00:00Iceberg, right in front of you!
00:04The Titanic hits the ice and the water quickly infiltrates.
00:07Third class passengers are trapped
00:10and there are not enough lifeboats to save everyone.
00:14Panic spreads.
00:15Violins play a funeral melody.
00:17Then, the ship finally sinks.
00:20Of course, we all know this iconic scene from the movie Titanic.
00:24But what if we told you that Hollywood didn't reveal everything to us?
00:27To know the true story of this icy night of 1912,
00:31we have to go back a little.
00:35The watchman shouts,
00:37Iceberg, right in front of you!
00:39This part is, in fact, in line with reality.
00:42Around midnight,
00:44Frederic Fleet sees a dark mass,
00:47darker than the sea,
00:48right in front of the ship.
00:50As he approaches it, he recognizes an iceberg.
00:53We immediately reverse
00:55and the Titanic makes a sudden turn.
00:58Rather than hitting it hard,
01:00the boat rubs against the side of the iceberg,
01:02scattering pieces of ice on the front deck.
01:05If you remember, in the movie,
01:06Jack and Rose share a romantic moment
01:09just before the ship is shaken by the impact of the iceberg.
01:13Everything seems to shake,
01:14like during a slight earthquake.
01:17Some passengers have actually seen such a shake,
01:20but believe Frank Prentiss,
01:22a survivor of the Titanic,
01:24things didn't quite go that way.
01:28According to him,
01:29the shock was not so brutal
01:31and was more like a sudden braking in a car.
01:34The ship stopped,
01:36and that's about it.
01:37Some passengers were even awakened by the collision,
01:40proof that the impact was not as violent as one might think.
01:44Mr. Prentiss, intrigued by the situation,
01:46left his cabin to go to the deck.
01:49Once there,
01:50he saw only a little ice scattered on the surface,
01:53far from the massive iceberg that Jack and Rose were looking at.
01:56However,
01:57we now know that the real damage
01:59occurred under the floating line,
02:01where a split of the iceberg opened a 90-meter gap
02:05in the ship's hull.
02:07When the crew seized the extent of the damage,
02:09they immediately began to issue distress calls
02:12to the surrounding ships to ask for their help.
02:15In a scene from the movie,
02:16the radio operator informs the captain
02:18that only one ship is nearby,
02:20the RMS Carpathia,
02:22which will eventually rescue many passengers.
02:25But in reality,
02:26several ships were in the vicinity.
02:28It is now assumed that the SS Californian
02:31was only about 37 kilometers from the Titanic.
02:34This ship could potentially have assisted the shipwreck,
02:37or at least see the distress rockets illuminate the sky.
02:41And yet,
02:42for reasons that still escape us,
02:44no attempt to assist has been made.
02:48Let's go back to our story.
02:50At this stage,
02:51it has become imperative to leave the ship.
02:53One hour less than a quarter,
02:55the first rescue channel, number 7,
02:57has been launched.
02:59As shown in the film,
03:00women and children were asked to board first.
03:03However,
03:04in reality,
03:05several women were reluctant,
03:07and some even refused to board.
03:10Mr. Prentice explained that this reluctance
03:12was mainly due to two factors.
03:15On the one hand,
03:16the height at which the channels were located,
03:18a free fall of 20 meters that frightened the passengers.
03:21On the other hand,
03:22many women did not believe that the Titanic,
03:25described as insubmersible,
03:26could really sink.
03:28The idea of evacuating on board a channel
03:30seemed to them to be clearly overshadowed.
03:33This state of mind could explain
03:34why Eloise Smith,
03:36a first-class passenger,
03:37reported that at first,
03:39neither panic nor chaos prevailed.
03:41Other survivors have confirmed
03:43that no woman or child cried.
03:46However,
03:47a source of concern for the crew was very real.
03:50The fear that the rescue channels
03:51would give way under too heavy a weight.
03:54This is one of the advanced explanations
03:56to justify why the first rescue channels
03:58left with so few passengers on board.
04:01Channel number 7, for example,
04:03only carried 27 people,
04:05although it was able to accommodate up to 65.
04:08The Titanic had a total of 20 rescue channels,
04:12capable of carrying
04:13nearly half of the 2,200 people
04:15on board that night.
04:17However, this did not happen.
04:20And it is now clear that the passengers
04:22ignored that there would not be enough room
04:25for everyone.
04:27While the women took their places
04:28calmly in the first channels,
04:30the musicians headed towards the bridge
04:32to play in the sole purpose
04:33of calming the passengers.
04:35This fact is well known.
04:36But some survivors have claimed
04:38to have never seen or heard the musicians.
04:41Not a single violinist in sight.
04:44However, it should not be concluded
04:45that Hollywood has deceived you.
04:47The musicians did play
04:49for more than two hours
04:50after the collision with the iceberg.
