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Cruise ship captain Wendy Williams rates eight cruise ship disasters in movies and television shows for realism.
Williams breaks down how cruise ships deal with hitting an iceberg, rogue waves, and tsunamis in "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972); the sinking scene in "Titanic" (1997), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet; and the capsized vessel in "Poseidon" (2006). She explains how cruise ships address health issues and passenger safety on board in "The Simpsons" S23E19 (2012), the boat jail scene in "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" S11E9 and E10 (2016), and the cruise ship holiday nightmare in "Triangle of Sadness" (2022), with Woody Harrelson. Williams also looks at the plausibility of cruise ship systems being corrupted in "Deep Rising" (1998), and the shipwreck scene in "Speed 2: Cruise Control" (1997), with Willem Dafoe and Sandra Bullock. She compares fictional depictions to real-life cruise disasters, such as the Diamond Princess cruise ship, and shares tips for travelers.
Williams has been in the maritime industry for over 30 years, with her experience spanning from passenger vessels to the fishing industry. She has been a cruise ship captain for about five years, and she is the first Canadian woman to captain a major cruise ship brand, Virgin Voyages.
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Cruise Ship Captain Breaks Down 8 Cruise Disasters In Movies And TV

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@laurameakin Год назад

I love that she acknowledges that some of these films are fun to watch but not necessarily accurate. Posiden Adventure is a classic like towering inferno so it’s great when the experts enjoy them as much as us.

@tugboats79 Год назад

Oh we do enjoy movies... Only we see much more movie mistakes in them... For example in Speed 2 there was tons of mistakes from professional point of view but its still fun to watch 😅

@jonathanmcginley8128 11 месяцев назад

Well, The Poseidon Adventure did establish that the ship was top heavy and needed to take on more ballast and there was an incident during WWII when the Queen Mary was only a few degrees off from completely rolling over so maybe it’s not entirely inaccurate.

@Terminator484 5 месяцев назад

The funny part? Cruise ships love to play these movies on the TVs in passenger staterooms during your cruise.

@philippal8666 2 месяца назад

Towering Inferno reminds me of my workplace. Or some of the grim tower fires.

@petervonkanel4963 Месяц назад

@@Terminator484I'll watch the Mayday show at the airport lol

@choverov 11 месяцев назад

Hello, naval engineer here. Please, bring this lady more often to the channel. I really enjoyed it, she explains everything very very well.

@dominic6634 4 месяца назад

find any lint?

@Historicaleducation-pm1li 3 месяца назад

Is the Poseidon 1972 thing accurate? I find that since the ship went underwater it would capsize while coming up.

@willcookmakeup Год назад

For her to say the Titanic was super a very accurate reenactment makes the distater so much scarier

@Annielee825 Год назад

It WAS a lot scarier, because it would've been pitch-black. The movie has this greenish light, even after Titanic went down, when in reality, people wouldn't have been able to see their own hands in the lifeboats. Just sit in the dark and hear the screams of a thousand dying souls & a bunch of metal screeching, puffing, breaking... before the final plunge.

@timothyhouse1622 Год назад

@@Annielee825 don't forget the water was also FREEZING. The actors and actresses were probably dealing with swimming pool water levels of temp and comfort.

@jandm4ever716 Год назад

@@timothyhouse1622actually, the water was pretty cold from what I heard. Kate Winslet almost got hypothermia. Of course not as cold as in real life

@Dmunny54 Год назад

Distater or Dattater?

@TechnologicallyTechnical Год назад

Well, there's a few things to note about the accuracy of the film that the presenter probably wasn't aware of (after all, her expertise lies in Cruise Ships/Ocean Liners in general, not Titanic specifically). One is that, as the watertight doors were closing, the workers in the stokeholds did not need to go through the doors, as each compartment was fitted with escape ladders, which reached above the watertight divisions (also what she says about the watertight bulkheads not being entirely watertight isn't entirely true, as once all of the doors were shut, the bulkheads were completely watertight, and those doorways were 100% necessary for navigating the ship). The other is that, there were not locked gates all over the ship's interiors as depicted in the film. The main issue was that the escape routes for third class weren't as clearly labeled as they could've been (anyone that couldn't read English had no way of knowing where to go), and third class in general had no direct access to the uppermost deck which had all of the lifeboats (AKA the Boat Deck). The Boat Deck was divided into the Officer's Section, the First Class section, and the Second Class section. There was no Third Class section for this deck. Another issue is that the Boat Deck got so crowded with First and Second Class passengers during the sinking that Third Class had to wait by the Poop Deck until enough people had gotten off the ship (by which point, most of the boats were gone). They were not trapped inside the ship as the movie depicts, though, as they were able to freely access the exterior spaces that were dedicated to their class (which were at the forward and after ends of the ship), it's just that those spaces had no boats.

