Titanic still rocking after 100 years!

Titanic still rocking after 100 years!

Ever wondered where our obsession for great disaster stories comes from? It began a century ago, on an unsinkable ship Presumed where terrible in just 160 minutes 1,500 souls in the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean disappeared and the orchestra, which played
on; triumph, tragedy, courage and cowardice. These are the ingredients of almost biblical story of the sinking Titanic on that fateful April 15, 1912. The tragedy of the luxury steamship, therefore, like all great stories of our time, timeless.

The 269 meter long steamship RMS Titanic, the world’s largest and most luxurious passenger ship of that time, departed on 11 April from the Irish Queenstown to New York with 2,224 passengers and crew, 60,000 pounds of meat and fish, 800 pounds of ice, 400
asparagus creation and … only 20 lifeboats.

On 14 April at 23.40 enter the Titanic hits an iceberg. 2.20 went to his ship in the dark Atlantic Ocean and 818 were passengers, including some of America’s richest businessmen, and 696 crew members. Only 710 people survived.

Macabre form of entertainment

Nobody ever thought that the Titanic was sinking. "Even God could not sink the ship", the captain of the Titanic, Edward John Smith, said. After all, the Titanic was ‘unsinkable’ Presumed, a term that later would lead a private life. The original description
was "practically unsinkable" and appeared in obscure magazine engineers.

Of course there were earlier disasters before, but this was more than news, it was a macabre form of entertainment. According to survivor Lawrence Beesley was the disaster in the media even more dramatic than that proposed in fact the case.

In his book ‘Loss of the SS Titanic, he writes: "It is no exaggeration when I say that those who peacefully at home on the disaster read more about basket were a horror feeling than the people who actually stood on the deck and the ship did sink . "According
to Beesley was the feeling of fear among the passengers very slowly due to lack of danger signals.

From heroic to despicable

Stories had been circulating about heroic wealthy that travelled in first class and their lives for their wives and children. Yet figures show that the poorer one was the less chance he had to survive. Thus, 60 percent of first-class travellers survive the
disaster, the second-class passengers survived barely 42 percent and 25 percent from the third grade could tell the story.

In the first decades after the disaster was not a word about the death toll among the various classes. It was only when the book "A Night to Remember" by Walter Lord in 1955, that the theme of the rigid class inequalities in the Titanic was cited. And by
the time the Oscar-winning film by James Cameron in 1997 in the cinemas came, some ‘helpful rich’ are portrayed as vile egotists. Myth

Was the Titanic sank during its third or fourth crossing, then had the story – how bad it may sound – much of its lost grandeur. But the story of the Titanic really special is that much of what we have heard is actually true. The stories were confirmed by
the survivors. So Ben Guggenheim actually inaugurated in evening dress, together with his servant to death with a glass of whiskey in his hand and saying, ‘We’ve dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen and crew actually fired shots
to prevent the men to climb aboard the lifeboats.

Until today, the Titanic big business thanks to feature films, books, songs, poetry and exhibitions. Tourists pay thousands of dollars to the voyage of the Titanic about to do or deal with Russian submarines to the watery grave of the ship to dive and the
100th anniversary of the accident which kindles appeal only to.

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Posted by Fahad Zafar on Apr 13 2012. Filed under Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry