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The Titanic sank in 1912 but its secrets are still emerging from the deep. For decades, the world focused on the haunting images of the ship's bow resting on the ocean floor. But that's only half the story. The stern - the part no one talks about - tells a much darker tale. Now, with advanced 3D scanning technology, researchers have mapped the wreck like never before. Animation is created by Bright Side.
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00:00New exclusive photographs, by far the best yet are in from the Titanic, for most of this century that...
00:06When the first images of the Titanic shipwreck appeared in September 1985, the world stopped.
00:13People were glued to their TVs, watching the legendary ship reappear after more than 70 years.
00:20Where did the Titanic sink, you ask?
00:22It's located about 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
00:27This so-called unsinkable ship rests in complete darkness, about 12,600 feet below the surface.
00:35Yep, that's how deep the Titanic is.
00:37But even after such a long fall down to the ocean floor, the front part, known as the bow, still
00:44looks surprisingly intact.
00:45I mean, the railings were still there, the anchor chains too, even the elegant curves of the hull you might
00:52recognize from old photos.
00:53But the news barely mentioned the stern back then.
00:57And there's a reason we still don't talk much about it.
01:02You see, these images were about more than just capturing mesmerizing and eerie footage.
01:08They were proof of what really happened when the Titanic sank.
01:12We were finally getting some answers about this 1912 disaster, when more than 1,600 people lost their lives.
01:20And before you Google how many people survived the Titanic, I'll tell you, 706.
01:26Among those survivors, several claimed they saw the ship break apart as it went down.
01:31Others insisted it sank in one piece.
01:34And in the end, investigators agreed with them.
01:38Back then, official reports concluded that Titanic had gone down intact.
01:43So, for 73 years, that was the official story.
01:47Until we finally saw the Titanic at the bottom of the ocean.
01:51When the Titanic underwater photos were released, they confirmed it.
01:55Yes, the liner really did break apart as it sank.
01:59And if we've just seen those images of the bow, that means the stern must be around there too, right?
02:05Well, kind of.
02:07I mean, we did find it.
02:09It's located about 2,000 feet away from the bow, lying on the ocean floor.
02:13So yes, it exists.
02:15But why doesn't anyone ever talk about what happened to the stern of the Titanic?
02:20Well, there's a big reason for that.
02:22See, the bow, even after all the damage from hitting the seafloor, still looks recognizable.
02:29Many of its interiors are surprisingly well-preserved,
02:32and it's lying as if the ship was continuing its voyage.
02:35But the stern is destroyed.
02:38Today, it's more like a twisted tangle of steel that barely looks like a ship at all.
02:43Only the parts that are more resilient, like the propellers, reciprocating engines, and rudder,
02:49have managed to hold their shape.
02:51But the rest of the stern section is melting into the seafloor.
02:55Yet, to understand why it's in such a terrible state,
02:59we need to go back to that freezing night of April 15, 1912, the night of the Titanic wreck.
03:06Just hours before the tragedy,
03:09Titanic was still sailing smoothly across the cold North Atlantic.
03:13The stern was alive with people, families talking, music playing, life going on as usual.
03:19This is where the room for passengers with the cheapest tickets were located.
03:23That's why third-class travelers were also known as steerage passengers.
03:28But the stern wasn't only for passengers.
03:31It also contained many of the ship's storage areas,
03:33including cargo holds, baggage rooms, kitchens, crew quarters, and even the engineering spaces.
03:40And hold on to that info.
03:42It's going to be important in a second.
03:47So let's jump straight to when the liner struck the iceberg.
03:51As the bow began to sink, the stern slowly lifted out of the water,
03:55putting enormous strain on the middle of the ship.
03:58By around two in the morning, the lights on Titanic flickered and then went out.
04:03Moments later, the ship broke in two, and the bow disappeared beneath the waves.
04:09The stern briefly settled back on the water before rising again, this time almost vertical.
04:15It stayed upright for a few seconds and then began its final plunge.
04:20At about 2.20 in the morning, the stern vanished beneath the Atlantic.
04:25Titanic was gone.
04:26What was happening beneath the water were two completely different scenarios.
04:30First, the bow slowly filled with water and began to drift downward,
04:35almost sailing gently like a submarine.
04:38Because of that, it managed to keep its shape and stayed mostly intact.
04:43But Titanic's stern collapse was a whole different story.
04:46The stern was ripped wide open where the ship had split apart.
04:50Water rushed in through that open end at incredible speed.
04:54This sudden flooding made the stern plunge downward much faster than the bow.
04:59The rush of water created so much turbulence that pieces were ripped off
05:03and scattered all around the ocean floor.
05:07Now, remember what I said earlier about the spaces inside the stern?
05:12Those huge storage areas were wide open, and many of them contained air pockets.
05:17So when the stern section broke away, it still had compartments filled with trapped air.
05:22As it spun down into the depths, this increasing water pressure crushed those pockets one by one.
05:29The surrounding structure began to implode, scattering pieces of metal, furniture, statues,
05:35and passengers' belongings across the ocean floor.
