00:00Why did the Titanic, built in 1,200 days, sink in just two hours?
00:06April 10, 1912 was the day when the world's largest and most expensive ship, the Titanic, was ready for its maiden voyage.
00:18The Atlantic Ocean was very calm that day and there was no chance of a sea storm coming far.
00:251,500 passengers had already boarded the ship and millions of people were waiting to see the Titanic's maiden voyage on the dock.
00:34Neither the passengers, nor the millions of people who bid farewell, nor the Titanic's crew, knew that the ship, which was about to leave in a little while,
00:44had made six such mistakes while making it, which are going to make this ship the victim of the worst accident.
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00:54Viewers, today you will know the six mistakes of the most expensive, most luxurious and most powerful ship of its time, the Titanic,
01:03which if not made, perhaps today the Titanic would not be famous in the world because of its crash, but because of its success.
01:11After all, what were the six mistakes that the 40-year-old Titanic's captain, Edward Smith, did not see?
01:19Forget the 40-year-old experience of the captain, the Titanic's operating company, the White Star Line,
01:26which had the experience of operating 107 ships, did not see these mistakes.
01:31In addition, the Titanic's manufacturing company, Ireland and Wolf, did not see these mistakes,
01:37which had manufactured more than 500 ships before the Titanic.
01:42The construction of the Titanic began in 1907 and the ship was completed after about 3 years and 2,000 workers.
01:52Now the ship was completely ready, but the phase of testing it was still left.
01:58The trust of the Titanic makers increased when the Titanic successfully completed its first test run.
02:06As soon as the test was passed, it was marketed in various newspapers around the world,
02:11whose heading was Unsinkable Titanic.
02:17The first journey of the ship was to start from Southampton, England,
02:21which was scheduled for April 10, 1912, and its destination was New York, USA.
02:29The cost of traveling in the economy portion of the Titanic was $ 30, while the cost of traveling in the first class was $ 150,
02:36which today costs Rs 3,40,000.
02:39As a result of this marketing, all the tickets were booked one by one,
02:43and finally the day came when the Titanic was about to start its first journey.
02:49Mistake No. 1
02:50At exactly 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the Titanic started its first journey,
02:55and the Titanic's mistakes began to emerge.
02:58Captain Smith had received a deadline from the owner that he had to reach New York by April 17,
03:04that is, in just 7 days.
03:07For this reason, the captain had kept the speed of the ship very fast from the beginning.
03:11And this was the Titanic's first mistake.
03:14Captain Smith had to reach New York as soon as possible due to the instructions and pressure given by the owner,
03:21because it was the Titanic's first journey, and if he had not reached New York in time,
03:26the Titanic's reputation would have been greatly damaged.
03:29Any car in the world, machine or ship, have many operating procedures,
03:35in which the speed limit is also a part of these procedures,
03:39and that part was violated at the beginning of the Titanic's journey.
03:43In a little while, the ship left the port of Southampton so far behind
03:48that now you couldn't see anything other than the blue sea.
03:53Mistake No. 2
03:54Now three days had passed since the Titanic left.
03:57In addition to a short stop in France and Ireland,
04:00the Titanic had been moving towards New York for the past 72 hours.
04:06It was the evening of April 14, 1912.
04:09There was silence and fog everywhere on the sea,
04:13which reduced visibility.
04:16That same night, another ship, which was just a few hours ahead of the Titanic,
04:21its captain warned the Titanic on the wireless about floating rocks, i.e. icebergs.
04:28Experts believe that this warning was given at least six times.
04:32But due to the negligence of the wireless operators,
04:35these extremely important warnings were missed.
04:38For them, this was normal, but this was the second mistake of the Titanic's crew.
04:43Because the Titanic was the first luxury ship of its kind,
04:47and there were many VIPs in it,
04:49most of the Titanic's crew was busy serving first-class passengers.
04:55If these warnings had been taken seriously,
04:57the whole scene would have been different.
05:00Mistake No. 3
05:01The ship was also fast, and a very important warning had also been missed.
05:07The Titanic was now rapidly increasing in the range of the iceberg in a fearless manner.
05:13But the Titanic could still be saved from the accident
05:17because the ship had a security alert,
05:19which was ready to give any information about the iceberg to the captain from a distance.
