Why did workers look for the Titanic ship that sank?
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Probably because there were lots of rich people on the ship...hence, lots of fine art, china, etc. valuables.  It's also of historic value...it was a one-of-a-kind ship.
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IT HIT AN ICEBERG! It was the biggest ship ever of its time. There weren't enough lifeboats. Lots of people died making it. It was the most expensive ship in the world. the captain died with his ship. The people who evacuated the boat came up with the idea of women and children first. Erm...I don't know much more about it but there you go anyway :P
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The Titanic\nSecond Class Passengers\nPassengers travelling second class on the Titanic enjoyed a luxury that rivalled first class on other liners. Titanic was also the first ship to have an electric elevator for second class passengers.\n\nA second class ticket cost about £13\n\nThe following passengers are the most well known second class travellers.\n\n \n\n \n\nLawrence Beesley\n Lawrence Beesley was a public school teacher travelling to America for a holiday. He survived the disaster in lifeboat 17 and was one of the first people to publish an account of the sinking and rescue.\n\n \n\n\n Eva Hart \n Seven year old Eva Hart was travelling to America with her parents. Eva's mother had a premonition and refused to sleep at night during the voyage. Eva and her mother were saved in lifeboat 14. Eva never saw her father again.\n\n \n\n\nJuozas Montvila and Thomas Byles\nThese two men were Roman Catholic priests who conducted services for second class passengers. After the sinking they both helped other passengers to safety, heard confessions and prayed. Both died in the tragedy.\n\n \n\n Charles Aldworth \nCharles Aldworth was first class passenger, William Carter's chauffeur. Carter's Renault 25 motor car was stored in the cargo hold. Charles Aldworth did not survive. \n\n \n\nThere were 285 second class passengers on board - 168 men, 93 women and 24 children\n118 second class passengers survived the disaster - 14 men, 80 women and 24 children
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A ship is safe at harbour....but that is not what great ships were built for.   \n\nSail the stormy waters!
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First person on an abandoned vessel or to salvage something recognizable from a wreck owns the salvage rights.\n\nIf you could get to the Titanic, leave the gold and jewels, take a life preserver or a logoed piece of china.\n\nWith that you can prove the rest is yours.\n\nEnjoy.
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a penguin with a bazooka.\n\nseriously The Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the world at the time of its launching. During Titanic's maiden voyage (from Southampton to New York), it 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.\nThe sinking resulted in the deaths of at least 1,517 people, 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.\nOn the night of Sunday, April 14, the temperature had dropped to near freezing and the ocean was completely calm. There was no moon and the sky was clear. Captain Smith, perhaps in response to iceberg warnings received via wireless over the last few days, had altered Titanic's course around 10 miles (16 km) south of the normal shipping route. That Sunday at 1:45 PM, a message from the steamer Amerika warned that large icebergs lay in Titanic's path, but inexplicably, the warning was never relayed to the bridge. Later that evening, another report of numerous, large icebergs in Titanic's path, this time from the Mesaba, also failed to reach the bridge.\nAt 11:40 PM while sailing south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, lookouts Fredrick Fleet and Reginald Lee spotted a large iceberg directly ahead of the ship. Fleet sounded the ship's bell three times and telephoned the bridge exclaiming, "Iceberg, right ahead!" First Officer Murdoch ordered an abrupt turn to port (left) and full speed astern, which stopped and then reversed the ship's engines. A collision turned out to be inevitable, and the iceberg brushed the ship's starboard (right) side, buckling the hull in several places and popping out rivets below the waterline, creating a total of six leaks in the first five watertight compartments. Murdoch then ordered the ship hard a’port which swung Titanic's stern away from the iceberg. The watertight doors were shut as water started filling the five compartments, one more than Titanic could stay afloat with. The weight of the five compartments filling with water weighed the ship down past the top of the watertight bulkheads, allowing water to flow into the other compartments. Captain Smith, alerted by the jolt of the impact, arrived on the bridge and began to assess Titanic's situation. Following an inspection by the ship's officers and Thomas Andrews, it was apparent that the Titanic would sink, and shortly after midnight on April 15, lifeboats were ordered to be readied and a distress signal sent out.\nThe first lifeboat launched, boat 7, was lowered shortly after 12:40 AM on the starboard side with only 28 people on board out of a maximum capacity of 65. The Titanic carried 20 lifeboats with a total capacity of 1,178 persons for a total ship's compliment of passengers and crew of 2,223. 32 lifeboats had been originally specified, but management decided the doubled-up boats spoiled the lines of the ship. Sixteen lifeboats, indicated by number, were in the davits; and four canvas-sided collapsibles, indicated by letter, stowed on the roof of the officers' quarters or on the forward Boat Deck to be launched in empty davits. While only enough space for a little more than half the passengers and crew, Titanic carried more boats than required by the British Board of Trade. At the time, the number of lifeboats required was determined by a ship's gross tonnage, rather than its human capacity. The regulations concerning lifeboat capacity had last been updated in 1894, when the largest ships afloat weighed approximately 10,000 tons, compared to Titanic's 46,328 tons.\nFirst and second-class passengers h
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She is the lighthouse keeper. She turned out the light, the ship couldn't see, so it crashed. She felt guilty and killed herself.
