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 ==TFAR draft== 

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 The sinking of the RMS Titanic at 02:20 on 15 April 1912, with the loss of 1,517 lives, was one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. Four days into her maiden voyage, Titanic – at the time the world's largest ship – struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. The collision buckled her hull and breached five of her sixteen watertight compartments. There were far too few lifeboats available for the 2,223 people aboard and many were not filled to their full capacity due to a poorly managed evacuation. Two hours and forty minutes after the collision, Titanic sank with over a thousand passengers and crew members still aboard. Almost all of those who jumped or fell into the water died from hypothermia within a matter of minutes. The 710 survivors were rescued from the lifeboats by the RMS Carpathia a few hours later. Following the disaster, public outrage at the huge loss of life led to the introduction of much tougher maritime safety regulations. Titanics story has since become a widely commemorated cultural phenomenon. (more...) 

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