Experiencing The Titanic Sinking In VR

[@jacksepticeye]

This is one Jack who's not going down with the ship!

[@CristianSGV]

Nice

[@ultratwinkgamerposting]

FIRST

[@postonian425]

jackcaptaineye?

[@CristianSGV]

@@ultratwinkgamerposting nope

[@ultratwinkgamerposting]

@@CristianSGV we share the throne we did it same time

[@wfly81]

That was Molly Brown you were sitting next to. She was a good woman, and tried to convince the captain of lifeboat 6 to go back to find survivors. She later used her affluence to raise money from the more wealthy survivors to help out the families of poor people who didn't survive. She was played by Kathy Bates in the movie.

[@corporalcreative9892]

The Unsinkable Molly Brown.

[@gamingwolf6735]

respect [phone] for her

[@islandsicedtea]

She sounded dumb in the game but she was actually being observant, it could have held like 40 more people :(

[@sodaroni_enthusiast]

He wasn't a captain he was quartermaster Hitchens. He was the one at the helm of the Titanic when it hit the iceberg.

[@dianafonseca1650]

Molly Brown was an incredible woman. Even today, I look up to her. Truly a name that shall never be forgotten.

[@lazarusdesanguine7502]

"I can remember the colours, the sounds, everything... The worst thing I can remember are the screams. It seemed as if once everybody had gone, drowned, finished, the whole world was standing still. There was nothing, just this deathly, terrible silence in the dark night with the stars." - Eva Hart

[@sian8322]

Did you know it was a moonless night

[@Call_Em_Yall]

Heartbreaking

[@dimitrischronis146]

@@shaun9120 That's nice to know

[@adameaton4922]

@@sian8322 moonless or starless

[@sian8322]

@@adameaton4922 Moonless, it was a completely clear night, no moon very bright stars. Also perfect conditions for a cold water mirage.

[@thedepressedpainter8880]

I was surprised to see nobody mention Charles Joughin. He was a baker who gave bread to each life boat, threw about 50 chairs off the boat so people could stay afloat, got drunk, rode the Titanic down like an elevator (keeping his head above water), and survived. When he was rescued he only had swollen feet.

[@nighttaco10blooperton8]

Fuckin’ mad lad lmaoo

[@marioodysse4661]

Not to mention he was 30 when the titanic was sinking

[@cooldog1635]

I heard it was the alcohol that kept his body warm enough for rescuers to arrive

[@marioodysse4661]

@@cooldog1635 I learned something today, drinking can save your life

[@jenskau]

@@cooldog1635 so if ship sinks I get drunk, got it

[@RocketIsHereVR]

"LEONARDO DI'CAPRIO IS OVER THERE SOME WHERE WE NEED TO GO BACK" got me dead laughing.

[@damaraland]

lol🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@LanHua711]

I’m a historian and I actually love that idea of creating VR games where you just experience big events in history. I think what would have made the game better was if it had the option to do it from different perspectives. Because an upper class woman’s experience on the titanic is vastly different from a lower class man’s and that would be cool to watch and be a part of. I think it could help teach not just history but historical empathy, something usually only taught at the college level.

[@drowningclown1027]

I have to disagree. Every bit of knowledge I've seen from the Titanic's story shows a age where men were willing to give their lives in the preservation of women and their young. I don't think modern collegiate facilities or universities would want to highlight that in today's era.

[@savannahthome3874]

I agree I think it would be very interesting to see the perspective of someone who was still on the ship as it sank because after people realized that there were no more life boats there had to be some sort of conflict of people who just simply want to live. That perspective intrigues me because we all know they boarded women and children onto the life boats but I haven’t heard the story of the people who had to stay on the ship as it sank

[@bronsongilbert9820]

I agree, although being in the engine room would be a short game. that being said, I'd like to see every class of every age group and gender just to see the societal differences and actions/reactions that would/could have taken place. such a sad moment in history all around. on top of that, an amazing learning experience for the engineers and backers of Titanic.

[@LanHua711]

@@drowningclown1027 don’t entirely get what you mean by that. But I meant highlighting the difference between lower class who were thrown into boxes with other families compared to upper class who had large lavish apartments on the titanic. Just being able to put yourself in their position. Part of my job as a historian is being able to put myself in the shoes of someone who lived a hundred, a thousand or more years ago and think and feel as they did. It’s how you create historical empathy and it is very hard to accurately and without it people have historical dissonance and inaccuracies. I think more VR like this could lessen that in the average joe. Also more games for Jack to play for me to laugh and procrastinate the research proposal I am supposed to be writing.

[@virgoplz]

@@drowningclown1027 I feel like I'm missing a comment here. Are you disagreeing with the idea of having the game in different perspectives, or that the experiences would be vastly different? Also, I think all modern collegiate facilities or universities would want to stick to the truth of what happened, whatever that truth may have been.

[@mr.wiskers8163]

The even more sad thing is that the captain didn’t order "women and children only", it was misinterpreted. The actual order was "women and children first" but because of the stress of the situation caused it to be misinterpreted

[@guerney2000]

Also, there was a concern that the lifeboats would snap if lowered when completely full. Ironically, the boats were built with a metal beam running the length of the keel to prevent exactly this. But the crew had so little training and experience with the lifeboats that they had no idea the metal beam existed.

[@auqustfire]

This makes sense, I never understood why they wouldn't try to save as many people as possible.

[@Uprimus1]

damn i didnt know that

[@heatherm2388]

And, April 14th, they had actually planned to do a lifeboat drill, but was canceled by the captain allegedly due to wanting to deliver one last Sunday service before he retired. Whereas I am pretty sure he went down with it.

[@cptchuff2741]

@@heatherm2388 Captain goes down with the ship because he feels responsible for the sinking of it since the captain holds responsibly for the ship itself and everyone on it.

[@AdelioNightstorm]

I remember going to the Titanic Museum in Orlando, Florida for the first time. You get issued a boarding card with the name of an actual passenger on the ship, along with some info about their lives, where they were travelling, who they were travelling with and which class they were travelling on. Then at the end of the tour through the museum you can find "your" name on a list with every passenger onboard and find out if "you" survived or not. It was really emotional.

[@MrsAmuify]

We have the same museum in Ireland - little bit further from city Cork. With same boarding cards, info about them and list in the end :)

[@boyverminn]

there's one in southampton too! i went when i was little i loved it

[@teo4704]

Woah…

[@realswobby]

Damn this sounds like a perfect recipe for making me cry in a museum

[@rebekahking6276]

There’s one in Branson, Missouri, too!

[@FairSirenCovers]

James Cameron did a LOT of research before making the movie. He added real people and their stories into the movie. That’s why he’s my favorite director! He even went down to see the ship at the bottom of the ocean!

[@echostar034]

He was actually quoted saying “I made ‘Titanic’ because I wanted to dive to the shipwreck, not because I particularly wanted to make the movie.” Meaning he never intended to make Titanic, he wanted an excuse to see the wreck for the first time.

[@pdxcorgidad]

Dude has been down there more than anybody else.

[@carliesmiley1256]

This is was so emotional to watch. My family on my mom's side was supposed to come over to America on the Titanic but ended up having to wait longer because my great great grandma went into labor with my great grandpa almost a month early. They would have been in third class and definitely would have drowned with the ship. My mom still has their original boarding passes somewhere.

[@michelleashleigh]

That's so wild... I'm obsessed with random events changing things, and how we're a result of that. Glad they weren't there and you're here :)

[@kupkate04]

Wow... Your great grandfather saved their lives.

[@amnestyramp4722]

Omg this is similar to my moms side of the family as well. My great grandparents were supposed to get to the but my great grandfather took his time and made them both late on boarding the boat. They ended up on the next boat. My family would have been third class also.

[@iamleeham]

Holy

[@priyaplays4959]

That's crazy

[@kiriscott5791]

The lady sitting next to Jack who he commented was calm, was actually a real person. She was considered new money and was one of the only people to say they should go back for survivors after the sinking. They saved more people due to her forcing her boat to go back, allowing few survivors from the water to be saved.

[@kalvon]

Damn, at first I thought she was being ignorant about the whole thing. (Or the game forgot to animate her) Your comment is a great fact. Thanks.

[@Popcorn_mark]

Wow, that’s really interesting

[@charlossen]

woah thats so cool, thanks for the fact!

[@joilisch]

I actually shouted "MOLLY!" when I saw her, she's so cool. Look her up, she was known as Molly 'the unsinkable' Brown, or just Molly Brown.

[@aneaglesnest]

She was my favorite person showcased in the movie. I recognized her immediately when he looked over at her.

[@JohnTK]

A lot of people don’t realize that while the ship did take 2+ hours to sink, most of the sinking action that you know about took place during the last 15 minutes that the ship was afloat. As soon as the bow went under, the sinking sped up dramatically. That’s why most were at first hesitant to believe the ship was in any real danger, because the ship felt almost perfectly level for the first hour and a half.

[@halo2d]

True, the engineering was brilliant because as long as she was level people could be evacuated to the boats. Now when they sink, they all dramatically list making it harder to evacuate, like the Costa Concordia

[@demonqueen881]

@@halo2dThe Titanic's method of sinking was almost unique. A lot of sinking ships (Lusitania) in that time period also eventually capsized. The theory why the Titanic sank evenly was because of the weight distribution of its vast amounts of coal. When the ship first departed there was a fire in its coal bunkers, requiring the coal to all be shifted to the other side of the ship. This made the ship sail at a slight angle through its entire journey, but also compensated for the weight of the water.

[@xeropulse5745]

ya it was a logarithmic sink

[@M0rbidCuriositea]

@@demonqueen881 Thanks for that interesting fact! I hadn't heard that one.

[@jj-if6it]

Yeah and you'd feel safer in a big, warm ship, rather than in a rickety lifeboat

[@Halo_h]

"Imagine this but a giant sea monster comes up in front of you" He predicted iron lung lol

[@GraveIdols]

I mean, at like 2:23 he basically predicted the entire game.

[@mcadventurer1533]

When that ship went down, survivors in the lifeboats recalled hearing screams of terror and agony from the cold water. As time went on, the sounds grew quieter. After about half an hour after Titanic disappeared, all was quiet. Absolutely horrific.

[@Devanimations]

I think VR has great potential as an educational tool. Even just watching Sean's video and not having the headset on myself, I was tearing up. Being immersed in that horrific event and listening to what the people around you might have been saying, watching the ship slowly (then quickly) sink right before your eyes, and then just the dead silence and empty horizon like it was never there in the first place. That is so much more powerful than just reading about it.

[@darthmaul2005]

It truly is, and hearing the faint shouts of terror and desperation truly makes my heart feel for them more deeply than reading of it. 😔

[@Zapporah85]

There's a Kickstarter for a language game too, where you can interact with objects and learn their names. I'm really only interested in VR for it's educational abilities but some of this stuff is really cool.

[@LynnAgain83]

Oh absolutely!! The progression of technology truly amazes me. I'd love to have a VR game true to WW1 and WW2.

