The Lusitania was a very large ship. It was made to transport people
from the US to England. It had many decks, and each deck is labeled like the
ships now days. There is a deck for the first class people, a deck for second
class people, an entertainment deck and some lower decks for storages and
The day was May 7, 1915 just nine months into World War I. This
day was to be the last voyage for the Lusitania. A German U-boat shot a
torpedoe at the ship and sunk it within 20 minutes. Hundreds of people died
over one hundred Americans. The biggest controversy over the sinking of
the ship was, how can a ship that was so big and built to with stand up to 3
A lot of people speculated and said the reason for the sinking was, the
ship was carrying military bombs and when the torpedoe penatrated the hull it
ignited the bombs and blew out the whole bottom. It was true that the
Lusitania was carrying military weaponry, but it was just ammunition and
shrapnal, nothing that had to do with bombs.
So how did it sink? Well in the movie for the first time explorer and
scientist Dr. Robert Ballard discoverer of R.M.S. Titanic and the German
battleship Bismarck, takes out new technology that will go down to the wreck
sight and photograph the wreck and get up close and personal to see the
holes in the hull to determine what actually caused the sinking of the Lusitania
What they discoverd was, it was all bad luck. As they where looking
around the ship on the ground they discovered coal pieces laying along the
side. Now the side that the torpedoe entered was on the side that is was liying
on. But when they looked for the giant hole that would have been produced
from a giant explosion where the supposed bombs and explosive cargo was
So they went back to the coal and went to an
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