@mehak6389 7 месяцев назад

"Is it advisable to go up or down?" "I mean the ship is sinking" Gem

@cherylmaden5989 2 месяца назад

Lol yeah um in other words...hope u can swim soon and fast and well😂

@philippal8666 2 месяца назад

Guess it’s best just to hang on…

@johnniemiec3286 Год назад

A note about the air pockets she mentioned... after the Pearl Harbor attacks when work was being done to drain and refloat the USS West Virginia, the bodies of three sailors were found in a room by salvage crews with food and fresh water. There were marks on the bulkhead wall indicating they had made it 16 days until air ran out.

@adamolupin Год назад

Weren't recovery crews able to hear men banging inside a couple of the ships after Pearl Harbor? I seem to remember hearing about divers from recovery crews dealing with PTSD (or what we would know as PTSD today) after working on those wrecked ships because of that.

@johnniemiec3286 Год назад

@adamolupin absolutely. And many of those men who were banging were never able to be saved. A layer of tragedy that tends to be a little less reported on from that Day of Infamy.

@sithlordzach8418 Год назад

@@johnniemiec3286 Is it a less reported aspect? I remember hearing about that in middle school.

@RMSTitanicWSL Год назад

@@sithlordzach8418 You had an exceptional teacher, then. USS Oklahoma, USS West Virginia and USS Utah (which was a gunnery training ship at that point) all apparently had men trapped for several days before they asphyxiated. The Kursk also had men live about a week after it sank.

@andreasolis85 11 месяцев назад

So sad!!!

@thisguyaintfunny1881 Год назад

Wendy was amazing! Kudos for finding so many interesting and talented people from every corner of society, and making them react to our favorite movies :)

@Ingens_Scherz Год назад

Yes, she is pretty darn good! I'd be very happy to be a passenger on her cruise ship (if I could afford it!!).

@LITTLE1994 3 месяца назад

So awesome to hear this from an ACTUAL Captain. We don't get this very often.

@fabiendalmasso Год назад

If I remember correctly, the Poseidon adventure was inspired by a real event that happened to the RMS Queen Mary, which actually got hit by a rogue wave. It caused heavy damages and caused the ship to list dangerously, but in the end it took balance back and was able to go back to port. An italian liner was involved in a similar incident that destroyed a good part of the bridge, but it did not capsized either.

@Nowhereman10 Год назад

Yes, that happened to Queen Mary in December 1942 while serving as a troop ship and carrying 15,000 soldiers across the Atlantic. She attained a list of 52 degrees before she began to right herself.

@DartzIRL Год назад

Lusitania drove straight into a roque wave, and just knifed through it rather than riding over it, to the point where the bridge was shifted back a few inches.

@borisglevrk Год назад

Back in before WWII, the Japanese Navy had what was called "4th Fleet Incident" where a fleet of warships encountered a proper typhoon and have superstructure damage due to strong rogue waves. Among the 41 ships participating, 19 ships were damaged one way of another, including two destroyers having severed bows, of which one (Hatsuyuki) have 24 enlisted dead due to being in the severed bow. and that was STILL not enough to sink or capsize any of these ships.

@MaritimeNexus Год назад

Yup I believe in the 60s the Italian liner SS Michelangelo was also hit with a rouge wave head on and crippled her front superstructure. I think there were some casualties as a result of their rooms being crushed from the wave and by the aluminum superstructure being crumpled by the wave. But yeah scary stuff.

@mikedicenso2778 Год назад

Titanic's older sister ship Olympic was struck by a rogue wave February 1926 while crossing the North Atlantic.

@kellyorourke5248 Год назад

Great video! She mentioned that the Titanic didn’t know that there was ice, but they had actually received multiple warnings about an ice field, which included the fateful iceberg. Other ships in close proximity to the ice field slowed down, but the Titanic went full steam ahead into that ice field.

@Billzor991 Год назад

To be fair though, going full steam ahead through an ice field was standard procedure for the most part. Better to get out asap instead of wait around if it can be done.

@kilikus822 Год назад

@@Billzor991 Wasnt it because the captain wanted to be in New York in time for the new to run its arrival in the morning paper?

@Billzor991 Год назад

@@kilikus822 It's very much a hearsay thing, only one person ever confirmed that that conversation may have taken place. Really, you want to get across the ocean fast, but not like, a full day early because then you probably aren't going to get a berth.

