Summary Of Titanic Voices From The Disaster

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On April 14, 2017, 1,503 people died due to one tragic accident and authors made thousands of dollar by writing about it. This accident happened when the Titanic crashed into an iceberg. Deborah Hopkinson was one of those authors. She wrote the book Titanic Voices From the Disaster, but it wasn’t very fascinating. It would’ve been better if she included more details about the lifeboats. She also could’ve said more about how cold the water was when the Titanic sank. Everyone who couldn’t get on a lifeboat had to stay in the water. All, but one, died in the water. Including more facts about the lifeboats and the temperature of the ocean would’ve made Titanic Voices From the Disaster more interesting. The lifeboats definitely could’ve made this book more interesting. Something interesting that should’ve been included in the book is the order that the lifeboats were released. They were randomly released, and they were not in numerical order. They went out to sea in this …show more content…
Since they did not have enough lifeboats for everyone on the ship, a lot of people drowned or died from hypothermia. The water was about 28 degrees Fahrenheit. The way that water can do below freezing without being frozen is salt. Salt doesn’t make the water colder, but it allows the water to be colder without being frozen. It lowers the freezing point of the water. Hopkins doesn’t give the science behind this. The presence of salt makes it harder for the hydrogen and oxygen molecules to bond together. The salt molecules get in their way and drop the freezing point by a few degrees. The average freezing rate for an ocean is around 28-degrees. When the people died of hypothermia it was because they were standing in 28-degree water that was so close to freezing. This shocking information would’ve made the Titanic Voices From the Disaster book more