TITANIC - Myths, Mysteries & Theories DEBUNKED

Theories have encircled the TITANIC tragedy for over a century, and we’re about to set the record straight. Since the day of the disaster, legend has overtaken fact and there are many questions surrounding the sinking. Was the voyage doomed from the start? Could the accident have been avoided? Who benefited financially? Was it even the Titanic that actually sank?

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[DebunkedOfficial]

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[sledgehammerk]

Was losing hope that no one other than Titanic: Honor and Glory or Titanic Animations could make a component factual video about Titanic. Well done.

[annabellenolan]

Debunked: debunking titanic myths

Me: So newspapers created the myths

[rjsouthworth]

Regarding the idea that Captain Smith was drunk, it is worth noting that he had a rule to never drink while at sea, and survivors from his dinner party testified that he didn’t drink.

[katien]

For anyone curious, the black and white clip around 11:00, that says “Titanic” 1953, the name of the movie isn’t Titanic, but “A Night to Remember”. No hate, but it is a fantastic and more fact driven depiction of the story than the 1997 version of you’re interested in watching!

[introvertednoise]

More! I would like to order more history knowledge with a side of conspiracy theories being debunked.

This was awesome 🙌🏽

[sagatheshapeshifter]

Some pointers:

The Titanic, and most ships of the era, still used tiller commands. They were the standard since so many experienced sailors still used only those, so they were kept. Turning the ship starboard would mean turning the helm to port. This did not happen. Turning the wheel to starboard would turn the ship to port as intended.

The coal fire was small and was long gone by the time of the collision. The more likely reason for the ship going at high speed was the presumed calm weather. There was little to no ice in sight, at least not in Titanic's way that anyone could see, and everything was super calm. As far as the crew knew, Titanic was in perfect sailing conditions with absolutely no hazards. The Captain ordered Murdoch and Lightoller to alert him at once should the weather change.

The lifeboats on board were inadequate in terms of quantity, yes, but people tend to forget that the ship sank before all of the boats could even be launched. Launching the boats was a very slow process. It was all manual. Titanic didn't have the automatic gantry davits Britannic had. The last two boats were floated off. One was upside down and the other was still stuck to the ship as the final plunge began. Having twenty more boats would probably not have mattered much. They would have just been extra debris as the ship broke apart and sank.

[treefiddy]

The second clip you show at 0:07 is actually of the sister ship ironically.

This is a common mixup and that clip is the maiden voyage of the RMS Olympic, not the maiden voyage of Titanic.
This was before the fire obviously and what led to the possibility of the fraud.

[QueenMaryStan]

What’s funny is when I’m arguing with a titanic conspiracy theorist, they either ignore me, or tell me I’m wrong, they also refuse to tell me where they got there information from, since it’s “none of my business”

[MegCazalet]

It’s such a shame how the movie disrespected Murdoch’s memory like that. His descendants weren’t happy.

[zacdavid]

Furthermore, only 18 of the 20 boats were truly launched. The very last two lifeboats to leave the ship were washed off around the same time, one upside down and the other with its canvas sides only partially raised, causing its occupants to spend the night ankle-deep in freezing water after the problem was partially fixed. (These were Collapsibles B and A, respectively). Both did contribute to saving passengers and crew as a number of men survived the night clinging to the upturned B and most of those in A were rescued, but others died on each of those boats, not to mention a few more lifeboats besides. Just as many people don't know how many lifeboats Titanic carried and that it was all perfectly legal due to outdated regulations, a lot don't know that they were not even able to properly launch the full complement of not-nearly-enough boats.

At the time, lifeboats were only expected to carry passengers to another nearby ship. (Indeed, there may have been a ship available to save more people had the Captain been alerted to the problem, but that's for another time). There were few-- zero?-- lifeboat drills for the ship once it left Southamptom and the first lifeboat did not row away until 12:45AM. Collapsibles A and B washed off around 2:12AM, giving less than 90 minutes to load the theoretical capacity of 1, 178 passengers, of which of course they fell far short.

[draugnaustaunikunhymnphoo]

Listening to old videos of people telling about their experiences decades after it happened. Many passengers, at first, did not take the emergency seriously. The first boats had the least amount of people. As the ship sank, more people would be pushed on each both. About an hour after the escape, nearby lifeboats would even out the people by removing packed boats onto those with less people. Even splitting up Mother and Daughter, who would need see each other again until hours or days after reaching land.

[leDespicable]

What also bugs me about the switch theory: The ships weren't identical. Sure, they looked pretty similar, but there were things that Titanic had that Olympic didn't. The À la carte Restaurant, the Café Parisien, and the first class suites on B-Deck, where the Olympic had a promenade. Kinda unlikely that they managed to switch those interiors and cut windows for a B-Deck promenade on Titanic without anyone noticing...

[pavelslama]

Truth to be told, the pair of binoculars would not help to spot the iceberg, not even in the slightest. It would actually limit the field of view of the crew in the crows nest. Binoculars were not commonly used in dark nights even when they were available, as they would provide no advantage. The iceberg wasnt a shiny mountain of ice crystals. It was a black dark chunk without any light reflection, same as the sky behind it and the water around it. The night was totally dark, moonless, with no big waves that would bounce off the iceberg. In other words, it was not possible to spot the iceberg sooner with the 1912 technology.

[Piccolodanigga]

Heres another difference between Olympic and Titanic...
Olympic has no extended A deck promenade, while Titanic did.


Also, the B deck promenade on Olympic ended just past the 4th funnel, while titanics ended before the 4th funnel.

And! Titanic had a different watertight compartment design, for more space

[danielclaw]

There are so many things you can talk about involving the Titanic sinking. I sometimes wonder
how different things would be if the ship had not sank?

[tiny_frost]

Honestly this channel is amazing
Just keep on and soon you will pass 1M, 2M, 3M, 4M, 5M and so on.
I will remain a faithful subscriber all the way

[cyroborg]

I’ve heard most of these, as well as the evidence that much of them were just stories printed by newspapers at the time. The idea about Titanic being swapped with Olympic while in dry dock as part of an insurance scam doesn’t really hold water (pun intended). At best, there may have been cost-cutting measures taken to finish Titanic (cheaper quality steel, poorer rivets, etc.) because of the financial loss incurred by Olympic’s damage. This could explain why Titanic suffered such catastrophic damage when it was scraped by the iceberg. Had she been built to her specs, it might’ve withstood the damage at least until it made it to port.

[clintmacarthur]

The voice over at 0:10 stating it’s Titanic in the video, when it’s in fact the Olympic.

[MrGeocidal]

What do you mean the ship would have to keep cruising at high speed? Like anything that runs on steam the Titanic was equiped with safety valves. If more steam was generated than was needed it could safely be vented through the safety valves.

There would be no need to make the Titanic go faster in order to get rid of extra steam. Thanks to the safety valves, even if the engines were stopped entirely the boiler pressure would not reach dangerous levels.