Original & full essay: https://thebigarticlewriter.wixsite.com/mywork/post/the-demise-of-titanic-a-movie-that-blows-your-mind
{O/C} {In our last story tonight}
Do you still remember the captivating and super tragic movie Titanic?
Well, this year marked the 110th anniversary of Titanic's largely avoidable demise, and we are compelled to find out why so many perished when they could have been saved.
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Built in Ireland, the glamorous Titanic set sail on April 10th, 1912 as resplendent and ecstatic passengers waved goodbye to those seeing them off, departing Southampton in England just eight days following its completion.
It was the biggest vessel afloat, ironically deemed "unsinkable" with its four unmistakable smokestacks.
The ship was slated to arrive in New York on its maiden voyage. But 1,500 out of the 2,200 souls on board never got to appreciate the sublime beauty of the Statue of Liberty.
This, due in great part to colliding with the iceberg that made its sinking ineluctable.
{Soundbite} All this will be at the bottom of the Atlantic.
History reveals that passengers, quite literally, had to throw their friends under the bus just in order to not go down with the ship which even rats were abandoning.
1,000 knifes stabbed the 1,500 languishing in the penetrating cold and pain of the North Atlantic, waiting for the selfish on lifeboats to come back when only one did so.
It was discovered that some critical lifeboats were removed from the deck, with the ship's designer citing a cluttered deck as the sole reason.
But that morphed into a significant and largely avoidable loss of life. So, a multitude of selfless men subjugated themselves to the needy who had a bright future ahead of them.
Indeed, there were those lucky few who were rescued from the icy water safe and sound. But only a handful of the 1,500. The bulk of them perished, consumed by the satanic water and sheer darkness that accompanied the passengers as the once gigantic vessel began plunging towards the bottom of the Atlantic.
Recently, explorers found the hull of Titanic's shipwreck sustaining damage because of brine and metal-consuming bacteria.
The real Titanic from which shipmakers are trying to take a page will eventually be rendered an intangible part of history is nothing is done to salvage the "unsinkable."
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