why did some titanic victims get buried at sea and some get buried in canada?
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Death and the Titanic Another highly probable cause of death was injury. Because some of the bodies retrieved from the water by the recovery ships had been too badly damaged to preserve through embalming and consequently had to be buried at sea, it’s very likely that some passengers died as a result of catastrophic injuries.
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Experts Split on Possibility of Remains at Titanic Site The state of those bodies would depend on how exposed to currents of oxygenated water — and the deep-sea scavengers that thrive on it — they were over the years. Decomposition slows if bodies get cut off from the open sea, reducing oxygen levels and scavengers, says William J. Broad in The New York Times.
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CSI Titanic : Who Died How? Tuesday 26th June 2007. One of the iconic images many of us carry from the sinking of Titanic is of the 705 people in lifeboats listening to the death cries of 1,500-plus people drowning in the North Atlantic after the ship sank. The trouble is, that’s not what happened.
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- The Titanic Aftermath (and more!). For 150 victims of the Titanic, Halifax, Nova Scotia (on the East Coast of Canada) proved to be the final stop for the doomed voyage.
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How Deep Did the Titanic Sink? The RMS Titanic was en route from Southampton, England to New York City in the United States when it struck an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912. The sinking occurred about 400 miles south of the coast of Newfoundland.
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- Only 59 of the bodies placed in the morgue were shipped out by train to their families. The remaining victims of the Titanic were buried in three Halifax cemeteries between May 1 and June 12, 1912. Nineteen are in the Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery, ten are in the Baron de Hirsch Jewish Cemetery and 121 are in the Fairview Lawn Cemetery.
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The Titanic's last lifeboat: Amazing photos show vessel containing three rotting bodies - including a man still in his dinner jacket - which was found by passing liner a month later and 200 miles away Discovery: A lifeboat from the passing liner, bottom right, is cast off to investigate the lifeboat from the doomed Titanic, marked with an 'X'. Painful end: The body of first class passenger Thomson Beattie, 37, left, who was dressed in his dinner jacket was among the three found on board the lifeboat.
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Experts Split on Possibility of Remains at Titanic Site While seeking to enhance their custodial role, federal officials are now pressing the question of the missing dead. After the Titanic sank, searchers recovered 340 bodies. Thus, of the roughly 1,500 people killed in the disaster, about 1,160 bodies remain lost.
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CSI Titanic : Who Died How? That some deaths may have other causes is a given; however, these eight are the most likely causes of death among Titanic’s passengers and crew: 1  1. Drowning: The most commonly ascribed cause of death related to Titanic’s sinking did not in fact kill very many people…and most of those died within the ship herself. For the purposes of this article, we will treat drowning by its simplest definition, death following the immersion of the mouth and nostrils in liquid and the inhalation of liquid.
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A mass funeral then a watery grave: Rare picture shows priest praying over Titanic victims before they are buried at sea The image - which has been discovered a century on from the disaster in 1912 - shows body bags stacked on the windswept deck while two crewman tip up a stretcher to drop a victim over the side. 1  First picture: Records show that 166 out of 306 bodies from the Titanic retrieved by the Mackay Bennett were buried at sea.
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Titanic Facts 2015 Anniversary: 19 Surprising Details You May Not Know About The Famed Ship And Its Tragic Ending It took 73 years to locate the Titanic’s wreckage. Several attempts to find the ship were unsuccessful until a 1985 expedition discovered the wreck 13.2 miles from the ship’s last known location. The remains of the Titanic lie 3,700 meters (12,000 feet) below the surface of the ocean.
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Titanic wreckage finally safe from underwater theft Titanic wreckage finally safe from underwater theft. One hundred years after it sank below the Atlantic’s cold waves, the wreck of the Titanic is set to finally be protected from underwater grave robbers. The unsinkable four-funnelled ship the SS Titanic.
