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CAGE? http://www.titanicfacts.net/titanic-sinking.html. R.M.S. TITANIC. Titanic Theme. SAILED: April 10, 1912 SANK: North Atlantic on April 15, 1912 DEATHS: more than 1,500 CARRIED: 2,240 passengers & crew 20 Lifeboats = 1,178 possible passengers 706 passengers and crew were saved.

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  1. CAGE? • http://www.titanicfacts.net/titanic-sinking.html

  2. R.M.S. TITANIC Titanic Theme

  3. SAILED: April 10, 1912 • SANK: North Atlantic on April 15, 1912 • DEATHS: more than 1,500 • CARRIED: 2,240 passengers & crew • 20 Lifeboats = 1,178 possible passengers • 706 passengers and crew were saved

  4. Titanic’s Voyage • Bodies?

  5. CREW & PASSENGERSTitanic Stats • 882 feet 9 inches long, 92 feet 6 inches wide • 46,329 tons or 103,575,360 pounds • Majority of passengers were third class

  6. WHO BUILT THE TITANIC • British registered ship in White Star Line owned by US company • Built by HARLAND AND WOLF In Belfast, Ireland

  7. Found by Robert Ballard in 1985 • 2.5 miles deep (12,500 feet) • 350 Nautical miles off coast of Newfoundland, Canada • Was broken in two –previously thought it was intact

  8. The weak steel and rivets were believed to be the demise of the Titanic

  9. WHY UNSINKABLE?reason start at 1:15 • For years ships used water tight compartments to limit flooding

  10. BULKHEADS • Walls that create water tight compartments

  11. SO WHAT SUNK THE TITANIC • 6 – number of warnings Titanic received before collision • 30 sec. time between first sighting and collision • Iceburg

  12. Brushing iceberg caused pressure on plates making them buckle Total area affected was only some 12 square feet - but, continued over 250 feet of the hull. Water rushed in at a rate of 400tons/min

  13. This may be the actual iceberg responsible for sinking Titanic. The photo was taken in the vicinity where Titanic reportedly struck the iceberg. Compared to others, the iceberg that Titanic hit was fairly small. Titanic survivors estimate that its height was about 100 feet above the water. It is estimated that the iceberg extended 500 feet below the surface.

  14. This photograph taken by another boat in mid-April 1912 shows the icy site where Titanic struck the iceberg.

  15. Bulkheads – Titanic had 16 • Titanic would stay afloat if any two or the first four compartments flooded. • 6 forward bulkheads flooded flooding then and now

  16. 160 min. time to take to sink • Survivors Account

  17. 58 miles – distance of the rescue vessel Carpathia at time of distress call

  18. BULKHEADS • JackGrand Staircase

  19. Movie Sinking scene • Cameron New Theory of sinking • BANANA THEORY

  20. -2oC = 28oF • 15-45 min, estimated maximum survival in water

  21. 5-10 minutes estimated time the two major sections took to reach bottom

  22. Bow – Front • Stern – Back • Aft – direction towards the back • Starboard – right of boat looking forward • Port – left of boat looking forward

  23. Double Hull The design of the oil tankers includes a 2.7-meter double-hull separation that will withstand the extremes of weather and water that occur off the coast of Alaska.

  24. RMS stands for Royal Mail Steamer. RMS, in formal terms, means "Royal Merchant Ship". However, the dual meaning was also "Royal Mail Steamer", because the Titanic carried mail under the auspices of His Majesty's postal authorities. At that time, all ships, military and civilian, that were under the British flag carried the distinction of "R.M.S." This, in effect, gave the ship the protection of the British Crown. An attack on an R.M.S. was considered an attack on the crown and an act of war.

  25. Originally, the Titanic's design only included 3 funnels (smokestacks). The after most funnel (towards stern) was added to make the Titanic look more impressive-it gave the feeling of "power and grace". It only functioned as an air vent.

  26. 12 square feet meant more flooding than the pumps could handle - a ton every five seconds.  It was spread over the first five watertight compartments, plus leakage into the sixth up from the floor plates.  Had it only been the first four compartments, they would have filled up to the waterline and it would have stopped there.

  27. After the first two, the bulkheads only went up to "E" deck (highlighted by the dark line), a just 10' above the  waterline.  Filling even the first five compartments meant that the bow would be depressed enough for the fifth bulkhead to go below the waterline, spilling water into the sixth compartment, then the seventh, and so on.  Like many engineering disasters, their failure was not of calculation, but of imagination - they just didn't imagine this failure mode.

  28. The red lines show how much higher these bulkheads were taken in the sister ships, Olympic and Britannic - after the disaster.  It wasn't so much the cost of building them that was a problem - it was that they made movement about the ship more difficult for passengers and serving stewards alike.

  29. The Titanic is about as long as the Empire State building is tall.

  30. There were 13 couples on board celebrating their Honeymoons. • Captain Smith was planning to retire after Titanic's maiden voyage. • The Titanic had 4 elevators (3 in First class and 1 in Second class). • At the time, Titanic's whistles were the largest ever made. • Titanic's whistles could be heard from a distance of 11 miles. • The Titanic carried 900 tons of baggage and freight. • The Titanic used 14,000 gallons of drinking water every 24 hours. • Coal consumption per day: 825 tons.

  31. The Titanic carried a total of 20 lifeboats. • The total capacity of all 20 lifeboats was 1,178 people. This was obviously not enough lifeboats to save all the 2201 people on board the Titanic. If every lifeboat left the Titanic filled to maximum capacity, 1,023 persons would have been left behind. • Only 711persons were rescued and 1490 died. • The Titanic tragedy prompted laws requiring that ships carry enough lifeboats for all passengers and crew.

  32. IMPACT SOLAS - Safety of Life at Sea The Titanic disaster led to the convening of the first International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) in London, November 12, 1913 Purpose is that ships comply with minimum safety standards in construction, equipment and operation.

  33. 3 changes took place: 1. Ships must carry enough lifeboats for all passengers and crew.

  34. Radio Act of 1912 stated: 2. radio communication must be operated 24 hours along with a secondary power supply

  35. 3. International Ice Patrol agency of the United States Coast Guard that to the present day monitors and reports on the location of North Atlantic Ocean icebergs that could pose a threat to transatlantic sea traffic

  36. Concordia • now what?

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