How Modern Ships Have Advanced Since Historic Disasters At Sea | Built From Disaster | Spark

Advances in boat technology, including the design features that allow passenger ships to operate safely.

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[historicstudios]

Titanic was very well built actually. The Titanic’s problem was that she could only stay afloat with 4 watertight compartments flooded and the iceberg opened 5. If the titanic was as badly built as people nowadays say it was, she probably wouldn’t have lasted 2 hours and 41 minutes up in the water. The Olympic was also built the same exact way titanic was, and she got hit in the stern by a battleships bow which was made to literally sink battleships, so you’d figure a weak passenger ship would sink right off the bat from that. Nope! She survived! The Olympic also sank other ships, one by accident and still survived. Titanic simply had bad luck because the iceberg opened too many compartments, but even then, I don’t know of any other ship that lasting nearly 3 hours before sinking. That’s not to say the Olympic class had no flaws, they did, but they were the safest and strongest ships of their time.

[_monti]

Thank you Spark for posting full documentaries on YouTube, it is greatly appreciated.

[rebeccathomas]

hey look the ruby princess i hope no virus outbreaks occur onboard

[Alejandro-vbfx]

"To have a drinka, go for a swima and get some resta"

[americanpanzer]

Unsinkable... I know I heard of a ship that is unsinkable somewhere before but I can't remember

[fatsolutions]

It’s amazing that the ship used to show safety was the cause for many Australian deaths this year! Good ole Ruby Princess the Typhoid Mary of shipping

[richardgreen]

Unlike politicians, engineers learn from history, learn from failures.

[VisorView]

"so you can always monitor the ship"...well, unless the fire is in the room where the monitoring equipment is...

[ryandx]

Humans-We have done it! We have built an unsinkable ship!

Ocean— Hold my beer.

[Keys]

Rule #1: Don't call them unsinkable.

[justanotherasian]

As much as I wish ships were unsinkable, they aren’t. Mother Nature always wins.

[andrewerntell]

Update 2020, the Ruby Princess was responsible for the Covid-19 outbreak in Australia when she docked in Sydney. The ship design was not at fault, but the medical team on board ignored clear signs that Covid-19 was present and spreading on the ship.

[ingebrecht]

A friend of mine on his first fishing season was going to sign on with the Galaxy. They took too long so he went across the street and signed with them because the share was just a little bit bigger. His ship was first on the scene when the Galaxy caught fire and they reached the majority of the crew. The boat deck was so hot the rubber soles of their boots were melting. People were clinging to the bow sprit and flag pole. One crew woman jumped overboard with no survival suit on into the ice cold water. Another crewman with a survival suit on jumped in right after her and pulled her mostly out of the water on top of him. She was rescued as quickly as possible in the rough sea but she was already in a coma. They were told to put her under blankets with two nude crew members on either side of her nude body. A slow gradual warming was needed and this was the best they could do. The swapped crew out every 45 minutes. She ended up sleeping with every man on the crew. She survived. A year later she ran into this friend of mine in a bar and they had a few laughs and she bought him a drink. Heading back on board that night he fell off the gang plank into ice cold water. He mourned the waste of good whiskey because he was instantly sober.

[torrace]

25:10 its *150% life boat capacity, not 100%* _since people cant be expected to run around the ship looking_ _for the last available seat! and the life boats cannot be expected to depart fully seated._
_on top of that there is a 200 percent life vest capacity_

[lagresomadsl]

Scandinavian star was a fire of arson. By the crew.

Estonia was not an accident. It sank because someone made it sink.

[christianeriksson]

The worst thing about Scandinavian Star is the fact that most likely the shipping company initiated the several fires for insurance money. Insurance was increased vastly just weeks before departing.

During the fire, ventilation and doors were opened in a way that could only be done by part of the crew so that the fire would increase in intensity and propagate with most efficiency. The same ventilation and door configuration was actually tested some years before the catastrophe when the ship was sailing the Caribbean.

A drunken truck driver, who died as a result of the fire, was blaimed for all of it but he had a very high dose of alcohol in his blood at the time of death. This makes it unlikely he started several fires on different floors, as well as starting them in just the right places.

Also, as the ship eventually came to a list, the rescue operation required ballast water to be pumped. According to one of the ship technical officers, this could only be done if the fire extinguishing efforts were terminated. This was shown afterwards not only to be false, but also to be exactly what was needed to reignite the main fire and let it spread over the entire ship.

[jeh]

If the corridors were designed so that as you get closer to an exit, the corridors are made wider. One reason is for easy identification of which direction to proceed, another is that as more people travel through the corridors towards the exits the path increases in capacity because it is wider.
And all corridors could have phosphorescent panels so that people can see the passage without power required.

[g]

How to make sure ships don't sink: don't put them anywhere near water.

[thereissomecoolstuff]

The bald engineer discussing evacuation corridors has some badass glasses at 14:50.

[kermitthemutantlevitatingf]

Show:
*Calls cruise ships classic*
Me:
*Cries in ocean liner*