[@the_honey_rat]

Imagine providing this technology to students, even if it's low quality or those cardboard VR sets, for educational experiences like this or even just videos like Sean's for students to see for themselves. It would be revolutionary in drilling in historical events' impact or improving memorizing vocabulary with the language game mentioned above.

[@theironvirus9019]

Lol boat sunk and shit

[@cloudicarus3626]

What makes this experience more somber is, at least I could, hear people screaming what sounded like it was way off in the distance. That could have actually been in the game or it could have been Sean's audio quieting everything else down around it. But think about how scared the people on the life boats were and amplify that. That's probably what the people who were still on board were feeling. It must have been absolutely terrifying to experience.

[@bradydavidson89]

Sitting in a lifeboat and hearing people screaming in the distance must have been one of the most gut wrenching sounds imaginable. Second only to the silence that came about 15 minutes after the ship sank.

[@Cyclon3.]

@sexx WILL BE ROTTING IN HRLL FOR THIS LMAOO

[@Cyclon3.]

@sexx What is your problem

[@kaitlando636]

Spooky

[@darkarpatron]

The story of the Carpathia, the ship first on the scene to rescue Titanic's passengers is amazing. Moving at full speed to rescue Titanic's passengers, it nearly struck _multiple_ icebergs just trying to reach Titanic's last known location. By the time Carpathia made it, the sun was rising and Carpathia's Captain, Sir Arthur Henry Rostron noticed that they were utterly surrounded by icebergs and considered it a miracle they didn't suffer the same fate, which they almost did several times over. Rostron and his crew were praised and awarded for their bravery and valour in the rescue of Titanic's passengers and Rostron himself was knighted for this effort.

[@spoons250]

Its a well known fact that they didnt almost hit icebergs. Thats sensationalized. While yes, they did go full speed, when asking the captain directly in court if he almost his bergs he laughed and said "do you think i would put my crew at risk like that, what do you think of me".

[@darkarpatron]

@@spoons250Interesting, where is he recorded as saying this? The only thing I've found is this: "Speaking of the risk taken by running through dense ice at speed at night, he is reported to have said, "I can only conclude another hand than mine was on the helm." Sounds more like a man describing luck or destiny guiding his efforts rather than careful measures, though I'm sure he certainly took them, being a sensible man.

[@jj-if6it]

I wonder if any of the passengers were pissed off

[@akaoniryuu4564]

He actually exceeded the carpathia's full speed by 1-2 knots, they also took precautions and when icebergs were spotted they went from between half speed and dead slow, and on the way back they also faced every sort of weather conceivable the passenger's thought that god was angry that any of them survived at all, if you want more information about the titanic, i highly recommend the KZbin channel "oceanliner designs" his videos are always informative and the animations are top notch.

[@darkarpatron]

@@akaoniryuu4564 He does such interesting videos, I love watching him.

[@ashleynagle3686]

As an archaeologist, there are so many people trying to create different virtual experiences such as these to help teach people about history since we cant send everyone to look at the titanic. I cant wait until one is created for Pompeii

[@thedragonslair6165]

That would be so cool to experience.

[@itsameah2595]

I think there was one made, but it was more of a time-lapse than a proper vr experience.

[@whizzersterriblehorribleno773]

aye fellow archaeologist !!! I use to get so upset at the idea of the titanic disappearing gradually so i’m really glad stuff like this is getting created for historical events. I’d adore a pompeii one

[@aoxgam3r274]

yep hopefully so

[@heatherv3417]

Oh lord that would be terrifying

[@staceyryan834]

As the lifeboat was being lowered, seeing that guys face in porthole absolutely broke me. Knowing that so many people were locked below decks and not considered important enough to be given a chance at life. Absolutely soul destroying.

[@monkee1159]

Sorry but no one was actually locked below, that was created by the movie/ James Cameron, most likely just to add some drama and plot drive.

[@haileecollins873]

it makes my stomache turn. the worst part of the titanic to me has always been imagining what it would have been like to be in there and feel the water slowly rising and taking your ability to breathe with it. the panic everyone must have felt, I cannot imagine how terrifying that would be. especially the people who were locked below deck. their last moments of life, they were treated as if they weren't valued. its so heartbreaking.

[@chaoticgaybirb2734]

It’s one thing to read and hear about the sinking but it’s another thing to see it in games or simulations and seeing, hearing and or experiencing what really happened. Like as you said, the guy in the porthole crying out for help or seeing families separated on deck not knowing when they would see each other again. It’s sad and depressing and even more so when we take a step back from the visuals and remember all the other information that was collected centuries after like how there was still room in the lifeboats or misinterpreted words among crew. Saddening.

[@applewitheveryone]

@@monkee1159 Well, the Wiki page on the sinking of the Titanic mentions the following: "Few third-class (steerage) passengers had made it up onto the deck, and most were still lost in the maze of corridors or trapped behind gates and partitions that segregated the accommodation for the steerage passengers from the first- and second-class areas.[125] This segregation was not simply for social reasons, but was a requirement of United States immigration laws, which mandated that third-class passengers be segregated to control immigration and to prevent the spread of infectious diseases." "In at least some places, Titanic's crew appear to have actively hindered the steerage passengers' escape. Some of the gates were locked and guarded by crew members, apparently to prevent the steerage passengers from rushing the lifeboats.[125] Irish survivor Margaret Murphy wrote in May 1912: 'Before all the steerage passengers had even a chance of their lives, the Titanic's sailors fastened the doors and companionways leading up from the third-class section ... A crowd of men was trying to get up to a higher deck and were fighting the sailors; all striking and scuffling and swearing. Women and some children were there praying and crying. Then the sailors fastened down the hatchways leading to the third-class section. They said they wanted to keep the air down there so the vessel could stay up longer. It meant all hope was gone for those still down there.[125]' "

[@chaoticgaybirb2734]

@@monkee1159 we have no idea. It may very well be true since most of the lower class people were either trapped or locked in rooms or hallways. Either that or some were too rich to think it was that serious and in turn was left to realize how real it was when it was too late. I’ve watched a documentary where some man came and locked rooms making sure people didn’t go back for their stuff and some woman got trapped in her room when going back for a journal or book she was writing.

[@vincentcross7206]

I feel like one of the most interesting stories I personally learned about the Titanic, was the story of the ships baker. Apparently when he learned that the ship was sinking, he got wasted on some "good brandy" he had stashed away somewhere and with his life vest on went to the stern and just waited. As the ship broke apart and the stern sank, he rode it down like an elevator and didn't even get his hair wet. Best part, he survived in the basically freezing water for 3 hours because he was drunk, and found his way to the only lifeboat that was upside down and stayed on that lifeboat with about 20ish other people for another four hours before they were finally rescued.

[@missbeaussie]

Alcohol lowers your core body temperature.

[@MoonShadowWolfe]

ER ... Mythbusters would like to have a word with you about what alcohol does to the body's heat retention. It sends the warm blood to your extremities so that you feel warm, but the reason your body pulled the blood away from your hands, feet and ears to begin with is because it was trying to keep the heat in your body around your vital organs. Drunk, body heat pours out of you, there's no retention. It's kind of a quick fix if your fingers are about to be frostbitten, but it's no survival strategy. So, if that happened, he'd freeze faster, not slower.

[@RoboticMagus]

Yeah, that's not how alcohol works.

[@sunstripe85]

I was curious based on the replies re: alcohol but also how this was a true story of a person. If anyone wants to look it up, the baker was Charles Joughin, And it sounds like he didn't have a ton of alcohol, half a tumbler full of liquor. He also was moving around a ton before and after the ship sank, saving people and trying to help. He said he didn't feel the cold in the water, possibly because of the alcohol, and when he was eventually able to get to a lifeboat there wasn't room but someone held him on the side so he was partially out of water. He ended up only having swollen feet. I'm not medically trained in the slightest so I could be wrong, but if I had to hazard a guess, he was probably at least partially just lucky, and then all his moving around probably got his body temperature up and blood flowing to his extremities. Then when it sank, the alcohol may have dulled his perception of the cold enough that he didn't go into shock or have a more extreme reaction, which may have been bolstered by him treading water for hours, further giving reason for blood to flow. When he got to the lifeboat and wasn't actively keeping himself up anymore, that's probably why his feet were swollen because at that point he wouldn't have been exercising his limbs or muscles as much. I imagine he would have died if they hadn't gotten help for a longer period of time. Again, completely guessing here. Also his body chemistry and clothing and body weight and genetics and who knows what else may have also played a role, depending on what the primary factors were in his relatively unscathed survival. I didn't see anything about him wearing a life jacket but I was just skimming one source very quickly. So that may have affected how much energy he exerted, whether he had that aid or not. Either way, I have to agree with OP that the story is fascinating! We can only go based on his own testimony so it's of course possible he lied about being so helpful and heroic when everything was going to hell. But presuming he told the truth, I'm so happy someone like him managed to live. Because based on his narrative, he really tried to help others until pretty much he last second. It could have easily meant that turned into sacrificing himself but clearly he lived. I hope his story was true. So sad that all of this happened though

[@demoniclegends7964]

@@sunstripe85 you put more effort into a comment then I do to actual work. Respect brotha.

[@tiredallthetime1636]

A little known fact about the titanic is that it almost avoided the tragedy because of a narrowly avoided collision when it was leaving port. When its propellers started they were so massive and displaced so much water it caused a suction effect which pulled another ship towards it. They almost collided but a tugboat was able to stop it just in time. Had they collided it would have saved the lives of everyone on board the titanic as they would have had to return to port or assess and repair damages, in turn missing the iceberg. It’s crazy how fate seemed to have saved their trip when in reality it sealed it.

[@LadyOnikara]

Yeah, I remember reading about that somewhere.

[@vampire66336633]

So fun fact, it wasn’t complete negligence on the crews part that they didn’t see the iceberg. There was originally a different captain who was supposed to guide titanic on her maiden voyage but at the last second, while people were already loading onboard, he was replaced with another captain who was more renowned (I believe this is why he was replaced may be incorrect) in the mad dash to get all his belonging and himself off the ship before it left he mistakingly took the only copy of a certain key with him. He didn’t notice till after the titanic had left. This key was for the binocular cabinet that the crew would have used to look for things like icebergs. I also like that the accurately portrayed people disbelief that the ship was actually sinking. Many survivors talked about how they didn’t think it was a big deal till they were already in the water. EDIT: since I’ve had a few comments addressing this, it wasn’t the captain of the ship but a high ranking officer underneath him. Either first or second.

[@saskia8567]

There is also a reason the other ship didn't come, it's because they couldn't see them due to a like an ice cold version of a mirage, where the sky is reflected just above the waterlevel, hiding probably both the iceberg and ships in the area from one another. I really need to find back the documentary that explained it all

[@connorbarnhouse4200]

It wasn't the captain but the first officer but every thing else is correct

[@malefiquinn]

There's also the point that at the time, regulations didn't require as many lifeboats simply because ships with that size weren't meant to sink. Lifeboats were there just to get some people out of the ship *until* whatever happened was fixed to get them back to the ship. It's not even true that Titanic had too few lifeboats, at least according to regulations. Regulations just didn't require enough space for everyone (which is bonkers of course).

