RMS Titanic due to design changes requested by Ismay and a temporary pause in work occasioned by the need to repair "Olympic", which had been in a collision in September 1911. Had "Titanic" been finished earlier, she might well have missed her collision with an iceberg. "Titanic"s sea trials began at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, 2 April 1912, just two days after her fitting out was finished and eight days before she was due to leave Southampton on her maiden voyage. The trials were delayed for a day due to bad weather, but by Monday morning it was clear and fair. Aboard
RMS Titanic in popular culture Canada" series, is set after the disaster and features a fictional heroine trying to cope with the events. In Stephen Baxter's 2017 sequel to "The War of the Worlds", "The Massacre of Mankind", the "Titanic" is mentioned as having survived its encounter with the iceberg due to it being armored with aluminum developed from Martian technology. Since the discovery of the wreck, several video games have been released with an RMS "Titanic" theme for various platforms; most of these are either about the player being a passenger on the doomed ship trying to escape, or a diver exploring and possibly