What You Need To Know About Herniated Discs. A disc lies between each bone in the spine. The discs are made of cartilage that helps in shock absorption and provides flexibility. The disc has two layers; the outer layer is strong while the inner layer has a soft jelly-like appearance.
Grief settled over the Carpathia as the realisation of the scale of the loss sank in â while 705 people had escaped, around 1,500 had died after the Titanic had hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.
Continue reading the main story. 1  LONDON â Millvina Dean, who as an infant passenger aboard the Titanic was lowered into a lifeboat in a canvas mail sack and lived to become the shipâs last survivor, died Sunday at a nursing home in Southampton, the English port from which the Titanic embarked on its fateful voyage, according to staff at the home.