A 400 ft, 20,000 t chunk of ship spiraling down to the seafloor only makes the ocean that much more terrifying.

@semoneg2826

4 ай бұрын

True

@Rose19127

Ай бұрын

Especially the abyss where the Titanic is laying right now !! 2 1/2 miles deep ( 12,500 feet ).

I've learned basically everything there is about Titanic from this channel but it's always a fun time watching more videos about it

@whillard2447

4 ай бұрын

If you want another channel about ships, OceanLiner Designs (I think they are friend) makes great content too!

@GRGCompletionist

4 ай бұрын

​@@whillard2447i know it, i'm mostly here for Titanic exclusively but i always enjoy when Sam discusses other stuff too. Thanks for the recommendation

@jamesmiller5331

2 ай бұрын

It's going to be tough keeping a channel like this going you pretty much have to rehit topics add split any and every aspect that you can possibly think of into its own topic. Even then you're looking at a shelf life

@Rose19127

11 күн бұрын

​@@whillard2447Yes Sam and Mike are friends

Im going to titanic museum in Belfast for my 30th birthday in March. Never been so excited and nervous. Not sure what to expect or feel!

@DamonNomad82

4 ай бұрын

That's super awesome! I hope it's a wonderful experience for you!

@spyrosbreath95

4 ай бұрын

You'll really love it Kelly. It's quite powerful. I went in 2018. And I wanted to take a picture of the dry dock Titanic was fitted out in. The drydock must have had some construction going on and i wasnt sure if I could go to take a picture of it. But the forman was really nice, put his arm round me and started telling me about all the history of the drydock. Friendly people the northern irish

@TweetieAshton

4 ай бұрын

Where is that at ?

@spyrosbreath95

4 ай бұрын

@@TweetieAshton Belfast, Northern Ireland at the Harland and Wolff shipyard

@TweetieAshton

4 ай бұрын

@@spyrosbreath95 thats really cool, what else is there ?

What's more facinating about the Titanic's wreck, is just how near perfectly the halves are aligned, despite being so far apart. It's a miracle the stern isn't facing a different direction altogether. Also, it's amazing how both halves are sitting nearly as straigbt up as they were when they were connected on the surface.

@timothygodwin7575

4 ай бұрын

Did you not watch the video? One of the first things he says is that the stern is facing a different direction. He says that before the intro even starts.

@fnaffoxy1987

4 ай бұрын

@@timothygodwin7575 Their point was more about the two halves being aligned. The stern wasn't sitting at a 90 or 270 degree turn from the direction the bow was facing, it was pretty much a 180 so they are still aligned together despite what the stern went through.

@timothygodwin7575

4 ай бұрын

@@fnaffoxy1987 then it’s still a stupid point because the only miracle would be if they landed in the correct direction, the stern landing in a completely different direction isn’t a miracle, it’s just simply what happened.

@1977TA

4 ай бұрын

The actual fascinating thing about the Titanic disaster is that over 100 years later people are still talking about it.

@artistjoh

4 ай бұрын

The hull shape would tend to keep both sections relatively upright because the keel would have a lot less water resistance than the superstructure. Kind of like a badminton shuttlecock. Then it is just a matter of luck as to which direction the spinning stern section reaches the bottom at. The direction is just happenstance, but being straight up is due to the shape of the ship.

There is actually a video "Titanic: Answers from the Abyss" with a segment covering the dynamics of the bow section's descent to the bottom using a large-scale model that was dropped into a deep water test tank. Anyone wanting to watch the planning effect of the bow on its way to the bottom in action for real, not a CGI animation, this is it, it's amazing to see how stable the bow is, even in later drop tests where the team added large pieces of twisted metal jutting out near the break up point to see if that would alter the motion in any way.

@thomasackerman5399

4 ай бұрын

That is a fantastic video that covers a lot of subjects, but the part you refer to is towards the end of the two-hour documentary, but it is very much worth it since you see that the bow glides, then stalls out, glide-stalling all the way to the bottom and nearly every time hits bow first on impact. From it the researchers estimated the bow fell at approximately 22 knots, which was well within the hull's ability to withstand and explains while so much of the railings and equipment was intact until it hit bottom.

