Posted by Jamie Bramburger, Manager of Community and Student Services. At 11.40pm on 14 April 1912 the ship struck an iceberg, sinking without a trace less than three hours later at 2.20am on 15 April and claiming the lives of 1517. If you have ideas on other speakers you would like to hear at the College’s Speaker Series, please post a response and let us know. Tickets for Gwynne Dyer can be purchased from Festival Hall in Pembroke for $20 + HST, while tickets for Alan Hustak’s Titanic presentation are available at the Waterfront Campus for $15. Tickets for both speaker series presentations are now on sale. In Dyer’s words, “It’s not really as high as it seems.” His lecture will challenge the thoughts of many about the real risk of terrorism. Military historian and author Gwynne Dyer will present his new lecture, “Don’t Panic-Assessing the Risk of Global Terrorism,” on March 29th at Festival Hall.ĭyer, who has been a frequent participant in the college’s speaker series always draws a large crowd and is well respected as a journalist and public speaker. At 11.40pm on Sunday 14 April 1912, almost 100 years ago, the Titanic was just four days into its first voyage when it struck an iceberg. The Titanic presentation is one of two terrific speaking events that the College is bringing to Pembroke in the spring. It has since been updated with more photos and stories, with the most recent edition released for the 100th anniversary of Titanic’s sinking in 2012. The largest and most luxurious ship in the world, the Titanic was also one of the most technologically advanced. His book, entitled Titanic: The Canadian Story, was first published in 1996. On April 15, 1912, the RMS Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean. Hustak, who is a retired journalist, started looking into Titanic’s Canadian connections in the early 1980’s, long before James Cameron’s blockbuster movie was released and prior to the internet making it a lot easier to uncover untold stories from the past. In all, there were 130 Canadian bound passengers on the ship, some of whom survived, and were personally interviewed by Hustak during the course of his research. While the ship could reportedly stay afloat if as many as 4 of its 16 compartments were breached, the impact had affected at least 5 compartments. On the 104th anniversary of the tragedy, Algonquin College’s Speaker Series presents, Titanic: Canadian Stories from the Ill-Fated Ocean Liner, with Titanic author and researcher, Alan Hustak. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica The immediate cause of RMS Titanic ’s demise was a collision with an iceberg that caused the ocean liner to sink on April 1415, 1912. It was the maiden voyage for the luxury ocean liner that was thought to be “unsinkable.” The expedition was financed by the The History Channel, who have scheduled a single piece documentary on February 26th 2006 to present the findings.On Apthe Titanic struck an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and sunk a few hours later taking with her more than 1500 passengers and crew. When the RMS Titanic disappeared beneath the dark waves of the North Atlantic in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, it left many mysteries in its wake. When you go down there, there's stuff all over the place. The broken pieces remained lying at a depth of 13,000 feet below sea level and some 380 miles southeast of Newfoundland.Īfter the August trip, Ballard said, "They found a fragment. The disaster claimed 1,500 lives and the ship remained missing until Robert Ballard, a twentieth century explorer, found the bulk of the wreck in 1985. After two and a half hours into its first voyage, the gigantic vessel hit an iceberg and made its way in pieces to the bottom of the Atlantic on April 14, 1912. Measured at 46,000 tons by its builders, Titanic was branded as unsinkable by most media of the early 1900s. Before the August expedition, David Brown, a Titanic historian had said the stern took twenty minutes to plunge into the ocean. ![]() He said the ship only took five minutes to sink. When Titanic's wreck was first discovered in 1985, scientists reported the hull remained missing.Īccording to Roger Long, a naval architect who studied the recent discovery, the vessel hit the iceberg and the hull broke loose before the stern split. ![]() The two large pieces discovered in August were in good condition, measured 12 meters by 27 meters and were coated with red paint. During their visit they found two large pieces of the ship's hull half a kilometer away from the stern.īefore this discovery, experts had believed the hull was shattered into hundreds of pieces and that Titanic had split into two halves as depicted by James Cameron's 1997 movie. The scientists also discovered that after hitting an iceberg, the ship split into three pieces.
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