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.
In World Trade Center 2, the core was damaged severely at the southeast corner and was restrained by the east and south walls. The steady burning fires on the east side of the building caused the floors there to sag. The floors pulled the heated east perimeter columns inward, reducing their capacity to support the building above. Their neighboring columns quickly became overloaded as columns on the east wall buckled. The top section of the building tilted to the east and to the south and began its descent.
The Chernobyl accident that took place in 1986 is worst ever nuclear disaster faced by mankind. The accident that took place on April, 1986 is the result of a flawed reactor design and incompetent personals that were not properly trained. As a result of the accident, extremely harmful and toxic radioactive elements were released into the environment, the fallout of which is felt even to this day. The accident had tremendous health, economic, social and environmental consequences and it severely affected the lives of a huge section of population in the countries of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. The main radioactive elements that cause maximum damage to the affected population were iodine-131 and caesium-137.
The Unthinkable Happened, The Unsinkable Sank The story of the RMS Titanic is very well known. The Titanic was the biggest ship of its time, said to be unsinkable. On April 10, 1912 the Titanic set sail under the command of Capitan E. J. Smith. Only four short days later, on April 14, 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg around eleven-forty at night. In a matter of three hours the ship had split into two sections and had become complete submerged, slowing sinking to the bottom of the ocean, taking with it people, possessions and its unsinkable title.
This earthquake lasted an impressive five minutes and measured at a magnitude 9.0. The Eurasian Plate is dragged under the Pacific plate grinding under it and the upper plate compresses then it springs back when the earthquake hits causing the four mile deep mass of water upwards. When it collapses back, huge waves travel across the ocean as fast as a jet fighter pilot. The height and intensity varies as it travels faster in deeper water (Crane, 2011). At the Fukushima Power Plant there is a crisis because the nuclear reactors can’t be cooled
The melting of once-permanent ice is already affecting the native people, wildlife and plants. When the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf started breaking and melting, the rare freshwater lake it enclosed, along with its unique ecosystem, drained into the ocean and was lost. Polar bears, whales, walrus and seals are having to change their feeding because of this, and migration patterns, making it harder for the native people to hunt them. Along Arctic coastlines, entire villages will be uprooted due to the melting ice. Will Arctic ice melt have any effects beyond the polar region?
The fact that this iconic and legendary ship was built in Ireland is what makes the launch ticket from the Titanic a valuable and important piece of Irish history. To begin with, a company name Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries built the RMS Titanic in the early 1900s for White Star Line. The launch of the Titanic took place on May 31, 1911, and unfortunately it sunk just a short year later on its maiden voyage, which began on April 10, 1912 (“RMS Titanic”). Ironically, according to history.com, at the time the ship was built it was rumored to be indestructible. The British passenger liner sank in the Atlantic Ocean April 15, 1912 in the early hours of the morning.
What are some factors that contributed to each incident? The factors that contributed to the Challenger disaster were the cold weather. An O-ring seal between SRB segments leaked hot combustion gas, which triggered the explosion. The cold O-rings were too stiff to be able to follow the joint flexture so they could not maintain their seal. The factors that contributed to the Columbia disaster were a large piece of foam insulation broke off and hit the orbiter’s left wing which damaged the thermal protection system.
There were several hundred domestic flights in Argentina and Chile and several dozen international flights from Santiago, Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina cancelled. In addition, Lahars (volcanic ash mud flows) had cut communications in areas and made access difficult whilst ash falls up to 15cm deep had blocked rivers and contaminated water supplies. By
It was 41m tall and weighed a whopping 14,680 tons. On its first day, a total of 1,800 cars and 150,300 people crossed what was then the only way to get to the other side. There was a plethora of complications involving the bridge. On May 30, 1883, the bridge was on the verge of collapsing which caused a stampede that resulted in about 27 deaths. In the early 1900s, many cars fell into the East River due to the lack of strong, permanent railing.