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Nothing is perfect. No human, no thing.

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You can't just assume for everything to be safe.

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nothing can be perfect every thing made will always have a flaw

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"'The bigger the better", does not apply to everything.

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Titanic's sunken sister ship to become underwater museum

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Titanic's less famous sister ship is set to get its own spot in the limelight and converted into a unique underwater museum for tourists.

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Everyone needs to be cautious because anything built my man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.

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Not everything is as it seems to be.

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Nothing is perfect everything has a flaw.

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Unsinkable is unthinkable.

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Nothing lasts forever.

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Nothing is perfect

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Evan Mewhirter                          

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Evan Mewhirter                          

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The Titanic sinking was the result of many people's mistakes, and it was a horrible tragedy.

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Danger is always possible, even when something is 'unsinkable'

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A group of people working as a team can rise together or fall together.

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Do not put 100% of your hope into something that you are not sure about

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Overconfidence will always lead to something terrible.

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Don't rely on others, because what they say may not always be true.

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Unsinkable

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Not everything you hear is true

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Not everything is as it seems to be.

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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

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Kevin Kruse- life is about making an impact and not an income; this is what J Bruce Ismay failed to see.

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Nobody should think they are more powerful than Nature.

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Everything ends eventually.

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Don't always believe what people say.

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Things may seem like a fantasy, but once something bad happens it tuns into a reality.

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Exactly one hundred years ago today, an ocean liner struck a block of ice and sank in the North Atlantic. The story of the ocean liner has been told hundreds of times. This story is about the block of ice.

The photos you see up top and down on the left are quite possibly the only known photographic evidence of the actual iceberg that was struck by the Titanic. Understandably, nobody had bothered to snap any photographs while the ship was actually sinking, so it's impossible to make an absolutely confirmed positive identification. But both photographs feature the telltale sign of a collision with a ship, and likely a recent one at that: a streak of red paint.

The photo up top was taken by the chief steward of the German ocean liner SS Prinz Adalbert, which on April 15 was sailing through the North Atlantic mere miles away from where the Titanic had sunk the night before. At the time, the chief steward hadn't yet learned of the Titanic's fate, so he wasn't even on the lookout for icebergs. He simply spotted a streak of red paint along the iceberg's base, which most likely meant a ship had collided with it in the last twelve hours.

This next photo was taken by a Captain De Carteret of the Minia, one of a few cable ships - vessels ordinarily used to lay deep sea cables, such as those for telecommunications - sent to the site of the shipwreck to recover corpses and debris. The captain claimed this was the only iceberg in the area, and the red paint was again a clear sign that a ship had recently struck it. There's some disagreement over whether this was the only iceberg in the area, but it certainly seems likely that something had hit it, and the odds are good that that something was the Titanic.

If you were to trace the story of the Titanic to its earliest human origins, you couldn't really go much further back than 1907, when the White Star Lines first drew up plans to build the three largest ocean liners the world had even seen: Olympic, Titanic, and Gigantic, which was later renamed Britannic and sank in the Mediterranean during World War I. From conception to sinking, the Titanic really only lasted about five years, although obviously its memory has endured far longer.

But by comparison, the iceberg began its slow journey to the North Atlantic over three thousand years ago. Again, we can only guess at the exact details, but the story likely began with snowfall on the western coast of Greenland somewhere around 1,000 BCE. After a few months, this snow has been turned into a more compacted form called firn, which then over subsequent decades is compressed into dense ice by the weight of newer snow on top of it.

The frozen water in these glaciers is slowly forced further westward towards the sea. When they finally reach the coast of the Arctic Ocean, the lapping tides break off chunks of the ice, and icebergs are calved from the glacier, some thirty centuries after their source water was first deposited. The iceberg that sank the Titanic began its journey as a rough contemporary of King Tutankhamun, entire civilizations rising and falling while it made its slow march to infamy.

But once all that's done, the iceberg's life was a short one. We know that because the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, rather than the Arctic, which means the currents must have taken it far south of where it was calved. Starting on the Greenland coast, it would have moved from Baffin Bay to the Davis Strait and then onto the Labrador Sea and, at last, the Atlantic.

The Titanic iceberg was one of the lucky ones, so to speak, as the vast, vast majority of icebergs melt long before they reach that far south. Of the 15,000 to 30,000 icebergs calved each years by the Greenland glaciers, probably only about 1% of them ever make it all the way to the Atlantic. On April 15, 1912, the iceberg was some 1,5000 miles south of the Arctic Circle.

The water temperature on the night of the Titanic sinking was thought to be about 28 degrees Fahrenheit, just below freezing. Such a temperature was of course lethally cold for all those passengers who had been forced to take to the open water to escape the sinking ship.

But such temperatures are far too warm to sustain icebergs for very long. The average life expectancy of an iceberg in the North Atlantic is only about two to three years from calving to melting. That means it likely broke off from Greenland in 1910 or 1911, and was gone forever by the end of 1912 or sometime in 1913. In all likelihood, the iceberg that sank the Titanic didn't even endure to the outbreak of World War I, a lost splash of freshwater mixed in imperceptibly with the rest of the North Atlantic.

Sources and Further Reading

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Whatever happened to the iceberg that sank the Titanic?

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Exactly one hundred years ago today, an ocean liner struck a block of ice and sank in the North Atlantic. The story of the ocean liner has been told hundreds of times. This story is about the block of ice.

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Don't always believe what you hear because it is not always true and cause you danger later.

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The Titanic was like a machine with faulty parts

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Murphy's law: If something can go wrong, it will, even if there is the smallest chance.

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Only speak the truth and only listen to the truth

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Overconfidence can be one's greatest flaw.

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The perfect ones are always flawed.

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Nothing can be unsinkable

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Unsinkable

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This event is not just one person's fault.

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Nothing is perfect, something will always have a flaw.

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You can never say something until you know it is true

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You can't always believe in what other people tell you.

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Nothing is always

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The Titanic, also known as the Unsinkable ship, was a ship that was known for luxury and safety, but on its journey to North America, it struck an iceberg and ended up sinking on April 15th, 1912.

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Icebergs in the Northern Hemisphere: FAQ

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Source: The International Ice PatrolWhere do North Atlantic icebergs come from? The principal origin of those icebergs that reach the North Atlantic Ocean are the 100 or so major tidewater glaciers of West Greenland.

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Even though we as humans may think that we can do anything, Mother Nature will always prevail.

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The Titanic's tragedy was caused by many design issues, including the failure of the watertight compartments.

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The Titanic was a luxurious ship that sank when it hit an iceberg, after passengers wanted to have a safe ride back to the United States.

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The Titanic sunk and was no one person's fault because their were many problems with the ship.

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Nothing lasts forever.

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Titanic Unit Summary Sentence -- Cassidy Whitney

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Titanic Unit Summary Sentence -- Cassidy Whitney

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The Titanic was a terrible tragedy that occurred because of poor design, bad conditions, and the fact that humanity got cocky and claimed that their ship was unsinkable; of course they were proven wrong; because of Titanic's legacy, ships are safer than than ever.