@zammich3649 Год назад

@@kilikus822 Not likely. I know there's a scene in the movie to effect, loosley based on one person's testimony, but the ship wasn't even traveling at full speed and iirc one of the boilers wasn't even lit.

@wolf310ii Год назад

The ships that slowed down or stopped could actually see the ice, they didnt slowed down or stopped because of some radio messages. The first thing of ice that the titanic could see was the iceberg she collide with. And the Titanic wasnt the only ship that did go on cruise speed into the ice field, the Carpathia even turned the heating off to get more speed.

@TopHatTITAN Год назад

The Poseidon was less of a purpose built cruise ship and more of a conversion. She was an ocean liner planned to be scrapped after the voyage when she was struck by the tsunami. The movie also made it clear that the ship was top heavy and the captain intended to take on ballast, but the cruise director overruled his request. Granted, the original book had specified the wave as a rogue wave.

@ZanHecht Год назад

Cruise Director is the head of entertainment, they have no ability to tell the captain what to do.

@lucastrask2838 Год назад

In the original movie as well, it was a rogue wave that basically knocked it over. She obviously just watched a few seconds of the movie, which is how they do these. Only weak point in the series, except for the way they always go for the woman or POC rather than look for the most expert. Still well worth watching.

@TopHatTITAN Год назад

@@ZanHecht Well, in the movie, the cruise director threatened to fire the captain once they hit land.

@TopHatTITAN Год назад

@@lucastrask2838 actually in the movie, it was a tsunami. They mentioned an earthquake off Greece that formed it. In the original 1974 book, it was indeed a rogue wave.

@vincepurpura8905 Год назад

He wasn't a cruise director, he was a representative of the company that owned the posideon

@ZanHecht Год назад

Surprised she didn't mention the Carnival Triumph "poop cruise", which happened less than a year after that Simpsons episode aired.

@whillard2447 Год назад

It would have been good to clear the difference between a cruise ship (ships from nowadays that are purely for pleasure) and an ocean liner (older ships that existed before the planes and that were the only method to get to the USA or across any ocean, like the Titanic is)

@wolf310ii Год назад

Ocean liner werent the only method to cross the ocean, you could also cross the atlantic on a freighter. Ocean liners were just ships with a fix route and a shedule, like a bus.

@whillard2447 11 месяцев назад

That's true, however is doesn't change how people see those old ships in the same way as nowadays ships @@wolf310ii

@creeguyvernon 2 месяца назад

@@wolf310ii or long distance passenger trains, they also retain the class system, for example some trains still employ 3rd class, very cheap price but very spartan accommodations

@user-kg6pr1iv4i 11 месяцев назад

1:04 The crew of the Titanic WERE expecting ice and were warned by other ships multiple times before their journey and during their journey from other ships which had passed through earlier. The tragedy of the Titanic was due to a number of complications all adding up. The binoculars that the crew used to spot ice bergs were locked away due to a personal change and the person who had the key took it with him. So, spotters were using their naked eye to look for icebergs. When they finally did spot the iceberg, they were going too fast to stop in time and couldn't avoid it. Then the closest ship to them (the California if I remember correctly) did not receive their transmissions as early as they should have because the telegraph operator had gone to sleep. So boats had to come from farther away to help rescue passengers and crew. 2:08 Those drills were actually put in place BECAUSE of the Titanic's sinking. Prior to this event, there were no safety briefings to passengers or even enough lifeboats on the boat. The Titanic Museum in Belfast is an amazing display and a great place to learn if anyone is interested.

@6thgraderfriends 3 месяца назад

There's one is Halifax, Canada as well, where everyone was brought the next day.

@andressousa9006 2 месяца назад

yeah no they were not... Titanic was already on a southern route to avoid ice, also they were confident on a clear night to see on time any object. Also Binoculars to spot icebergs? at night, with no moon... good luck with that, get a pair of binoculars and try use them at night and see how it goes for you. Also Binoculars were for the exclusive use of the officers not the lookouts. The lookouts job was to search the horizon, the moment they saw anything they had to alert they saw something, then the officer would use the binoculars to confirm and identify the object. Regarding the ice warnings, April 13 the marconi equipment was not working, almost the whole day, the operators spend the whole night fixing the machine(against the marconi guidelines), so they had little sleep, and then spended most of the day sending and receiving all the messages from the day before, that they the bridge got no ice warning, to support even more that, the operators were still working late at night when the Titanic hit the iceberg, and were so stressed out that even cut out the California attempts to warn them about the Ice, around 20-30min before the collision.

