8 Bells Lecture | Richie Kohler: Mystery of the Last Olympian 

Given that he is not a lecturer by profession but a professional diver, I think he does a very fine job.

Thankyou for posting.this guys really interesting...knows his stuff.

Very interesting video, thanks. Just a few clarifications on the Olympic class ships and Britannic specifically where she differed from Olympic and Titanic. - It is not true that Harland & Wolff could not match the engineering skill of John Brown. The Olympic Class was as advanced as any ship. What they could not match was the government subsidies that were given to Cunard which also required their ships meet certain navy specifications in case of war. Hence the turbine engines for speed. White Star had no government assistance, so the reciprocating/turbine engine combination was selected for economy of operation and reliability. The Lusitania and Mauritania were fast ships but were plagued with severe vibration issues which required reengineering and substantial rebuilding and were always subject to rolling and pitching. - The gantry davits theoretically could pick up additional stored boats from the other side if necessary, but the funnels and other fixtures blocked some of them from doing so. Gantries could only launch on the side where they were mounted. Eight pairs were supposed to be fitted, but only five were available when she was pressed into service. Whelin davits, (same as Titanic), were also fitted as a temporary measure. - Lord Pirrie was the Chairman of Harland & Wolff, not the owner of the White Star Line. - Britannic's Total Registered Horsepower was 50,000 at designed speed of 22 knots. Maximum HP at full speed was likely about 60,000. Olympic and Titanic were registered at 46,000 HP at a service speed of 21 knots. - Most interior photos attributed to Titanic are actually the Olympic. For example, there are no photos of Grand Staircase on Titanic, they are all Olympic. - Existing fittings for the Britannic were auctioned in 1919. Fittings from Olympic were auctioned in 1935.

Im looking for his book!

Very interesting.. great lecture.. thank-you for posting this!

"I brought a bigger boat" I sea what you did there.

So do we know for certain that the watertight door between Boiler Rooms 5 & 4 was closed or open? He sheepishly stopped short of telling us ostensibly because the answer is in a book he's written.

1:33 not Olympains Olympic class

NOT WORLD WAR 2.....IT WAS WORLD WAR 1 WORLD WAR ONE....He corrected later

Violet Jessop wasn't even the most bad as... cue Arthur John Priest, a.k.a. the Unsinkable Stoker, who worked on many ships as a lowly member of the so-called "Black Gang" (because they handled the coals), and survived the sinking of RMS Titanic and HMHS Britannic and HMS Alcantara and HMHS Donegal, (Oh and just like Jessop, he was on the Olympic when it was hit by HMS Hawke and left a giant hole on its side). If I were the British Admiralty I would just buy this guy a nice house, pay him a lifetime wage for doing nothing, just so he could spend the rest of his life comfortably on land and stay off any ships LOL Yet these two probably didn't know each other, even though they were somehow on the Olympic, Titanic and Britannic the same time when so many famous historic events happened to these ships. The ships were so big and they worked on different parts at all times, one was a stewardess serving high end customers (or a nurse during WW1) and the other a stoker at the bottom of the ship shoveling coal, it wouldn't surprise me that their paths never crossed. (They would probably have seen each other, at least from a distance, when they were rescued time and time again, say on the Carpathia, lol) I bet they would hold great conversations comparing their survival skills though, imagine an alternate universe where these two got married and had kids, these kids' lucky genes from their parents would make them win lotteries over and over lol

You mean World war one

The third ship of the class was to be Gigantic but was renamed to Britannic before her launch and all three were paid for (or funded to be more exact ) by JP Morgan. A lot of what he says is opinion and conjecture rather than fact. By the way, I admit that I was not there at the time and therefore cannot say with any certainty what actually happened, but then neither was he. SCUBA stands for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus and has a long history going back long before Cousteau. At some stage during WW2 Cousteau did develop an open circuit SCUBA system which he called an Aqua-Lung (complete with hyphen). To be taken with a pinch of salt...

How is Britannic the last Olympian when it sank like 20 years before the Olympic was scrapped? Olympic was the last Olympian, sadly But if you want to reason that the Britannic still exist in this world, albeit underwater, while Olympic is gone gone since it was scrapped so it simply no longer exists, as in it can't be found anywhere on earth anymore... Then so exists Titanic in the same manner as Britannic, therefore both Titanic and Britannic are the last Olympians, only Olympic has truly disappeared from this planet.

ww1 not 2 lol