This story appears in the April 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The wreck sleeps in darkness, a puzzlement of corroded steel strewn across a thousand acres of the North Atlantic seabed.

On April 18, 1912, the RMS Carpathia ... distance to Titanic was 58 nautical miles (67 miles) and was expected to take three and a half hours to reach the doomed liner as its top speed was ...

A shipping register entry from April 10, 1912, logs the first and final departure of the luxury liner RMS ... Titanic struck the iceberg it was travelling at around 22.5 knots - very close to its ...

Just a few days before, on April 10, the RMS Titanic had set off from Southampton ... before sailing at top speed towards New York. But shortly before midnight on April 14, the Titanic struck an ...

The RMS Carpathia came to the rescue of stranded Titanic passengers after the shipwreck and sinking, saving over 700 ...

“They kept the lights and the power working to the end, to give the crew time to launch the lifeboats safely with some light ...

At 2:20am Tuesday morning, we marked 113 years since the RMS Titanic went down at the head into the North Atlantic Ocean. The sinking shocked the world in 1912, but ...

The RMS Titanic sank ... it tore a hole in the side of the ship, rupturing at least five of the watertight compartments. By 2:20 a.m., the stern of the Titanic sank below the water, and the ...

So, how long is the journey? Nearly the same as a cinematic flick. According to RMS Titanic Inc., which is tasked with the preservation of the wreckage and holds exclusive salvage rights ...

On a cold, dark night in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, the "unsinkable" RMS Titanic did the unimaginable: It sank. While many of us have heard the story (and seen the 1997 movie ...

Digital details revealed in a new documentary corroborate passenger accounts about the last hours — and seconds — of the RMS Titanic, which sank 113 years ago. The makers of “Titanic ...