[@animelover-tw2xl]

Huh I didn't know that about the titanic and as the old saying goes you learn something new everyday

[@themanformerlyknownascomme777]

@@Frenzyo that is a myth, there was a fire, but there was no casulties as a result of the fire. the idea that the fire had contributed to the sinking is a conspiracy theory which has been rebuked

[@iisquiddiesquid]

youtube sure does have comedic timing with this

[@pvt.wheezus1573]

Made its way into your feed too huh?

[@SuperRutherr]

Yup algorithm sure is weird

[@anthonygonzales3523]

tell me about it lol

[@morganbean7068]

And then you have me who looked for this 😂

[@Eli-LM1301]

@@pvt.wheezus1573 same lmao

[@jax5898]

“That dog is WAY cuter than your baby. Just saying” Jack definitely has the honesty of a child lol

[@unslaadkrosis9435]

It's usually true though lol

[@could_possiblybe_thane07echo]

That why he got on a life boat

[@SonataYanni]

he was right tho

[@kylanrober8754]

I scrolled to this right as he said it

[@ReleasedHollow]

They are like little drunks. No filter.

[@JohnSmith-nj9qo]

One of the most chilling accounts of a Titanic survivor I ever read was that immediately after the ship sank all the people in the water screaming for help sounded like a sports stadium full of fans.

[@Conceptcreator]

Oh man same! I was bloody obsessed with the Titanic as a kid! Wanting to know all the information, the size. Making the titanic in paint as much as I could humanly do!!

[@justinworld9]

I remember having the original vhs of the movie as a kid!

[@colincampbell230]

@sexx no thats you lmao

[@BLXN_cloax]

Same man I'm only 12 and I'm still obsessed with the Titanic

[@tk_bowerhous372]

I remeber seeing it when I was 6 and I was obsessed ever since

[@ortology]

You cant just say "oh man same" cause we dont know what ur talking about smh

[@NeNoItMe]

The most terrifying thing for me regarding Titanic are people that were closed out inside the ship. To stop the water and try to keep the whole ship afloat, they closed those famous metal doors, but with it they closed the lower class people along side with it, while the water was swiping in. Those people were dying, unable to get out while the ship was ascending to the bottom of the sea. The ones that were I. Areas were water took longer to reach or where the construction was tight enough to have air pockets knew they can’t get out, and they knew they will die. Either by water, suffocating or cos of pressure, they had no hope and were just waiting for death. That is terrifying *I read a little more on it and it concluded the doors weren't shut, but the passengers were kept in for much longer than the others. It's pretty interesting so I do encourage to read some testimonies from trials

[@schnek8927]

Descending* But yes, truly horrifying, and i don't say that lightly... I do wonder if anyone was ever held responsible for that. Frankly, i think the one who closed them in there should've been hanged, if not worse... I can imagine worse ways to die, but it certainly is up there... To die there in (i assume) the absolute dark, just waiting to die with your family (if you're lucky)... And no one remembers them either, so unbelievably sad...

[@ediodimacaroni]

Also don't forget those brave crew members who chose to stay inside to keep the power on. The amount of bravery and courage is incredible.

[@just_delta-2589]

@@schnek8927 well I think it’s a bit much to say they should have been hanged. They were doing their best to keep the ship afloat and save SO many more lives. It’s not like they closed the doors with the hope and wish of killing someone, they closed those doors with the hope of saving so many more lives. They had no way of knowing that the boat was 100% going down so they tried to save it and everyone else on board. They weren’t maliciously trying to kill the people they locked in there. Those deaths ARE on their hands sure, but they shouldn’t be punished severely for it, they were trying to save as many lives as possible. But I mean this whole topic doesn’t matter since they’re all gone anyway and there’s nobody to punish.

[@BlueBerry2283]

I absolutley agree. I bet there were people in areas with air in the front section, just sinking withe the ship, decending all the way to the bottom. I thankfully cannot imagine how that must have felt, because I'm not sure I could handle knowing that feeling

[@dustrose8101]

@@schnek8927 Hanged is a bit much imo, because they were faced with the burden of being forced to choose between those people's lives or possibly the lives of everyone else on board. I don't think its in any way admirable that they condemned those people to their fate but I don't envy the position they were in to be forced to MAKE that choice. If anything, blame the designers who were arrogant enough to put living spaces that could be closed off with the watertight doors.

[@elinlarsson69]

One of the most heartbreaking things for me is when the boat sank and the band stayed on and played until the very end. I believe, if I remember correctly, that it was because the band members already knew that they were dead and instead of trying to flee they stayed and continued performing to try to calm the passengers and just spread what little happiness they could💔😭

[@supersasukemaniac]

"Gentlemen, playing with you has been an honor."

[@chocolinakatzroy5085]

I can’t remember WHERE it is, it may be in the place in Belfast where it was made, but somewhere this historical like place has these tall black plaques that have pictures of the band members, placed in the order they were in while they were playing when the ship went down.

[@MiosPanties]

Wallace Hartley, John Woodward, Roger Bricoux, John Hume, John F.P Clarke, Georges Krins, Percy Taylor and Theodore Brailey

[@fangirloverleo494]

@@chocolinakatzroy5085 There is a room with those black plaques in the Titanic museum in Gatlinburg Tennessee! They also have the original violin that Hartley(I think) played that night.

[@deweshgoenka6111]

@Dickey Spouse music in a way is to express emotions

[@Caretaker6139]

one of the survivors that were in one of the life boats said, what was more terrifying than hearing the screams of the people in the water after the ship went under, was the silence that slowly followed.

[@bbemyangell]

this is truly heartbreaking, tragic, and made me realize how terrifying the experience actually was...

[@faekapira]

let's not let you learn about the wilhelm gustloff but yes, it was absolutely terrifying

[@corbensmith1745]

@@faekapira uh oh

[@pixiniarts]

@@faekapira Or the SS Cap Arcona, Thielbek, RMS Lancastria, RMS Empress of Ireland or the Sultana for that matter.

[@faekapira]

@@pixiniarts wait lancastria? that photo of the ship sinking is what really got me into shipping lol

[@pixiniarts]

@@faekapira I only found out about her a few years ago! When, she sunk on the 17 June 1940 weeks after Dunkirk she went down with the loss of 4,000 men, women and children. It was such a devestating loss that Churchill ordered a media blackout on the sinking and information is still secret to this day. Back then Britain was reeling, on the 8th of june in the Norwegian Sea the British Navy lost 1,207 when the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious sank, 160 from the destroyer HMS Acasta and 152 from the destroyer HMS Ardent, a total of 1,519... In France from the 10th May in less than two months the BEF suffered 66,426 casualties, 11,014 killed, 14,074 wounded and 41,338 men missing or taken prisoner. Churchill thought the Lancastria would be the final nail in the coffin of British morale and resolve.

[@SteventheOrigin]

A man was asked for an interview of what his experience was after the Titanic sank and they were left in the dark. He said something along the lines of 'don't remind me, the sounds of the people stranded in the water were terrible, actually the silence that followed was deafening'

[@neenayannelli2334]

so i live right next to new york city (NJ) and my mom lived here during 9/11. she said that he silence in the air on 9/11 and the days after it were so silent that it was as if time was stuck in place. you know when a ton of loss has happened when silence is so silence that its loud.

[@lapetus7695]

This gave me the chills

[@erikalulea3608]

@@neenayannelli2334 Titanic is much worse in the sense that it was a pure accident by nature. The other thing can not be compared. Yes was tragic of the people that died but that had a political agenda to , to later justify killing of people in the North Africa & Middle East. So for me its 2 completely DIFFERENT things.

[@neenayannelli2334]

@@erikalulea3608 I wasent comparing? I was saying the silence is terrifying after big losses.

[@karnerblue7658]

Looking into this a little more, it’s looking like the sinking of the Titanic was an “agenda”, too. I know it sounds absolutely insane, but please look it up.

[@robertthomson1994]

the thing that was even worse was when they fired off the SOS fireworks, there was like 2 or 3 ships somewhat nearby that Could have come and helped, but they had assumed that they were having a party or something along the lines. it's one of those things where it's like.... that's insane...

[@cliveedwards2958]

Yes you are right..a horrible irony..also the other ships got tired of radio messages from frolicking rich revellers that they switched off their receivers and didnt get the sos messages that came in later that evening..a whole chain of dissasters

[@emmab3275]

There was one ship nearby that they were attempting to signal, but they were supposed to fire the rockets in one minute intervals to signal distress, and they fired them in five minute intervals instead. It's unknown for sure why this error occurred, but it's generally believed to be a training error, and stricter training is one of the many laws changed after Titanic sunk.

[@radioblitz1494]

did you also know the titanic shouldnt of been in the water in the first place during the construction a fire broke out weakening the metal and damaging many thing, this caused some of the floors to already be flooded before the ship it the ice and sense the metal was weakened it allowed the ice to break the metal easier :)

[@emmab3275]

@@radioblitz1494 That's not true. It's a conspiracy theory loosely inspired by a real coal fire that happened at the beginning of the voyage, and a smudge on a picture.

[@Jenna_Talia]

It's like hearing a kid screaming next door, and having to weigh your options: Are they playing, being a brat, or are they being beaten. If you call the police, you're more than likely overreacting by an extreme margin, if you don't, you might have let a kid get fucking whalloped.

[@ItzBrittKneeBish]

Fun fact! The length of the movie is how long the actual ship took to sank.

[@dogninja0180]

Huh? Titanic took 2 hours and 40 minutes roughly to sink and the movie is 3 hours and 10 minutes roughly???

[@iamasquiddle]

@@dogninja0180and who told you that? (This wasnt meant to sound rude) you don’t know if that’s true + the credits of the movie roll too

[@brielledevine1650]

It's the length of the movie that takes place in 1912 IIRC

[@WinterIsBestSeason69]

@@iamasquiddleit IS true, it hits iceberg at 11:40pm then sinks at 2:20am Why reply to something you know Nothing about?

[@echostar034]

@@iamasquiddle No he is right on the times, it struck berg around 11:40 PM on April 14th and fully submerged around 2:20 AM April 15th. So about 2 hours 40 minutes. However, the movie accounting for the credits and scenes not taking place in 1912 is probably either around or even shorter than that.

[@redangelofpreventingharm]

I'd never considered the immersion, of like... hearing different accents, and babies crying, and the lights going out. But watching Jack infodump is so happy! Seeing anyone go on about something they know a lot about is somehow really nice.

[@karnerblue7658]

I love hearing people talk about their passions, interests.

[@V.F.D.DaleSalvador]

See guys, KZbin does have a sense of humor. This is the first Jacksepticeye video I've been recommend in 8 years, and it's a Titanic video.

