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There have been many maritime disasters. The number of people affected by the disasters usually is the significance. The most significant disasters usually stay in peoples' minds forever, even though they were not directly involved. The Titanic was a luxury lin ....

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.... who died, and he was the builder of the ship, and John George Phillips who died while trying to send morse code and no one responded ( Maddocks 126-127). Among the other people who died was the captain Edward J. Smith who went down with the rest of his crew ("Mute Testimony Of The Wreckage" 702). Most of the people sacrificed their own lives to save their families. The Americans and the French spent many hours looking for the wreckage of the Titanic. The French and the Americans joined forces to find the wreckage, and during this period the French revealed their new sonar equipment that enabled them to survey a half-mile strip of land each time ....