Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater – For movie buffs in the 90s, when you heard someone talk about “Jack and Rose,” you would probably think Titanic. You 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 that bad.” The latter would be right: it was worse. The Titanic was more than a movie could ever portray. Death, destruction, terror, sadness: these were the emotions for the people on board the Titanic. The Titanic disaster could have easily been avoided, and the needless loss of life saved, if only small changes in planning had been taken into account at the start of the voyage. Yes, the Titanic had a tragic ending, but life on the ship was anything but tragic, at least until the crash. The Titanic and her sister ships, the Olympia and the Britannica, were considered some of the most beautiful ships in the world. The Titanic was called the “ship of dreams” because it was the most elegant of ships. The keel was laid on Wednesday, March 31, 1909, and construction quickly began immediately thereafter. The vessel took nearly a year and a half to build and was 882 feet 9 inches long, 94 feet wide, and 100 feet high at deck level. The final cost reached a staggering £1,500,000 or approximately $7,500,000. You may ask why did the Titanic sink? Wasn't it nicknamed the unsinkable ship? Yes, it was; however, it was not the only ship described as “unsinkable”. “Most ships were called unsinkable because they had watertight compartments to limit flooding in the event of an accident.” This also served a bit to excite people that a new ship was arriving and also to make them feel safer if they decided that...... middle of paper ......they were afraid as the third class passengers class were the last to get on the line for the very few boats left, they might try to overtake some on their own, thus endangering the lives of even more people. With the gates closed and everyone gone, they had no way to escape and, thus, their "cabin in America" ​​became their watery grave. April 15, 1912: That day will forever be remembered by many people around the world. It's sad to look back almost a hundred years ago and think, "Wow, that really happened, all the people who died shouldn't have done that." All the needless loss of life is a sad, sad thought. Bibliography Spitz, DJ Investigation of Bodies in Water. In Spitz and Fisher's Medicolegal Investigation of Death: Guidelines for the Application of Pathology to Crime Investigation, 4th ed. Ed. WU & Spitz, DJ Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 2006.