At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the “unsinkable” R.M.S. Titanic disappeared beneath the waves, taking with her 1,500 souls. One hundred years later, new technologies have revealed the most complete and most intimate images of the famous wreck.
A torpedo from the German submarine U-20 hit the Cunard Line passenger ship RMS Lusitania at 2:10 p.m. May 7 off the coast of Ireland, and the huge vessel sinks in 18 minutes killing 1,201 who include 128 U.S. citizens, starting a wave of protest that eventually draws the United S...
On 1st September 1915 the Olympic was requisitioned by the British Government for war service as a troopship. Later she received a coat of dazzle paint designed to confuse enemy observers. Perhaps her most famous exploit of the war years was when she struck and sank a German submarine, U103...
The CEO of the doomed Titanic exploration company whose submarine imploded, killing all five people onboard including him, eerily joked ‘what could go wrong?’ just weeks before the disaster. Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate, gave an interview to St John’s Radio, a Canadian radio show ...
but people in 1943 couldn’t have known about the time-traveling Illuminati nuclear submarine that torpedoed the liner to prevent her from delivering her cargo of recovered UFO remains from the Tunguska Event, so you can excuse them from filming the sinking how they believed it to have happened...
It's possible that the light belonged to a German submarine but it has never been proven. Three years later, a German U-boat did indeed sink the luxury liner the Lusitania during World War I. Titanic Book Prediction Here's one strange Titanic coincidence that really did occur: In 1898, ...
The focus of this mission was to find the Scorpion. The Navy didn't want anyone else, like the Russians, to find the submarine. "It was very top secret," Ballard said. "And so I said, 'Well, let's tell the world I am going after the Titanic.'" ...
Of course, a viewing of the melodramatic, but technically accurate, movie from 1997 is always just a click away. The tragic story of the ship lingers on in public memory in large part thanks to James Cameron's film. Whether you go via submarine or screen, a visit to the Titanic is eas...
sixth voyage to the Mediterranean Sea to pick up casualties from Greece. On 21 November 1916, she was shaken by an explosion after hitting a mine which was placed in the Kea Channel the previous month by an Imperial German Navy submarine. She sank 55 minutes later near the island of Kea....
Create a Storyboard ▲ The Unsinkable Wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic Summary In 1912, theTitanicwas the largest, most luxurious ship the world had ever seen. Tragedy struck: theTitanichit an iceberg and rapidly sank, killing over 1,500 people. From inside a cramped submarine named Alvin, th...