Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater – For movie fans of the 1990s, when you heard someone talk about "Jack and Rose," you would probably think of Titanic. We would think of love and mystery, excitement and suspense. You may hear comments like, "What a great movie" or "Oh, it's just a movie... It wasn't really that bad." » The latter would be right: it was worse. The Titanic was more than a movie could ever describe. Death, destruction, terror, sadness: these were the emotions of the people on board the Titanic. The disaster that was the Titanic could have easily been avoided, and unnecessary loss of life would have been spared if only minor changes in planning had been considered at the start of the voyage. Yes, the Titanic had a tragic end, but life on the ship was far from tragic – until the crash of course. The Titanic and its sister ships, the Olympia and the Britannica, were considered among the finest ships in the world. The Titanic was nicknamed the “ship of dreams” because it was the most elegant of ships. On Wednesday March 31, 1909, the keel was laid and construction began quickly shortly thereafter. The ship took nearly a year and a half to build and measured 882 feet 9 inches long, 94 feet wide, and 100 feet high to deck level. The final cost reached an incredible £1,500,000, or approximately $7,500,000. Why did the Titanic sink, you might ask? Hadn't it been nicknamed the unsinkable ship? Yes, it was; however, it was not the only ship described as "unsinkable". “Most ships were described as unsinkable because they had watertight compartments to limit flooding in the event of an accident.” It was also a bit to get people excited that a new ship was coming and to make them feel safer if they decided to...... middle of paper ..... .the others were afraid since the third class passengers were the last to arrive. queuing for the very few remaining boats, they could try to overtake some of them and thus put the lives of even more people in danger. With the doors locked and everyone gone, they had no way of escape and, thus, their “cabin to America” became their watery grave. April 15, 1912, this day will forever be remembered by many people all over the world. It's sad to look back almost a hundred years ago and think, "Wow, that really happened, all the people who died really shouldn't have." » All the unnecessary loss of life is a very sad thought.BibliographySpitz, DJ Investigation of Bodies in Water. In Spitz and Fisher's Medicoleg Investigation of Death: Guideline for the Application of Pathology to Crime Investigations, 4th ed. Ed. WU & Spitz, DJ Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 2006.