@crptpyr 2 месяца назад

The binoculars probably weren't that big of a deal. It's kinda odd that they had no access to them, but lookouts preferred to just not use them anyway and trust their own eyesight. Binoculars limit your field of vision very severely, and they're just something you'd want to use if you thought you spotted something and wanted to confirm for sure what it was. On a normal night, the lookouts would've been able to see the iceberg from much further away than they did, if lookouts could usually only see something that they were that close to, they would've been near entirely useless. The specific weather conditions of that night were a much greater contributor in my opinion. A completely still ocean, so you're left without the tell of waves breaking at the base of the berg, allowing it to better blend in, no moonlight whatsoever so it would've been ridiculously dark, and the potential of a cold water mirage, which would've hidden the berg below a false horizon until it was far too late. Just a horrendous set of circumstances.

@zombiedoggie2732 2 месяца назад

On top of that. The reversed engines, and the fact the middle propeller on her didn't reverse.

@MikMoen 6 месяцев назад

10:46 That, looks terrifying. Being locked in an enclosed space on a ship in the ocean.

@richardivory606 11 месяцев назад

The Sewol Ferry was an example of how long a capsize can take.

@dintadoba4808 3 месяца назад

China eastern star capsized in 30 seconds by bad weather in river not ocean which took 442 lives of 454 on board

@BigBear-- Год назад

Key take away...only go on cruises in areas of calm waters. Also, avoid hurricane season. Also, don't try and sneak into the crew areas, and/or the crew bar to try to party with the crew. You will be caught eventually (ask me how I know...). Though it might be worth it, cause the best party on a cruise is at the crew bar, apparently.

@mehere8038 Год назад

Diamond Princess probably wasn't the worst case scenario actually, it's sister ship the Ruby Princess probably tops it. Diamond Princess made a lot of people on that ship sick, but quarantine stopped it going further. Crew members at the start of the Ruby Princess' voyage it turned out had just flown in from high risk countries & were infected. Cruise left Sydney Australia, travelled to New Zealand & then back to Australia, both being virus free at the time, so the obvious signs of the virus spreading onboard were missed until a week after 1000+ passengers had disembarked & flown to every state in Australia, plus to the US, Canada & a range of European countries, spreading the virus from the ship to all those locations, as well as having already spread it into New Zealand during the shore trips there during the cruise. Ruby Princess just got less attention outside Australia/New Zealand, cause it happened slightly later in the pandemic, so more was going on by then, taking the attention off that one

@amyhull754 3 месяца назад

It was so fun to hear her say that the disaster films were fun and exciting and enjoyable...but not real. I loved her using the term "turn turtle." This was a real joy. I hope we see Captain Williams again.

@dbach1025 Год назад

The Noro Virus is no joke. We had a premie baby in 2012, and he was in the NICU for 8 weeks, which means we were there for 8 weeks. I caught the virus at the hospital and it nearly killed me. I lost 40 pounds, about 20 too much. Still dealing with the damage almost 12 years later.

@johndoe-sh6bi Год назад

Glad you made it through

@kameronjones7139 Год назад

Yeah I lost 10 pounds from it. It was way worse than any other virus I had

@dbach1025 11 месяцев назад

@@johndoe-sh6bi thanks man. What does not kill us.....ruins our immune systems for life. Lol

@heathergarnham9555 9 месяцев назад

We had someone come into our ED, it went through our staff like wildfire, the entire hospital had it within 72hrs

@dbach1025 9 месяцев назад

@@heathergarnham9555 it's a rough virus for sure

@Barker1214 Год назад

Titanic was very accurate. Very minor interior flaws, and the ship would have sunk a bit differently but she’s right. I’d actually give Titanic a 9/10 considering they put real life passengers at certain points where they were have claimed to have been on the real ship.

@jada7109 Год назад

When you say it would have sunk differently, what differences are you thinking of? Not critiquing you at all just genuinely curious, I love the movie

@the_wrong_alice Год назад

Love that they included Titanic even though she technically wasn't a cruise ship but an ocean liner.

