. Liverpool which name tack welded at transom is her port of registry. During cruising at 375 miles south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11.40 pm 14 April 1912. The damage incurred was tremendous resulted the starboard hull plate buckle inwards and permitted the floodwater occupied the space of several watertight compartments. Approximately two hours and forty minutes, she remained afloat before the infamous 'unsinkable ship' sank. 710 survived while 1,514 lost lives as it was claimed for the lack of lifeboat provided onboard.
The maiden voyage and location of incident
Resting deep down in North Atlantic Ocean, Titanic was the most talk-about topics generations by generations. 2012 remarks 100th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic. The series of discovery were made since 1985 to unearth the true stories and what went wrong during the incident. 1985 discovery shown that the ship broken into two pieces where the bow and stern sections were 600 meter separated. While, 2010 well-equipped technological discovery significantly transformed the incidents and conditions into explanation and revelation. Many mysteries solved and bad reputation of Titanic as flaw ship was restored as the greatest ship built at that time. The fact that Titanic capable remained afloat for more than two hours was remarkable when comparing to the other maritime disaster in 20th century. The 2010 discovery by RMS Titanic Inc to commemorate 100th anniversary deployed the sophisticated ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) and AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles) appox 3,700 meters deep down to gather more significant information. As a result, complete sonar map was made which covers all angles of the ship pieces and debris laid on the seabed. The discovery also revealed that the previously claimed the weak hull rivet which contribute the plate to give way also denied. It was suggested that collision force during struck to the iceberg was really tremendous on the calm night of 14 April 1912 that resulted to the sinking. Eventhough the claimed 21 knots ship speed during the incident is questionable, it was clarified that it was the standard practice of the ship maintaining full speed at that time at a fair sea state.
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