READING "TITANIC"

The Titanic was the most famous ship in history.  But what really happened to it on that terrible April night in the North Atlantic?  Why did it hit an iceberg?  Why did it sink?  Why did more than one thousand people die?
This is the true story and gives some of the answers.

1.- UNDER THE SEA

"There it is!"
"Where"
"Look! Over there,  It's a big ship!
It was 1 September 1985.  Some American and French sailors were on a ship in the North Atlantic.
There was a camera in the water behind the ship.  On this camera, they could see a ship, under water.
The ship was a long way down, 3,800 metres under them.  Fish went in and out.  It was an enormous, old ship.
"It's the Titanic!" the sailors shouted.
They were happy to have found it!

But what was the Titanic?

2.- THE BIGGEST SHIP IN THE WORLD.
Thousands of people made the Titanic.  They made it in 1912, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.  Its weight was 25,000 tons.  It could go at 45 kilometres an hour.  It was the fastest ship in the world!

The Titanic was really beautiful.  The rooms for the first class were like rooms in a very expensive hotel.
The rooms for the second class passengers were very nice too.  They were better than other first class rooms on most ships.

Unfortunately, there were a lot of third class passengers on the Titanic.
These people weren't rich.  They were workers from Ireland or England who wanted to live in America.  They had very little rooms, on E Deck.

One of the first class passengers was Thomas Andrews who was the designer of the Titanic and who said that " the ship could never sink!"

2,- ICEBERG!

On April 10, 1912, ...
(To be continued)