Tragedies at sea The Titanic and the Andrea Doria

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Tragedies at seaThe Titanic and the Andrea Doria
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The Titanic
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The Titanic

• IN 1912, the Titanic, a steamship in England's
  White Star Line, set out on its doomed maiden
  voyage, with 2,227 enthusiastic passengers and
  crew members on board for the history-making trip
  from Southampton, England, to New York City. Only
  705 would survive the ship's collision with a
  massive iceberg.
• The "unsinkable" ocean liner was shipwrecked in
  the early hours of April 15, shortly after its
  fatal run-in with an iceberg.

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The Titanic

• Titanic Facts
• Here are some of the most interesting facts about
  the ship and its fateful journey
• The Titanic was designed to hold 32 lifeboats,
  though only 20 were on board White Star
  management was concerned that too many boats
  would sully the aesthetic beauty of the ship.
• Survivors were rescued by the Carpathia, which
  was 58 miles southeast of Titanic when it
  received the distress call.

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The Titanic

• Titanic boasted electric elevators, a swimming
  pool, a squash court, a Turkish Bath, and a
  gymnasium with a mechanical horse and mechanical
  camel.
• The wreckage of Titanic was located in 1985,
  12,500 feet down, about 350 miles (531 km)
  southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.
• A first class (parlor suite) ticket on Titanic
  cost 4,350, which translates into 50,000 today.
  

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Try to guess the meanings of the words below

• collision
• massive
• fatal
• sully
• wreckage

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Sample Answers

• collision an accident in which two or more
  people or vehicles hit each other while moving in
  different directions
• massive very large, solid, heavy
• fatal resulting in someones death having a bad
  effect
• sully spoil or reduce the value of sth that was
  perfect
• wreckage the parts of sth such as a plane, ship
  building that are left after it has been
  destroyed in an accident

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The Andrea Doria
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The Andrea Doria

• How was it possible that two great ocean liners,
  manned by experienced crews and having the latest
  1950's radar technology, could collide in open
  waters? Many factors came together in the same
  instant, sealing the fate of the Andrea Doria.
• At 3 p.m. on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 25,
  1956, Captain Piero Calamai stood on the bridge
  of the Andrea Doria, staring to the west. The
  afternoon sun was headed toward a nebulous haze
  on the western horizon, the unmistakable
  precursor of a July fog of the Massachusetts
  coast.

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The Andrea Doria

• Fog. The quiet killer of the sea. It enshrouds a
  ship like a dark blanket, robbing a navigator of
  his most treasured tool vision. The Andrea Doria
  was equipped with two of the latest radar scopes,
  but Calamai was a traditional captain who
  preferred the evidence of his eyesight. He would
  rely on the radar when he had to, but he would
  keep his own senses vigilant. Fog destroyed more
  ships than storm winds, coral reefs or icebergs.

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The Andrea Doria

• The Stockholm had left pier 97 in New York  at
  1131 that morning and by nightfall it was well
  away from New York, cruising ahead at a top speed
  of eighteen knots. Nordensen walked on the wings
  of the bridge in contemplation. Third Officer
  Carstens went about his duties. He stepped
  outside the wing and glanced at the crow's nest
  to assure himself the lookout was alert to his
  post. He looked for signs of fog and plotted the
  position of the ship. He also monitored the radar
  scanner, it was set at the fifteen mile range. At
  940pm the Captain ordered a change of course to
  eighty-seven degrees that would take them
  approximately one mile south of the Nantucket
  Lightship. A few minutes later Captain Nordensen
  left Carstens in command and went down to his
  cabin with instructions that he be notified of
  fog. The navigation of the ship was now
  completely in the hands of the third mate

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THE ENCOUNTER
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The Andrea Doria

• 111115pmAndrea Doria"She is coming against us!"
  Calamai yelled in amazement. The captain
  instinctively drew back from the railing of the
  wing. The bow of the intruder seemed to point
  directly at him on the bridge, though he knew it
  would hit much lower some forty feet below. For
  an instant Calamai wished he was down there,
  where the impact would crush him. It would be an
  act of mercy, for the captain saw in the
  approaching bow a more horrible destiny. He was a
  captain! This was his ship! How could this happen
  to him? Never in all his years at sea had Piero
  Calamai felt so alone. Then the Stockholm struck!

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The Collision
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Try to guess the meanings of the words below

• haze
• enshroud
• vigilant
• navigation
• strike

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Sample Answers

• haze smoke, dust, or moisture in the air which
  makes it difficult to see through
• enshroud to cover or hide sth
• vigilant giving careful attention to what is
  happening, so that you will notice any danger or
  illegal activity

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Sample Answers

• navigation the act of sailing a ship or flying a
  plane along a particular line of travel
• strike to hit or knock hard against sth

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