Titanic

The Titanic was a big ship. It was four city-blocks long and as tall as an eleven-story building. People called it the "Wonder Ship", because it was supposed to not sink. It set out to go from England to America. Then on their journey, they hit an iceberg and it hurt the ship. It began to sink! People thought it was a joke, because they knew that this boat could not sink. But when people looked down, they saw the boat was sinking! There were 2,227 people on board. They filled the lifeboats, but only 750 made it.

A guy named Robert Ballard decided he would go and look for the Titanic. He used a robot and found it! He left a note on it asking people to leave the Titanic in peace. And everybody did. He found suitcases and bottles.

I think this is a very sad story. I would have wanted to be on one of the lifeboats, if I had been on there. The Titanic - the "unsinkable ship", people thought it was unthinkable that it was sinkable.

(Presley made the picture.)