How did the Iceberg Sink the Titanic?

When Titanic struck the iceberg in April 1912, Captain Edward Smith received concerning reports from various forward parts of his ship. This all added up to pain a disturbing picture; that his ship was sinking and was a certain loss. In this history documentary we explore how Titanic was designed to survive most accidents and how it's emergency systems were overwhelmed by the contact with the iceberg.

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0:00 Introduction
0:50 The Design
10:45 The Events
14:26 The Damage
16:16 The Aftermath

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[SpaceTravel]

My grandfather witnessed the tragedy of the Titanic with his own eyes, but sadly never made it through. When the ship struck the iceberg, he repeatedly yelled out warnings to those around him that the ship was going to sink, but everyone just ignored him. After his final warning, they finally kicked him out of the movie theater!

[darthdevious]

One thing I always loved was that during the Inquiry, Wilding postulated the total damage to be no more than 12 square feet, or about the size of a refrigerator. When they used sonar to scan the hull, the total of the damage the sonar revealed was indeed 12 square feet. Wilding knew exactly what he was talking about. Another great video, Mike.

[mjbball]

I’m just here to say in a time when it’s common to call the internet a mistake and social media a disease, it’s content like this that makes the internet a net good. I’m so glad I found this channel. So well done.

[ZombieSazza]

Interesting fact, Robert Hichens (1882-1940) who was one of six quartermasters aboard the HMS Titanic is buried in my city, in Aberdeen, Scotland. He became infamously known as “the man who sunk the Titanic” because he was at the helm at the time of the collision, this stayed with him throughout his life and he was treated as unlucky on ships he worked on after Titanic. When he died he died as a pauper and was put into an unmarked grave, and only recently (past few years) has he been given a headstone as his descendants were able to find where he was actually buried. So even tho he survived it came as a cost, where folk judged him his entire life and was buried in an unmarked grave.

[ChickVicious]

Those visuals were so helpful; over time reading various accounts of the damage and flooding progression provide an approximate image of what actually happened, but seeing it step by step here makes everything so much more clear.

It's so interesting how much information can be extracted about ships in general from Titanic.

[dextercochran]

There's a story from WWII, I think, about a ship that was hit by a torpedo. To save her and stop/slow the flooding, the crew used mattresses and blankets tied together and lowered over the side of the ship where the hole was. The mash of material was pressed into the hole like too much toilet paper in a drain and significantly reduced the flooding enough for the ship to limp back to a drydock.

[triton]

It's interesting how the damage was just 6 thin slits totalling 12 square feet of damage, and yet that's all that was needed to send the Titanic sinking to the ocean bottom in 2 hours and 40 minutes. When I first read about the Titanic, even I had imagined the iceberg having ripped a huge gash measuring 300 feet long by about 15 to 25 feet wide.

[nowhereman]

I'm glad that you acknowledged Dr. Ballard's original 1986 discovery of the only part of the iceberg damage that remains visible past the mud line. But there is actually two far superior images of it in his "The Discovery of the Titanic" book on pages 196 and 197 that clearly shows the unmistakable separated hull plating.

[iamrichrocker]

could you please try to explain why this iconic ship is so indelibly stamped on peoples psyche..movies, literature..YT channels flourish to this day..and here we are watching another enjoyable video on this tragic ship..thanks for your passion, it is contagious...

[cleverusername]

Fun fact:
If you were to lay all of Titanic's rivets end to end, they'd stretch roughly from NYC to Boston, or for my non-American friends, that'd be roughly the distance from Melbourne to Tasmania, London to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Berlin to Copenhagen, Cairo to Jerusalem, or Tokyo to Osaka. Or for an even more clear frame of reference, if you stacked them one on top of another, they'd nearly reach the average altitude of the International Space Station.

[TheTransatlanticExchange]

Outstanding, as with all your meticulously made documentary vignettes. The intermittent damage described was extremely fascinating, particularly the 45-foot long incision between Boiler Rooms 5 and 6. More remarkable is how Robert Ballard corroborated this from his early exploration of the wreck site. Thank you so much for creating this and sharing - top notch.

[radiosnail]

Very well explained. My Dad was a junior ship's engineer and I remember being surprised hen he explained how water tight bulkheads did not go "all the way up" even in ships built in the 40s and 50s.

[Dakiraun]

Wow, that was fantastic! I have watched a ton of "specials" and things about the Titanic since the 1980s and none of them have ever really focused so well on the pure engineering behind the ship as you did. Very well done. This wonderfully illustrates how the disaster was not a case of bad design so much as just the circumstances of the damage being enough to overwhelm all the safety measures of the day (which were very impressive up to that point). Even the additional safety features that were added to her sister ships (like any engineering solutions) could only mitigate so much before being overwhelmed, like on the Britannic when it hit the mine (or torpedo), which did more damage than could have possibly been designed around. Anyway, great job again - I'll certainly share this with some friends who love engineering details!

[MM-igiv]

"if we have to die, then we will die like gentlemen" that guy was a hero! had no intentions whatsoever of getting in a lifeboat that could be for a woman or child. That's respect, and the most remarkable statement I've ever heard of? Totally different people back then than what we have today.

[MattC-ewkr]

Love this video. As someone who has served at sea with the Coast Guard, I'm always looking for materials to help illustrate different aspects of damage control and I've always found that it's easier to engage a lot of the younger folks if I can make connections to our training to notable events such at the Titanic or the Andrea Doria. Titanic has always been a great way to illustrated the concepts of equilibrium to new boat crew members.

[KaienKuran]

I've never heard of this channel prior to the Titan disaster but as sad as it is I'm kind of happy I found you because your videos are very well made and I've learned so much the past few days because I've watched almost all of you videos by now.

[luker]

This was a really good explanation. Having watched many titanic documentaries, there were details that i wasn't clear on and this clears those up. Nice work.

[JessicaSunlight]

Had been jumping around for a proper technical design view on this, and finally be hold some one made it! Incorporated details into a story, nicely done! ♥

[michaeltolomei]

One of the best walls cut away and step by step's so far to date on the sinking, good job on this. Other models and cutaways go so fast and before you can really take it all in they return to solid view. I've watched many documentary's on Titanic so I wasn't expecting much different but I am glad to see my assumption was wrong on this video, this really painted a very clear picture.

Really well done presentation.