THE HISTORY OF THE TITANIC
Three years to build, five days to sink. This is the story of the Titanic, the British ocean liner produced by the shipyards in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the maximum expression of early 20th century naval technology, which sank on the morning of 15 April 1912.
Commander Edward John Smith, with a 40-year career behind him and on his last voyage, had declared before setting sail that he could not imagine any type of accident for the RMS Titanic: it departed on 10 April 1912 from Southampton in the direction of New York for its maiden voyage, on the night between 14 and 15 April the Titanic collided with an iceberg off the Canadian island of Newfoundland.
In the sinking, which occurred in the early hours of April 15, about 1,500 of the 2,223 people on board were killed, including passengers and crew members; at 2.20 in the morning, the liner broke into two parts and sank. Only 705 people managed to save themselves, also due to the lack of lifeboats: the last survivor died in 2009.
The story of the sinking of the Titanic was told in the 1997 film of the same name by director James Cameron with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, in the role of Jack and Rose, the protagonists of the film version. The film was a box office hit and won 11 Academy Awards.
There have been various reconstructions of the accident: among the documentaries on the incident, one from 2017 by journalist Senan Molony, for the British broadcaster Channel 4, proposed a new theory on the sinking of the liner.
According to the author of the documentary, the main cause of the sinking would have been a fire on board, which broke out in the boiler area before departure and not due to the iceberg against which the ship collided in the Atlantic Ocean . In fact, some photographs of the wreck show signs of flames, which had developed near the boilers of the transatlantic when she was still in the port of Belfast, where she was built. Tried to turn them off but without success. The fire would have weakened the structure and caused the body to give way on impact with the iceberg.
After more than a hundred years, the Titanic is now in danger of disappearing forever at the bottom of the sea. The alarm was recently raised by the OceanGate group of submarine researchers, according to which the wreck of the ship sunk in 1912 "is rapidly deteriorating". The researchers have decided to film the Titanic for the next few years so as to follow the evolution of the most famous liner wreck in history step by step.
With OceanGate it is also possible to participate in a submarine tour to discover the wreck at 3,800 meters below sea level. The cost of the ticket is about 150 thousand dollars.
Commander Edward John Smith, with a 40-year career behind him and on his last voyage, had declared before setting sail that he could not imagine any type of accident for the RMS Titanic: it departed on 10 April 1912 from Southampton in the direction of New York for its maiden voyage, on the night between 14 and 15 April the Titanic collided with an iceberg off the Canadian island of Newfoundland.
In the sinking, which occurred in the early hours of April 15, about 1,500 of the 2,223 people on board were killed, including passengers and crew members; at 2.20 in the morning, the liner broke into two parts and sank. Only 705 people managed to save themselves, also due to the lack of lifeboats: the last survivor died in 2009.
The story of the sinking of the Titanic was told in the 1997 film of the same name by director James Cameron with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, in the role of Jack and Rose, the protagonists of the film version. The film was a box office hit and won 11 Academy Awards.
There have been various reconstructions of the accident: among the documentaries on the incident, one from 2017 by journalist Senan Molony, for the British broadcaster Channel 4, proposed a new theory on the sinking of the liner.
According to the author of the documentary, the main cause of the sinking would have been a fire on board, which broke out in the boiler area before departure and not due to the iceberg against which the ship collided in the Atlantic Ocean . In fact, some photographs of the wreck show signs of flames, which had developed near the boilers of the transatlantic when she was still in the port of Belfast, where she was built. Tried to turn them off but without success. The fire would have weakened the structure and caused the body to give way on impact with the iceberg.
After more than a hundred years, the Titanic is now in danger of disappearing forever at the bottom of the sea. The alarm was recently raised by the OceanGate group of submarine researchers, according to which the wreck of the ship sunk in 1912 "is rapidly deteriorating". The researchers have decided to film the Titanic for the next few years so as to follow the evolution of the most famous liner wreck in history step by step.
With OceanGate it is also possible to participate in a submarine tour to discover the wreck at 3,800 meters below sea level. The cost of the ticket is about 150 thousand dollars.