How many survived the Titanic Sinking?
According to the reports, The Titanic was like a giant bathtub with 16 separate sections meant to keep water out. People thought even if 4 sections filled up, the ship would still float! But when it hit the iceberg, more than 4 sections took on water, causing the Titanic to sink and over 1,000 people to die.
Out of 2,224 people on the Titanic, only around 706 were saved on lifeboats. This terrible event of “Titanic Sinking” where so many people died, was marked as one of the worst boat accidents in history.
Even though it happened a long time ago, there’s still some debate about how many people really died when the Titanic sank. The U.S. Senate Committee has said it was 1,517 people, but the British Board of Trade says it was 1,503. So, different people have different numbers in mind when they think about how many lives were lost in that tragic event.
Titanic Survivors: Who They Are, What Happened to Them After
A very famous movie called “Titanic” with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet came out in 1997. It made a lot of money, around $2.2 billion at the movie theaters, and was the most successful film for a while. But before it became a huge hit and made the actors super famous, it was based on a sad real-life event where more than 1,504 people lost their lives.
As of now, “there are no more living titanic survivors”. The last survivor Millvina Dean, who was just 2 months old at the time “Titanic Sank”, passed away in 2009 at the age of 97. But, for many years, people have been trying really hard to gather all the stories and information from the people who were on the Titanic and those who were saved.