@DamonNomad82

4 ай бұрын

I saw that documentary, and they really did do an amazing job with the actual, physical scale model of the bow.

@mikedicenso2778

4 ай бұрын

The model in question is large in size, about 4 feet in length or about 1/110th scale. And while not very detailed, it does have most of the major shapes and structures. The interesting thing is that they were hoping the model drop tests would validate a theory that the bow corkscrewed its way tot he bottom, and they're completely taken by surprise when it does the glide-stall and despite that piece of jagged metal, there's no disrupting it at all, the metal not even acting like a rudder to push the prow in another direction. Unfortunately, they never carried out a similar test for the stern. But I imagine that was just too difficult since the internal implosions and chunks of hull breaking off would be too many events and require a lot of mechanical work to pull off accurately.

@OSAROERO-hn5py

4 ай бұрын

Pls I want to see the video.... Thanks

@mikedicenso2778

4 ай бұрын

@@OSAROERO-hn5py Type the title into the search engine. The drop test is near the end of the documentary.

Great video! I always liked how James Cameron describes the stern becoming such a mess; if you stuck your hand out of a moving car with a stack of papers in your hand against the wind, the papers flay out and go wild and that’s basically the same thing that happened here.

Can you imagine how frightening this must have been? Crazy.

What a well spoken young adult. No kinda like, no it was like, I was like, literally like, no dude, bro, brah, etc. just eloquent sentences! Very good!

@samueldavis5895

3 ай бұрын

A rehearsed video should be.😂

Stern had a very violent fall to the ocean floor. Everything about Titanic fascinates me. She was a beauty. Thanks for the refresher Sam. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@Rose19127

11 күн бұрын

Yes Titanic was a beautiful ship. My heart goes to 1,500 souls perished that sank with the Titanic .

It's about how the 2 parts of the ship fell to the ocean floor. While the bow flowed gently decent to the ocean floor, the stern's decent was chaotic due to it suffering from an implosion & spinning like a helicopter blade on the way down. Thus it's why the bow still looks like the bow while the stern looks like a large mess.

@8830wjs

4 ай бұрын

thank you for repeating the video in a comment

@Laurentus89

4 ай бұрын

Only thing is that the video is wrong in that point. The stern didn't implode because it just couldn't, simple laws of physics. The stern was not sealed and thus not a submarine. Air left inside was either pushed out violently or getting compressed, there is no other option. In both ways there is hardly any pressure differential building up and thus no implosion is able to occur.

@markbeale7390

4 ай бұрын

Hydrodynamics at play .

Well done!!! Thank you for making video for us even when you’re not in the comfort of your studio in WV!!! We appreciate you, Sam! You did great on your first vid in AZ. You rock!

I'M SOOO HAPPY YOU TOOK MY SUGGESTION THANK YOU SAM!!!

This is definitely one of my favorite Historic Travels video

@HistoricTravels

4 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it!

@thiagotenorio4037

4 ай бұрын

hello@@HistoricTravels

So the bow fell like a paper airplane gliding on wards just a little as the lift starts to fail. The stern fell like an odd shaped rock being buffeted by the dense water and spinning. That makes complete sense, thanks! That also explains the state of many other shipwrecks that broke into 2 pieces.

@mikedicenso2778

4 ай бұрын

Also, the stern was suffering massive damage when sections with air still trapped inside them imploded due to water pressure, and it's likely several major pieces broke off from the stern during the descent, such as the two keel pieces and "Titanic tower".

This is an excellent explanation for not only why the bow and stern are as far apart as they are, but why the bow section (at the time the wreck was found in the 1980s) was still mostly intact and recognizable from old pictures of the ship before the sinking, while the stern was a torn-up, mangled mess. I first heard of the story of the Titanic by reading two mid-1980s issues of National Geographic Magazine that featured the Titanic right after the wreck was found. While the articles had some assumptions that were later found to be inaccurate (such as a supposed "300 foot gash" torn in the Titanic's hull by the iceberg, later found to be a long series of much smaller breaches), their explanation for the positions and condition of the bow and stern were remarkably similar to this one, though far shorter and less detailed. There was even a diagram showing the bow "landing" and the stern "crashing".

