The Titanic, which sank on April 15, 1912.
A hundred years ago this Sunday, a luxury ocean liner billed as "unsinkable” hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage. The Titanic sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic, leaving more than 1,500 passengers and crew dead. On this weekend's centennial, many are revisiting the story of the disaster and trying to piece together how it happened. Two University of Washington engineers play a key role in a documentary airing for the first time Sunday on the History Channel. The program sets out to test a leading theory about why the ship sank - that substandard rivets failed and caused the hull to rip open. The program follows a 2010 expedition by a group of researchers and naval historians to create the first complete map of the 15-square-mile wreck site. Experts studied the maps to come up with new theories about why the ship failed.
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