The titanic was built up of sixteen water tight chambers. If five of these chambers filled with water from hitting an iceberg then the ship could still sail. But the inevitable happened, six of the chambers filled with water from hitting the iceberg so the Titanic sank very slowly at one end. One more reason why the
News Report Explosion in Halifax Harbour By: Jagroop Johal Deceber.7th 1917 Yesterday at approximately 9:00am residents of Halifax was devastated by a massive explosion. This occurred in the waters if Halifax harbour. This explosion was caused by a French ammunition ship the Mont Blanc and a Belgian cargo ship the Imo which had collided earlier that morning. The Mont Blanc collided with the Imo at approximately 8:45 yesterday morning. The Mont Blanc had been carrying benzol on its deck which was set on fire by the sparks from the collision.
Rogue Waves For centuries, mariners have spread stories about giant sudden waves which appeared out of nowhere without warning which were strong enough to capsize even the mightiest and largest ships. Several vessels—such as the S.S. Waratah, the M.S. Munchen, and the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald—were all rumored to have been sunk by rogue waves (Walsh par. 3). Further, rogue waves have been blamed for ripping the bow off of a Norwegian freighter near the tip of South Africa in 1974, almost capsizing the Queen Elizabeth in 1942 off the coast of Greenland, striking the Queen Elizabeth H in 1995, and for swamping military aircraft carriers and tearing tankers in half (McDonald A21).
The epicentre was a town named Leogane; about 19km (12 miles) west of Port-au-Prince, thousands were left homeless and up to 80-90% of buildings in Leogane were destroyed. The quake was quickly followed by two strong aftershocks of 5.9 and 5.5 magnitudes. It was the worst earthquake to hit the Caribbean island in 2 centuries. The island lies on the Enriquilla-Plantain Garden Fault however it was caused by an interaction between the North American and Caribbean Plates. After which the barely noticed island became the centre of the world’s news channels, it became one of the most noticed natural disasters in history with celebrities and normal people alike doing allsorts to raise money and aid for the victims of the quake.
Dodge should not only have focused on extinguishing the fire, he should have also considered the opposing idea – getting his team out of the fire- as soon as he saw that the situation was worse than he thought. At the day of the fire, one of biggest mistakes was, that Dodge did not communicate with his group of firefighters. He never explained what led him to the decisions he made. When he suddenly changed the course and when he told them to
Adding to the disaster's massive scale, the huge amount of dust blasted into the upper atmosphere by the Tambora eruption contributed to a bizarre and highly destructive weather event the following year. And 1816 became known as The Year Without a Summer. The disaster on the remote island of Sumbawa in the Indian Ocean has been overshadowed by the eruption of the volcano at Krakatoa decades later, partly because the news of Krakatoa traveled quickly via telegraph. Accounts of the Tambora eruption were much more rare, however some vivid ones do exist. An administrator of the East India Company, Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles, who was serving as governor of Java at the time, published a vivid account of the disaster based on written reports he had collected from English traders and military personnel.
Odysseus was told not to go to the Sirens when they call. The author writes “I carried wax along the line and laid it thick on their ears” (977). This is very clever because he muted the call of the Sirens and settled his crew’s temptation to go to them. Odysseus knew the Sirens were bad news and did not want to take any chances. He also used his quick wits by instructing his crew to tie him to the mast and refuse to let him down.
Texas City Disaster 1. The Texas City Disaster was a big explosion of two different ships, the SS Grandcamp and the SS High Flyer, which ended in a high casualty count, multiple injured, and a loss of many goods. The two ships were docked in the Port of Texas City where the Grandcamp was not permitted to load the ammonium nitrate due to port authority. The cause of the fire was the poor packing, transportation, and storage of the ammonium nitrate. The ammonium nitrate was packaged in paper sacks, and then it was transported and stored at high temperatures that caused it to react.
STUDENT NAME PROFESSOR NAME SUBJECT NAME 21 June 2013 Sandoz Chemical Spill Sandoz chemical spill was one of the major environment disaster caused by fire in Europe. It took place on 1st November, 1986 at a chemical factory near Basel, Switzerland. The fire broke out in the early morning in a storage building which was used for storing pesticides, mercury and other highly poisonous agricultural chemicals. It sent tons of toxic chemicals into the nearby river Rhine turning it red. The chemicals included urea, fluorescent dye, mercury, insecticides, propethampos, etrimphos, orgonochlorine metoxuron, etc.
The True Understanding of Hurricane Katrina In the essay, “Hurricane Katrina: Investigating the U.S. Government’s Failed Response” the author, Eliza Hubbard writes about the situations that accrued in Hurricane Katrina, which is one of the most destructive tropical storms ever to hit the United States. It affected many parts of the coastal areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama on August 29th, 2005, it affected New Orleans, Louisiana the most by causing the levees, which helped the flow of the river and stop flooding, to collapse. This lead to flooding in the city, where many bodies still lie beneath the dirty waters filled with debris. Hurricane Katrina attacked in two ways, one being the hurricane itself and the other being the flooding throughout New Orleans. The effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans was extremely severe, resulting from one of the most deadly natural disasters in U.S. history.