[@gifhsksbd]

Same lol

[@siobhan-rae]

I got recommended on my home page and I watched it originally

[@SkaterGuy55]

Dude same

[@Bannkrolltee]

same

[@Marco-zt2jj]

Comments like yours are always so idiotic Millions of people search "Titanic" on KZbin > KZbin recommends videos related to the Titanic That's exactly how recommendations are supposed to work, it's not humor, comedic timing, coincidences or whatever

[@jessicafernanda11]

As a young person, i never realized how terrifying it must be to be on either the lifeboat or the titanic, watching your loved ones still in the ship, hearing people crying and screaming, watching victims drowning and slowly dying, the sheer horror of watching so many lives lost in a tragedy and there's nothing you can do about it is painful

[@TheLastHylianTitan]

I forgot who exactly it was that this applied to, but I did read somewhere that one of the survivors of the titanic refused to attend a single baseball game when he landed in NY. Why? Because the cheering of the crowd reminded him of the screams he heard as people drowned the night the ship sunk. Edit: And to this day I cannot get over how heartbreaking that is. What should have been a joyous event was warped into a terrible, awful reminder of one of the most well known tragedies of the century.

[@IATEALLTHECHEESE]

Same.

[@crimson3sky]

@@TheLastHylianTitan Jesus Christ..

[@Drizzlybear1]

@@TheLastHylianTitan My grandpa was drafted unwillingly to go to Vietnam and he had severe PTSD to the point he needed to have earplugs in all night on fourth of July because the explosions gave him awful PTSD flashbacks. He HATED fourth of July because it reminded him of the things he saw and was ordered to do. I can only imagine the PTSD of something like the Titanic

[@JustAPerson64]

@@Drizzlybear1 but Vietnam don’t do 4th of July?

[@laurenevers8644]

Reading youtube comments on titanic documentaries over time, I once came across a comment left by a guy who's neighbor used to know a titanic survivor. The survivor spent the rest of his life in America in 1 of the big cities in a northern midwest state, and had a LOT of trouble with not wanting to be around a local stadium; he said the roars of the crowd as they cheer on whatever football/baseball teams were playing sounded just like the screams of the people who were on the titanic as it was sinking 🥺😰 That day will never not be 1 of the most tragically horrible days in modern history.

[@TiaMayberry]

As a kid I was OBSESSED with the Titanic and other shipwrecks. One little known fact is that the gash the iceberg created was not very big. It was long but not wide. It only had about 12-13 Sq feet of damage (or about 2 sidewalk squares). They used sonar to look through the mud and see the actual size of the tear. What happened was the hull was made with sub-par steel and with the extreme cold of the water it became super brittle. So when it scraped up against the iceberg it popped rivets and buckled the plates rather than actually tearing it open. Another fact is the water tight doors would have stopped it...if they had gone all the way to the top of the ship. But because they stopped about halfway up the water just spilled over into the next compartment and then the next and then the next etc. It's so sad to think that if they had just done a couple of things differently it might not have ever sank.

[@paigeethelthibodeaux28]

You're right aside from the materials. Titanic was built with the best steel you could get at the time. The problem lies in that they didn't really understand what happens to steel in cold sea water. The whole thing is a spectacular series of unfortunate events. And yes, just even a few feet more on the gates and it all would have been saved. Ironically enough, the gates at front of the ship were higher, it's been theorized that if she hit the berg straight on, she might have made it.

[@Rand0m0bs3ss10ns]

on the other side of the coin, if some things were done differently, she may have sank much faster, too! From what I remember from the Titanic: Honor & Glory team's research, on one of the livestreams they did, they discussed some of the miracles that happened on the ship. Two of the ones I remember from what they talked about were of the actions taken for a coal fire onboard and for when the wireless went down two days before the collision. For the coal fire, I think they'd said it had started before she technically started her voyage, and that it happened to be in a starboard-side coal bunker close to the bow (I think that bunker was either where the iceberg gash ended in or it was the bunker just in front of it, I don't fully remember) so to help get the fire under control and gone, they moved as much of the untouched coal in the bunker the fire was in to a different bunker elsewhere. Luckily for them, there were some coal bunkers just a few yards away on the port side, so from the start of the voyage to the afternoon before she hit the iceberg, the workers moved roughly 3 tons of coal from a bunker on one side of the ship to the other. In the process, that caused roughly a 2-3 degree port list to the ship by the evening of the 14th, and once the collision happened, the extra weight and listing prior was able to offset the list that would have been caused from the influx of water if she had been on an even keel instead. Basically, the extra weight on one side managed to help keep her afloat for a little under an extra 2 hours past the initial prediction by Andrews, her designer. As for the wireless incident, I think something had happened to make the usual wireless set stop working, and one of the rules for any and all wireless operators at the time was that "if the main set breaks, DO NOT TRY TO FIX IT. You might just make things worse. There is an emergency set you can use if you need it, but please wait until you are docked at port and request a professional to fix it instead." Phillips and Bride looked at that rule and just went, "Nah." So from roughly the evening of either the 11th or 12th (I forget), the two of them worked on fixing the set themselves, and after using some tape on a wire that had been burnt through, the main wireless set was back up and running at about 4AM on the 14th. (also, I think the steel used wasn't necessarily sub-par, it was the same kind of steel used on every ship at the time, just that the area where the rivets started popping was in an area that had been reinforced differently than the rest of the ship. I think that was because on the Olympic, that area had been prone to buckling and probably did get involved in some collision while the Titanic was under construction.) sorry about the word salad, I've also been a fan of the Titanic since I was a kid. That one Magic Tree House book doomed me to this path and cursed me with knowledge

[@sbeve2956]

This!!! Also - the best crew at that time of night should've had binoculars, why they didnt have then you ask??? Someone fucking forgot where the keys were to a locker where the binoculars were located - there was supposed to be a practice evacuation drill, for an unknown reason the captain called it off - between the captain and news papers, it's in great part there fault, had the titanic not been going so fast, they would've made that turn in time - the old couple in the james Cameron titanic? Based on a true story, there were a couple eye witness accounts of a couple laying in bed together waiting for the ship to go down - most of the people that were "saved" were first class - molly brown was also a real person!!! I don't remember her story too well, but from what I remember, james Cameron did it justice

[@sbeve2956]

*nest not best

[@Razgriz_Ace18]

I learned things today at about 1:30AM in the morning, and I'm glad I did. I think my favorite ones are the coal weight shift, and the don't fix it rule being ignored.

[@maxonite]

The scariest part is that it was much, MUCH darker in real life. After the ships lights went out, it was practically impossible to see what was going on. That’s why they didn’t agree on whether she broke in half. All there was was defeaning noise, screams and the dark silhouette of the ship towering against a sky of tiny, glittering stars

[@jkumadapharaoh8514]

Jesus 😢

[@___Lyric___]

Ooof. You really painted that picture there. What a way to go. Nightmare.

[@user-kx6fw8ub9g]

The people left on the ship itself must’ve had no idea how near they were in the water too (that was close to freezing mind you) and how fast the boat was sinking because of the pitch black darkness. They probably could have not make themselves ready for the plunge. There was also no moon that night.

[@jkumadapharaoh8514]

@@maxonite like preparing quickly for your own death

[@maxonite]

@@Matt_831You think some few tiny 1912 flashlights, most of them carried by officers in lifeboats well away from the ship at that point could light up the scene, ”Sherlock”? I’m sorry to say but your point is completely moot.

[@FrankThe77Tank]

The noise the ship must’ve made as it was going down & breaking in half must’ve been so eerie in real life!

[@AlphaWolfey1]

Right?! Just an eerie groan from the metal as it slowly sank before loud cracking/screeching from it breaking apart to just silence (and just hearing all the people). It must of been so terrifying/heartbreaking to witness

[@Privatebust]

@@AlphaWolfey1 ikr, but just imagine waking up from all those sounds and then you look down from your bed and you see the Water going up. That must be so terrifying. Hope the People that Died are in a Better place. Rest in peace.

[@FrankThe77Tank]

@@Privatebust The most heartbreaking scene in “Titanic”, is when the Lower Class Mother is tucking her kids into bed, literally preparing them for death, as calmly as possible.. Being in the lower part of the ship + their Class, she knows they have no chance of getting through the gates & up onto the deck, so instead of running wild, panicking & scaring the children, she has to make the worst decision anyone could possibly imagine. They were on a nice vacation minutes before. Those final moments had to be horrifying, esp for the kids..

[@AliZebu1]

While not every survivor saw the ship break in two, they often mentioned sounds that were likely the ship breaking in two. It was given descriptions like a deafening roar, loud explosions, or a volley of musketry. Some survivors assumed it was the boilers exploding.

[@mimato]

And then silence...I get goosebumps.

[@crazy_adventures6326]

The Titanic had been laying at the bottom of the Atlantic undisturbed for 73 years, 4 months, 2 weeks, 2 days, 23 hours, 40 minutes. That's 26,802 days.

[@aristheia_]

I legit started crying the moment the angle of the ship became much more apparent while it's sinking (and cried even more for the next 15mins), I can't imagine the number of people still aboard, especially knowing there's still more people on the lower levels of the ship. But I agree that the scariest and most heartbreaking part was the moment the ship disappeared. THAT was something. The moment the last bit of the ship sank, like, for me, it's unfathomable to imagine how such a huge travesty can just look like nothing ever happened if you look at it just from the surface. It's terrifyingly calm... I don't think my heart will be able to take it if I experienced this simulation in VR if I already felt this devastated just watching it from you. May all the souls that have been lost from the Titanic, and the survivors, find their peace

[@wisteriaraven852]

glad to know i wasn't the only one who cried, i couldn't imagine the amount of fear and anguish that washed over those people as they saw it sink, and for those on onboard as well. My heart truly hurts, if i have been in that life boat i would have been traumitized. I feel so sorry for those passengers, so many lives lost due to carelessness and cutting corners.

[@ThiefOfADHD]

So, something that isn't often mentioned and is honestly quite tragic: the dog you see on lifeboat 6 was one of three dogs that survived. The woman who had the dog had another that she had to abandon, and there was an estimated 17 dogs aboard the ship when it went on its maiden voyage. There are also possible reports of other animals, such as roosters, a ship cat and her kittens (rumored to have not been on the ship), and also rats and mice, as is typical of a giant ship with a lot of room like that. Some awful things you figure out when you happen to fall for the Titanic in elementary school? All the books written with the Titanic as the overarching theme. So many books, a lot fictional. And a few even had POV's from animals

[@Whocares158]

Those innocent animals didn't deserve that.

[@meggieanne3217]

I believe there’s a book about the Titanic’s ship cat and her kittens and I believe there’s also a superstition where if the ship’s cat leaves before the ship sets sail, a disaster is sure to happen

[@kimisoa5794]

@Dominic Greer I wasn't crying before but you made me tear up :(

[@lynnlee4567]

@Dominic Greer True, so true. Can't help but feel for the animals. By the way, another reason I actually replied to your comment is cause you remind me of "God is Near" by James Herriot; you know, there's this character in it, Miss Stubbs- an old bed-ridden woman whose only worry was whether she would reunite with her pets in Heaven or not, cause people say animals have no souls. It is such a touching story how Dr.Herriot comforted and reassured the old lady that animals do have souls, and that she would reunite with them in the other world.

