How The Titanic Sank 😔

[areafurrynone]

Fun fact, survivors of Titanic actually described the ship snapping in half but they weren’t believed because of how dark it probably was when this happened. And this was mostly thought to be a myth until we actually rediscovered the Titanic at the bottom of the ocean, split in two.

[NeoRacer]

Bro entered his villain arc by breaking the ship using his branded iceberg

[donnellyb]

I remember watching a documentary where the survivors of the sinking were told there was no possible way the ship broke in 2. That the cold and hysteria made them imagine the Titanic could break. They were gaslit until the wreckage was found decades later

[CamTheWarlock]

The most terrifying part I can think of for this is the drowning for the people who weren’t able to fit onto the lifeboats, even if they just made it. The ocean is DEEP and freezing, and it was incredibly dark, so if you couldn’t get onto a boat you’d die slowly to the cold with nothing but an absolute abyss of darkness in every direction around you. The shock alone would make it nearly impossible to move, so for the next few second to minutes, you’d be stuck with the only sensory input being crying or screaming, and seeing nothing but the pitch black void that is the deep ocean.

[Famous_From_Commenting]

“Sir, who was the person behind the sinking of the Titanic”
“Zack D Films”

[eliasziad]

"The Unsinkable Ship" has got to be the best jynx in history.

[zanesnyder]

Honestly, the fact we found it is incredible

[tensa.]

I studied material resistance for a semester and I learned some things about the titanic that caused it's sink, the ship shouldn't be that damaged with a iceberg, even though it was the best metal alloy for the time, it still is fragile in cold temperatures, another possible cause for it to sink that easily, is that it was used cheap rivets to finish the ship in time, because they run out of the planned ones.

[I.R.D.O]

"Even God cant sink my ship" moments before disaster

[silentgamer]

She got hit harder than the worst situation her architects could even begin to imagine, and she still survived for almost 3 hours with her lights burning until the last moments.

[randallsmerna]

You forgot the main flaw was that the bulkheads didn't go all the way to the ceiling so water flowed over them filling other compartments down the line.

[saanvienthangi]

Fun fact, if the captain did not try to turn the ship away from the ice berg, only the first 3 or 4 compartments would have been damaged and it would not have costed all those lives

[westhebest]

To be fair, the Titanic and Olympic’s designs were pretty impressive, especially at the time. A lot of people thought that the ship was unsinkable. They should have put covers on top of the bulkheads to prevent the water from spilling over.

[Gabriel-kamov-]

more than 100 years after the titanic finally has a new wreck to keep it company, i'm looking at you titan 💀

[nestcamo]

Whether the ship split in two before sinking was contested, until the wreck was found in 1985 and proved the ship split in two.
What many people arent aware of is just how dark it was the night of the sinking. There was no moon that night. The lookouts only realized there was an iceberg when they noticed its silhouette blocked out the stars on the horizon. Many of the survivors were women and children who were far away from the ship when it split. Once the lights went out on the ship, the entire area was plunged in darkness. The craziest part to me is how gradually it was sinking, until it broke in half and was completely underwater in under 3 minutes.
I forget who exactly, but one of the survivors who lived in new york couldnt go by the baseball stadium when a game was being played because the roar of the crowd reminded them of the people who went down with the ship.

Side note, i was just reading accounts from survivors and one of my favorites basically says " the poop deck was filled with men from 3rd class and there wasnt any lifeboats left. I heard someone yell out " come to the bar!" I walked in and saw the bar tender with a bottle of whiskey in each hand, filling up tumblers in front of him. The bar tender yelled out " she's going down, so drink up!"

A fair amount of survivors they pulled from the water were hammered drunk.

Lastly, another aspect i dont see mentioned is just how inundated the water in that area was with icebergs. One survivor on lifeboat #15 had counted nineteen icebergs. When the sun began to rise, the survivors were stunned by thd shear amount of icebergs that surrounded them. This is why if you search " photo of iceberg that sank titanic" there are at least 6 photos taken icebergs in the immediate area that are possible culprits. 2 photos showing, what appear to me at least, different icebergs, both reported to have red paint smears on them. Not sure if anyone has yet, but if both could be recolorized to see if the grey hue in the photo is actually red from the ship ( i dont know how recolorizing black and white photos work and if thats even possible.
In history, there are a countless number of times when, if just one minor thing or event went a little differently, things may have turned out completely different. This is true for the titanic as well. The titanic had a telegraph machine on board. It was more of a novelty, used by upper class passengers who would pay to send a message. The one on board the titanic had malfunctioned and was inoperable for a few days. The day of the sinking, the operator managed to get the machine working. Since the machine was down, there was a back log of messages that needed to be sent out. The way telegraph machines worked, the closer the source of the signal, the louder it was. The Carpathia was a ship only a few miles from titanic. Close enough were people on the titanic could see its lights on the horizon. The Carpathia wanted to inform the titanic that it had stopped for the night because of the icebergs. When the Carpathia tried to inform the titanic, the overworked radio operator was startled by the extremely loud signal coming from the Carpathia. The titanic operator fired back " quiet, quiet. I am working. I am busy" if he only had allowed that message to be transmitted, who knows how different things could have panned out.
( for those who are somewhat familiar, and wonder why i chose to say "quiet" in leiu of the more commonly quoted "shut up shut up", this is because the phrase shut up has very rude and some what foul and aggressive connotations. In reality, the operator used a shorthand system, known to all operators at the time, of D.D.D. this was used between operators all the time and didn't carry any negative implications, like the phrase " shut up shut up!" does.

Side tangent. Its very common for me to hear a kernel of history from an event, decide to delve deeper into and read up on that event, just to find out the original kernel of information that originally sparked my interest was either an over exaggerating, missed the point, or conveys the exact opposite of what happened. It's to the point where if i hear any quip regarding an event in history, im immediately skeptical about the validity to the quip.
The most egregious example of this, and bless you if you managed to read this far down, is " we pardoned the ww2 japanese doctors in exchange for their research" this is the most egregious example of " yes, but also no" i have ever come across. Ill explain further to anyone that wants to know

[Thee_skyeler]

I read the titanic in school and here what i found interesting:

1: they were about 2 people working radio room, and this ship sinking wouldve been prevented if they didnt ignore the california and the carpathia (i think) messages, about icebergs ahead, and the Californian was stopping for a night because they were trapped in a field of ice. But no, instead of stopping they went full speed ahead.

2: the reason most people doed os because they didnt have enough lifeboats. They couldnt stack them because the 1st class wouldnt get a good view, they couldnt put them next to eachother or else the walking space would be small.Also they locked people in rooms, because i guess they didnt want 3rd class in them. They also didnt even fill every boat up… meaning the people locked on the rooms went down with the titanic. And of boats flipped of the waves the titanic made, the people in them drowned because of the water, their bodies went numb.

[ROBOLX-Cool]

R.I.P TO THE PEOPLE WHO DIED IN THERE 😢

[cherrykamino]

It's been almost two decades and I'm still so interested about Titanic, I can never let go of how beautiful she was and how tragic it ended.

[Kaleepaningayan]

Even after all these years, the story of the Titanic still captures our imagination and teaches us about the power of human resilience and tragedy. History that continues to haunt us.

[lilredpenguin]

When the titanic was designed they made it to where there was a double hull on the bottom in case of shallow water… but not on the sides… and it scraped the side of the iceberg leading to it failing its maiden voyage