05:38So many experts believe the immense water pressure made that section collapse as it sank.
05:44And that's why we can't see much of it today.
05:47And now you know the answer to the Titanic back section mystery.
05:52We don't talk about it much, simply because there's not much left to see.
05:56It's like the part of the Titanic story that's too broken or too painful to talk about openly.
06:02The sight of the ship that truly feels lost.
06:06And sorry to say this, but that's the future of the bow, too.
06:10I mean, it won't be there forever.
06:12However, the iconic shape of the wreck is changing year after year, and not in a good way.
06:18The front part of the Titanic is deteriorating, and one day, it'll be entirely gone.
06:24Down on the seabed, the Titanic faces enormous pressure, nearly 390 times greater than at the surface.
06:32The good news is, there aren't any air pockets left inside the ship, so big implosions won't happen again.
06:38But the bad news is that the ship's own weight is now helping to tear it apart.
06:43As those 52,000 tons of steel slowly settle into the ocean floor, they twist and pull on the hull.
06:51Submersible missions have already spotted large cracks running through the steel plates,
06:56and even the decks themselves are starting to cave in.
07:00And there's something else.
07:02The wreck might look cool and spooky today, but that actually comes from a thick layer of bacteria and microbes
07:08covering it.
07:09The problem is, they're slowly eating the Titanic.
07:13Yet most of the corrosion happening down there is caused by bacteria, and this is gradually weakening the entire structure.
07:21Steel plates, beams, and supports are getting thinner every year.
07:25Scientists estimate that the ship is losing between 0.13 and 0.2 tons of iron every single day.
07:33Still, even at that rate, the wreck won't vanish overnight.
07:37Experts believe it could take up to 420 years for the liner to disappear completely.
07:43Until then, we'll keep watching this sad but natural process unfold.
07:48Parts of the ship have been falling apart little by little since the night when Titanic sank.
07:53And a lot has already changed since we started taking underwater photos,
07:58like the railing sections that have dropped, and the ceiling in the captain's bathroom that's collapsed.
08:04That's why so many expeditions are now focused on capturing footage and detailed scans of the Titanic shipwreck,
08:11to preserve its memory before the ocean takes it all.
08:14It's our way of keeping the story alive, even as time and nature continue their quiet work.
08:20Maybe those hungry bacteria can take a break from their buffet,
08:24so that Titanic can rest in peace with many more years to come.
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08:39Congratulations.
08:40You can now forget everything you've seen in the movies,
08:43or everything you've read in books and newspapers and heard from people.
08:47Now, we have the most detailed and reliable study of the famous sunken ship.
08:52A large-scale Titanic 3D scan allows us to see in fine detail everything that happened during the disaster.
09:00And rest assured, there was a lot going on there that you've never heard of.
09:05Are you ready for Titanic new discoveries?
09:08Let's go!
09:09There's a fat chance, or a thin chance, take your pick,
09:12that there are no people here who haven't heard of what happened.
09:16But just in case, here's the quick backstory.
09:19On April 10th, 1912, the giant cruise ship Titanic sailed from Southampton, England, to New York City.
09:27Four days later, the ship collided with an iceberg and sank in the freezing waters of the North Atlantic.
09:32It was one of the most tragic and biggest disasters in the history of sea voyages.
09:38Since then, the wreck of the giant ship has been lying under a layer of icy water.
09:42For decades, people wanted to get the ship from the bottom many times, but they never fully tried.
09:48Passenger stories, documentaries, and books have given us a complete picture of what happened.
09:53But the only witness that can tell us about those tragic events is the ship itself.
09:59And some people decided to ask it about that night.
10:02A group of experts, oceanographers and cinematographers,
10:06recreated a virtual version of the events and showed it in the documentary Titanic – The Digital Resurrection.
10:13This is the most detailed digital reconstruction of how the Titanic sank ever made.
10:19To create it, specialists from the Magellan Company sent marine robots to the bottom where the ship lies at a
10:25depth of 12,500 feet.
10:28In such a place, all objects experience immense water pressure.
10:32To better understand how great it is, imagine the weight of a heavy barbell on your fingertip.
10:39Experienced divers with standard scuba gear can only swim at depths up to 130 feet and a little deeper.
10:45So it's a challenging, almost impossible mission to descend to such a depth and conduct research.
10:51It's dangerous for people.
10:53That's why the team of specialists sent robots there.
10:57Equipped with cameras for deep-sea surveys, they took more than 700,000 photos and videos in 4K resolution.
11:04They were collecting data for three weeks, exploring every part of the ship.
11:09Eventually, they had about 16 terabytes of data.
11:13Now, one terabyte is a thousand gigabytes.
11:15Is that a lot?
11:16The largest game on PC, Microsoft Flight Simulator, weighs about a half a terabyte.
11:22And it has maps of the entire planet to create a realistic flight simulator.
11:27Still, this huge program weighs 32 times less than that Titanic scan.
11:31Imagine how detailed the model of the ship and the simulation of the disaster turned out to be.