[@chrissbasement169]

Why does everyone find 1 dog dying more tragic than 1000 humans? Myshelf included

[@Havokwreaker]

Cool story: my great great uncles Sig and Otto Yohnson were supposed to be on the Titanic but they supposedly missed the ship because of "missing paperwork". A few years ago my grandparents were visiting and we just so happened to watch James Cameron's Titanic. At the part where Leonardo Dicaprio's character wins tickets off of "Sven and Olaf" my grandfather kinda chuckled so I asked him what was funny. Apparently Sig and Otto were notorious gamblers (their brother was in jail in Sweden for gambling debts) so it wouldn't be the craziest thing in the world if those two Swedish guys Leo won tickets from were actually based off the story of my great great uncles missing the boat by sheer dumb luck and gambling. Just thought I'd share!

[@DieFluchendeHexe]

That is really awesome! Lucky for them for not ending up on the Titanic.

[@ohkaygoplay]

That's pretty damned awesome.

[@breewashere]

Woah. They changed their fates by gambling. Who knew gambling could actually be a good thing?

[@Liz-ff7zt]

Anyone who’s interested in the Titanic should definitely check out the Arctic sinking too. Although there were only 400 on board only 88 people survived - none of which were women or children. It’s honestly such a heartbreaking but interesting story.

[@PeridotChampion]

The scariest part of this is that most of the bodies were never recovered from the ship, especially those in lower class. There are perhaps hundreds who have never been returned home or even accounted for. This whole thing is so surreal and the movie is sad because of, well, the romance but without it, it's still just as disturbing and just as sad.

[@PeninsulaPaintings]

And a lot that were recovered at first, were then buried at sea not long after. There was a maritime law that only embalmed bodies were allowed in port. They didn't have enough supplies for all of them. So if a body looked as if it was from steerage/third class, it was just dumped back into the sea. First class victims got coffins, second class got body bags, third class got dumped. A very sad divide between classes.

[@PeridotChampion]

@@mikaelowe8430 Yeah. I said *lower* class

[@ihanakaunotar2741]

@@mikaelowe8430 back then it was about class, which was mostly about money. But men died the most in titanic even the first class, because back then women are children were put first. Now in sinkings, such rules aren’t in place anymore, so in fact men tend to have the highest chance of survival generally.

[@PsychadelicWolf]

And when you look at the footage taken of the actual ship, and you see shoes in the floor? That's where the bodies were when they died, because the shoes were made of leather they never dissolved

[@Julia-ln5og]

During the sinking class didn't matter, the lower classes found out about the sinking later then higher classes due to their location on the ship, but the rule for life boats was women and children first, no matter the class

[@alexthemarshmallow92]

Something I rarely see mentioned: while the ship was sinking, it DEFINITELY caused whirpool/some form of suction that could have pulled down anything or anyone caught in it. It's likely anyone nearby who had managed to stay afloat for a while was pulled down with the ship, and unless they had *inhuman* abilities of swimming, they drowned before they could ever reach the surface, even with their life jackets. Because of the sheer size of the Titanic, the vortex was probably so strong that anything - even if it was really buoyant - likely got pulled down as the ship *REALLY* began to sink, after it split in half. It's sobering to think about days like these, where so many people lost their lives to mankind's hubris. We can only hope that we've learned from our mistakes on large feats of engineering such as the Titanic.

[@katylepetsos7512]

And as the ship split, people who were already in the water might’ve gotten sucked inside it from where it broke too. So even if you could swim through the vortex, you’d be trapped inside the ship’s walls.

[@Unknownburger]

Clearly not. The Hindenburg is a prime example

[@rachelleeden8824]

Apparently the ship's chef was actually able to tread water for 2 hours, swimming away from the ship, before a life boat picked him up. Difficult to be sure, but not impossible for any avid swimmers that jumped ship pretty early.

[@adammetcalfe8748]

Charles Joughin begs to differ, he didn't even get his hair wet. While Gracie and Lightoller were pulled down at the beginning of the final plunge (about 10 minutes before Joughin went in the water) they were able to reach the surface and survive the night. Lightoller didn't even have a life jacket on, I don't remember off the top of my head if Gracie did. Suction has little to do with size and more to do with sudden rushes of water entering dry caveties, i.e. a window breaks into a relatively dry room or water reaches a deck vent and rushes down into the bowls of the ship. With the way the stern sank there wasn't much chance for the water to enter the small areas as the bow section did. That's why witnesses reported hearing explosions just after the ship completely disappeared. Upon discovery of the stern section, it is assumed these explosions were massive implosions that occured a few hundred feet from the surface.

[@ExoticDva]

Doing some quick research I learned that no, there was no chance of a whirlpool forming from the ship alone, but something else could’ve done it.

[@hmms5256]

I had to go through some historic records for a paper on the Titanic for university and found out that a lot of servants that had had to stay on the ship, not being allowed into the lifeboats or stuck in flooding areas, were written in as additional luggage. They hadn't been included in the final death toll until the last few years and we still don't know how many were still on the ship.

[@pucamisc]

That’s horrifying.

[@Gloomcookie96]

The conditions for workers back in those days were horrible as it was but literally treating them like luggage terrifies me.

[@awaffle_]

😅

[@theonionsystem7779]

@@awaffle_ why do you find it so funny?

[@hmms5256]

@Allen Dier There are some articles on google scholar but more details come out when you look into the servants being people of colour

[@Ivyztimex]

the guy saying help in the window when it was sinking was jack when he got locked up and chained to the pole for being blamed for stealing the heart of the ocean neckless.

[@sarahgiuliani8897]

I was obsessed with the Titanic when I was younger as well. One thing that I've learned, is that before Titanic left it's shipyard in Belfast to its first stop in Southampton, there was a coal fire in Boiler Room no.6, the compartment that exactly hit by the iceberg. They loaded the coal too early and management didn't do anything nor cared much about it despite workers concerns and complaints. While Titanic was set sail, many of the workers in the boiler rooms were trying their hardest to put out the coal fire. It is theorized that because of this coal fire, the steel was weakened significantly and could've been part of the main cause of when the iceberg hit the ship and gashed a hole in it's side. There's a whole documentary here on KZbin of a man researching and trying to figure out the whole story of why she sank. He found pictures of the Titanic where part of the ship's steel was much darker then the rest of the steel. Again, it's a theory, but it's mighty interesting to think about.

[@ilysatu6n596]

This is exactly what I wrote about, and to think that if a few things were changed and things weren't overlooked, over a thousand innocent men and probably still some women and children could have been saved. A colossal shame.

[@kristianstaalby8499]

Title of the documentary?

[@paisleesheppard5629]

If you pour boiling water into a refridgerated mug, the difference in temperature will make it crack. Metal and microwave safe glass do this too, but on a lesser scale because the material is stronger.

[@spiro3142]

Ok this is a conspiracy theory that has been debunked. Yes there was a coal fire but no it did not weaken the steel. It actually saved the ship in a way, because due to the fire the coal was moved to one side of the ship which balanced out the list the ship was taking while sinking. Had that not happened the ship would have capsized.

[@mercadoellaines.1009]

I researched about this a few years ago and if I remember it correctly, the cold water of the ocean made the metal brittle so when it hit the iceberg, the body of the ship was easily penetrated. I haven't read about the coal fire in the boiler room so... this is all I know.

[@KirieRSM]

I think the "Sandbox" mode is where you have free roam of the wreckage! If you decide to play through that, I think it would be fun to watch. Maybe refresh your mind about the event and walk us through some of it. I'm a big Titanic nut and I was really happy to see someone else who really enjoys it introduce me to a game like this! Hoping you'll do more!

[@molleirose]

The fact you could hear the screaming, the sobbing, the heartbreak you can feel. The hope that maybe your loved one got off the ship and is in the water, and then being told you can't go get them. So devastating.

[@user-kx6fw8ub9g]

I think Jack is sometimes forgetting that this is not just a game. The lifeboat he’s on, the people there including the “stowaway” man that was in there were true people. The arguments, the teenage boys being turned away, all of them are real.

[@memphis6694]

Exactly and he wouldn’t shut up so we could hear them.

[@pbague]

@@memphis6694 bro hes a KZbinr and commentator, it just be like that he even started literally tearing up at the end, idk what you want from him

[@Rumor1259]

@@memphis6694 This Is One Of Those: "If you don't like how he does it, go watch someone else" Complaining Gains nothing.

[@Rumor1259]

1) He Clearly Didn't Realize that 2) He's a KZbinr, His Job is to talk. If he wanted to sit there silently and watch, He wouldn't have Recorded it.

[@memphis6694]

@@pbague being a KZbinr and commentator does not mean just talk at all times. I want him to understand when it’s an appropriate time to talk and when it’s better to let viewers also engage in the experience by listening and just watching the video.

[@zamazenta9967]

Small child, on the verge of tears: "What about daddy?" Jacksepticeye: aww the dog.... :(

[@studiopt1635]

Hey I kinda did that to

[@itzzcosmo5623]

I did that i love dogs too

[@jazzyethan]

Surprisingly I thought the daddy would pull on the heart strings

[@darkness-uq6qi]

Everyone knows Dog lives matter more than people lives

[@MARYWTHER]

It's really sad because yes "aww the dog" (we all love dogs) but in the narrative of the game, the dog is clearly here to show that upper class people could even take their dogs before the men leaving the Titanic. Yes, it's a small dog, but you can see at the end, it down there, on a space where a whole human could have fitted. It's just a way of picturing how empty the lifeboats were...

[@Lozinlimbo]

Not so fun fact: The musicians of the ship played music until they went under. They played intending to calm the passengers, for as long as they possibly could, and all went down with the ship.

[@lukegilbert5184]

Crazy

[@lolajaramillo4620]

Yeah, they were also awesome.

[@julikanatalie1766]

fuck yeah i remember that bit. and it got scarier and gloomier when they suddenly stopped (talking about some real time re-enactment of the sinking i saw on yt somewhere. uuugh if you wanna see full on 2:40h of desperation, go get some

[@lolajaramillo4620]

@LegacyWolf And possibly played that tune because of the very near future that they saw for themselves..

[@slaybarbiegirlturqoise]

@@lukegilbert5184 sad too because i herd about them

[@Scarred_S_Games]

I actually went to the Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. It's astounding on how much artifacts were retrieved from the Titanic itself. When you first enter the museum, they hand you these slips with the person's name on it and it tells you which class that person was in. At the end of the tour, they have a display with all the names of those who survived. That's where the slips comes in. The names that I just mention, well it turns out, whoever your person was, you can look and see if the person had survived or died on the ship. Another cool thing they have in there is that you can actually touch the iceberg in there, along with the (and I quote) "the most FREEZING ICE COLD water I've ever touch!" There's a lot more stuff to check out in the Titanic museum, but I highly extremely recommend checking it out next time if you visit the states again.

