The sinking of the titanic was caused by a huge iceberg. The iceberg ripped six holes in two layers of steel.  Then the titanic started sinking slowly. Many ships started sending messages that they they are sinking and they need to try to save people. The captain found out that they were going to be completely under water in two hours. A band was playing while this was happening. The safety compartments started to fill up with water.   The people started to  run up to the lifeboats.    The women and children ran to get into the lifeboats while the men helped them in.   And the band played on.  All the plates and china and silverware fell of the selves and kept hitting the ladies that where the cooks while they ran out of the kitchen.   Then the Titanic broke in half.  The Titanic was now sinking faster.   And people were forced to either get in the boats or jump off either side. The Grand staircase had a glass roof over top leading to the water breaking the glass so that water and glass came pouring on the people.   The people were trying to get on  lifeboats or trying to get away from the water. Half of the titanic was under water.  A close by ship called the  Carpathia came to help the people on board the lifeboats. The people that decided to jump off would die in fifteen minutes or less because when you jump off it would feel like hitting concrete. The first part to flood was the heating, fuel,and safety  compartments.    Many people did not listen to the warnings and did not try to get onto the  lifeboats. The people that did not listen to the warning were surrounded by water or dead. Some people in the lifeboats rowed back to look for survivors and one lady named Margaret Brown helped people onto the lifeboats and also took turns rowing the lifeboats.   The Carpathia  started to get close enough to save the people on the lifeboats. The titanic was now three quarters underwater.When the Carpathia picked the people up the people decided that there was no turning back And the people on the lifeboats set rockets off or smoke to let the Carpathia know that they needed help and so the Carpathia saw them, and picked them up and dropped them off at America.   Many people did not survive. The people that did survive told everybody about what happened.  It was a sad time in history that we remember.