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It was the day April 15, 1912, that the Titanic met its end at the hands of an

iceberg. They were sailing for New York, when the boat crashed into an iceberg. The
Titanic, the unsinkable, it was called, was considered to be impervious. The people
believed it would never sink, that the bottom of the sea floor would never claim this
beast of a ship. But people can be incompetent, prideful, and worst of all, wrong.
Except some mistakes drag lives down with them, innocent lives, underserving of
the fate those actions caused them. It was 2:20 in the morning when it happened.
Dawn had not yet spread her rose colored shroud and the passengers slept
unaware, blissfully unaware of the horror that awaited them.
This ship, deemed unsinkable, was created by William Pirrie and was created
in the city of Belfast, Ireland. The ship was built with 16 watertight compartments.
These compartments would trap the water so that the ship remained buoyant. For
that feature, it was deemed unsinkable. But the truth was, Mother Nature bats last.
And when she bats, there isnt much that can stand against her power. After all, the
Titanic stood in her waters, built by her resources. Being unsinkable was like saying
that humans were beyond the reach of death. It was almost like the Titanic was
asking for something to come and sink it. It was defying nature.
When the Titanic hit an iceberg, water tight compartments were filled. The
crucial mistake was, the tops werent sealed. The iceberg destroyed 5 compartments
on impact. Compartment after compartment was filled. The Titanic began to lean
back on its bow while the stern sank. The boat tipped to an almost vertical angle.
People most likely screamed in horror as the whole ship was being slowly rent
asunder.
The Titanic sent out signals of distress. If no help came, nearly everything
would be killed. And the horror was, there werent enough lifeboats to save them all.
In their hubris, they thought that the Titanic would never need lifeboats. These were
lifeboats meant for other boats in need. Because nobody on the Titanic thought they
would need to be saved. But every hero has its day. The ship, the Californian, no
more than 20 miles away from the Titanic, did not hear their distress signal because
their radio operator was off duty. If only the man had been on duty. The savior of the
survivors was the Carpathia, a liner who had heard the Titanics distress signal. The
suvivors most likely were shocked, shivering, and shaken. What it must have been
like to be aboard that ship as it sank, people may not know. What they do no is that
the even is remembered with sighs, tears, and wistful expressions. These
expressions stem from regret.
Regret from their failures to save the souls. It was a mistake that could have
been easily prevented. It was a Titanic failure indeed. It seems the name of the
ship was to mock the event. It was like it was to mock the people for their arrogance,
ignorance, and their incompetency. Pride truly can be a killer sometimes. Nobody
wanted those people to get hurt, nobody wanted to die that day the Titanic sailed to
its unforeseen death. The interconnection of events was like a spider web, stretching
out across the world. This web of connection is like a pond, one stone dropped sends
ripples across everything.
Then so many lives would not have been lost. But their sacrifice was not in vain.
Their deaths let other ships know that a change was needed. Lifeboat drills were
made all ships had lifeboats for more than enough people. Iceberg patrols were
established, and for a time, the wound of the Titanic seemed to be healing. But
emotions are not healed so easily. For months they can fester. The people
devastated by the Titanic grieved for their lost ones. The lost ones did not get a
priest to stand over their tomb, saying the funeral rites that would usher them to the
gates of heaven. There was no funeral, no coffin, no cremation or any rite of funeral.
They lived in the bottom of the sea, the depths their grave. The seafloor was
their coffin, the fish their mourners, the decomposers their caretakers. While the sea
may not be a gentle and forgiving place, the victims of the Titanic would rest
beneath the sea, their tomb in the depths undisturbed. The Titanic was a
monumental success and failure. The sinking was a moment of horror, a moment of
rectification of hubris, a moment of death. It could have been prevented, but
sometimes humanity needs a bucket of ice water thrown on them to wake them up
from their dream. In the end, the Titanic will be forever remembered for its sinking,
the one moment where the unsinkable sank. Rest in peace, Titanic, rest in peace.

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