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This week, Busch Gardens Tampa is celebrating a milestone anniversary for a very special relationship. Monday, April 16 marked the one-year anniversary of the first time park guests got to see an 8-week-old male cheetah cub and a 16-week-old female yellow Labrador puppy start to strike up a friendship that the park’s animal experts expect to last a lifetime.
100 years ago, on the night of the 14th of April, 1912, The White Star Liner R.M.S. Titanic struck an iceberg at 11.40pm on the starboard side.
And so through the next two hours, a series of dramas begin to unfold all over the ship - top to bottom, starboard side and port side, lower classes to the upper ranks of the Edwardian Era.
By 1.40am on the morning of April 15th, 1912, The entire bow section is already underwater and most of the lifeboats are gone (mostly half full with the exception of one boat with 70 ppl over its 65 ppl max cap), the steerage passengers, who were barred from going up to the first class decks, find themselves trapped on the stricken ship.
The band played on and by 2.15am, right after the bridge slipped under the waves with Capt. E.J. Smith, the first funnel collapses and washed away the collapsible rafts that were the last of the boats to leave.
The Grand Staircase imploded by the force of the Atlantic rushing in, and by 2.18am, everything was crashing forward as the she’s stern swung up to a staggering 30 degree angle.
The power failed and the lights went out as the ship splits into three parts and at last after staying vertical for the last moment, the Titanic slip beneath the waves at 2.20am. with 1500 people on board. Many died by hypothermia in minutes as the water was 28 degrees below freezing.
The remaining 705 survivors were rescued the next day by the steamship, Carpathia and were taken to New York.