05:24But to see from a distance, they didn't have one thing,
05:28and that thing was a binocular.
05:31Yes, there was a security alert,
05:33but they couldn't see the iceberg from a distance because there was no binocular.
05:37And this was the third mistake of the Titanic.
05:40Captain Smith got the news of the iceberg
05:43when the ship's guards reported that
05:45the iceberg was the size of a football field right in front of the ship.
05:50But it was too late now because the iceberg had come very close.
05:55Mistake No. 4
05:57Because in the Atlantic Ocean,
05:59ships often have to face such icebergs,
06:02which big ships can easily handle.
06:05Maybe Captain Smith thought the same.
06:08As soon as he got the news of the iceberg,
06:10Captain Smith ordered to shut down the ship's engine
06:13and also ordered to change the course of the Titanic.
06:16No doubt Captain Smith tried a lot to escape the iceberg,
06:20but the distance was so short that doing anything proved futile.
06:25The iceberg had now collided with the center of the Titanic.
06:28But there was still a lot of hope for the Titanic to survive.
06:32The only hope left was that
06:34maybe the iceberg wouldn't damage the ship's body
06:38or it would break itself when it collided with the ship.
06:42And maybe it would have happened if the Titanic's fourth mistake hadn't worked.
06:47Experts believe that the rivets on the Titanic's body
06:50were not made of steel but of cast iron.
06:53The work of these rivets is to keep the large pieces of iron together.
06:58But since cast iron is softer than steel,
07:01the rivets in the place where the iceberg collided with the Titanic's body
07:05opened due to pressure and then what Captain Smith feared happened.
07:11Mistake No. 5
07:12The Titanic had collided with a football field-sized iceberg
07:17and now water had begun to fill the lower part of the ship.
07:21This dangerous incident had alerted all the crew and passengers
07:25and also the owner of the ship, Joseph Bruce.
07:30Although water had begun to fill the Titanic,
07:33there was still hope for the Titanic to survive.
07:36Because the Titanic was designed in such a way
07:39that even if water was filled in its three floors,
07:42it would not sink.
07:44But it was unfortunate for the ship
07:46that after crossing three floors,
07:48water had now reached the fourth floor.
07:51Now the matter was out of hand,
07:53the Titanic was slowly sinking in the ocean.
07:56Now without worrying about the ship,
07:58it was time to save the lives of the passengers present in it.
08:02Captain Smith issued an emergency alert on the radio.
08:05By the time someone came to help,
08:07it was planned to shift the passengers to lifeboats.
08:11But on this occasion, Mistake No. 5 showed its work.
08:15Yes, there were a total of 32 lifeboats in the ship,
08:19but only 20 boats were kept due to miscalculation.
08:23There were 1,500 passengers and only 20 boats.
08:27Mistake No. 6
08:28There was chaos everywhere
08:30and everyone wanted to get on those few small boats.
08:34At 12.45 am, the first emergency boat was put into the sea.
08:39But here was another mistake.
08:42In the chaos, the boats were put into the sea without being fully filled,
08:47in which most of the first-class passengers were preferred.
08:51That is, those who were richer were seated first.
08:55If more passengers were seated in the boats,
08:58human lives would have been less wasted.
09:00Now the ship was sinking rapidly into the sea.
09:03At 2.18 am, all the lights of the Titanic were extinguished due to the short circuit.
09:08And in the next moment, the ship broke and split into two parts.
09:12Thus, it took the Titanic 2 hours and 40 minutes to completely sink into the sea.
09:18And in this way, 1,500 people died by drowning in the cold water of the Atlantic Ocean.
09:23Let me tell you one more thing that the temperature of the water was minus 2 degrees centigrade at that time.
09:29That is, even if the passengers jumped into this cold water,
09:33there was no chance of survival.
09:35Because a person can't stay alive for more than 30 minutes at such a low temperature.
09:40It is said that the number of dead was more than 1,500.
09:44Because many of the people who were known by the ship's crew,
09:47many of them boarded the ship without a ticket.
09:51Most of the survivors were children and women.
09:56On the other hand, there was Captain Smith,
09:58who kept saving people's lives all the time.
10:01And he was the last person to jump from the sinking ship.
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