How Did The Titanic Affect The World

The Titanic was completely underwater around 2:20 a.m. on April 15. Cunard's Carpathia got the stress call at midnight and went around and found the lifeboats containing the few 705 survivors, about 1,517 people died that day. The ship's remains lay 2.5 miles on the ocean floor. Life changing events, like the Titanic, affected people personally and culturally.

The Titanic also affected us personally By the time Margaret Tobin Brown boarded Titanic at Cherbourg, France, she had already made a significant impact in the world. She and her daughter Helen, who was a student at the Sorbonne, had been traveling throughout Europe and were staying with the John Jacob Astor party in Cairo, Egypt, when Margaret received word that her first grandndchild, Lawrence Palmer Brown, Jr., was ill. She decided to leave for New York immediately, and booked passage on the earliest ship: Titanic. At the last minute Helen decided to stay behind in London. Due to her quick decision, very few
April 14th the look out saw the giant iceberg (Imagine) and phoned the captain. The engines got reversed and the ship started to turn the iceberg just barely hit the Titanic leaving a 300 foot gash on the side of the boat, flooding six compartments. In a little over two hours, the Titanic filled with water. The Titanic's horrifying last moments, with its stern soaring high into the air before it cracked in two and disappeared, into the depth of the ocean, a popular memory. "The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. Its the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it." -Eva Hart, Titanic