Titanic | Asia's Titanic

RMS Titanic before departing Southampton, England. Photo taken Good Friday 5 April 1912

The RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by White Star Line, a British shipping company. It was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, United Kingdom. The RMS Titanic was the world's largest passenger steamship of her time.

The sinking of the RMS Titanic on the night of April 14, 1912 resulted in the deaths of 1,517 people, and made it as one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.

Meanwhile, the Asia's Titanic will premiere on the National Geographic Channel on August 25, 2009 at 8PM. It is a full-length documentary film about the tragic fate of the MV Doña Paz which collided with an oil tanker back in 1987. This docu-film was directed by Yam Laranas.

The "Doña Paz" was a passenger ferry that sank after colliding with the oil tanker "Vector" on December 20,1987.

The "Doña Paz" was en route from Catbalogan City, on Samar Island, Philippines, to Manila when, while it was in the Tablas Strait, between the islands of Mindoro and Tablas, it collided with a small oil tanker, the "Vector", which was carrying 8,800 barrels of petroleum products.

The "Vector"'s cargo ignited and caused a fire that rapidly spread onto the "Doña Paz", which sank within minutes. Two of the 13 crew members aboard the "Vector" survived but all 58 crew of the "Doña Paz" died.

It is the deadliest ferry disaster and the worst peace-time maritime disaster in history.

The Asia's Titanic was done through first hand accounts of survivors and rescuers, archival footage, photos and a re-enactment of the collision.