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The Titanic was one of the most famous ships in history due to the incredible and impressive wreck that she suffered on her first voyage after being presented as one of the safest and most majestic ships in the world. planet. The Titanic began her first and only voyage on April 10, 1912 from the English city of Southampton to shipwreck only four days later, on April 14 of the same year, in the middle of the ocean Atlantic as a result of a collision with a gigantic iceberg.

Iconic luxury ship that sinks on her first voyage after colliding with an iceberg

The Titanic, as her name implies, sought to become the largest and most impressive ship in history, a goal that she achieved by having space for more than three thousand people on board. The shipwreck is often blamed on the bad building of the ship when in fact it was the lack of lifeguards and relief items that led to the death of more than fifteen hundred of those people who were traveling on the ship. The designers and builders of the Titanic did not contemplate as a true possibility the eventual situation of shipwreck and total collapse, for which the means of aid were scarce and not appropriate.

The absence of security measures on board were the cause of a tragedy that could have been avoided

She incredibly she had lifeboats for about 1,178 passengers, a little more than half of those who traveled. Of course, the news of her shipwreck revealed these very serious shortcomings in terms of safety and it showed that it was only a luxurious boat but that it did not have the basic security measures.

Although the lives lost there are irretrievable and irreparable, the Titanic marked a before and after in matters of maritime security and thus it is that after the shipwreck of it the security measures on board were increased and it was also created a agreement that it governs to date and that it has the mission of procuring and just guaranteeing the safety of the passengers of the boats.

Luxury services and spaces

In addition to her size, the Titanic stood out in her time for the richness and luxury of its construction as well as its decoration. She had on board a gym, a swimming pool, luxurious restaurants, luxurious cabins for those who traveled in the first class of the ship, a telegraphy station that tourists and crew could use, to name a few of its fantastic comforts of it.

It could be considered as a predecessor of current cruises because it had numerous services and spaces to be enjoyed (mostly) by passengers from social class high (although people from resources humbler in him). The main objective of this situation was to provide passengers with a trip that, in addition to being safe, was unforgettable.

The accident

On the night of April 14, 1912, the Titanic received numerous warnings about the presence of large masses of icebergs in the ocean but both the captain Edward John Smith as those in charge of the radios and message systems, downplayed the warnings because the waters were calm and calm. At midnight, the ship collided on one side of it with a gigantic iceberg, which caused damage of such magnitude that the ship had to stop in the middle of the ocean. Forty hours later, and in the absence of immediate assistance from the nearest ships, the ship was sank in the bow of it, and then split in the middle and end up sinking completely in the middle of the ocean Atlantic. It's horrible tragedy it allowed only about 700 people to board the wreckers, leaving about 1,500 more shipwrecked in the freezing ocean.

Samples with original objects from the ship and films about the Titanic

The remains of the Titanic were discovered in September 1985 by the oceanographer American Robert Ballard, at a depth of almost four thousand meters, well at the bottom of the ocean North Atlantic. Those remains found showed the damage suffered and some objects could be rescued that later became part of many exhibitions around the world.

Undoubtedly the Titanic is the most famous ship in world history and in the explosion of her fame we cannot ignore the influence of the film directed by James Cameron in 1997, and starring Leo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet.

Through this mega production we were able to appreciate not only the luxury and the imposing size of this boat but also that in that first and only trip the richest people of that time shared a dwelling with many Irish, British and Scandinavian immigrants of very few resources.

Precisely the axis of the story tells the story of love between an upper class girl with one of those young and poor immigrants.