[@lllg30]

I'm a local, I can confirm what this person says is true. The cold water they have that you can touch is so extremely unfathomable. Going throigh what they all went through was so unfathomable and I've been obsessed with Titanic much like others since I was like 6.

[@AstralShot]

@@lllg30 DUDE SAME AGE

[@rayleighs1216]

Man, I remember being given those passports when my family of four was taking the tour. And Funny enough, my father actually got the passport for Captain Edward Smith. The captain of the Titanic. We all remember looking back at him and being like, "Well, we know what happens to you." Out of the four passports that we were given, two survived and two died.

[@Scarred_S_Games]

@@rayleighs1216 The only one that was on the Titanic that we all know whose fate was self-sealed. What was your dad's reaction when he got Captain Smith?

[@lilkatydid8947]

I saw this too in Philly. It was incredibly emotional. Reading accounts, seeing belongings of people that were retrieved from the bottom of the ocean made it so real. My mother starting crying when she saw a child's toy from steerage.

[@sketch-mer6195]

The most emotional experience is the walk-through roadside attraction where you become one of the passengers and look at its many artifacts. To see a piece of the ship is just awe inspiring. And at the final end of the experience, you find your name and see if you were the survivor or perished and learn about the person you were. If you all ever have that experience, please let us know!

[@Xerroxi]

the only reason the lights stayed on for so long was becouse of the engineers who was below deck working and keeping things together. may them rest in peace.

[@karnerblue7658]

That’s amazing. Absolute heroes.

[@Xerroxi]

@@karnerblue7658 legendary Heroes on that Ship. They litterally Pushed it to the Braking Point. and went down with it. RIP.

[@LuisAngelSantos]

They’re the heroes of the Titanic! Sad that shows and movies don’t show them (only in documentaries)

[@armed_patriot]

@@LuisAngelSantos well we did see a clip of it in in Titanic (1977)

[@dylangale5481]

Most of them died first

[@hypercoyote204]

coolest part about the game is that almost all those events and lines said on the lifeboat is the close to the exact same things said and done on lifeboat 6, which is very cool and shows how much research the devs really did on this game. Bravo.

[@humanoidrkangel]

Yeah. I was shocked to see that they interpretations of the survivors that was on the boat. Was shocked to see that the player was sitting next to a well known survivor who’s name is escaping me. She is known for arguing to go back and help. I see her side and I also see the side of the crewman because there could have been a panic for people trying to board the life boat and possibly causing it to capsize and flip. But still :( such a sad thing..

[@Mr12Relic]

@@humanoidrkangel Molly Brown

[@damianwootten]

As a former submariner, I had to learn rules of the nautical road for ship’s navigation and handling and emergency protocol for ships in distress. Those rockets are called morning stars. Because the ocean is so vast, that you can only see ship’s navigational lighting about 12 miles out on the edge of the horizon. The morning stars are meant to signal ships beyond the horizon to give aid immediately. The problem the closest ship to assist was over 100 miles out so there was no way for them to respond. A lot was learned from the Titanic and a Quality Assurance program to improve the ship’s safety and protect the ships from the unthinkable to occur. The Titanic, USS Thresher, and the Challenger shuttle to hopefully prevent disasters like that from ever reoccur again.

[@macandkiss9719]

Sexy.

[@Auriacularia]

@@macandkiss9719 wha

[@lucyandecember2843]

o.o

[@whisperingwind4455]

There was also a ship much closer but it’s communications we’re turned off. The flares sent were also not the correct ones so they thought it was a part.

[@florpleborp2275]

The closest ship, the Californian, decided not to respond. It was the Carpathia, who was further away, and all of those aboard (look up the tumblr posts on it-absolutely beautiful storytelling of its role) that are the reason there were any survivors from the Titanic at all.

[@PhillipGatchalian]

He’s honestly got a point. Like, why do youtubers now have to only focus on money and popularity rather than trying to make decent content about what they enjoy doing and sharing it with others?

[@KittyCatThang]

The little "What about Daddy?" at the end got me... Those poor families. The poor people. What a horrible disaster. It's good that we've finally been able to find most (not all, and probably never all) of the remains and the stories.

[@THE_SOSC]

@Just some guy without a Mustache probably adopted. Not a joke.

[@THE_SOSC]

The story of titanic makes me severely question the safety of modern cruise lines

[@tlpineapple1]

@@THE_SOSC The story of the titanic is one of the reasons why modern cruise lines are now increadibly safe comparatively

[@janecat8753]

Seán was very accurate with his information, but I'll add some: There were 16 watertight compartments and the ship was built to be okay if 4 of them flooded. Unfortunately 6 compartments flooded. The rivets used to keep the hull together, were built from a concentration of metal called "slag", which is a metal waste product. That created a weak product and was likely the cause of the ship breaking apart. One of the crewmembers was replaced, and he accidentally took the key to the binoculars with him, so the lookouts didn't have the proper equipment. The key was later auctioned off to the tune of £90,000.

[@SongaiSoul521]

Also, the watertight compartments didn't reach the roof of a level! They only went about 3/4 of the way up the highest level, which allowed water to spill over.

[@birdsnestfern5635]

Imagine knowing that you probably caused the deaths of hundreds of people because you forgot to give back a key

[@maverlk]

wasnt there some explosion before it went on it’s maiden voyage ? that weakend the metal on the outside ?

[@2LaneTraveler]

It took so long to find the Titanic in part because she mis-reported her position in her distress calls. The ship was in the process of changing clocks (GMT wasn't standardized yet) when they struck, and the error in timekeeping threw off their navigation calculations by nearly 40 miles. Samuel Halpern wrote an excellent paper on the subject, but you will find it a tedious read if you're not familiar with celestial navigation. She also sank in over 3,700 meters of water, and it took a while to develop technology that could even reach such depths, never mind operate at them.

[@gwendolynrobinson3900]

Another great movie called A Night To Remember is about the titanic that is more based on the real life people and the survivor's accounts. Though at that time, it was still widely believed it was in tact when it sank, and doesn't break in half. You can watch it on youtube though, even a colorized version. Many scenes Rose and Jack had are based on actual events

[@c.j.wilson164]

My grandma constantly had nightmares since she could remember about sinking in a ship, so much so that she believed in a past life that's how she had died. She was extremely afraid of water, if her feet didn't touch the bottom she wanted no part of it at all. Then the movie came out and she and I went to see it and she was crying straight away as soon as the Grand Staircase was shown. It was one of the things she had seen in her nightmares, and other details here and there as the movie went on she could remember. I too then became obsessed, and still am, about this sad and horrifying tragedy. Watching this was such a beautiful and heartbreaking experience, and I thank you for sharing it with us all.

[@stargirl7646]

That’s amazing!

[@itsameah2595]

Wow. I’ve actually heard of a few people who remembered dying on a singing ship, specifically the Titanic. It’s terrifying yet astounding to hear those memories.

[@nickwilliams6621]

"Surely they can see our rockets sir" "If they can they're not responding" Yep, that's the *SS Californian* on the horizon, and yes they can see your rockets... but because they thought they were fireworks, they left. The captain of the Californian had to live with the guilt for the rest of his life. For those who want to know what it sounded like that night, "Frank Goldsmith, Jr., a Titanic survivor who later lived near Navin Field (Tiger Stadium) in Detroit, never took his children to baseball games because the roar of the crowd reminded him of the screams of people dying in the freezing water"

[@coyotekyle9412]

holy…🤭 that’s actually so scary

[@kessiawright1710]

A veteran I used to look after years ago, was in WWII. He was on a ship that was close to another that was torpedoed and the Captain wouldn't allow them to go and help because he was afraid their ship would go down if it was too close to them. He heard their screams. He had night terrors for over 60 years.

[@Cassxowary]

And he had nightmares and flashback every homerun and stuff the poor kid…

[@Cassxowary]

And that was a reverse mirage with the Californian…

[@3mma_2020]

I remember him from an interview I watchad about a year ago and what he said about the screams and the silence has stuck with me. Very chilling

[@dokadoka4922]

I never really thought about it before, but the scene with the 16 year old boy not being allowed on the boat hit me. Imagine being a mom or an older sister having to leave a young kid behind like that, and then finding out later that the boat could've held so many more people. Must've been heartbreaking.

[@kisaragistation5220]

I guess at that time they were considered men more or less

[@chrissydayringer7539]

the lady in the boat that seems fine is the Unsinkable Molly. She is the reason why 6 people were saved from the water after the ship sank. "Those are your men out there!" she basically told the Seamen on the boat that they were going back one way or another to see if they could save people. And they did.

[@joshgiesbrecht]

Not true. While she was an amazing woman and did a lot to help 2nd and 3rd class families after the fact, she was ultimately unable to persuade Quatermaster Robert Hichens to return to the disaster area. She went as far as threatening to throw him overboard if he did not return, but ultimately he refused. He feared the lifeboat being swamped by too many people in the water or the lifeboat getting sucked under by the sinking Titanic if they were to go back. Not sure where you're getting 6 people from either, but I feel you might have mixed up the fact it was Lifeboat No. 6 that they were on. Again, her efforts should not be forgotten, and what she did for the poorer families afterwards was extremely commendable (using her connections to the rich to fundraise for 2nd and 3rd class families/survivors). But it's simply not true that she was instrumental in saving any additional people.

[@GodlessCreature_04]

In my opinion, the scariest part was when the lights started to go out, following up to the point they went out fully. It first only *hinted* to the power going out. When it finally did? The initial feeling of being trapped out in open ocean settles in and you just get HIT with that existential dread. Just- being in that sudden total darkness? Terrifying.

[@Shadow_Hawk_Streaming]

Most if not all engineers stayed by their posts as she went down to keep the lights on, some were probably killed by the pressure on their respective air pockets rather than the water or the cold.

[@GodlessCreature_04]

@@Shadow_Hawk_Streaming Christ, what an awful way to go… May they all rest in peace:((

[@rosesweetcharlotte]

@@GodlessCreature_04 But those lights meant people had the lights needed to keep evacuating people. It's amazing how they held out till the last minute

[@axololzartcave]

Jack on the lifeboat: “what’s your favorite board game?” Me with no hesitation: *battleship*

[@loopsie_]

omg yesss

[@gamingwolf6735]

you too? good

[@kseniasevidova121]

here's your ticket to hell

[@ovrdedge821]

Omg I love battleship, I had a mini travel version as a kid cause it's the only thing that can keep me occupied and not too scared whenever I flew

[@kaylewolf]

XD

[@jasperrice8456]

Fun fact: you won't find skeletons near the wreck, as they have all dissolved, but you will find shoes, as they last longer, so every pair of shoes near the wreck is basically all that remains of a corpse. Also, the band on board kept playing their instruments all the way until the ship sunk. They wanted to calm people down, and they gave their lives. Also, there's this story of one of the passengers jumping off the side and being shredded by the propellers. (edited to fix spelling error)

[@cometvaudin2850]

Some people who jumped too late were sucked underneath the ship due to the suction.