11:38Moreover, the team combined all this information with the drawings of the ship.
11:42They calculated the speed of Titanic that night, its direction, its position, and the angle of impact with the iceberg.
11:49All of this was uploaded to supercomputers to create precise crash simulations.
11:55After that, specialists studied eyewitness reports, got consultations from historians and maritime experts,
12:02and then presented a detailed staging of the tragic night.
12:05Some things turned out to be different from what you know about them.
12:09For example, the iceberg didn't make a huge hull in the side of the ship.
12:13A Titanic wreckage scan shows that a piece of ice had struck a glancing blow and created several holes in
12:21the hull.
12:21Each of them was the size of an A-4 sheet of paper.
12:25How could such minor damage destroy a giant ship?
12:28The problem was that those A-4-sized punctures covered the entire length of the case.
12:34The Titanic's creators claimed that it was the most unsinkable ship in the world.
12:39However, its unsinkability lay in the fact that it could stay afloat even if four of its watertight compartments got
12:46flooded.
12:47But the collision with the iceberg led to the flooding of six of them.
12:51The iceberg had a mere 6.3 seconds of contact with the ship and still managed to sink it.
12:58The Titanic wreckage scan also showed a portal with a broken window.
13:03The iceberg probably crashed in there.
13:05This finding confirms the words of eyewitnesses that pieces of ice got into the cabins.
13:11Just imagine how frightening that was.
13:13You're sleeping peacefully in your bed, then you hear a loud crash, and a piece of iceberg falls into your
13:19cabin.
13:20And after that, absolute chaos begins.
13:23The researchers found out exactly how the ship had split in half.
13:27In the famous movie, we all saw how the back of the ship had risen above the water and then
13:33broken off.
13:34The ship indeed broke, but not as gently as we saw on the screen.
13:39Yeah, the scale of the disaster was terrible, but the reality was even worse.
13:44The ship wasn't just broken.
13:46It was torn in two.
13:48Wooden and metal parts of the ship, pipes, chunks of the hull, walls, everything was torn and bent.
13:55The first-class cabins were torn in two.
13:57Imagine the screeching of metal that sounded on that cold night.
14:02Researchers compared other Titanic facts versus the movie.
14:05One of them was a story about First Officer William Murdoch.
14:09In the movie, his character attacked passengers who were trying to board the boat.
14:13But in reality, everything happened differently.
14:17Titanic survivor Charles Lightoller said William Murdoch had drowned when he was trying to lower a lifeboat into the water.
14:24He didn't attack anybody, but still faced a tragic fate.
14:28There are no exact details, but high-resolution scans have confirmed this version.
14:34But one of the most impressive and heroic tales that happened on the Titanic occurred in the boiler room.
14:40With the help of robots, experts discovered that one of the boat's steam valves had been left open.
14:46This finding only confirms eyewitness stories that the engineers stayed in the boiler room for more than two hours after
14:53the collision with the icebergs.
14:55This group of brave people maintained a power supply until the very end.
15:00Why did they do it?
15:02Proper lighting on the Titanic helped people safely lower the boats onto the water.
15:07Electric power also made the Titanic visible to distant ships.
15:11Moreover, passengers reported that the Titanic's lights were on even when it was submerged underwater.
15:18The brave feat of the engineers helped save hundreds of passengers' lives.
15:23Who knows, perhaps further research of the ship will tell us more about other heroic actions of the passengers and
15:29crew members.
15:30Actions that will be worth making a movie about.
15:33In addition to studying the ship, the researchers also scanned the seabed around the wreckage,
15:39where not only parts of the Titanic, but also personal belongings of passengers,
15:44including gold coins, pocket watches, combs, shoes, and so on, were scattered.
15:49By the way, many of those items have been raised from the bottom and sold at various auctions.
15:54You can also see some artifacts from the ship in specialized museums.
15:58One of those is called Titanic Belfast and is located in Northern Ireland.
16:03It is open to the public.
16:05A digital replica of the ship not only shows us how the Titanic sank, but also literally saves the ship.
16:12The condition of the wreckage is getting worse every day.
16:16Gigantic pressure, cold temperature, water, and marine life – all of this is slowly destroying the vessel.
16:22Oh yeah, some companies that organize dive trips to the ship for tourists also pose a danger to the ship.
16:29It turns out that there are a lot of people who wanted to go down inside a submersible to the
16:34legendary wreck.
16:35As a result of some of these excursions, parts of the ship were damaged.
16:40Experts predict that within the next 40 years, the unlucky liner may disappear completely.
16:46Fortunately, the Titanic 3D scan has provided such a level of detail that you can imagine walking inside it.
16:54This means that the tragedy will never be forgotten.
16:58Of course, 10 videos like this one won't be enough to cover the full scope of the work that the
17:03filmmakers have done.
17:05Fortunately, the documentary, Titanic – The Digital Resurrection, is available for viewing.
17:10You can watch the movie and also study the 3D models of the ship.
17:14Who knows? Perhaps you can make new discoveries.
17:21That's it for today.
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