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How To Survived The RMS Titanic

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On Monday, 15th April 1912, the RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg near Newfoundland at
11:40 pm and sank approximately two and a half hours later because of the severe damage the iceberg caused.
The world’s biggest ship was only five days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to
New York when the disastrous catastrophe took place. From the 2200 passengers, only 600 of them are estimated to have survived the tragedy. When the Cunard liner RMS Caparthia arrived two hours later the greatest ship known to men had vanished completely. What they saw shocked them to the core: There was chaos all around. People were freezing to death, already dead people were floating on the water. The people in the lifeboats were crying, screaming and trying …show more content…

It was horrible!” said a member of the Caparthia’s crew.
“There were children drowning and mothers crying for help.”
As of today, the investigations are still ongoing, nevertheless, experts believe that many safety precautions hadn´t been taken properly. One of the more serious safety problems was the lack of lifeboats on board. The way the ship was designed did not allow enough space for the amount of lifeboats that would have been required to save every single passenger.
As a result, the first class passengers were granted a seat in a lifeboat primarily. A lot of the third and second-class passengers, however, didn’t even survive their way out of their cabins.
One of the few second-class survivors was Mary Donahugh: “I thought I was going to die.
The water in the cabins rose higher and higher and it felt like millions of tiny needles piercing through my skin.” She lost her husband and her two children that night.
The sinking of Titanic will always be one of the biggest disasters on sea the world has ever seen. Hopefully, new technologies will continue to shed a light on further puzzle pieces of what happened that night. Only time will tell, how a ship, that was built to be unsinkable, found its way to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in a tragedy that claimed the life of over
1000

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