“Is there anyone there?”
“Yes, what do you see?”
“Iceberg, right ahead!”

At 23:39 on 14 April 1912, the Titanic crew spotted an iceberg in the ship's path. After the conversation above, the course of Titanic was changed, just in time to avoid a head-on collision. But the change in direction caused the ship to strike the iceberg with a glancing blow.

An underwater spur of ice scraped along the side of the ship for about seven seconds; chunks of ice dislodged from upper parts of the berg fell onto her forward decks. Around five minutes after the collision, all of Titanic's engines were stopped.

At 2:20 on 15 April, the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. About 1,500 people died in the incident, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.

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