On December 19, 1997, the American Twentieth Century Fox Film Company and Paramount Pictures produced a romance film, and the famous director James Cameron directed the work "Titanic" released in the United States, the film is based on the 1912 Titanic cruise ship known as "the miracle of the world's industrial history" on its first set sail and the disaster of the sinking of the iceberg.
It tells the touching story of the poor painter Jack and the aristocratic woman Rose who meet on a cruise ship and fall in love, and in the moment of life and death, Jack finally chooses to give up the opportunity to survive to Rose.
The film received a huge response as soon as it was released, and won many awards such as Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing at the 70th Academy Awards in 1998. The Titanic in the real world, which was discovered in 1985, has not been salvaged since it was asleep at the bottom of the sea.
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The Titanic was built by the Harland Wolf Shipyard under the British White Star Shipping Company, and the shipyard general manager Thomas Andrew was responsible for the ship design, the Titanic was 269.06 meters long, 28.59 meters wide, with a displacement of more than 50,000 tons and a maximum capacity of 3,500 people, which was the largest passenger ship at that time, and was later hailed as "a miracle in the history of world industry".
As everyone knows, during the construction of the Titanic, accidents occurred frequently, and many people had accidents due to management and technical deficiencies. According to historical records, more than 15,000 craftsmen were involved in the construction of the ship, more than 240 people were injured, and 9 people died in accidents.
With the sweat and blood of craftsmen, the world-famous cruise ship finally ended construction and officially set sail for New York on 10 April 1912 at the Ocean Terminal in the Port of Southampton, unfortunately the first and last time.
At 7:00 p.m. on April 14, 1912, the Titanic set off again after a brief stop in a French port, never to return, and at 23:40 that night, the lookout found the iceberg and immediately informed the captain, but it was too late to change the direction of travel, and within a minute, the Titanic collided with the iceberg, and more than 7,000 tons of sea water rushed into the hull.
At 00:15, the crew of the Titanic began preparing to evacuate the women and children, while sending a distress signal to the surrounding ships.
Within two hours and forty minutes, the Titanic was completely submerged by the sea, and of the 2,224 crew and passengers carried on board, more than 1,500 people were killed, of which only 333 bodies were recovered.
What is even more shameful is that ship designer Thomas Andrew boarded the Titanic with a gifted ticket No.112050 after completing the pinnacle of his career, and eventually died in the sinking accident, leaving no bones.
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For this shipwreck disaster, there are many opinions, and there are many opinions, countless experts have conducted research and analysis on the causes of the accident, and there are still various conjectures, which can be roughly divided into two factions according to whether the shipwreck is the real Titanic.
Some people who have no objection to the fact that the shipwreck is the Titanic believe that the designers at that time added a lot of sulfur to it in order to enhance the strength of the hull steel, and the toughness of the steel was reduced, resulting in the Titanic not having good toughness after being hit to ease the hull and break more easily.
Another group believes that the shipwreck is not the Titanic, but the sister ship Olympic, which looks and decorates almost exactly the same as the Titanic, and that the tragedy is not a natural disaster, but a conspiracy planned by the British White Star Company to defraud the insurance company of huge premiums to help the company survive the difficult business difficulties.
However, the claim that the shipwreck was the Olympic is also very convincing, according to the data, although the Olympic is a sister ship of the Titanic, the appearance is close, but the internal facilities and hull structure are still very different from the latter.
Moreover, during the 24 years of service on the Olympic, there were many collisions at sea, but never sunk, and even called up by the British government to serve as a troop carrier during World War I, which was very different from the fate of the Titanic.
British scholar Newton claims to have found countless pieces of evidence that the shipwrecked was not the Titanic, and suspiciously, the accident report states that there is not even a single binocular on board to help the crew make effective observations.
The boss of the White Star Company, who was scheduled to take this cruise ship, also canceled the trip for some undisclosed unexpected reason, and various matters have further strengthened the conspiracy conclusion of relevant scholars about the accident.
But in any case, the lives lost are irreparable, they are fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, sons, daughters, the most innocent victims.
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The remains of the Titanic were first discovered in 1985 and have hibernated for more than a hundred years on the atlantic ocean floor, about 600 kilometres off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, without salvage.
It is not that people do not have the will to salvage, but after many investigations and studies, scientists have found that after a long period of sea immersion, the shipwreck has been seriously corroded, whether it is the hull or the internal objects, has become very fragile, any contact with external forces may make the long-sleeping cruise ship disappear, it is no longer possible to carry out salvage work, even touch can not touch.
More scientists issued a statement after the investigation that the Titanic would disappear completely within a decade.
Now that the remains of the Titanic have been protected by the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organization, what scientists can do is to dive into the deep sea of nearly four thousand meters many times, leave the last image for this brilliant luxury passenger boat, and try to slow down the corrosion of the sea, leaving more records about this accident for future generations, and digitally passing on the memory of the Titanic.
The titanic's hull remains have grown many algae and seagrass, which has become the habitat of many marine life, where fish feed, multiply, play and grow, day after day, year after year.
Life and death are staged here, the amorous and ruthless nature is so vividly embodied, the thousands of people who lost their lives in the shipwreck accident cannot be recovered, their bodies drifted in the ocean, sinking, decomposing, returning to heaven and earth, living to death, in the deep invisible seabed, the Titanic achieved another sense of immortality.
It is said that after the whale dies in the ocean, the carcass will slowly sink to the bottom of the sea, and the carcass of a whale can support a set of ecological circulation system dominated by decomposers for a hundred years and become part of the deep-sea ecosystem, and biologists have given a beautiful name to this process - whale fall.
The sinking of the Titanic is a whale fall of modern industry, it is destined to sleep forever on the seabed, until it completely disappears, and in the world of posterity, the memory of the Titanic will continue to circulate in the form of images, movies, and poems, and will no longer fade away.