Titanic

The RMS Carpathia, which had received the Titanic's distress rockets, arrived at 4:10 AM. Over 700 survivors were rescued. The world awoke to a news nightmare. Initial reports had actually claimed the ship was being towed to Halifax. It took three days for the full truth to surface.

: At 11:40 p.m. on April 14, the ship grazed an iceberg, which buckled the hull and opened five of its sixteen "watertight" compartments. It could only survive four being flooded. Titanic

, which still mandates 24-hour radio watches and enough lifeboats for everyone on board. The wreck remained hidden until September 1, 1985 , when a joint French-American expedition led by Robert Ballard The RMS Carpathia, which had received the Titanic's