Why Is The Titanic Wrong

The Titanic was the largest ship that could float in 1912 (Titanic Inquiry:1912). Everything was fine in the beginning when the ship set sail (Remains of the RMS Titanic Discovered). People called the ship “unsinkable” (Wels 52). They later found out that wasn’t true. The ship hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912 and sank the next day. With about fifty-six days of searching the wreck of the Titanic was finally found (Remains of the RMS Titanic Discovered). Captain E.J. Smith was the commander of the so called “unsinkable” ship, the Titanic. The Titanic was as tall as an eleven-story building and weighed 46,328 tons. The ship also had eight decks (Titanic Inquiry:1912). This enormous ship could carry up to 3,547 passengers (Wels 52). Even though

Everything was going great until April 13th at 11:40 P.M. when the ship came upon a large piece of ice that it wasn’t able to pass (Remains of the RMS Titanic Discovered). The ship glided against the iceberg on April 14th (Titanic). After this happened, stewards told everyone that the ship would just be delayed two hours which made everyone believe that the ship was okay (Wels 88). But soon everyone realized that the stewards were wrong because the iceberg had actually made a three hundred foot hole in the hull of the ship (Remains of the RMS Titanic Discovered). When this was realized, women and children started boarding the lifeboats while men were not allowed onto a lifeboat unless no women or children were in sight. Sadly, most of the lifeboats were not filled to capacity. The bow of the ship dipped into the water at 1:15 A.M. on April 15th(Wells 91-96). While the ship was sinking the Carpathia, a nearby ship, was on its way to the Titanic to help the survivors (Remains of the RMS Titanic Discovered). On April 15th around 2:20 A.M. the ship finally sank (Titanic). Out of the two thousand passengers and crew on the ship, more than fifteen hundred people died and about seven hundred five actually survived (Remains of the RMS Titanic

Robert Ballard on September 1st, 1985 (Titanic Inquiry:1912). They searched for nearly three months before finding the ship. It was found three hundred fifty miles away from the coast of Nova Scotia in the North Atlantic and about two and a half miles under the ocean (Remains of the RMS Titanic Discovered). The first sonar images were of a boiler. The sonar images also showed that the iceberg actually only left six thin slashes in the hull of the ship instead of a three hundred foot long hole (Wels 142). Many ideas came up on how to recover the Titanic. Most of these ideas were turned away due to expenses. Everyone realized that recovering the ship was too dangerous and risky (Wels 110-111). Instead of rescuing the ship, the ANGUS (Acoustically Navigated Geophysical Underwater Survey) was sent down and it took about twelve thousand pictures ( Wels 121). Later, the Nautile was sent down to retrieve items from the wreckage site. The Nautile had ninety-six completed trips to the Titanic’s wreck. Also, it was able to get about eighteen hundred objects from the site. Some of the objects recovered were: two telegraphs, a chandelier, compass, a wheel pedestal, one of the ship’s bells, a porthole, and a window (Wels 161). When artifacts were recovered, they had to be treated quickly because touching the air could cause the objects to crumble Wels