[@LynnAgain83]

@@cometvaudin2850 True. If you didn't die from the pressure you sure as hell died from the lack of oxygen at such a depth plus freezing temps. Absolutely horrifying 😟

[@turtlyaturtleperson2788]

Not a single engine worker made it out alive since they all willingly stayed down there to keep the lights on in hope the others would survive because of it

[@IATEALLTHECHEESE]

The last one just made me sick omg

[@rachel_against]

@@turtlyaturtleperson2788 well I doubt they did that willingly tbh. I read that they were locked in down there so they couldn't get out on their own... terrifying

[@djitidjiti6703]

I've been watching so many of his vids lately, and this one had me genuinely crying with laughter during the item conservation section. The way he roughly shoved the briefcase into the freezer, or dropped the paper on the ground, and looked around to the whiteboard that said 'conserve items'. Funny AF.

[@emmiebunny04]

21:44 That woman next to Jack is called Molly, she's known as the "Unsinkable Molly Brown" because she's one of the few women who insisted on going back to help survivors. She was told to sit down and shut up by the men on board the life boat. If they listened to her, more lives would have been saved.

[@shannonbeta4320]

Came here to say this! She was on lifeboat 6.

[@nathan10014ify]

Actually molly brown was one of the few people that made such a vast amount of wealth from the sinking of the titanic She was also called the unsinkable molly brown becouse she had survived a previous ship sinking

[@starrsmith3810]

She’s a badass

[@HugoGHA]

Actually Margaret Brown did take over Lifeboat 6, she even threatened to throw Quartermaster Hitchens overboard because of his ignorance of not wanting to come back. Unfortunately tho, Lifeboat 6 didn't find survivors.

[@emmiebunny04]

@@HugoGHA that's the first time I've heard that, every other version I've read says she was told to shut up, thanks for lmk

[@SyrusWeaver-Walls]

“Titanic was built in Ireland by the way.” Jack admits his country built the most famous sinking ship of all time.

[@newyears93]

In fact it was built in a shipyard call Harland and Wolff like he said was in Belfast

[@themanformerlyknownascomme777]

@@newyears93 lot of boats built there. Such as the famous WW2 Cruiser that is moored in London HMS Belfast was built there

[@downaquarist2781]

@@newyears93 yeah no one really cares bout us up north though even though we are a different country all together

[@Rachel0400]

@@downaquarist2781 rightly so

[@erinwalker6841]

@@Rachel0400 emmm… offense taken

[@orbitz8578]

If only someone told those five billionaires this game existed so they didn’t have to go down there themselves.

[@peopleandanimalslovm]

RIGHT

[@Anticaat]

This has unfortunate youtube recommendation timing.

[@chrispybaier]

Literally what I was going to comment right now

[@Kimfeyable]

@@Anticaat Bro, I even watched this Video back than and YT was like 'Here' just now xD

[@nicripolas816]

I just got recommended this video and I had to see who else was here. Damn near died laughing at KZbin and their algorithm.

[@alexlake5892]

You should check out Titanic Honor and Glory, it is a 100% accurate recreation of the interior of the ship that you can walk around

[@pepethefrog6809]

Futility is a story about a ship that sank, eerily, in the same way as the Titanic. The ship in the story was called "Titan", both were dubbed "Unsinkable", both had a similar build and size, had the same capacity of 3000 people, went at about the same speed and both were struck by an iceberg at the starboard side and sunk in the North Atlantic, at a very similar distance as well from Newfoundland. The most spooky part is that Futility was written 14 years before the Titanic set sail in 1912, in the same year, the book was renamed "The Wreck of the Titan". You could say the most significant difference is that only 13 people survived the sinking of the Titan in the story, and the real life Titanic had over 700 survivors. Yeah, just thought I should share it.

[@a_d3mon]

Further evidence of time travelers...

[@fieryfurnace2818]

the nonary game irl

[@fieryfurnace2818]

the nonary games irl

[@martijndegroot6753]

props for doing the research man, you think the titanic may have been based of Titan in Futility and they were just like "hey we can do it better"? Edit: if not that is one hell of a coincidence

[@kuldana413]

Funny thing is there's an SCP tale about this exact factoid. Makes you wonder... ^w^

[@zigzag2527]

Someone should make a Chernobyl vr experience. Just imagine being in the position of the control room and seeing how the scientists were dealing with the situation, and then we get to see the power plant from the outside especially from the firefighters perspectives. You got my idea I'd love to see it happening just like the HBO Chernobyl.

[@LynnAgain83]

Oh wow that would be incredible!!!! I must get a VR headset soon.

[@the_honey_rat]

I believe that Reality 51's Chernobyl VR Project could have a real-time VR experience, like the one in the video, if the group released a new and better project version. In general, historic VR experiences are an extraordinary use of the technology, and the expanding genre of these VR experiences actually makes me want to try it out more than VR-adapted video games.

[@MellowGrunt10]

I mean, I don’t know how much there would be to experience considering how there was no graphite on the roof.

[@dcgamester.]

that would be amazing! i'd love to watch sean or someone play a VR game about Chernobyl or like Hiroshima

[@Smol_Schan]

Why not just create a world disasters experience, containing the Titanic, Pompeii, Chernobyl, Hiroshima, etc, and just have all of them grouped together?

[@effyelle8681]

You were actually really accurate on your information. I’m a titanic historian, the thing many don’t know is, that the titanic wouldn’t have taken so much damage to its hull if it weren’t for the fact that the ship designers made the decision to get the cheapest product they could to actually build the ship. Instead of pure iron, which is a very hard metal and extremely difficult to bend or break, which the best to use is a level one to two, which is little to no impurities, but the ones used to create the binding bolts in the titanic were a level four, meaning they had a lot of natural minerals, dirt, and air pockets within the iron, making the bits much weaker. Sometimes, to save money is to lose lives. We’ve seen it countless times. Another extremely important fact is that there were no binoculars on the titanic ship, which is required to set sail, otherwise the voyage isn’t approved, the officer that was kicked off crew due to an unforeseen change to Smith’s original crew, much to smiths dismay, had taken the binoculars with him on accident. As well as the tele messengers in charge of keeping in contact with neighboring ships had sent a rude and graphic message to the Californian, the closest ship to the titanic that night, causing the Californian to shut off their communications for the night. So many things could’ve been prevented, there were so many warnings of burgs, so many ways to prevent the sheer speed that the titanic was traveling at. Smith was a good captain, and was unfortunately put in between a rock and a hard place with people in higher places. Titanic the movie is painfully accurate to the real story, honestly they barely skipped a beat, and put many details into it, I was honestly very impressed. I watched it for the first time in 2018 due to the fact that with the knowledge and passion I have for the titanic I felt that the movies inaccuracies would infuriate me, so I avoided it.

[@rothgamez]

Was the weak iron and bolts exclusive to Titanic? Because Olympic survived her entire career even after being rammed by the Hawke and she was fine. Olympic also rammed a U-boat and sank it.

[@effyelle8681]

@@rothgamez the Olympic although very similar in its design, used different materials in its production, including the introduction of a platinum and iron keel. Expenses were spared on its interior, although identical to the titanic the quality of woods and materials were much cheaper.

[@rothgamez]

@@effyelle8681 I gotcha. I was just curious because I knew Titanic cut costs in certain places here and there, so that makes sense that they would try for different building materials too.

[@vallissiaxo]

I saw in a documentary once that there was an uncontrolled fire in the engine rooms or something, that had been going since departure that contributed to the titanic sinking. Was this true?

[@CygnusSonolumen]

What do you think about people's theories that the Olympic was the ship that went down and the new ship the titanic didn't actually set sail but was disguised as another ship.

[@phosphrescence]

i was obsessed with the titanic when i was 13 onward, i'm still young 18, but man i'm still amazed by the ship.

[@jaybou007]

Jack: "How is your arse, Ellen?!" Ellen: "Swollen."

[@CatastrophicGay]

There's a translate to English button that literally just changes arse to ass

[@dorito_mosquito]

And “how is” to “how’s”

[@Fenizrael]

@@CatastrophicGay I wouldn’t have understood otherwise.

[@dukiest7368]

@@CatastrophicGay ye i see it too

[@bleach-pasta]

@@CatastrophicGay Gets the point across better

[@emmy887]

Not so fun fun fact: There was a Canadian ship similar to the Titanic called the Empress of Ireland that was much larger and had many more people on it than the Titanic. It was struck and sunk in a similar fashion to the Titanic yet not many people are aware of it. If you like learning about History I suggest reading Caroline Pignat's book called Unspeakable. She's a Canadian author who wrote about the Empress of Ireland through the eyes of someone on board. It's a beautiful story and very sad.

[@witchofthemoss]

I think I remember reading the book! It was, truly, heartbreaking. From what I remember, she sunk much quicker than the Titanic too- terrifying, really.

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

There were neither more people aboard _Empress,_ nor did more people die-there were fewer survivors by percentage though. Another good book on the topic is James Croall's _Fourteen Minutes._ Historian Don Lynch also has the complete report of the British Board of Trade inquest available on his site, which is filled with all the interesting forensic details of how the accident was allowed to happen in the first place.

[@jeekobu]

@@Kintsugi1221 Probably not wanting to spread too many stories that sound similar

[@m1co294]

@@Kintsugi1221 there's the Wilhelm Gustloff, it's the worst maritime disaster in history. The ship was used in Operation Hannibal during WWII and was carrying 10,600 people onboard (the ship could only carry around 2,000) evacuating from Germany, it was sunk by a Soviet submarine and 9,343 people died.

[@brightonmohler2333]

The Empress of Ireland was actually a much smaller ocean liner, and had half of the amount of passengers to the Titanic. The Empress of Ireland did not collide with an iceberg it collided with a Norwegian ship, the Storstad and sank in the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River... Sorry, I'm a very big nerd for Ocean Liners lol

[@sharkboi4life930]

20:44 this made me feel a type of fear that I've only felt two other times. One, while watching a holocaust documentary and the other while watching a 9/11 documentary. And it's not the kind of flight or fight kind of fear. It's one that makes me contemplate my entire existence and make me realize how vulnerable we are in the grand scheme of things. It makes me realize that this has happened and, if we don't learn from it, could happen again. Makes me really grateful I'm on solid ground.

[@JJMac-cj9fn]

To add on to if we don’t learn from this, there is supposedly a Titanic 2 being built right now and is said to sail next year, if we have never learned from this, the world will be in shock once again if it sank again

[@samanthashea6359]

@@JJMac-cj9fn history does have a way of repeating itself, and humans have proved time and time again to be relentless in their inability to learn from mistakes. You couldn't pay me to board the new titanic.

