According to the passage, when titanic sank: (Passage: Ship builders never claim that a ship is unsinkable, but sinking of the “Titanic” in the Northern Sea should never have happened. It was well designed and carefully maintained. It carried proper number of lifeboats. It was thoroughly inspected a day before its fatal voyage. Yet hours later, the Titanicâ€? broke up and sank after colliding with an iceberg in the cold and still night. It went down so quickly that most of those on board, caught in their dark survived. The rest died of hypothermia before the rescuers could pick them from the sea. The final death toll was almost 1 However, there were many questions about the sinking of Titanic and why so many survivors were men in the prime of their life, while most of the dead were women, children and the elderly.)