Since the tragedy of the Titanic, the boat and its fate have been extensively studied. The ship's wreckage wasn't discovered until over 73 years after the tragedy it was located on Septemby a joint French-American expedition led by Jean-Louis Michel andВ Robert Ballard. Making the crisis even worse, the few lifeboats available were not filled to capacity when they were lowered from the ship.В As a result, over 1500 people lost their lives when theВ TitanicВ struck the ice and sank to the bottom of the ocean. Titanic carried over 3300 individuals with passengers and crew. Carrying only 20 lifeboats, the vesselВ was woefully unprepared for the disaster-the lifeboats could accommodate just under 1200 people. Tragically, TitanicВ hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank on April 15, 1912. The Titanic was the most celebrated ocean liner of its time but of course, it would prove to be sinkable.

At 882 feet long, itВ took over three years to build and 600 tons of coal per day to power. Instead, the myth is said to have arisen when an unidentified crew member made the overly-confident claim to a passenger that 'God himself could not sink this ship.'ДЄs the world's largest mobile man-made object at the time, the ship was considered an engineering marvel. TheВ RMS ( Royal Mail Ship) Titanic ,В a British passenger ship,В was once known as theВ 'unsinkable Titanic.' But how did it get this name, which would later prove to be grossly inaccurate? The ship's builders said that they never claimed the ocean liner was 'unsinkable'.

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