THE TITANIC ICEBERG
At 11:40PM, the lookout sounded the alarm and telephoned the bridge saying "Iceberg, right ahead. Titanic First officer William McMaster Murdoch, who was on duty at the bridge, shouted out 'Stop Engines, Hard 'a' starboard, Full Astern'. The warning came too late to avoid the iceberg and Titanic struck it 37 seconds later after the message. Titanic's architect Thomas Andrews said to Captain Edward Smith 'the ship would definitely sink and afloat for 2 or more hours'. The Titanic was designed to stay afloat with only 4 compartments flooded.
THE SINKING OF THE RMS TITANIC
The sinking of the Titanic was the worst ship collision with an iceberg and a loss to the White Star Line. US Author Morgan Robertson wrote a novel called 'Fuility' when an ocean liner named Titan hit an iceberg on her maiden voyage. The novel was written 14 years before the Titanic sank. The Titanic received 6 iceberg warnings before the collision. It took 160 minutes (2 hours and 40 minutes) for the Titanic to sink. It took 15 minutes to reach the ocean floor and speed of the Titanic sinking was 16 kph. The sea temperature was -2 Celsius and the people in the freezing water would live up to 15 - 45 minutes.
THE TITANIC ICEBERG (AFTERMATH)
After the Titanic sank, a photograph (which is on the right) was taken by a worker on the ship, S. S. Prinz Adalbert, a German ocean liner. It sailed across the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, just miles from where the Titanic sank the night before. He saw a dash of red paint on the iceberg. The chief worker, was thinking that a ship has hit an iceberg
THE WREcKAGE
The wreck of the Titanic is located 595 kilometres SSE (South South East) of Newfoundland. The wreckage is -3800 metres below the freezing sea. Between the Titanic's stern and hull (wreckage), it was 1,970 metres. More than 6000 artifacts were found, even after the Titanic sank. The Titanic reached the sea floor in just 15 minutes, sinking at a speed of 10 to 16 kp/h. The Titanic wreck was located and rediscovered, 74 years after the Titanic sank, in 1986. A 20, 320 kg section of the hull was raised in 1986.