it took three years to build in less than three hours to sink the most iconic shipwreck in history the Titanic held as the most beautiful and luxurious boat of her time the Titanic set sail once and for all from Southampton England to New York City on April 10th 1912 she weighed a record-breaking 46,000 tons and was built by some 15,000 people ironically the ship boasted many of the best safety features of its day a prestigious journal the shipbuilder magazine called the Titanic practically unsinkable the popular opinion quickly grew that the Titanic was indestructible an ominous
consequence of this overconfidence during its voyage there were no passenger safety drills to give instructions on where to go or which lifeboats aboard in case of emergency but there weren't enough lifeboats to begin with only 20 available which was enough to carry about half of the total passengers and crew Bruce Ismay the owner thought having 64 lifeboats enough for everyone on board would make the ship look too cluttered this emphasis on elegance didn't stop with Titanic's outward appearance inside when top-notch luxuries the grand staircase running the height of six days a heated swimming pool a
state-of-the-art gym for restaurants and two barber shops so how much did the Titanic cost about seven point five million dollars at the time or over four hundred million dollars today now over a hundred years later the Titanic has been hidden in darkness lying over 12,000 feet deep in the Atlantic Ocean so how exactly did she sing we do know that on April 14 1912 the boat entered a region of icebergs six warning messages were sent to Captain Edward John Smith he adjusted Titanic's course southward but didn't slow down by the time lookouts spotted an iceberg
it was too late the official 1912 accident report suggests that the iceberg tore a gigantic 300-foot gash on the ship's starboard side ripping over 1/3 of her entire hole but eyewitnesses say it took over two hours to sink which confuses experts who believed a hole that size would have caused the Titanic to sink much faster investigations confirm that the iceberg created smaller punctures below the waterline and not a large gash which were enough to trigger the tragedy in 1985 using state-of-the-art sonar National Geographic Explorer Robert Ballard in French oceanographer Jean Louie misho found the infamous
shipwreck about 400 miles southeast of Newfoundland extensive surveys have located artifacts that reveal the human side of the tragedy a notebook was found 780 feet from the stern it belonged to a 17-year old passenger pencil writing that's still legible with new technology we can see and study the Titanic like never before which is good because our fascination in this tragedy has not relaxed a bit perhaps it's the iconic tale of the Titanic that's truly unseen [Music]
