(live science.com) One of the most memorable rogue wave occurrences was on October 30, 1991. It was called the perfect storm. According to CNN.com, an enormous extra tropical low is creating havoc along the entire Eastern Atlantic Seaboard in this infrared image at 1200 UTC (0700 EST) on October 30, 1991. Labeled the "perfect storm" by the National Weather Service, the storm sank the sword fishing boat Andrea Gail, whose story became the basis for the currently best-selling novel "The Perfect Storm" by Sebastian Junger. Ocean waves peaked at 100 feet, the height of 10-story buildings.
On the 2nd April 1912 the Titanic set off on its great voyage to America it was on the water for 4 days before hitting an iceberg and sinking 2hours and 40 minutes later. The Titanic was remarkable because, for its time, it was the biggest man-made ship. It had the biggest capacity and the most elaborate cabin areas, surpassing those before it and even its twin sister. It was claimed to be unsinkable, the first ship to ever be able to say this but unfortunately it sunk. It was an important event because so many people died when the ship sank, partly because of the lack of lifeboats, after the sinking no ship was allowed to set sail unless there were enough lifeboats for everyone on the ship.
On April 4, 1912: Ocean liner RMS Titanic collided into an iceberg at approximately 11:40 in the evening and at 2:20 in the morning, exactly 2 hours and 40 minutes later, she began sinking below waves of the Atlantic. Wreckage of the Titanic was first spotted 73½ years alter, in 1985, at 2:20 p.m. About 4 months 4 months later, on January 28, 1986: Space Shuttle Challenger exploded at 11:39 in the morning, and exactly 2 minutes and 40 seconds later, the crew cabin hit the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. The Challenger flight lasted 73½ seconds. God creates all things that exist. God creates with reason.
Sociology Final Traditional Generation: pre-1948 Major Events 1) Sinking of the Titanic a. April 14, 1912 b. The ‘unsinkable’ luxury cruise ship, RMS Titanic, hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and snapped in half. c. Of the 2,200 passengers, 1,517 people died during the wreck. d. 2) World War I Begins e. June 28, 1914 – June 28, 1919 f. War is declared throughout the world and there was a division of world by the Allied Forces and the Central Powers. g. A lasting economic and social effect on the countries involved, and establishes the major powers of the world.
How Come a Magnificent Ship was able to sink? At 11.40pm the Titanic was hit by an iceberg and flooding came with the hour. The Titanic was designed to stay afloat with only four compartments flooded. Less than three hours the Titanic lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The Titanic was carrying 2,223 passengers on board when sank and out of those 1,517 died and 706 survivors.
September 11, 2001: Disasters Strike America September 11, 2001 was a tragic day in the United States. Al Qaeda suicide hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 11 and 175 into the World Trade Centers in New York. Two other groups of hijackers crashed Flight 77 into The Pentagon and Flight 93 into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The 19hijackers killed approximately 2,998 people, including themselves. Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower at 8:46 a.m. Eastern Time, and 17 minutes later, Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower.
Many troops were trapped between Germany army and the cold waters of the English Channel. The only escape route was by the sea. It was a real danger that the entire British army (300,000 men) would be wiped out. On 27th May 1940, the British government led by Winston Churchill. He described it as “a colossal military disaster” The Royal Navy sprang into action and came to rescue most of the people.
On April 27, 1865, the Steamboat Sultana, near Memphis, Tennessee, carrying 2,300 released Union prisoners of war and civilian passengers exploded and sank. Around 1,700 passengers died; to this day the disaster is still worse than the April 24, 1912 sinking of the Titanic when only 1,517 people died. But the Sultana did not become a highlight of history due to the busy month of April for the United States; on April 9 General Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union army, only five days later an assassin shot President Lincoln, then April 26 John Wilkes Booth died, and that same day General Joseph Johnson surrendered the last large Confederate army. The Press put the Sultana at the back of their newspapers; they did not consider the accident of having a great significance compared to the end of the Civil War. The incident happened around 2 A.M. when three of the steamship’s four broilers exploded; the Sultana could legally carry 376 people, but due to bribery from army officers the Sultana carried six times more than the legal limit.
The second plane hit the South tower of the World Trade Center around 9:02 A.M. (911 timeline). Both of these towers are monumental buildings that couldn’t withstand the impact of the crashes. Within two hours the buildings had collapsed to the ground. The third plane was flown into the Pentagon building in Washington, D.C. at around 9:37 A.M. (911 timeline). Finally, the fourth plane crashed into a field in the rural area of Pennsylvania around 10:03 A.M. (911 timeline).
At 8:15am on August 6, 1945, approximately 300 to 500 feet above the highly populated city of Hiroshima Japan, the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was detonated. Only minutes later 60,000 to 100,000 people were dead, most were vaporized leaving only an eerie shadow of carbon behind. In the year and months that followed hundreds of thousands of people died of radiation poisoning and radiation provoked disease. Children born in months immediately following the bombing were occasionally born without vital organs or limbs. Was the decision to drop this historical bomb a correct one?