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Writing.engr.psu.edu is an infromational website that provides insight on the history of the Titanic, what caused the Titanic to sink, and the effects of the disaster. This article supplies crucial information on the timeline of the ship's sinking, the mechanical failure, and the design flaws. “Causes and Effects of the Rapid Sinking of the Titanic” provides awareness to how new laws and regulations were made after the tragic sinking of the Titanic. Vicki Bassett is the writer of the article…

The RMS Titanic sank in 1912, but rose again in 1997. The film, which took a sweeping 11 Oscars home at the 1998 Academy Awards, touched the hearts of enormous audiences for its gut-wrenching love story, brilliant cinematography, and its use of strong female protagonists. The narrative is told through a female lens, and while it has many of the qualities usually seen in the romance genre, Titanic brings a new light to how female characters should be written. The exploration of gender stereotypes…

In the early evening of January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into Washington DC’s 14th Street Bridge and plunged into the Potomac River, just minutes after take-off from Washington National Airport. Only six passengers survived the crash, all of whom clung to the tail section of the plane as it sunk slowly into the freezing, ice-clogged waters. Arnold D. Williams, Jr. was one of those passengers. As rescue workers and ordinary civilians tried desperately to reach the injured and…

Melting Ice Causes Luxury Liners to Come In 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg and was sinking. There were some survivors like Margaret Brown, who helped people out. It took roughly 2 hours and 40 minutes to sink. Melting ice is luring more luxury liners throughout the North arctic area. Melting ice causes lots of problems that the people living in the arctic have to handle. Melting ice can ruin homes, make arctic animals extinct, and it will be hard to travel throughout the arctic. To…

Lusitania Disaster. Setting sail from New York harbor on May 1, 1915, the R.M.S. Lusitania began a voyage to Liverpool, England. This voyage would be her last; and the last for over 1,000 of her passengers. Of the 1,959 men, women, and children aboard, only 761 passengers would survive the voyage. While on the seas, word made it to the ship that the seas would be increasingly inhabited with German submarines the closer they got to England, so to better prepare the passengers they readied the…

“CAPTAIN WE'RE GOING TO HIT IT” the captain (F. R. M. Crozier) quickly turned the helm and released the anchor, but it was too late they crashed right into the ice. The HMS Terror was abandoned at high sea do to a wreckage into ice and was accompanied by the HMS Erebus. All 129 men on the Franklin expedition died. It was found 168 years after shipwreck in the middle of Terror bay on the Coast of King William Island in September, 2014 ,but they didn’t know it was the HMS Terror at the time until…

On April 15th, 1912 around 2 a.m. in the morning, in the Northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, the world’s biggest and most luxurious cruise line ships just had sunk. This horrific sinking of the ship is very devastating and the ship contained roughly around 2,200 passengers on board. 1,500 of the 2,200 passengers including women, men and children, and many of the crew members working for the ship had lost their lives. That is merely more than two-thirds of the passengers that died on that…

It’s early 1980s and Dr. Robert Ballard has a dream. That dream was to discover the Titanic. The depth of the Atlantic Seabed would force Dr. Ballard to go deeper than any deep-sea diver had gone before. In 1973, the ALVIN (a manned deep- ocean research submersible owned by the United States Navy) had to go through structure changes to withstand the depth necessary to reach the Titanic which was around 13,000 feet. The researchers did not have much to go on in terms of a location for the ship…

Titanic Final April 14, 1912, the day I survived the crash of the Titanic. Perhaps it could've been the last day of my life, my chances of living were over 2,000 souls and only 20 lifeboats. It all began as I found myself in the Cigar Room, I noticed people running in panic and the screams of fear. Although, I eased myself down, thinking what was going on. “Get on deck now and get a life belt, or you’ll all drown with the ship!” an officer shouted. It was from this point on that I knew my life…

Engineering Disasters One of the most famous engineers was Thomas Edison who famously stated that “ [he had] not failed, [he had discovered] 10,000 ways that did not work”. Despite Edison’s numerous failures, he eventually perfected his version of the light bulb, got it patented and proceeded to make his invention available to consumers. Edison’s approach illustrates the engineer’s ideal process, as he repeatedly tests and perfects the design of the desired result before releasing the result to…