文档介绍：TITANIC
<My heart will go on>
Background
On april 10th, 1912, titanic, which is a name of a ship start from southampton , through Cherbourg-Octeville of france and the queenstown of irish ,planned destined for new york to her first voyage 。Night of april 14 forty past eleven, the titanic struck an iceberg in the north Atlantic。
Two hours and forty minutes later , april 15 ,twenty past two she sank, because there had only 20 lifeboats, 1523 people buried at sea, which was one of the most serious sea accident in a peaceful period。The film 《Titanic 》is based on the truth. 。
The story of the Titanic and the iceberg has grown into a legend of the sea. It took her discovery in 1985 to begin to find the truth behind the myth. One of the things that makes the Titanic so fascinating is that she represented the best of technology when she set sail on her ill-fated voyage in 1912, and it took the best of technology in the form of sonar, satellite tracking, and deep-dive technology to locate her grave 73 years later.
Brief Introduction
In the early 1900's, waterborne transportation was the norm; today, satellites are taken for granted by our society. But we tend to forget the immense effort that these two technologies require to operate to their maximum potential. Until recently, the technology did not exist to locate, photograph, and explore this ship that rested two and a half miles down on the ocean floor.