Titanic TV Miniseries: Iceberg Collision

[aeroavia89]

big mistake here: andrews said the ship was about two hours, not smith.

[ConstructionCentral]

@aeroavia89 the ship was 2 hours? you mean HAD 2 hours?

[robertcarlisle90]

Ummm, why don't the lookouts have the binoculars?

[bruce8420]

This one actually showe the helmsman turning the wheel to the right. The helm was rigged backwards in 1912, opposite to what the rudder was actually doing. This harked back to when ships were steered by tiller. To turn to port (left), you put the tiller starboard. I also read somewhere that the Masaba's ice message was not delivered to the bridge because of protocol-it wasn't addressed to the caoptain. If it had been, it would have been taken directly to the bridge.

[ConstructionCentral]

turn WHORE turn

[raulox71]

Here is not Thomas Andrews the ingenieur. Great mistake.

[CFLsurfr]

I'm not going to go into whether Smith's previous encounters with the Olympic had anything to do with Titanic hitting an iceburg. However, I am tired of everyone seeing Ismay as the only bad guy in the situation, he wasn't, Smith had MANY near misses and collisions in his career, and was somewhat of a wrekless captian himself, how he become Commandant of White Star Line is beyond me. With that said, I DO prefer Smith's lines in this vs James camerons, james made smith to be a complete pushover.

[MDCAngryWalnut]

Still prefer james cameron's film

[Jeansschwimmer]

Smith's "responsibility" goes even further. He left Southampton too fast and the suction of his mighty ship pulled the old "City of New York" from its moorings and made her swing into Titanic's way. Titanic had to stop until the tugs had cleared the situation,

S'he never made up that loss of time and would have missed the iceberg if she had not been exactly there at that minute.

[playfulpaul1985]

im wondering what is more truthful to what really happened in realality this or james camerons version? or none of them?

[JoeyVoicesProduction]

@playfulpaul1985 this one

[randomrazr]

@JoeyVoicesProduction no not this one...

[edu16995]

@JoeyVoicesProduction the Titanic's hadn't binoculars, so James Cameron's version is truthful for me.

[JustPhilNY]

@JoeyVoicesProduction I'd go with the Cameron one. It did not omit Thomas Andrews.

[DJOZ88]

@JustPhilNY Not to mention the fact that they picked the wrong Alice Cleaver (the nanny wasn't a killer) , many sets were completely inaccurate (the ship missing a deck, not to mention facing the wrong way when she left Southampton) and gross misrepresentation of other characters like Molly Brown and the Alison Family.

[BamBogleBlaster]

@playfulpaul1985 Neither's particularly close, but James Cameron's is closer. They don't even turn the wheel the right way in this one. They both make the mistake of showing the engines being reversed. "Full astern" was never signalled (as later evidenced by both Hitchins and Lightoller) as there would never have been time to reverse in the seconds before the collision; the engine room was signalled to "stop" instead - this was only just carried out before the collision.

[playfulpaul1985]

what is better james camerons version or this one?

[rags015]

I have this one on VHS. It was finished in a hurry to piggy-back on Cameron's Titanic pre-release hysteria!

[er10b]

'hard over starboard'

a few seconds later

'hard over sir'

I thought turning the ship's wheel took longer than that!

[RobertMuldooJP]

@er10b rofl...I know...it made ma laugh in real life. Cameron > this

[JustPhilNY]

I cannot help but wonder if this is nearly as bad as either of the animated Titanic movies.

[JoeyVoicesProduction]

@JustPhilNY I doubt it. This movie includes a lot of history facts that James Cameron's Titanic missed. For example, they didn't include the SS California in the JC's Titanic and they did here. It's not as bad as it is boring.

[JustPhilNY]

@JoeyVoicesProduction At the same time, it OMITS a lot of the history that Cameron got. Where's Thomas Andrews here? Why are all the sets wrong?

By the way, they did shoot a scene with the California for Cameron's version. It's actually a bit better than the one in here, simple yet highly ominous.

[snakes3425]

@JustPhilNY

The Californian scene was omitted from Cameron's film but this one you can tell the movie was filmed on the Queen Mary. Thomas Andrews being omitted, and you have George C. Scott who is famous for his role as General Patton playing Captain Smith as well General Patton. One thing they also got right with this is the story of Allison Hayes, she was killed because her mother wouldn't leave without her brother, unaware that the baby and the nanny had already fled in boat 11

[pm41224]

Murdoch uses a pair of binoculars to get a better view of the iceberg just after it has been sighted. In reality, due to a mix up at Southampton no Titanic officers had binoculars.