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A mass funeral then a watery grave: Rare picture shows priest praying over Titanic victims before they are buried at sea 'The wild Atlantic may rage and toss but far below in the calm untroubled depth they rest in peace'. Reverend Hind, Mackay Bennett's priest. The Mackay Bennet was a Canadian cable laying ship and the owners of the Titanic, White Star Line, contracted it at a rate of £300 a day to recover the bodies.
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The Grave of the Titanic The remains of the Titanic were found in 1985 by Dr. Robert Ballard, an oceanographer and marine biologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. When he located the Titanic, he saw that, as some survivors reported, the ship had broken apart.
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Titanic dead buried at sea in haunting photograph made public for the first time Bleak image: Mass funeral for victims. Bodies stacked high in bags, a mass funeral is held for dozens of Titanic victims before they are buried at sea. The haunting photo was taken days after the ship hit an iceberg on April 15, 1912, but has just been made public. It is now set to fetch £5,000 at auction. In the rare snap, two men can be seen dropping a victim over the side of body recovery ship the Mackay Bennett. The boat’s Rev Hind leads the service as the solemn crew look on.
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- Last Titanic survivor, a baby put in a lifeboat, dies at 97. 1  Millvina Dean taken ill with pneumonia in England, after Hollywood stars DiCaprio and Winslet came to her aid. 2  Millvina Dean taken ill with pneumonia in England, after Hollywood stars DiCaprio and Winslet came to her aid.
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Titanic sinks At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada. Sign Out Shows
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Why did so many people die on the titanic? · just now. Report Abuse. Many reasons 1. they sank in freezing water so most people that jumped died instantly. the water also had gas/oil from the engines so that water was now cold and unbreathable. 2. the way in which the titantic was hit made the break 1/3 and 2/3 part had the engines.
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Last survivor of the Titanic dies, aged 97 The last survivor with memories of the sinking — and the last American survivor — was Lillian Asplund, who was 5 at the time. She died in May 2006 at the age of 99. The second-last survivor, Barbara Joyce West Dainton of Truro, England, died in October 2007 aged 96. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Titanic at 100: Be Among the Last to Dive to Wreck Site? (See a Titanic crash-scene interactive .). The ship's whereabouts remained a mystery until the wreck was found on September 1, 1985, about 380 miles (611 kilometers) southeast of Newfoundland (map) . Since then, people have debated about how to best protect the Titanic, and what type of access to the site should be allowed.
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Wreck of the Titanic found A+E Networks. Seventy-three years after it sunk to the North Atlantic ocean floor, a joint U.S.-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic. The sunken liner was about 400 miles east of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic.
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R.M.S Titanic - History and Significance The sinking of Titanic was one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history and quickly became a catalyst for change. The United States Congress held hearings on the casualty that resulted in a report and measures to improve safety of navigation. Similar investigations were held in the United Kingdom.
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Wreck of the RMS Titanic The wreck of the RMS Titanic is located about 370 miles (600 km) south-southeast off the coast of Newfoundland, lying at a depth of about 12,500 feet (3,800 m) or about 2.4 miles (3.9 km). The liner sank in April 1912, when it hit an iceberg during her maiden voyage.
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What happened to the bodies after the Titanic sank? A minority of bodies were buried at sea, including a few recovered from one of Titanic’s collapsible lifeboats and several that were recovered by a steamer traveling through the area. The Carpathia, the ship that rescued the Titanic’s survivors, also buried a few bodies during the rescue effort.
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RMS Titanic There were 5 people who didn't die. They soon died when the country sunk into… the ocean. There was a little teacup terrier that saved the 5 people, but it was too late. The 5 people were already dead. those 5 people were the owners of the little puppy. The little puppy stayed with the 5 people until the puppy sunk and drowned into the ocean.
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Violin from 'the band that played on' as Titanic sank is discovered... and could become ill-fated liner's most valuable ever artefact Watery tomb: The bow of the Titanic at rest on the bottom of the North Atlantic, about 400 miles southeast of Newfoundland. 'May I take this opportunity to express my appreciation to you personally for your gracious intervention on my behalf.'.