10 Mistakes That Sank The Titanic | The History of The Titanic | Channel 5 #History

On its maiden voyage, White Star's RMS Titanic sank in the early morning hours of the 15th April 1912 after hitting an iceberg on its way from Southampton to New York. Watch with us the 10 mistakes that led to The Titanic sinking.

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[cryptidian]

The Olympic got hit in one spot, where as Titanic got a long gash across the side and across multiple compartments. That's a night and day difference.

[paulakpacente]

Thanks for sharing. My grandmother was 11 years old when this happened. She was living in Chicago when this occurred and told how upset the people were. She gave me MANY history lessons before she died in 1975. RIP Grandma Frances.

[alanluscombea]

They got ice warnings and were still going pretty quick. Even told another ship to shut up when they tried to warn titanic. Sad event that didnt have to happen.

[Jaytha]

Literally everything that could of went wrong, did go wrong.

[tonycypriot]

There's another Mistake the documentary didn't mention and that was 2nd officer Lightoller's decision to open the D deck gangway door on the portside to use to offload more passengers into Lifeboats being lowered. Inevitably this evacuation procedure wasn't used, but the door remained open of which caused a noticeable list in Titanic halfway through the sinking and undoubtedly increased the rate of water. After water reached D deck she had less than hour left.

[Rankutubuki]

Because of the Titanic, todays modern sea safety precautions are realized and executed… Sometimes bad things need to happen for us to realize and improve.

[Bradford]

This is why you check your ego at the door in the ocean or the air.

[StillChrist]

Full speed, low visibility, near peak iceberg month, max probability iceberg area, night, cold, not enough lifeboats. Things were "doubtful" long before the captain ordered to be notified if anything became at all doubtful.

My great grandfather survived this. Because he wasn’t there

[djjazzyjeff]

Interesting video. I have always known that Titanic was basically the prime example of "a series of unfortunate events" but I had never known quite how true that statement was. There's so many things that if just one had been handled better, it may have never sank at all.

[donnix]

My great grandfather Albert Horswill was a crewman on the RMS Titanic. He survived the wreck on cutter lifeboat number one. He was ordered into the boat by Second Officer Murdoch, on the less populated Starboard side. The lifeboat held 40 but it was let out to sea with only 12, 7 crewmen and 5 first class passengers. He and the crew were accused of taking a bribe from Cosmo Duff Gordon and his designer wife Lucy Duff Gordon to avoid returning to the wreck to pick up passengers because they were worried the lifeboat would be swamped and sink. This was not true, they were given 5 pounds each by Cosmo as merely a kind gesture to compensate the men for lost wages. White Star quit paying the men as soon as the ship went down.

[brianbommarito]

I agree with most everything they say in this video, it is quite accurate. Except one thing: the binoculars. No doubt, the lookouts should have had access to their own pair of binoculars, because it could’ve helped them spot an iceberg in the daytime. But I don’t think it would’ve helped very much that night. And it would’ve helped even less if there a haze-like optical illusion. The lookouts were in the wrong place to spot an iceberg at night, they should’ve been closer to the bow and closer to being at surface level with the sea. Then they could’ve used the starlight to help them see the horizon and the berg’s outline. But from the crow’s nest, on a moonless night, they couldn’t tell where the sea and the sky come together.

[IntrepidMilo]

The fire was in boiler room 5. The Titanic was designed to stay afloat with any two joining compartments flooded. She could even stay afloat if three of her first five compartments were flooded. She could even stay afloat of the first four compartments were flooded. The iceberg tore open, the fore peak, numbers 1 and 2 holds, the mail room and boiler room 6 and two feet of boiler room 5. That is five compartments open to the sea long before the supposed weakness of coal chute of boiler room 5.

[davinp]

Titanic hit the iceberg in just the right way to sink it

[billvose]

I had the unique experience of testing samples of the Titanic's hull brought up by Dr. Ballard. He brought it to the Newport News Shipbuilding laboratory for testing. The tensile strength was reasonable for what was referred to as "free machining" steel, which contains a bit of sulfur. Unfortunately the sulfur forms strings in the steel resulting in weak areas similar to perforations in a cardboard box. The real eye opener though were the Charpy impact tests where a 10mm square bar is notched on one side to provide a weak spot. It is struck with a hammer in a special machine and can be heated or cooled for the test. I tested them at 30° F, the water temperature in the North Atlantic the night of the sinking. The specimens broke like they were made of glass. I do not remember the values, but they were low enough to be very alarming, in addition to the cold worked rivets with slag inclusions, the hull plates would have shattered rather then tear, needing little force to open a long gash.

[irenedezwaan]

The fact that this tragedy was so completely avoidable has always made me so mad!

[NOTHEOTHERGUY]

The horror those people went through. I do wonder what guilt the people in the life boats felt.

[canadianfortrump]

I've read so much information over the years about the Titanic. This is the first time I've heard about passengers leaving port holes open when they left their rooms. At the time they weren't aware that the ship was sinking but it was still foolish knowing what a cold night it was.

[jackkircher]

1:08- For 75 years, it was believed that the burg cut a 300 foot hole in its right side. The discovered only in the past two decades via sonar that the damage created by the burg was 12 square feet of popped rivets. Later they made another discovery. Not only did she sideswipe it but ran over it as well. They also found it had a double Hull! It took several dives to find both pieces!

[icetooththehybrid]

At the end when they said “but Murdoch could have never made that call” Wow that gave me chills XD