The RMS Titanic set sail on its maiden voyage from Southamptom, England, to New York City on April 10, 1912. Two more hours had passed before the RMS Carpathia arrived to take the roughly 700 survivors to safety. Ultimately, the ship sankwith more than 1,000 people still aboard. The footage also highlights the series of missed communications, engineering failures, and inadequate safety and rescue procedures that led to the tragedy. The video also shows water streaming into the elegantly furnished rooms of the opulent steamship. Over the next two hours, the video shows the engines quieting, steam from the boilers being released and the ship inexorably sinking into the waves. The ship hit the iceberg at 11:40 p.m, and though the crew sealed the watertight doors, by 11:49 p.m., more than 1 million gallons (3.7 million liters) of seawater had entered the ship. As history shows, the commands came too late.
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