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The 100th Year Anniversary for the Titanic By Anna Bauer and Brezlan Malina
Volume 24, Issue 2 April 2012
On April 10, 1912 the Titanic set sail from England, with almost 1,800 people on board. In the early hours of April 15, 1912, the Titanic sank to the bottom of The Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg. Only 675 people, mostly women and children, survived in this tragedy. The Titanic weighed more than 46,000 tons and measured nearly 883 feet long. The Titanic was more than two football fields in length. Of the 2,223 people onboard 1,517 died. The Titanic is resting on the bottom of the ocean more than 2 miles below the surface. Its location was a mystery for about 73 years. The person who solved this amazing mystery was scientist Dr. Robert Ballard and his team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Dr. Ballard’s search for the Titanic was really a cover story for a secret naval operation, to map and gather data on the two ship wrecks for the U.S. nuclear submarines, the U.S. Thresher and the U.S.S. Scorpion, that sank during the 1960s. The cover story of Dr. Ballard’s Titanic hunt was so believable because both of the subs are located in the around the same area as the Titanic. Dr. Ballard says that The Scorpion ended up in about 11,500 feet of water and The Thresher 8,000 feet. These are all Dr. Ballard’s entire discoveries. The Britannic and the Olympic were the Titanic’s sister ships. The Olympic was involved in four ship collisions. The Britannic had an explosion on the ship. So that is how the sister ships of the Titanic sank.
Descendants of the Titanic’s victims and survivors as well as people all over the world are commemorating this historic anniversary. The story of the Titanic has inspired hundreds of books, songs, poems, movies, and even a Broadway musical.
Inside this issue:
School news
2-5
Ask Lulu
6
Legends
7
Middle School Perspectives
8
Trayvon Martin, Awkward Phobias
9
April Birthday Biographies
10
Palm Oil
11
Reviews of books, movies, and games
1213
Art Contest Winners 14 Make Her Laugh At 15 That: Humor Page