LET'S CONTINUE WITH "THE TITANIC"

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THE SHIP IS SINKING!
Captain Smith, the Titanic's Captain, asked that question too:  What's wrong?
- "An iceberg, sir"
- "Close the emergency doors", said Captain Smith.
- "They are closed, sir".

Thomas Andrews had designed the Titanic with 16 compartments and 15 emergency doors.  If the Captain could close the doors, the water couldn't go into the next one.

"Stop the ship", said Captain Smith.
The Titanic stopped.  The beautiful ship stayed quiet on the black sea.
But there was water in compartments 1,2,3,4 and 5.  It was really bad.  The ship was going to sink.
Mr Andrews (the designer of the ship) was with the Captain and had said the day before that the Titanic COULDN'T SINK.  The problem was that the Titanic was safe with water in 3 or 4 compartments but with water in five compartments was not safe at all.  So Captain Smith asked Mr Andrews how long had they got and the answer was:  TWO HOURS, perhaps.

The next Captain's order was to give the passengers their life jackets and get the lifeboats ready.

In 1912, radio was very new.  Most ships had radio, but they didn't listen to it all the time.  For nearly ten minutes, no ships answered the help message from the Titanic.
At 12.25 a ship called Carpathia spoke to the Titanic. 
The message was: "This is an emergency.  We are sinking"
At once the Carpathia went towards the Titanic but it was 92 kilometres away.

Another ship called the Californian was only 16 kilometres away the Titanic but they didn't have their radio connected.
At a moment, Captain Smith decided to send up rockets into the night sky. On the Californian the ship which was nearer, didn't understand the rockets, so they did nothing.
It was a pity because if the Californian had helped the Titanic, not so many   people would  have died.

THE LIFEBOATS
The Titanic had ...

(to be continued)