Why did the unsinkable Titanic die on its maiden voyage?

James Cameron, a famous Canadian director, said in an interview that he was actually very upset when he filmed Titanic because the cost of the film was too high. It cost nearly $200 million to make the whole film. At that time, no one was even optimistic about the film, and even the director Cameron once doubted whether he could recover the cost.

Contrary to Cameron's expectation, the film Titanic received a very good response and even quickly became popular all over the world. 1997, the disaster film Titanic, directed by Cameron and starring Leonardo and Winslet, was officially released in the world, which not only won the total box office of1800 million US dollars, but also won the best film award and the best director award of the 70th Academy Awards 1 1, which not only recovered.

Today, the love disaster film Titanic still occupies an unshakable position in the hearts of fans. Its douban score is as high as 9.4, exceeding 99% of romantic films and 98% of disaster films.

Among them, apart from the beautiful love between poor painter Jack and aristocratic woman Ruth, the sunken Titanic left a deep impression on the audience.

The Titanic cruise ship is real in history. Today, we will tell the story of the Titanic cruise ship.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Britain, which experienced the Western bourgeois revolution and three industrial revolutions, made great accumulation in economic development and scientific and technological development. The development of shipbuilding industry needed strong technical support at that time and now. At that time, Britain had an absolute position in shipbuilding technology In order to meet the needs of nobles who have both money and time, British cruise companies have made more and more large luxury cruise ships and developed new cruise ships. Traveling by cruise has gradually become a new fashion for nobles. The Titanic cruise ship that we are going to talk about today came into being under this background.

Titanic, also known as Titanic, started construction at Harlan and Wolf Shipyards on March 3 1, 1909. It is an Olympic-class cruise ship under the British White Star Shipping Company. The Olympic cruise ship has a total length of 269. 1 meter, a total width of 28.2 meters, a total weight of 46,328 tons, a speed of 23-24 knots and a passenger capacity of 46,328 tons.

On March 3 1, 1909, after the construction started, on April 2, 19 12, the Titanic completed the final interior decoration, officially completed and prepared for operation. The developers of White Star Shipping Company are very confident in the safety of the ship's navigation, because they have set up sixteen watertight compartments under the two-story ship, which means that even if two watertight compartments are filled with water at the same time, the Titanic can continue to sail, and even if four watertight compartments are filled with water, the cruise ship can still float on the water. Titanic is also called "unsinkable ship" and "dream ship" by shipbuilding expert magazines because of its precise design.

This evaluation is unique.

On April 10, Titanic set sail from the ocean pier in Southampton, England, and sailed for new york, USA, and began its maiden voyage. Unexpectedly, however, the Titanic, known as the "unsinkable ship", had an accident on its maiden voyage. 191April 14 At about 23: 40, the Titanic, which had sailed to the waters near Newfoundland in the North Atlantic Ocean, collided with an iceberg, causing the starboard bow to break in the middle of the ship. Subsequently, five watertight compartments were filled with cold seawater instantly. Although the captain and crew did their best to rescue and repair, after nearly two hours and forty minutes of struggle, the Titanic hull finally broke in two and sank into the vast Atlantic Ocean.

According to the statistics afterwards, among the 2,224 crew members and passengers, 1 5 17 was killed, and only 333 bodies of the victims were recovered. This shipwreck became the most serious maritime accident at the beginning of the twentieth century, and it is also the most famous shipwreck so far.

What we can't figure out is how this cruise ship with such excellent shipbuilding technology sank in its maiden voyage.

In view of this problem, experts analyzed the cause of this maritime accident. The first reason is that during the maiden voyage of the Titanic, the management of the staff was very chaotic, and the preparatory work in the early stage was very loose. The second mate locked the most important telescope to observe the sea in the cupboard, but he didn't get on the boat, which also led the lookout to look only with the naked eye. The second reason is that after the wreckage was found, it was learned that the steel used in the Titanic hull contained too much sulfur. Although it can pass the tensile test, its steel can't withstand the collision at all.