[@The_Real_Alpharius]

@@JJMac-cj9fn We'll, there might be a Titanic II at some point, but we're also in the 21st century. Tech got better than when the Titanic sank in the early 19th century. Now we have reliable radios, proper drills and emergency procedures, more safety measures, faster Coast Guard and Navy response times and so much more. I know a ship disaster can still happen, but it will never again be as bad this.

[@donyx0604]

@@JJMac-cj9fn believe it or not, titanic was the second ship to sink for the company making those ships. The first was the olympics and then titanic and then britanic(which was supposed to be better and bigger and safer). Britanic unfortunately hit a german mine tho the sinking didnt kill anyone, it was the ship's propeller that kills people

[@QueenDianaWifeOfLlry]

I highly reccomend looking up Chernobyl documentaries - or even the HBO docudrama. It's equally sobering imo...

[@codyflake3080]

I really respect what they are doing with this because eventually there’s going to be nothing left of these shipwrecks with the exception of small belongings that will take much longer for salt water to destroy and pressure to destroy.

[@CoLoJePa]

After all the thundering noise of the Titanic sinking and people screaming, I can imagine the haunting silence heard by those on the lifeboats was deafening.

[@stephaniehandy2794]

I've read articles where survivors said the silence was more terrifying than the screaming.

[@michelleponzio]

I definitely agree the silence after would be more terrifying. And how still the water would've become again.

[@suzyb1984]

It's one of the most terrifying parts to watch in James Cameron's version. The screaming, crying and splashing of desperate passengers, the groaning of the ship as the stern lifted out of the water, the screaming when the electricity turns off and the ship goes dark, the snap as the hull splits in two and the deafening, terrifying silence as the boats try and get far away as the ship goes under so as not to get sucked under by the current of the ship. Its the scariest part of the whole damn movie.

[@Hyskaris]

I've read articles that some of the people on the lifeboats could hear the Titanic crashing into the sea floor and falling apart beneath the water. So while it must've been very quiet afterwards, there was a horrifying clanging and banging beneath you every once in a while.

[@CoLoJePa]

@@Hyskaris well that's terrifying.

[@fantasticbeck3938]

Heartbreaking and horrifying to watch. This tragedy gets romanticized and mystified so much in the media that you almost forget that this happened to real people, that real people died in this horrible way. My great grandmother's family was supposed to immigrate to Canada aboard the Titanic when she was a young child. My guess is they would've been second or third class passengers. They had to delay their trip by a month because her brother got sick. He later died, but if he hadn't gotten ill, the whole family probably would've died in the sinking, and I wouldn't exist.

[@mreshadow]

Her brother's death allowed for so much life.

[@elessargilraen5465]

Wow

[@emii1405]

that really must've been a huge miracle, imagine what happened if they did 💔 that's awesome that they didnt go on :)

[@iamadoorhandle]

Thats so amazing 💗💖

[@vgamer456]

Hooooo boy that hit hard. You are so so lucky.

[@Mortal_Tezer]

Jfc I cried LMAO it's just Not the same thing to hear about it on text or romanticised films Can't imagine how it felt to be in VR directly that's both amazing and terrifying

[@xcrossx49]

Yeah bro I cried as well. The victims only had 15 minutes to live in that freezing water. Then after that the cries began to go away

[@glowingcaves]

I was crying my eyes out after this. Being in VR I'd probably have a panic attack. I've always thought the titanic was super cool But it birthed my fear of being on large boats.

[@akira-chan591]

Same. Plus our point of view was from one of the passengers in the lifeboat. It felt so real. I imagined my own father and brother in the ship being left behind then I just broke down in tears. It was horrible 💔😭

[@megadoodoo6511]

@@akira-chan591 Awwww noo 💔💔😭😭😭

[@rebeccapope7335]

I was shaking and transfixed at the video

[@raspberryberet6755]

it's always funny doing "Titanic experiences" as an irish person because you and your friends are walking through whatever museum or exhibit saying to each other "yeah we definitely would have died". my family and i went to visit the Harland and Wolffe shipyard in Belfast where she was built (they have a whole museum up there) and it was both sad and funny to realise that a) none of us would have been hired by the shipyard and b) it's unlikely any of us would survive had we been onboard, because we would've been in steerage.

[@LordBloodySoul]

The Titanic tragedy really affects me. One of the musicians, who played on the titanic and died there, was a relative of my mother's side of the family. Roger Marie Bricoux... I never got to meet this man, but we honor him still to this day, by playing songs from that era, which the band might have played during their first and final voyage...

[@justsomeguywithaquestionab3175]

I'm terribly sorry for your loss.

[@LilyxPup]

Hu there , relative of the last survivor here. Titanic has a huge impact on my family, too. I am sorry for your loss, it’s tragic how many people were lost on that night - it’s hard to put into words just how terrible it must have been. May we carry their memory so they are never forgotten ❤️

[@newyears93]

So terribly sorry for your loss 😔

[@LordBloodySoul]

Thanks for all the support. I hope everyone who had relatives on the titanic, whether they survived or not, find solace in knowing that there are people still caring about this to this day.

[@kisaragistation5220]

Very sad.

[@xmegxxhanx]

Wow Jack just saved $250,000 by doing this in VR

[@Gaming2DMX]

And also his own life

[@karicamp8933]

what an interesting time for this to get recommended lol

[@ThroughJermainesLens]

i mean really not even remotly the same

[@MrMadre]

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[@bloddrinkeraka]

$249,000* because vr costs money

[@kobaltblueknight]

Now, the one thing I really want is a fully modeled Titanic, that is completely explorable in VR. It doesn't need to have people; it doesn't need to sink. It just needs to be there as a digital recreation, so everyone can experience what the ship was truly like in real life. From the boat deck to the boiler rooms, from the state rooms to the engines. A digital museum. Because eventually, the wreck will rot away; and there will be nothing left besides what was brought up and put in museums. And this is projected to happen soon. Less than 20 years left, from what I read.

[@katelynprovost7436]

It’s not VR but there are virtual experiences of the titanic in its former state. I remember growing up with a CD my mom had for the computer that allowed you to explore replicated imagery of the rooms and halls. Was very surreal.

[@kobaltblueknight]

@@katelynprovost7436 I think there's real historical value in faithful reconstructions of famous landmarks and objects in VR. Kind of like preservation

[@somekspplayer4827]

There's Titanic HnG which is exactly what you're looking for. There is a free demo which allows you to explore a decent portion of the ship.

[@neenayannelli2334]

i actually think there is. if not, then it should be possible because there have been tons of 3d models and research on titanic.

[@lynchyyygames6107]

Just play voyage of despair in black ops 4 😂😂😂😂

[@TheLastArbiter]

2:22 This suggestion aged interestingly. Unfortunately, OceanGate turned it into a real life horror experience for 5 new victims of the Titanic by proxy.

[@purplemonkfish]

What i find especially heartbreaking is imagining being one of those women on the lifeboat, knowing your husband and sons were still aboard, watching it sink and knowing they were doomed. Absolutely horrifying. And the clusterfuck that was filling those lifeboats just makes me so angry. Just all of it is so upsetting.

[@elineverhoeven]

I think something maybe even more terrifying is the air-pockets that are created when a ship sinks, people trapped in little air-pockets going down under with the ship must be one of the biggest fears I have. I heard about this happening on the Korean Sewol Ferry that sank (in 2014?) there were some people trapped in these air-pockets that didn't die from drowning but from either hypothermia or just lack of oxygen..

[@dalayneejo]

that sounds horrible… i also can’t imagine the people who were crushed by the pressure of the deep sea before anything else had the chance to kill them. it’s horrifying to think about.

[@danfletcher3255]

Not to mention that only 30 seconds to a minute after she went down..it felt like the entire ocean shook.

[@kilkkiller]

They would have been crushed by the depth of the sea

[@Thirds]

There were air pockets but the air was sucked out while the ship was on its way to the floor. That’s what the “explosions”under the water were. Due to the pressure the air pockets destroyed the hull on the way down.

[@GoldenHeart89]

That's sad never would have thought about that.

[@JuanIplays]

Thanks jack for saving me 250k dollars on that trip 💵

[@jclozada1036]

Bruv💀

[@spawnghoul]

i knew someone was here bc of that

[@cattrobertson]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@flipnzz]

the comment i was looking for

[@cadetlimbo]

and your life 💀

[@fakskis]

That transition from the title, to looking up and seeing a submarine diving, and realizing you're at the completely dark bottom of the ocean (3-4.000 meters or something), triggered my thalassophobia SO hard... 😨

[@terririchardson-noyes8844]

I **highly** recommend you visit the Titanic Experience in Belfast if you haven't already. It's where it was built, and you can see the leftover metal poles used to hold the ship when it was constructed - and the best part is those poles are only a fraction of the true height. It's such an emotional experience and amazingly educational. There's even a screen under a glass floor which shows a film of looking at the shipwreck from above. It includes so much information, things like its last morse code message and some personal stories - truly amazing and so so sad.

[@fabplays6559]

It's really incredible!

[@abbiepotter9453]

If you ever come to the us around many states they have a titanic museums with memorials and they teach you about a bunch of stuff that happened it’s a amazing experience but so sad

[@GooseWinchester]

I've always wanted to go we went to a smaller one in Cork, still very cool but the one in Belfast is still on my list of places to go

[@ClaraMercury]

I went this summer and it was so so interesting, very good for titanic fans

[@lindsay2250]

If this really interests you, you should look into "Titanic: Honor and Glory". It's a crowd-funded 110% accurate game that also supports VR. It's only a demo now but it's incredible what they've gotten done.

[@brittanybarkhousejackson4934]

are they finally finishing that? there was SO much drama. theres a post on r/hobbydrama about it and there was some shady stuff happening.

[@DEVBEEF]

@@brittanybarkhousejackson4934 saw that too, seems like they’re still chugging forward with it on their yt, hopefully they’re able to release. Having a fully accurate fully explorable Titanic would be absolutely insane

[@HugoGHA]

Titanic: Honor and Glory seems to be getting better over time, but that animation about Titanic's final plunge from 2020 was awfully inaccurate.

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

@@brittanybarkhousejackson4934 their last major update suggested they were shooting for a release some time around the 110th anniversary next spring. That said, they've since said they were slashing their budget and cutting most of the team involved, so it may be going back into the YandereDev realm again.

[@yukieternity12]

when I was in the third grade we were spending some time learning about the titanic, it was supposed to be a short thing, until I asked where Rose and Jack's names were on the pamphlet. The teacher realized that the children knew so little about this because of the movie and she fixed that, we spent almost an hour talking about the tragedy, because we all had questions and she gave us real answers. She was an amazing teacher.

[@brandonhey7797]

love that teacher

[@Peri_Cat]

I remember the same class being taken for me when it was the 100th anniversary. Does anyone else remember that??

[@BigBadOsiris]

I was always convinced the movie was based on a true story lol I always tried looking for titanic books about rose and jack 🤣

[@cptsparklfingerz9210]

Brought a tear to my eye. Amazing teacher you had.

[@Kinseliplier]

@@BigBadOsiris there was a man named joseph dawson on the real titanic but there was no rose.