[pm41224]

0L24 Murdoch uses a pair of binoculars to get a better view of the iceberg just after it has been sighted. In reality, due to a mix up at Southampton no Titanic officers had binoculars.

[applefan2151]

The crew on the titanic didn't even have binoculars. If they did, they would have seen the iceberg earlier they would have avoided it.

[Id1443890780]

@applefan2151

On ships binoculars are used to identify objects not to scan the horizen as this would limit their vision and they did not know that there was an iceburg in front of the ship so they would have no reason to be for one.

[sangurucuari]

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaat u no stop engineeeee man

[MultiDocdoom]

their is no laughing any time a ship is damaged or anything it is taken as the most serious event. their is no joking those rich ppl can laugh but if they knew that the iceberge was their end they would have ran for their familys and to the boats

[sangurucuari]

shiiiiiiiiiiiit

[ChristianCageCarisma]

Sure the rich smugs r all laughin n jokin at first but as u all know...this was NO joke

[andromedarr]

A little incorrect movie...the engines cant be reversed that quick, a reverse takes anywhere from 20-40 seconds. And in the movie, the ship hit, with almost no speed, and then she started to drive again, with the engines reversed :D

[AirCanadaA55555A]

@andromedarr Then why not look at the James Cameron's version of the film!

[andromedarr]

@AirCanadaA55555A James Cameroon's is also incorrect :D

But i like this version better, as the leak is better

[AirCanadaA55555A]

@andromedarr But still, beside of what is said, it is more likely for Titanic to hit an iceberg with snow rather than a dry ice glacier!

[hallo1521]

@andromedarr

Reverse a that big engine withhin 20 seconds?

No way I think the masses are too big at a 4 storey high engine, which weigh more than 100 tons

[erikals2]

@hallo1521 it would take about 5 minutes to totally slow the engine down to a complete stop then another 5 minutes to spin it up to full speed in reverse.

[otester]

@erikals2

So what did happen then? (slow come to stop? no reverse?).

[TitanicAddict1912]

that is so bad compared to the 1997 movie.

[MetalSanke]

The captain should of immediately ordered everybody to abandon ship. The death toll would of been far less.

[GunShooter1314]

@MetalSanke well that depends if they abandoned ship right then, sure all the life boats would've been launched, but with the ship still moving, it could have caused the life boats to collapse and if that didn't happen, u still had the other half of the people on board,

[berbagod1994]

whats the olympic hitting hawke got to do with the titanics collision?

[JoeyVoicesProduction]

@berbagod1994 if the Olympic haven't hit the Hawke, White Star would have releashed Titanic on March 20th, instead of April 10th, and ice tends to be in the shipping lanes every April from Greenland. Smith changed Titanic's course, but Bride didn't deliver Mesaba's message to the bridge, which decribes an iceberg directly in Titanic's path. Smith didn't know about Mesaba's message, so, with Ismay's message in mind, Smith didn't slow down Titanic before he went to bed and sealed the ship's fate.

[MrTitanic9]

k thx (:

[MrTitanic9]

where can i buy this moive

[JoeyVoicesProduction]

@MrTitanic9 eBay or Amazon

[Frost770]

The quotes during the incident are famous. Why they changed them here, I have no idea. That's the only credit I'll give James Cameron (that and how the actors matched their true characters so well)

[notBMW18]

The last couple minutes of this clip are the best; describes more the structure of the ship and what could have been done vs. what was said in the 1997 movie.

[govy619club18]

this looks proper fake

[golfer82484]

It is from the '96 movie

[parfitt21]

this looks really kinda fake

[braccheus1]

@parfitt21 Low budget production . . .

[captainofthetitanic]

i hated it how the guy hesitated

[vcwsmit]

Funny series! I see a lot of resemblance with the 1997 film. Cameron pulled a little bit of the robery i see.. :)

[calum361]

It takes no time a all for the quarter mater to put the helm hard over-bad mistake

[Davis4037]

i believe this is from titanic 1996

[swallowstreak226]

I WANT MORE!!!!!!!