The Titanic, a luxury British ship, hit an iceberg and sank early in the morning on April 15, 1912 Sophie Dodd is a writer for PEOPLE. She previously worked as an editorial assistant at PEOPLE ...

The sinking of the Titanic has been recreated ... famous shipwrecks recreated with the classic building blocks, the Titanic model forms part of a showcase of recreated, sunken, vessels going ...

Even more striking are a wave of TikTok videos asserting that the Titanic did not sink at all. Many of them have racked up millions of views – never mind that the claim fails to hold water.