Peace in time of struggle

Peace in time of struggle

On April 15, 1912 one of the deadliest Marutime disasty in history occurred. At 2: 45 am on April 15: 5 days after its original deoaparture from Liverpool, England, the The titanic struck a large iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship titanic was the second in a three ship set the Olympic titanic and Britannica. She was 300 yards long, and weighed several hundreds of thousands of pounds. The great ship, made mostly of metal, was thought to be unsinkable. Then the impossible happened. Captain Edward John Smith had altered the Titanic's course slightly to the south, hoping to avoid the icefields that had been spotted and reported by other ships. Unfortunately the change in course didn' t help much. In the late hours of April 14, the titanic collided with a large iceberg. Upon striking the Beth, the titanic flood compartments made for just such an occasion, began to fill with water. The titanic could have stayed a float if only 4 of the compartments were flooded but the water quickly filled 6 making the bow sink slowly into the 28F degree ( - 2 celscel degree) water. Many passengers were actually spotted playing soccer with the chunks of ice, unaware of the danger posed to them .