These included watertight compartments and watertight doors the crew could close remotely. This gave the ship a reputation for being "unsinkable" at the time of its maiden voyage. The Ship Encounters the Iceberg On the night of April 14, 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg in the frigid ...
Lord Pirrie: The Overseer William James Pirrie, born in Quebec, Canada, was the Chairman of Harland and Wolff and uncle to Thomas Andrews. His role in the Titanic’s design included: Overall supervision of the Olympic Class ships’ design Involvement in key decisions, including lifeboat numbers...
The submersible was designed with life support to sustain five crew members for 96 hours. On Thursday, the Coast Guard said it found debris on the ocean floor that was consistent with "catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber," roughly 1,600 feet from the Titanic wr...
The search is continuing to find the submersible that lost contact near the wreck of the Titanic. The vessel was used to take people to see the wreck of the Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean. OceanGate Expeditions said it was "exploring and mobilising all options to bring the crew back to safe...
Thirty years ago, Bob Ballard discovered the wreck of the Titanic. He could have stopped there. Yet today, at seventy-three, he remains the world's most vigorous ocean explorer.
the Californian was about 30 kilometers north of the Titanic.When the Californian saw the iceberg,it stopped.It also sent a radio message to warn other ships in the area.At about 11:15,the Californian 's radio operator turned off the radio,and went to bed.The Titanic sent a message ...
Nargeolet first voyaged to the Titanic wreck in 1987, two years after its discovery 370 miles southeast of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic Ocean "Decedent Nargeolet may have died doing what he loved to do, but his death—and the deaths of the other Titan crew members—was...
The final days of master illusionist Harry Houdini's life are still shrouded in mystery, with a conspiracy lurking behind the curtain of his last act.
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