Who Sank the Titanic? (2008) Discovery Channel

[ATLANTICCITY24]

THE CALIFORNIAN SHIP KNEW THE ICE WAS BAD SO THEY STOPPED FOR THE NIGHT, TRYING TO SEND MESSAGES TO THE TITANIC,IN A SITUATION LIKE THIS THEY TURN THE WIRLESS OFF FOR THE NIGHT SO NOBODY COULD CONTACT THEM! THEN THEY SEE ROCKETS FROM THE TITANIC YET THEY THINK THE SHIP IS CELEBRATING ACCORDING TO ONE ACCOUNT. ANY ROCKET SHOULD HAVE A SHIP RACING TO A RESCUE. HAD THEY KEPT THAT WIRELESS ON THEY COULD HAVE SAVED THOSE ON BOARD THE TITANIC. IT SIMPLY MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL.

[Streetcar1743]

If Titanic would have had 48 liftboats with a capacity of 65 men per boat,. Titanic would have enough boats for every passenger on the ship. But after the sinking, having enough lifeboats for everybody on the ship is required.

[starmanskye]

WHY couldn't Capt. Smith steam at moderate speed towards the lights of (closest) trawler Samson or steamship Californian both seen to the west? OR: Steam towards one of the several icebergs that best afforded landing passengers, using the 16 lifeboats & 4 collapsable boats to ferry everyone offship? Especially since sea conditions were so calm & the alternative of waiting helplessly for assistance to arrive too late so dire. I've NEVER seen this hindsight possibility discussed anywhere.

[7475flyersfan]

man they could have used this prosecutor in the O.J case

[MrFloppy19]

he turned the helm the wrong way in the beginning



[whoohaaXL]

at 1:03:00 please don't tell me it says "S.S. Titanic" on that lifeboat, It should be "HMS".

[bfishy33]

@whoohaaXL No, it should be S.S., or R.M.S. for Royal Mail Steamer, but I believe S.S. is accurate.

[whoohaaXL]

Jennifer Hooper-McCarty is a cutie no doubt.

[whoohaaXL]

I saw the same explaination in another documentary. It was too much slag in the iron rivets. The iceberg exerted a minimum of 15,000 psi on the hull and the experiment made the rivet fail at just around 10,000 psi.

[shananagans5]

I am curious about the exact role of the wireless operator. Other accounts report that the main job of the wireless operators is to relay messages for passengers, not to assist in the navigation of the ship. Wireless was new then & not widely used for navigation so was relaying that info really his job? It seems like a total no brainer to us now but back then it doesn't seem so clear. I wonder what exactly was expected of the wireless operators. Was their role on ships not yet clearly defined?

[MaeganG1803]

This is an insightful documentary, but there is one major flaw. They mention eye witness testimony, but in this video they completely ignored the inconsistencies, and one of the most significant aspects of the disaster, the ship breaking in half during the sinking. For years, witnesses argued with each other over that. Many said that it did NOT break in half while others stood by the claim they saw it break. They should have looked further into differences in suvivor's accounts.

[shananagans5]

@MaeganG1803 Now they know it did indeed break in half. Why go over eyewitnesses that were not correct? If that was still in question I could see covering all eyewitness accounts but I don't see that it is relevant now. It is interesting how much accounts varied but doesn't really fit with this film.

[Scorch011]

it was the third worst though

[Scorch011]

now, this lies, it was not the greatest maritime loss in modern history, there are Two shipwrecks worse then the Titanic. The German Battleship Bismark 2000+ souls lost, and the worst ever, the German Cruise Liner that was a military ship in WW2 had over 12 thousand lives lost in it since it was carrying refugees from Prussia to Germany in late '44 early '45.

[1258688394]

@Scorch011 They probably meant the greatest peacetime disaster. Plus, I don't believe you can call the Bismarck sinking a 'disaster', as far as I am concerned, when the Royal Navy is gunning for you, your fate is not a disaster, but a certainty.

[PRINCE12170038]

chuck norris sank the titanic

[cubanangel1985]

The title is wrong; it should be "How the Titanic Really Sank"...

[Scorch011]

@cubanangel1985 actually, it's "Who Sank the Titanic" because they're looking for who chose the bad decisions