I am currently reading the book - On a Sea of Glass. It is a very fascinating read. Thank you for the wonderful recommendation!

@OSAROERO-hn5py

4 ай бұрын

Pls can I get the book ? So that I can also read it Thanks.......

Don't forget that Godzilla was also a big part of why the two halves were so far part.

@davidthompson5766

4 ай бұрын

Captain Smith was eaten by king Kong

@BumbleBeeTF

4 ай бұрын

Lol

@STHelton1

4 ай бұрын

People don’t give this fact enough credit.

@juliedemetriou4950

4 ай бұрын

Sure

@Renee5322

4 ай бұрын

That's ridiculous. Everyone knows it was the Kraken.

Crazy how that high lip that the Stern had is completely flattned like a tin can either due to implosion or impact

YOOO Sam, I was looking up something on Murdoch and one of the suggested was "Did Murdoch kill himself" I click on it for a bit of a laugh the first "People also ask" question was "Did Captain Murdoch kill himself" I laughed for hours.

Awesome video Sam this material is what got me hooked on your channel a few years back thank you

And now it makes total sense to me why the stern is in so much worse condition than the bow down there. Thanks for another great video

Your videos are always so cool! Keep up the great work! Best wishes!

This is very interesting. Thanks for talking about it.

We love you bro! Thank you for posting🎉

I can't believe those two parts of the ship are so far away from each other!

I love watching your videos. They are both interesting and clear to understand.

I am officially Like #999! You do amazing work on your videos. I enjoy each one of them. Keep it going, Sam! :)

You are such an excellent illustrator and I think you make an incredible teacher! I’m also glad that you “teach” on the internet with your channel where you’re free to express your knowledge instead of at a school or university where you’d be restricted by political agendas and nefarious entities. Great job, as usual!!

This is a great detailing what happened during the sinking of Titanic. Thank you and subscribed😊

Great video Sam; very detailed information and learnt a lot 😊

There's actually visual evidence of the stern's spiral in the form of swirl tracks carved into the sea floor leading up to the wreck itself. It finished it's final spiral after it hit the bottom.

Thinking about how heavy the props were too.

Bright side has done it again!

@Rose19127

Ай бұрын

Ugh !!!

Always an excellent video and presentation.

You explained this so well! Thank you for answering this question. Well done 😊

easy amswer, the back of the titanic didnt have time to get fully filled with water before it sunk, so when it fell it still had air in it and was trying to get all the air out and water in, that caused it to spin and bits to fly off.... you can try this with a cup and a bucket of water, very slowely lower a cup into a bucket of water untill its fully under, now just slam the cup under the water, youll see its not 100% full right away and there will be lots of air bubbles

@semoneg2826

4 ай бұрын

Ok

The snarky me wants to say something about BrightSide but instead just want to say - Sam I love your videos! Keep up the good work!

Very clear explanation. Great information.

Great animation and commentary. Thank you.

It shows how violent the implosion was- a survivor reported seeing the pole from outside the Barbers’ Shop floating amongst wood from the sinking, the next morning, The Barbers was next to the Aft Crand Staircase, on ‘A’. deck, between the 3rd and 4th funnels (the breakup zone) The whole of this staircase was destroyed in the implosion.

I think the best way to describe it is that the Stern was tumbling down through the ocean.

Shame the stern is in such bad shape can you imagine all the priceless decor and art down there

@angerydestroyer

2 ай бұрын

Even if we somehow were able to explore the sterns interiors I doubt there’s much

The visual of this in the middle of the night, that cold and so far down is terrifying. Add the implosion sound and the screams. My god😮. Also the 400 foot silouette against the night sky, blocking out the stars as the power goes out!

Another great video! Bravo.

Another great video. Thanks.

You never disappoint!!!

Expert narration. Thank you.

