Titanic - a tale of two journeys

1 February 2006

Robert Goldsmith - a teacher from West Sussex - won a trip down to the wreck of the RMS Titanic after entering a competition with Sky's History Channel.

He dived on July 12th 2005 and has filmed his time down there. He has agreed to come and share his experience with BASH members. April 18th is the nearest date we could get to the 94th anniversary of the sinking.

It was on the 14th April 1912 RMS Titanic struck an iceberg off Newfoundland and sank two and a half hours later the next day April 15th 1912 with the loss of 1503 lives. 705 survived in the few lifeboats provided on the ship and were rescued by the Cunard liner 'Carpathia'.

The Titanic was the largest liner in the world at that time - and the latest flagship of the White Star Line. She was built at Harland and Wolff Shipyard in Belfast along with her sister ships the 'Olympic' and the 'Britannic'.

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