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This site lists people who survived the Titanic who might still be alive today: http://www.fortunecity.com/lavendar/trousers/57/survivors.html#\n\n\nAccording to the BBC around 705 people survived the Titanic. That could mean that thousands of people today are related to a Titanic survivor. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1927996.stm\n\nThis story shows how some relatives of someone lost in the Titanic found only recently found out where their relative was finally laid to rest: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4379580.stm\n\nBut surely the best general Titanic resource online is the Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic
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technology was responsible,\nat the time the "TITANIC" was fitted out with the best technology of the times.And with that in mind you know how people like to boast, well what was said is between the dimensions, and the best available technology, it would be impossible for this ship to sink.and you know the rest...
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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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The Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago and used for tours. In 1915 the new federal "Seaman's Act" required retrofitting of a complete set of lifeboats. The new gear made the ship unstable. On July 24, 1915, the Eastland and two other cruise ships, the Theodore Roosevelt and the Petoskey, were hired to take employees from Chicago's Western Electric Company to a picnic in Michigan City, Indiana. Passengers began boarding around 6:30 AM. By 7:10, the ship had reached its capacity of 2,500 passengers. It had also developed a list to the port, which the crew attempted to stabilize by admitting water to the ballast tanks. By 7:28, the Eastland began to roll over, coming to rest on its side in 20 feet of water only 20 feet from the wharf, on the south bank of the Chicago River between Clark and LaSalle Streets. The Kenosha came alongside the hull to allow some passengers to leap to safety. 841 passengers and 4 crew died in the disaster. Many of the passengers on the Eastland were Czech ("Bohemian') immigrants from Cicero, Illinois.\n\nWriter Jack Woodford witnessed the disaster and gave a first-hand account to the Chicago newspaper the Herald and Examiner. In his autobiography, Woodford writes:\n\n"And then movement caught my eye. I looked across the river. As I watched in disoriented stupefaction a steamer large as an ocean liner slowly turned over on its side as though it were a whale going to take a nap. I didn't believe a huge steamer had done this before my eyes, lashed to a dock, in perfectly calm water, in excellent weather, with no explosion, no fire, nothing. I thought I had gone crazy." \nAfter the Eastland was raised in October 1915, she was sold to the Illinois Naval Reserve and recommissioned as the USS Wilmette stationed at Great Lakes Naval Base. On June 7, 1921, the Wilmette was given the task of sinking the UC-97, a German U-Boat captured during World War I. The guns of the Wilmette were manned by Gunner's Mate J.O. Sabin, who had fired the first American shell in World War I, and Gunner's Mate A.F. Anderson, the man who fired the first American torpedo in the conflict.\n\nIn 1946, the Wilmette was offered up for sale. Finding no takers, the government sold her for scrap and she was demolished in 1947.
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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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because when ships sink, seamen fill the water
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i sunk a titanic just a minute ago. ;-)
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First off - anything you want to know about the Titanic you can find out at http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/ and as for the answer you are looking for the 866 survivors that were taken aboard the Carpathia they were brought to NYC http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/item/3447/  The irony of the Carpathia was it itself was later sunk by a German U-boat near the end of WWI.  \n\nI hope this is what you were looking for!!!
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The Sinking of USS Indianapolis\n\nThe USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 15 November 1932. The ship served with honor from Pearl Harbor through the last campaign of World War II, sinking in action two weeks before the end of the war. On 30 July 1945, while sailing from Guam to Leyte, Indianapolis was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-58. The ship capsized and sank in twelve minutes. Survivors were spotted by a patrol aircraft on 2 August. All air and surface units capable of rescue operations were dispatched to the scene at once, and the surrounding waters were thoroughly searched for survivors. Upon completion of the day and night search on 8 August, 316 men were rescued out of the crew of 1,199.\n\nFor a good account of this event, watch the movie Jaws.\nRichard Harris (Quint) tells the story GREAT.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic