How did they find the Titanic?
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submarines .. looking for fish..
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I am assuming that they discovered it by seeing it. Don't think that it was a really hard one to pick out. Not sure as to who, where and when. Will get back to you on that one.
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Dimensions and Statistics:\n• Length - 882 feet 6 inches.\n• Beam - 92 feet 6 inches.\n• Draft - 34 feet 6 inches.\n• Height - 175 feet from keel to stack (the boat deck was 60 feet above the waterline).\n• Decks - 9 total, A through G with the boilers below.\n• Weight - 46,328 Registered Tons.\n• Hull Construction - 1 inch thick plate steel held together with over 3 million steel rivets.\n• Power plant - 29 coil stoked boilers, each 3 stories high. The boilers used 3 of the stacks for exhaust, the fourth was used to vent Titanics' numerous kitchens and galleys. The stacks were 22 feet wide and 62 feet high.\n• Engines - 2 reciprocating 4 cylinder direct drive inverted steam engines delivering 30,000 HP at 75 RPM for the 2 outside propellers, and 1 low pressure Parsons Turbine delivering 16,000 HP at 165 RPM for the center propeller. The Parsons was powered by excess steam from the other 2 engines. Titanic used 825 tons of coal every day.\n• 3 propellers - 2 outside with 3 10' blades (23' diameter swing) and one center with 4 6' blades (16' diameter swing).\n• Anchors - 2, each weighing 15 tons.\n• Top Speed - 24 knots at 75 RPM.\n• Passengers - Fully Loaded: 739 First Class, 674 Second Class, and 1,026 Third Class (Steerage) April 14th: 329 First Class, 285 Second Class, and 710 Third Class (Steerage).\n• Crew – 892 / Officers (not including Captain) - 7\n• Life boats - 2 Emergency Lifeboats (40 persons), 14 wooden lifeboats (65 persons) and 4 Engelhardt Collapsible (49 persons) - Total capacity 1,186 persons or 35.5% of total ships full compliment.\n• Passenger Flotation - 3,560 life belts and 48 ringbouys.\n• Cost - $7.5 million (1912 U.S. Dollars, $400 million today).
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See http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/titanic.htm for the Smithsonian's facts about the ship.
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I'm writing a story kind of like the Titanic.  Its going to be different in many ways.  Instead of it hitting an iceburg, its going to make it to its destination, but when Titanic gets there, people thought it sank because some news reporter messed up the story.
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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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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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Okay, dissecting this piece by piece:\n\n1) NO, the Titanic was not on the iceberg when it sank. The berg scraped along the side of the ship, which continued to travel for some time (I believe it was more than an hour) before going down completely, snapping in two as it did.\n\n2) No sites or theories, sorry.\n\n3) Yes, and no - in some ways, the White Star Line was responsible, but in other ways, it was not. They were pushing for a new Atlantic speed record, and so the captain didn't slow down even when he was warned of the danger of icebergs. This was his fault. \n\nHowever, what actually sank the "unsinkable" ship was this: the watertight compartments in the bottom of the ship, which SHOULD have made the ship unsinkable! When the ship scraped the berg, the FRONT compartments were breached by ice below the waterline, while the BACK compartments were not. Water flooded the front compartments, making the ship "top heavy" in the bow end. This pulled the front of the ship down. In the scenarios envisioned by the WSL, ALL the compartments would have flooded, and the ship would have continued to float because the water wouldn't have been able to get above the level of those compartments. However, they DIDN'T flood that way. That's also why the ship went down bow-first - the bow was heavier than the stern.\n\n4) I'm not aware of where the steel was obtained, but sheared rivets (the fasteners that held the ship together, cut in two by hitting the berg) recovered from the ocean floor show that there were flaws in the composition of the steel. \n\n\nPersonal observation: you might have better luck arguing that it was the WSL's fault that so many people died, as opposed to the crash itself being their fault. Why? Because:\n\n1) Not enough lifeboats\n2) Lowering half-filled lifeboats (Yes, this really happened - it wasn't just in the movie)\n3) Waiting for a long period of time before attempting to rescue any of the people who lived, but didn't make it to a lifeboat and froze in the water instead\n4) People from the lower classes were actually sealed belowdecks to keep the lifeboat stations from being swamped, and to allow the "more valuable" passengers to get off first. More than 2/3 of the ship's population was from second and third class. \n\nIf I were you, I'd check Wikipedia for articles on the Titanic, and do a basic Internet search. Try "How did the Titanic sink?" and "How was the Titanic built?" on ask.com to get good results.
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A tragedy almost equal to the Titanic's unfolded in the fog-shrouded St. Lawrence River in the spring of 1914.  Steamship Empress of Ireland, outbound from Quebec, and the Norwegian collier Storstad, steaming upriver collieded on May 29 1914.  Of the 1,477 on board, 1,012 lost their lives, including 840 passengers, eight more than had died when the Titanic sank.
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Michel Navratil, who was just three years old when the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912, died in Montpellier on Wednesday  Feb 02 2001 aged 92. (France)\nCheck out British Titanic Society They state that four women who were on the titanic are still alive, it gives their names and where they are living.
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The Titanic sank, obviously by striking the iceberg which popped a number of the ship's rivets and plates, but mainly due to the arrogance of the people of the time. They were arrogant in thinking that their monstrosity of a ship was "unsinkable" and that nothing could possibly cause its destruction. This is why the captain ignored numerous iceberg warnings from other ships. Also, those on the ship's watch at the time of the incident thought they could corner a ship of that size in just a matter of seconds. What they failed to realize is that if they had hit the iceberg head on, as they would have, the ship most likely would not have sunk. It would have been badly damaged, but would have stayed afloat. \n\nSo, it was a number of things including misguided and errant choices in the running of the ship and most obviously the striking of the iceberg in the manner in which it did that caused the ship to sink.
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Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died Saturday in Shrewsbury, Mass. She was 99.\n\nHer death was reported by Ronald E. Johnson, vice president of the Nordgren Memorial Chapel, a funeral home in Worcester, Mass.\n\nMs. Asplund, who was just 5 when she sailed on the Titanic, lost her father and three brothers, including a twin, when the ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. \n\nMs. Asplund's mother, Selma, and another brother, Felix, who was 3, also survived the sinking on the early morning of April 15, 1912.\n\nMs. Asplund shunned publicity and rarely spoke about the events.\n\nAt least two other survivors are living. They are Barbara Joyce West Dainton of Truro, England, who was 10 months old, and Elizabeth G. Dean of Southampton, England, who was 2 months old.\n\nThe Asplund family boarded the ship in Southampton as third-class passengers on their way back to Worcester from their ancestral homeland, Sweden, where they had spent several years.\n\nMs. Asplund's mother described the sinking in an interview with The Worcester Telegram shortly after she and her two children arrived in the city.\n\nSelma Asplund said the family went to the Titanic's upper deck after the ship struck the iceberg.\n\n"I could see the icebergs for a great distance around," she said. "It was cold and the little ones were cuddling close to one another and trying to keep from under the feet of the many excited people. \n\n"My little girl, Lillie, accompanied me, and my husband said 'Go ahead, we will get into one of the other boats.' He smiled as he said it."\n\nBecause the family lost all of their possessions and money, the city of Worcester held a fund-raiser and a benefit concert that together brought in about $2,000 for the surviving Asplunds.\n\nLillian Asplund never married and worked at secretarial jobs in the Worcester area most of her life. \n\nShe retired early to care for her mother, who was described as having never recovered from the disaster.\n\nSelma Asplund died on the 52nd anniversary of the sinking in 1964 at age 91. Felix Asplund died on March 1, 1983, at age 73.
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Sorry I don't know the first thing about icebergs, but hope these sites help you!\n\nhttp://www.wordplay.com/tourism/icebergs/\nhttp://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/library/pictures/gallery/ice.html\nhttp://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Rapids/4233/ijsbergen.htm\nhttp://www.natice.noaa.gov/products/iceberg/\n\nAnd for info on the Titanic see:\nhttp://www.titanic-titanic.com/icebergs.shtml
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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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I realize this will be quite difficult, but you will have to do a little more "dirty hands" research and dig up some information such as the name of the company who owned the ship, or where it was built, etc. in order to find your info.  I have seen lots of info about ship-owning families and companies, but few ship's names (except very famous ones) actually appearing in web searches.  Good luck!
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is there really going to be a titanic two
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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...