Awesome video Sam hope you're well my Awesome friend . really injoy all you're videos buddy .

Thank you for sharing, love theese titanic videos 😍

This man posts bangers after 112 years were still getting more theories!!!

Pretty much how I understood it to happen also. Appreciate your time in teaching us.

I give you props though guy I get more info out of your Titanic stuff than I do any of the other I've seen

Great presentation video. 👏

Finally i found the Channel again!

As always….an excellent video!

Awesome. Short and sweet!

Sam I just started watching your videos, and I love them. They are so informative and tell the stories I haven’t heard before. I know this is off topic, but what kind of flowers did they have? I’m sure they had vases full of beautiful flowers and grand center pieces. Who put them together. I just thought it was interesting to know if there was a florist of some sort on board.

Sam I LOVE your videos. I learn soo much (visual learner).. My favorite subjects of history are the RMS Titanic and Anne Frank (she is a hero for that diary) I was wondering if you could go into the details bout the items, like the small replica of statue of Aphrodite, for example.

Another great analogy you can use is if you’d drop a badminton birdie from a helicopter at 12,500 feet, then a minute later drop the racket in the same spot. You have one object designed to slice smoothly through the air (representing the bow section) and another irregular object that would certainly tumble wildly in freefall (representing the stern section). I’d also guarantee that the racket would have drifted much farther than the birdie due to the chaotic path it took to the ground. Much the same if you dropped a piece of paper off a bridge.

I was on a family trip and at a Titanic exhibit at the museum in Melbourne I actually got to touch a piece of the hull that'd been salvaged so in other words I actually got to touch a piece of the Titanic

Enjoyed this Samand learned a lot. My hubby herd you and came to watch also

Love your videos brother

Thanks for sharing!

Love this content

glad to see you you have been quiet💯👍

I think the stern section of Titanic's wreck is extremely underrepresented in popular media. For example: James Cameron's Titanic doesn't show any footage of the stern at all, whereas the bow section is shown a lot

@hightreason7934

4 ай бұрын

Cameron actually filmed the wreck. The bow section is far more striking, visually. It's the first image that materializes out of the darkness. The stern is a very dangerous, tangled mess, and almost unrecognizable. In Cameron's film, Dawson anoints himself "King of the World" from the bow, and later, he teaches Rose how to "fly from there." They wind up exploring the ship together from stem to stern. Trying to depict (and explain for the audience) the sad, smashed remains of the stern section, in the already 3+ hour runtime, would have been impossible.

When I saw the recent hi res pics of the 2 sections, the bow was spooky, but the stern section gave me chills. There is just something about how it’s split apart that’s just freaky.

I'm surprised they weren't further apart.

Watching the sinking animations of the sections falling under the water makes my stomach churn, the stern section bit especially makes me nauseous watching it.

The Implosion was also caused by trapped air pockets inside the stern , which blew out the starboard shell plating, the fantail and boat deck were ripped off, then the final insult, was a massive down blast of water, which had been displaced by this section. which weighed around 16000 tonnes….

@Laurentus89

4 ай бұрын

There was no implosion because an implosion just couldn't occur from a physical point of view. In addition the fantail is still there and more or less the most recognizeable part of the whole stern. In case of a theoretic implosion the shell plating would have been pushed inwards and not outwards or blown away.

Great video!

So I don’t know if this was ever discussed, but what happened to the funnels and why weren’t any of them ever found? Love your channel my friend.

@josephbennett3482

4 ай бұрын

The funnels don't exist anymore because they were made of thin steel and they struck the ocean floor and crumbled then the bacteria that eats rust consumed the funnels rather quickly in the first several years after the sinking.

@gruppenfuhrer45

4 ай бұрын

@@josephbennett3482 ok Joe makes sense. Thnx

is it possible that the bow is the piece that did the most traveling while the stern is the piece that is closer to the actual position where the Titanic sank?

