Did the titanic really split in two pieces when sinking?
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On April 10, 1912, the RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York. At that time, she was the largest and most luxurious ship ever built. At 11:40 PM on April 14, 1912, she struck an iceberg about 400 miles off Newfoundland, Canada. Although her crew had been warned about icebergs several times that evening by other ships navigating through that region, she was traveling at near top speed of about 20.5 knots when one grazed her side. \n\nLess than three hours later, the Titanic plunged to the bottom of the sea, taking more than 1500 people with her. Only a fraction of her passengers were saved. The world was stunned to learn of the fate of the unsinkable Titanic. It carried some of the richest, most powerful industrialists of her day. Together, their personal fortunes were worth $600 million in 1912! In addition to wealthy and the middle class passengers, she carried poor emigrants from Europe and the Middle East seeking economic and social freedom in the New World. \n\nThe remains of the Titanic were found in 1985 by Dr. Robert Ballard, an oceanographer and marine biologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. When he located the Titanic, he saw that, as some survivors reported, the ship had broken apart. He believed the weight of the water-filled bow raised the stern out of the water and snapped the ship in two just before it sank. Debris falling out of the ship was strewn over a 1/2 mile across the sea floor. The bow and the stern were found nearly 2000ft. apart.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic
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i sunk a titanic just a minute ago. ;-)
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Yup, still there. There was a documentary last year about the Bermuda triangle. In it they showed what's down there...lots of  war planes and ships that disappeared during the WW II. Maybe they will show it again. They came up with an explanation on how the disappearances came to be. Apparently the substances (sulfur etc) spewed out  underwater from the earth's center,  cause the mechanics of the planes and ships to malfunction.
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There is no proof. All the evidence disappeared to China or the bottom of the ocean. Why were they so quick to get rid of that steel? Do you really believe that jet fuel gets hot enough to collapse an I beam? Hell, I've picked out beer cans after a bonfire. Duh! And as far as I know, airliners aren't made for knocking down buildings. They are light so they can fly. Have ever seen a crash site? There usually isn't a whole lot of recognizable things left. A building that would collapse after getting hit like that wouldn't pass a NYC building code exam.
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They were drowned in an accident.\n\nhttp://www.allscifi.com/trivialist.asp?Answer=A&Filter=&Question=13231
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On the bottom of the Atlantic ocean, 1700 feet under the surface, archaeologists found the wreck of the old side-wheel steamship, "Republic."  She sank in a great hurricane in October, 1865, off the coast of Georgia (US - the country of Georgia is landlocked).\n\nNewspaper reports after the ship's loss said that she went down with $400,000 of gold coin, destined for New Orleans.  And one newspaper story suggesed she also carried a separate cargo of $70,000 in coin for someone else in New Orleans.\n\nUsing robotic equipment, the archaeologists excavated the SS Republic.  They found the remnants of two wooden barrels holding gold and silver coins, 59,000 in all.  So far, they have not found the rest of the money said to have been aboard th ship.\n\nThe wreck of the SS Republic presents MANY historical mysteries.  One of the myseries is, who were the people who escaped from her that stormy day?  Some are known and their stories have been found, but most remain just names in newspaper lists of shipwreck survivors.  Another is who were the people who died after the ship sank?  Newspaper accounts suggest one or two people drowned while swimming away from the sinking ship to lifeboats, and either 14 or 16 people died while castaways on a raft that was not found until a week after the sinking.  All of these people today are forgotten, nameless victims; who were they?\n\nOf course, the archaeologists would VERY much like to know where the rest of the money can be found on the wreck.\n\nAnd finally there is THIS mystery:\n\nAt least one and maybe more of the canvas bags of coins in the barrels came from the Bank of New York.  The archaeologists found the lead seals used by the bank to close the bags.  Those bags of coins were silver half-dollars, ALL made in the New Orleans mint in 1861 - some before Louisiana seceded from the Union, some made while Louisiana was an independent state, and others made when the Confederacy ruled.  So the coins in these bags were under Confederate control after they were minted.  Most of the money in New Orleans was dispersed into the Deep South when the Union assaulted, and captured, the city in April of 1862. \n\nHOW DID THEY GET TO NEW YORK DURING THE CIVIL WAR?\n\nHow did these bags of 1861 "O" silver half-dollars end up in a New York bank vault, and then come to be put on the doomed vessel to be shipped back to New Orleans only months after the war had ended?
