泰坦尼克号英文简介
1912年4月10日,号称永不沉没的泰坦尼克号从英国南安普敦开始了它的处女航。然而4月14日,这艘梦幻巨轮在北大西洋撞上冰山,于4月15日凌晨沉没,1500多人葬身海底。电影《泰坦尼克号》就是根据这一真实海难改编,其中Jack&Rose的爱情故事成为一代又一代人心中的经典。时隔15年,由卡梅隆亲自转制成3D的《泰坦尼克号》强势归来,并特别选在泰坦尼克号起航100周年纪念日当天在中国上映。下面就来看一下关于泰坦尼克号的英文简介吧!
The story of the Titanic and the iceberg has grown into a legend of the sea. It took her discovery in
1985 to begin to find the truth behind the myth. One of the things that makes the Titanic so fascinating
is that she represented the best of technology when she set sail on her ill-fated voyage in 1912, and it took the best of technology in the form of sonar, satellite tracking, and deep-dive technology to locate her grave 73 years later. In the early 1900's, waterborne transportation was
the norm; today, satellites are taken for granted by our society. But we tend to forget the immense effort
that these two technologies require to operate to their maximum potential. Until recently, the technology
did not exist to locate, photograph, and explore this ship that rested two and a half miles down on the
ocean floor.
On April 10, 1912, the RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York.
At that time, she was the largest and most luxurious ship ever built. At 11:40 PM on April 14, 1912,
she struck an iceberg about 400 miles off Newfoundland, Canada. Although her crew had been warned
about icebergs several times that evening by other ships navigating through that region, she was
traveling at near top speed of about 20.5 knots when one grazed her side.
Less than three hours later, the Titanic plunged to the bottom of the sea, taking more than 1500 people
with her. Only a fraction of her passengers were saved. The world was stunned to learn of the fate of
the unsinkable Titanic. It carried some of the richest, most powerful industrialists of her day. Together,
their personal fortunes were worth $600 million in 1912! In addition to wealthy and the middle class
passengers, she carried poor emigrants from Europe and the Middle East seeking economic and social
freedom in the New World.
The remains of the Titanic were found in 1985 by Dr. Robert Ballard, an oceanographer and marine
biologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. When he located the Titanic, he saw that,
as some survivors reported, the ship had broken apart. He believed the weight of the water-filled bow raised the stern out of the water and snapped the ship in two just before it sank. Debris falling
out of the ship was strewn over a 1/2 mile across the sea floor. The bow and the stern were found nearly
2000ft. apart.
Keeping her location a secret, Bob Ballard used GPS to find theTitanic again when he returned the next
year. He hoped to prevent treasure seekers from finding her and plundering the ship for booty such as
coffee cups inscribed with RMS Titanic. On this second expedition, he visited the ship several times by
submarine. On his last descent, he left a plaque honoring the 1500 victims and asking that subsequent
explorers leave their grave undisturbed.