The great tragedy of the Titanic is one that most people know a thing or two about, but what people still have yet to figure out is how did the unsinkable ship sink? The Titanic was a ship with approximately 2,200 passengers aboard ranging from upper class to lower class, adults to children. The case was put to rest many years ago with the conclusion that it was solely the Iceberg to blame but in 1985 the case was reopened due to this unsatisfying ending. Robert Ballard was the scientist who took it upon himself to solve this unsolvable mystery. Ballard along with other scientists indeed discovered that the ship did split into two parts actually around the time that the movie the “Titanic” was filmed, hence why they put the scene of the boat splitting into two. On the night of April 14th 1912, only a few days into the voyage, the site of the iceberg was exposed for the fist time. The Titanic did not hit the iceberg head on, forcing it to swipe the ships starboard side and causing it to pierce six holes in the ships steel plates. The  ship instantly filled with water and roughly two hours later actually submerged fully into the water and sunk completely.

The thoughts that came about in the 1990’s placed the blame on the steel used to build the ship, it was believed to be “brittle” but this theory was later put down when scientists realized the actual piece they tested did not match up to the same higher quality of the remainder of the boat which did in deed pass all tests. Another theorist proposed the thought that the timing of the ships assemlby could have played a key role in the mystery. The Titanic was built along with two other massive “sister ships” at the time named the Olympic and Britannic. The ships did have enough people to build them, however since they were all done simultaneously the material used could have been lower quality due to the pressure of all three ships.

The boat was not “weak” by any means, 38,000 tons of water filled up the enormous ship, the pressure lead it to crack into two pieces, and did so with reason. I would conclude the following:

1) The quality could have certainly been better, but the Titanic was a luxury ship, not a battle ship.

2) The ship was not designed to crash into an iceberg and and there was no way to prevent disaster after it did.

3) Even if the ship remained afloat longer, it did not even have enough life boats to sustain even 1/3 of its passengers.

4)  No one could have predicted this tragedy and precaution for an accident that extensive was a challenge for the time period that the ship was built in.