The Sinking of the Titanic

Sinking of the Titanic

The Titanic was constructed on March 31 of 1909, the ship weighed 52.310 tons.

The sinking of the Titanic occurred on the night and during the morning of the 15 April, 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean. On the 14 April the Titanic had 2.224 passengers on board when it struck an iceberg.

On 15 April,1500 people died drowned, others died frozen because of the low temperatures and others fell of the ship. The ship suffered a glancing blow that breckled its starboard side and opened five of its sixteen compartments to the sea. Then the Titanic sank in less than three hours. 710 people survived because they went away with the boats and the rest died.

We could interview a person that was in the catastrophe and survived. We asked these questions:

    What were you doing when the catastrophe happened?

During the catastrophe I was dinning.

·       What did you feel during the catastrophe?

I was frightened and sad during the catastrophe because all the people was shouting and running, and I saw a lot of people suffering and dying.

·       How did you survive?

I went away withon a boat, I managed to get in the boat because when some people were getting in a boat I jumped in it.