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THE TITANIC HAD A DUAL HULL DESIGN.  THE HULL WAS BUILT WITH GAP BETWEEN THE WALLS.  THERE WERE ALSO FIVE COMPARTMENTS CONTAINED IN THE LOWER DECK,  SO THAT IN THE EVENT OF LEAKAGE,  THE WATER COULD BE SEALED OFF AND CONTAINED.  UNFORTUNATELY, ONCE ALL FIVE TOOK ON WATER, THE TITANIC WAS DOOMED. HOPE THIS HELPS
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Live in shame I suspect.\n\nInterestingly JP Morgan was supposed to be a passenger and backed out at the last minute.\n\nThe Panama canal was built to the Titanic's specs.
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It is said that the SHIP sinks in the water in that area.\nThat's may be due to higher gravity or some other force which is still unknown.
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Yes.  If you read the Bible it's easy to see they are both referring to the same vessel.  In fact, the Titanic was often referred to as Noah's Bigger Ark.  It's not hard to see why.\n\nExcellent question; I'm glad someone else picked up on this.
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Man_with_a_Plan has no proof that there is no proof. His statement that no theories are sound or have proof is just his opinion and purely speculatory. There is no proof.\n\nI, on the other hand, like the "Murder on the Orient Express Theory". I think that there was huge changes in ocean circulation due to the continents coming together WELL BEFORE Pangaea formed. The geologic evidence suggests that the extinction happened in different places around the world at different times, which suggests that no single event is responsible. I believe that cooling events like plume volcanism in the Siberian traps coupled with warming events like methane hydrate release and greenhouse effect along with the continental positioning at the time may have worked together to cause extreme changes in ocean circulation at various parts of the world at different times, attributing to the extinction event.\n\nVariations in temperature due to greenhouse warming and on/off sulphide cooling would have had the greatest immediate impact on planktic (ocean surface) and shallow water organisms. I also think that ocean circulation was also greatly affected not only by the temperature variations but also the circumstantial orientation of the continents. Heat transport to the north would have been innefficient and consequently northern regions would have been subject to extreme cooling, even at relatively low latitudes. In the southern regions there would have been a huge temperature gradient between top and bottom waters. If this was enough to stop deep water formation and ocean turnover, benthic (bottom dwelling) species would have been destroyed by the lack of oxygen and intermediate to surface water species would have suffered from a lack of nutrients. Because most of the Earth's life at the time was in the water, I am quite sure that it was likely some change in ocean circulation that dealt the fatal blows to life. Obviously good carbon isotope data from the period would be needed to verify this hypothesis. \n\nLife on land would have suffered greatly by climate changes induced by changes in ocean circulation, as well as the extreme variations in temperature. Tropical species would have been devastated by cooling events caused by the plume volcanism.\n\nThere is lots of proof for everything; there just is no definite information that can, as of yet, say for sure exactly how it all happened. That's a tough thing to do, but I really dislike people who refute the claims of others without presenting any evidence themselves.
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NO! THE TITANIC SUNK! THE END!
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On April 12th 1912 Titanic sailed with 2,228 people. On April 14th at 11:40pm Titanic ran along the side of an iceberg and 2 and half hours later at 2:20am, April 15th the ship sank. The Carpathia picked up 705 survivors, 1,523 people were lost in the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
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RMS Titanic was the second of a trio of superliners intended to dominate the transatlantic travel business.[1]Her older sister was RMS Olympic. After Titanic's sinking, her younger sister HMHS Britannic (originally RMS Gigantic) was built. Owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, United Kingdom, Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the world at the time of her launching. During Titanic's maiden voyage (from Southampton to New York), she struck an iceberg at 11:40 PM (ship's time) on Sunday evening April 14, 1912, and sank two hours and forty minutes later at 2:20 AM Monday morning.\n\n1,523 people perished in the accident, (according to the US Senate investigation), ranking it as one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history and by far the most famous. Titanic's design used some of the most advanced technology available at the time and the ship was popularly believed to be "unsinkable". It was a great shock that, despite the advanced technology and experienced crew, Titanic sank with a great loss of life. The media frenzy about Titanic's famous victims, the legends about what happened on board the ship, the resulting changes to maritime law, and the discovery of the wreck in 1985 by a team led by Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel have made Titanic persistently famous in the years since.
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Of the ~1500 people who died, only about 900 bodies were recovered.  For months after, life-jacketed decomposing bodies were spotted by ships takinga similar route.  Perhaps the most famous person to dieon Titanic, John Jacob Astor wasnt pulled from the untill several months after he died, badly decomposed.  No bodies actually washed ashore, but many were lost at sea.
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Watch the movie TITANIC\n\n\nFebruary 2, 2001\nWeb posted at: 5:39 AM EST (1039 GMT)\n\n\nPARIS, France -- The last male survivor of the sinking of the Titanic has died in southern France. \n\nMichel Navratil, who was just three years old when the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912, died in Montpellier on Wednesday aged 92.\n\n\n\nAnd yes a girl died after 106 years or so age n  she was the last surviver of titanic,\n\nJust watch the movie \n :)