Titanic: Untold Stories (1998) Discovery Channel

[ATLANTICCITY24]

THE UNSINKABLE ENDED UP BEING THEE UNTHINKABLE.

[astranine]

Nearly half of those who died on the Titanic were crew members. Third class passengers had the second largest loss of life; second class passengers had the third largest loss of life. First class passengers had the fewest loss of life.

[JennaOfficiaal]

I can't watch things like this, I just want to jump on the next plane and boat and go and explore the titanic before it's gone.. GAAH, wanna go there noooow!

[7475flyersfan]

terrible way to go

[VEEFOURVENDETTA]

I thought the total was 1000 or more died?

[charlieiscool1000]

@VEEFOURVENDETTA No it was 1500 that died but more people died than survived i think nearly half were lost not sure how many were saved tho.

[JennaOfficiaal]

@charlieiscool1000 yep, 1500 died and 700 survived but are scarred for life:( I think it's sad..

[ykepumi]

is the voice, from god of war???



[merseywhogirl]

why does the 'actor' playing Ismay have an American accent?

[luigitheracoon12]

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[weezos12]

"what da fuk u lookin at?" -- 48:10

[JonnysKia]

I chose to watch this at just about the exact time she went down, on this date 99 years ago. Thank you for your wonderful videos.

[s3xyrixa]

I was just thinking while watching this.. and if the titanic was designed to hit things head on.. why didn't they just turn and ram the iceburg? Makes me wonder what would have happened if they did

[LostWhiteStarLiners]

@s3xyrixa Just a guess, but I'd bet the reason was because no officer would want to go back to shore and tell an inquiry that he had killed about 200 people because he thought it would be less harmful to the ship if he just rammed the iceberg head on. Especially when there was just as good a chance that he could have missed the iceberg all together by doing what he did in reality. 

[TRUEUNITED]

@LostWhiteStarLiners Yea you are right on your side. But unfortunately she hit the iceberg :(

[TheHarshlanguage]

@s3xyrixa It's a natural reaction to avoid a collision. Flood compartments were new technology so common practice was to avoid damage to the ship at all costs. There was another ship around the time of titanic that hit an iceberg head on and didn't sink. Plus people didn't overly realise how vast an iceberg could be under the water surface. Hindsight is a wonderful thing if you get given a second chance, but sadly you rarely do get chance to use it to change the situation you learnt from.

[KayBeeEee1983]

@TheHarshlanguage Hitting the iceberg head on would have still killed a bunch of people and cost a lot of money. There would be an investigation and Cap'n Smith would have had to explain why the Titanic was going so fast that it made navigating around icebergs impossible.

Another question you might ask yourself is: If another ship was within sight of the titanic, and the first lifeboat was lowered 30 minutes after the collision, why didn't they steer the Titanic toward the other ship?

[TheHarshlanguage]

@KayBeeEee1983 You can't say it wouldn't kill alot of people. The flood compartments would of contained no one. No one died from the initial impact of the titanic...so theoretically wouldn't of hurt anyone. As for money, surely a damaged but ultimately repairable ship is cheaper then losing a ship altogether. Infact white star line went bust. There was an investigation anyway. Ultimately not losing a ship would have been better all round.

[KayBeeEee1983]

@TheHarshlanguage "No one died from the initial impact of the titanic..."

I thought I heard some people died. In the mail room? Any stokers?

"surely a damaged but ultimately repairable ship is cheaper then losing a ship altogether."

Of course! But they were trying to avoid a COLLISION altogether, and they almost did!

"white star line went bust"

I assume that was, in part, because Ismay survived and people were pissed about that. I wouldn't want to give my money to that jackass.

[KayBeeEee1983]

@TheHarshlanguage "Ultimately not losing a ship would have been better all round."

....obviously....but it's not like Murdoch chose a long scrape on the side rather than a head-on collision.

"the boilers were flooded pretty quickly...."

Some were, but electricity was flowing and lighting the ship until about 2:00 AM.

[TheHarshlanguage]

@KayBeeEee1983 No murdoch didn't choose to scrape. If you go back to my original comment I explained the natural reaction to avoid a collision but if they had the knowledge of icebergs as we do now it would have probably altered his opinion. Yeah I know some boilers were working and even when the water eventually hit the boiler that would create stream to generate the turbines But the power that was needed to move that ship in water I'm not convinced there would have been enough left to do so.

[KayBeeEee1983]

@TheHarshlanguage

"I explained the natural reaction to avoid a collision but if they had the knowledge of icebergs as we do now it would have probably altered his opinion."

I doubt it. They weren't ignorant of icebergs. They knew a large percentage of the iceberg was underwater and knew they had the potential to sink ships.

[TheHarshlanguage]

@KayBeeEee1983 As for the question of steering, I'm not an expert on the structure of the ship and it's ability to move but I would think power would of gone completely with regards to moving the ship when the boilers were flooded. And the boilers were flooded pretty quickly....

[thevirgog2009]

@s3xyrixa If murdoch had just kept the engines going forward and turned it was almost a sure bet they would've missed that iceberg but murdoch reversed the engines and totally made the rudder useless which made the turning of the ship dramatically slower. but he had something like 37 seconds between fleet spotting the iceberg and the collision. that's not a lot of time to react and especially under huge pressures like he was under...

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