@HD4lyfe

4 ай бұрын

It's pretty easy to project in your head if you have a detailed picture of the debris field. Most probable scenario is find where the boilers are on the ocean floor and that would be the closest objects to where the ship broke at the surface. When the breakup happened, they would have spilled out and fell pretty much straight to the bottom. Then from there you could see how far off from "ground zero" the other pieces of the ship landed. I hope that makes as much sense as it did in my head lol

Sam can you do a video on the SS princess Alice aka the titanic on the river Thames hundreds of people died and drowned in raw sewage

Well, the way the water shifted the stern, as well as the drifting in the ocean currents all means the reck was most likely gonna end up being pretty well seperated from either half.

I feel that animation James Cameron used in his 2012 documentary showing how the separate pieces fell in the water column are a good visual representation on how it likely happened

Amazing video.

Cool Historic travels

Great vids! Any updates on Titan sub? Why has news stream disappeared.

One of the photos shows the stern with more pieces of debris around it, as opposed to the bow. It would indicate that there was a violent implosion in the stern.

Great video

I remeber watching you in 2021 back when I was 12, now I'm 15... man time files😔

Most awesome vid!!!!!

Please make a video about the Sewol ferry disaster 🙏🙏🙏

The ship broke in half when the water pressure caused the emplosion on the stern, that's the noise they heard and that's when it broke in two, AFTER the entire ship was submerged. The reason this didn't happen on Britannic was because it sank in shallow water.

Question: we see through history of Olympic with HMS Hawke and Titanic's near collision with the New York the incredible pull these ships had. Do we know of similar incidents with the Lusitania and Mauretania or even other captains? Captain EJ Smith seems to come off as somewhat reckless.

I think it'd be cool if you made a short video explaining what that little hole on the front of the bow's tip is, and what its purpose is. I always notice it, but I've never seen anyone explain it.

@moosifer3321

4 ай бұрын

It`s for the THIRD Anchor, stowed on the Foredeck (NEVER) used in case of bad Weather when moored offshore (Cherbourg/Queenstown) hence the `small` Anchor Crane prominent on the Bow.

@BellyLover06

4 ай бұрын

Called a hawsepipe. Mike Brady of Oceanliner Designs does actually explain it.

@moosifer3321

4 ай бұрын

Correct, hence a Cable/Rope/Chain passing through is called a HAWSEr.@@BellyLover06

I'm surprised that they are close together as they are. I never really thought that they were "far apart".

The back of your wall is intriguing

Or a more simple way. As the bow sank deeper it started pitching up and landed somewhat softly. The spinning off the stern cause it to move away from the Titanic bow and smack into the ocean floor

Intresting to hear that

I already learned about the ship for a couple years and its a scary day of the accident

Good video, hinged on plausible thereoy

Nice job.

Can you do a more in detail/newer version of the S.S Edmund Fitzgerald! Love to see a new video and a new video of the S.S Edmund Fitzgerald.

It seams to reason that the aft portion of the ship spun around as the propeller side would offer much less water flow resistance than the boxed shaped open portion of the ship. I wonder what position the rudders were in on the descent .

Titanic month is next week. April 10 - 15 2024 Is the 112th year anniversary of the Titanic maiden voyage and sinking

@solarballsvenusfan_

2 ай бұрын

Its april 10th today..

I would love to see an video about what if the door on the side of the Titanic was never opened during the sinking since it caused an bigger effect than the iceberg damage and made the ship go into an list

Oh Sam! Remember when I said, "Lets torture Sam by making him watch Bright Side video for our own viewing pleasure."? There's two new Titanic videos on the Bright Side channel! Also, I've always wondered why the stern and bow of the RMS Titanic are so far apart. This video just explained everything I needed to know. The same question has stuck with me for almost 14 long years and I've been searching for an answer to it. Now, my question has finally been answered in depth. Honestly, Sam should have the respect of the Titanic historians throughout the world because of how much knowledge he has and how well he's able to explain the aspects of the RMS Titanic, alongside her history. Like I said, I've been attached to the RMS Titanic for almost 14 years and she remains to be a very special part of my life. To see someone show as much love for the Titanic as I have brings a certain level of brightness to me.

That distance of 2000ft is quite little for the depth of the ocean there and the size of titanic.