it’s a three years to build in less than
three hours to sink the most iconic
shipwreck in history the Titanic held as
the most beautiful and luxurious boat of
her time the Titanic set sail once and
for all from Southampton England to New
York City on April 10th night scenes
will
she weighed a record-breaking 46,000
tons and was built by some 15,000 people
ironically the ship boasted many of the
best safety features of its day a
prestigious journal the shipbuilder
magazine called the Titanic practically
unsinkable the popular opinion quickly
grew that the Titanic was indestructible
an ominous consequence of this
overconfidence during its voyage there
were no passenger safety drills to give
instructions on where to go or which
lifeboats aboard in case of emergency
but there weren’t enough lifeboats to
begin with only 20 available which was
enough to carry about half of the total
passengers and crew Bruce Ismay the
owner thought having 64 lifeboats enough
for everyone on board would make the
ship look too cluttered this emphasis on
elegance didn’t stop with Titanic’s
outward appearance inside when top-notch
luxuries the grand staircase running the
height of six days a heated swimming
pool the state-of-the-art gym for
restaurants and to barber shops
so how much did the Titanic cost about
7.5 million dollars at the time or over
400 million dollars today now over a
hundred years later the Titanic has been
hidden in darkness lying over 12,000
feet deep in the Atlantic Ocean so how
exactly did she sing we do know that on
April 14 1912 the boat entered a region
of icebergs six warning messages were
sent to Captain Edward John Smith he
adjusted Titanic’s course southward but
didn’t slow down by the time lookouts
spotted an iceberg it was too late the
official night 712 accident report
suggests that the iceberg tore a
gigantic 300-foot gash on the ship’s
starboard side
ripping over 1/3 of her entire hole but
eyewitnesses say it took over two hours
to sink which confuses experts who
believe a hole that size would have
caused the Titanic to sink much faster
investigations confirm that the iceberg
created smaller punctures below the
waterline and not a large gash which
were enough to trigger the tragedy in
1985 using state-of-the-art sonar
National Geographic Explorer Robert
Ballard in French oceanographer Jean
Louie Misho found the infamous shipwreck
about 400 miles southeast of
Newfoundland extensive surveys have
located artifacts that reveal the human
side of the tragedy a notebook was found
780 feet from the stern it belonged to a
17 year old passenger with pencil
writing that’s still legible
with new technology we can see and study
the Titanic like never before which is
good because our fascination in this
tragedy has not relaxed a bit perhaps
it’s the iconic tale of the Titanic
that’s truly unseen
[Music]
three hours to sink the most iconic
shipwreck in history the Titanic held as
the most beautiful and luxurious boat of
her time the Titanic set sail once and
for all from Southampton England to New
York City on April 10th night scenes
will
she weighed a record-breaking 46,000
tons and was built by some 15,000 people
ironically the ship boasted many of the
best safety features of its day a
prestigious journal the shipbuilder
magazine called the Titanic practically
unsinkable the popular opinion quickly
grew that the Titanic was indestructible
an ominous consequence of this
overconfidence during its voyage there
were no passenger safety drills to give
instructions on where to go or which
lifeboats aboard in case of emergency
but there weren’t enough lifeboats to
begin with only 20 available which was
enough to carry about half of the total
passengers and crew Bruce Ismay the
owner thought having 64 lifeboats enough
for everyone on board would make the
ship look too cluttered this emphasis on
elegance didn’t stop with Titanic’s
outward appearance inside when top-notch
luxuries the grand staircase running the
height of six days a heated swimming
pool the state-of-the-art gym for
restaurants and to barber shops
so how much did the Titanic cost about
7.5 million dollars at the time or over
400 million dollars today now over a
hundred years later the Titanic has been
hidden in darkness lying over 12,000
feet deep in the Atlantic Ocean so how
exactly did she sing we do know that on
April 14 1912 the boat entered a region
of icebergs six warning messages were
sent to Captain Edward John Smith he
adjusted Titanic’s course southward but
didn’t slow down by the time lookouts
spotted an iceberg it was too late the
official night 712 accident report
suggests that the iceberg tore a
gigantic 300-foot gash on the ship’s
starboard side
ripping over 1/3 of her entire hole but
eyewitnesses say it took over two hours
to sink which confuses experts who
believe a hole that size would have
caused the Titanic to sink much faster
investigations confirm that the iceberg
created smaller punctures below the
waterline and not a large gash which
were enough to trigger the tragedy in
1985 using state-of-the-art sonar
National Geographic Explorer Robert
Ballard in French oceanographer Jean
Louie Misho found the infamous shipwreck
about 400 miles southeast of
Newfoundland extensive surveys have
located artifacts that reveal the human
side of the tragedy a notebook was found
780 feet from the stern it belonged to a
17 year old passenger with pencil
writing that’s still legible
with new technology we can see and study
the Titanic like never before which is
good because our fascination in this
tragedy has not relaxed a bit perhaps
it’s the iconic tale of the Titanic
that’s truly unseen
[Music]
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