1	GREAT DISASTERS: Titanic By: Alexandra and Victoria March 2007
2	Titanic Do you know how the Titanic sunk? I’ll tell you it hit a iceberg. Out of 2228 people only 705 were rescued.
3	Where did it happen? The ship Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic ocean.
4	When did it happen? It hit the iceberg April 14 - 15, 1912. At 11:40 PM.
5	How/Why did it happen? The ship was going to fast to avoid the iceberg. The ship glazed the side of the iceberg.
6	What were the damages? The cost for building the Titanic was $7.5 million dollars about $123 million in today's money. There were 2228 people onboard but only 705 people were rescued.
7	Could this disaster have been avoided? Yes, this could have been avoided if they moved the ship out of the way faster.
8	What has happened since the disaster? Since the disaster everyone has been taught what befell those innocent people that one day. Robert Ballard found the sunken ship in Sep. 1, 1985. He used sonar to find it.
9	BIBLIOGRAPHY http://www.keyflux.com/titanic/pictour.htm http://www.gma.org/space1/titanic.html http://www.titanic-facts.com/titanic-pictures.html http://www.abratis.de/ http://www.logoi.com/pastimages/titanic.html http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/XEROX_MAPS/map_titanic.gif http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary/controller/subjectidsearch?id=1993&startid=33460&width=4&height=2&idx=2 http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary/controller/subjectidsearch?id=11993&startid=33353&width=4&height=2&idx=2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Titanicpic1.JPG http://www.titanic-nautical.com/images/Titanic/Pictures-Photos/Titanic-Picture18.html Thanks to all these websites, we got great pictures.
10	ABOUT US We decided to do the Titanic disaster because we feel it is an important disaster! Tons of people froze to death because everyone onboard was rushed into the lifeboats, and they only had 20 lifeboats onboard. It is a very sad story! And everyone deserves to know about it!