04:53Perhaps these passengers
04:54were simply too panicked
04:56to notice the music,
04:57or that the orchestra started playing
04:59later than we imagined.
05:03Now let's move on to the question
05:04of the terrible treatment
05:06reserved for third-class passengers.
05:08The film depicts the crew
05:10as merciless,
05:11locking the most disadvantaged
05:12under the bridge,
05:13thus depriving them of any chance
05:14to access the canals
05:15and save their lives.
05:17However,
05:18the official investigation
05:19on the disaster
05:20concluded that
05:21this was not entirely accurate.
05:23Certainly,
05:24fewer third-class passengers
05:25survived compared
05:26to those of the upper classes,
05:28but other factors
05:29also played a role.
05:31Many third-class passengers
05:32hesitated to abandon the ship,
05:34preferring to cling
05:35to their personal effects
05:37and encounter more difficulties
05:39to climb back from their cabin,
05:41located at the ends of the ship.
05:46Some survivors testified
05:47that they were not locked up,
05:49quite the opposite.
05:50Mrs. Georges Wabi,
05:51a third-class Lebanese
05:53traveler,
05:54said that when the incident
05:55was declared,
05:56some brave members of the crew
05:58and first-class passengers
06:00helped her climb the upper bridge
06:02and board a lifeboat.
06:07At first,
06:08the Titanic was sinking
06:09progressively,
06:10compartment by compartment.
06:12Passengers observed
06:13the rising of the water
06:14and perceived cracks
06:15and detonations.
06:16Then,
06:17a big
06:18boom
06:19was heard.
06:20Some claimed
06:21that it was
06:22a single explosion,
06:23while others
06:24described a series
06:25of small explosions,
06:26thinking that it was
06:27the tiles
06:28collapsing one by one.
06:29Another group
06:30only perceived
06:31a deaf rumble.
06:33Thus,
06:34the stories
06:35about the sounds
06:36are diverse,
06:37but the reality
06:38is undeniable.
06:39At 2.18 a.m.,
06:40the lights of the Titanic
06:41went out,
06:42plunging the ship
06:43into total darkness.
06:44While the bow
06:45was sinking more,
06:46the stern was
06:47standing up
06:48out of the water,
06:49exerting a considerable
06:50pressure on the center
06:51of the ship
06:52and thus causing
06:53its rupture.
06:54In the film
06:55by James Cameron,
06:56this moment is represented
06:57in an absolutely
06:58dramatic way,
06:59with the ship
07:00sinking almost
07:01vertically.
07:02But in reality,
07:03the rupture
07:04probably took place
07:05from a much
07:06more moderate angle,
07:07probably just below
07:08the floating line.
07:09However,
07:10the inclination
07:11was sufficient
07:12so that the passengers
07:13could no longer
07:14stand up
07:15and be precipitated
07:16in the water.
07:17It is interesting
07:18to note
07:19that it was only
07:20in 1985,
07:21after the discovery
07:22of the wreck,
07:23that the rupture
07:24of the Titanic
07:25in two
07:26was confirmed.
07:27Until then,
07:28the stories
07:29of the survivors
07:30varied,
07:31but at least
07:32eight of them
07:33claimed to have
07:34seen the ship
07:35sink.
07:36One person,
07:37a first-class
07:38passenger,
07:39had described
07:40this event
07:41as a clear slice
07:42of the Titanic,
07:43as made by a knife.
07:44However,
07:45a small group
07:46of witnesses
07:47argued that the Titanic
07:48had sunk
07:49in one block.
07:50At the time,
07:51this version
07:52was more widely
07:53accepted,
07:54because many
07:55refused to admit
07:56that a ship
07:57allegedly indestructible
07:58could have
07:59broken in two.
08:00Why
08:01these contradictory
08:02testimonies?
08:03What we do not
08:04know is that
08:05the Titanic
08:06sank
08:07in one block.
08:08The Titanic
08:09sank
08:10in one block.
08:11The Titanic
08:12sank
08:13in one block.
08:14The Titanic
08:15sank
08:16in one block.
08:17The Titanic
08:18sank
08:19in one block.
08:20The Titanic
08:21sank
08:22in one block.
08:23The Titanic
08:24sank
08:25in one block.
08:26The Titanic
08:27sank
08:28in one block.
08:29The Titanic
08:30sank
08:31in one block.
08:32The Titanic
08:33sank
08:34in one block.
08:35The Titanic
08:36sank
08:37in one block.
08:38The Titanic
08:39sank
08:40in one block.
08:41The Titanic
08:42sank
08:43in one block.
08:44The Titanic
08:45sank
08:46in one block.
08:47The Titanic
08:48sank
08:49in one block.
08:50The Titanic
08:51sank
08:52in one block.
08:53The Titanic
08:54sank
08:55in one block.
08:56The Titanic
08:57sank
08:58in one block.
08:59The Titanic
09:00sank
09:01in one block.
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