@wolf310ii Год назад

@@the_wrong_alice The Poseidon Adventure and the remake where also ocean liner

@rubyy7013 Год назад

i think the chef on the top of the ship at the end hanging on, i think that was real which was cool

@LordAmerican 11 месяцев назад

@@jada7109 In real life Titanic had a ~2-degree port list when she struck the iceberg. That became a ~5-degree starboard list within the first ten minutes post-collision, and between 1 and 1:30 am developed back into a ~9-degree list to port. Once the bridge went under the list almost completely vanished as the plunge began. Funnels 1 and 2 fell to starboard. Funnel 3 befell forward during the break and funnel 4 likely remained standing. The break happened just a couple minutes later just forward of the third funnel, though the funnel sat over the forward tower section which was essentially ripped away as the bow detached from the stern. The stern would not have made a large splash, and perhaps “gently” (a relative term, of course) settled after the break. The stern then went vertical and pivoted in the port direction to face the opposite direction as it slid under the surface. And throughout the sinking the lights got progressively dimmer to the point of being a very dim, ominous red glow when the plunge began, until finally going out at the breakup. The ship also only reached a maximum angle of about 25-ish degrees before she broke in half. The film shows the ship on an even keel, fully lit until the power failed, funnel 1 falling to port (or starboard if you use Fabrizio as reference-it’s inconsistent), breaking aft of the third funnel, funnel 4 falling after the break, the stern making a large splash as it violently crashed down into the water and not pivoting as it sank. When the plunge began in the film it did not show the ship suddenly accelerate as witnesses claimed, rather it was just a gradual acceleration based on the rest of the sinking beforehand. And the break happened at a steep 45+ degrees (I don’t know the actual angle used on the set) In the end, these differences are mostly non-issues except to those who know about them, and they hardly detract from the film’s quality. 26 years later it’s still the best live action depiction of the sinking despite its several historical inaccuracies and artistic license.

@curatedhub263 Год назад

Hi James Cameron!!! I know with his titanic obsession, he’s gonna watch this! 😂

@byever1 Год назад

Please direct a movie about squirrels.

@Minnevan Год назад

@@byever1 Did you know that Squirrel Stew used to be a common dish in America?

@amyhull754 3 месяца назад

@@Minnevan, there's good eatin' on a couple of squirrels. We ate them growing up. Tasted the same to me as wild bunny, which is also tasty.

@lanceferraro3781 3 месяца назад

Retired USN. Transiting to the Med on a mildly stormy evening we encountered a rogue wave. Thank goodness it was bow on and missed us, but not by much. We were on the main deck, 45 feet above the waterline. As it passed we had to tilt our heads back to look at the top. Lucky.

@Youngstown529 10 месяцев назад

I love how she's like, "nah, this is just dumb"

@andrejbogdanov2816 11 месяцев назад

I’m so glad they bleeped out “heck”. Wouldn’t want any children to be scarred for life after hearing that word.

@leDespicable Год назад

To be fair, the tables and chairs onboard the Poseidon being fixed to the floor isn't all that unbelievable, she's supposed to be a former ocean liner on her last cruise before being taken out of service, so she might still have had tables that were bolted to the floor. Granted, since she's modeled after the Queen Mary, which was launched in 1934, it's not very likely, since bolted down tables were already not a common thing anymore during that time, but there's still a slight possibility she might've been an exception.

@Heavymetalstonie420 Год назад

Lol idk if I can sit in a chair that's bolted down unless it's on a slide so you can slide back in forth i would have fun with that

@leDespicable Год назад

@@Heavymetalstonie420 Some old ships actually used to have chairs like that, but most back in the old days only had fixed chairs that couldn't move. By the time the Titanic was built, fixed chairs were no longer built onto newer ships

@thomasackerman5399 Год назад

Inside the Titanic's bow section, there are table stands that can still be seen bolted to the floor in various sections of the ship, including what little section that remains of the First Class Dining Saloon. The table tops themselves stayed in place during the sinking and only got flipped off and over by the force of the bow's impact into the seafloor.

@JWRogersPS Год назад

Queen Mary's dining room tables were bolted to the floor while she was in service. They were all removed after she got to Long Beach. The chairs were also attached to the floor with a decorative rope so that they could be moved enough to use. Unlike cruise ships, ocean liners were designed for, and often encountered, rough seas. They had a schedule to keep, and couldn't avoid storms. Even the QE2, which entered service in 1969, originally had furniture attached to the floor.

@mehere8038 Год назад

@@Heavymetalstonie420 have you never been to a bar with bolted down chairs?

@Roblox_Player1911 3 месяца назад

The ship in that Poseidon one from 1972 shows a ship called the Queen Mary, a ship built in the 1930's that had a problem with balance. One time during WW2, it was being escorted by destroyers (small war ships) when it was hit by a big wave. it caused the ship to list so much that one of the crew from a destroyer said they could see down one of the funnels, luckily the ship survived the wave, if the wave was that big, it would capsize it with no struggle.

@padraigpearse1551 Год назад

How many times do we have to say this. Titanic was NOT A CRUISE SHIP

@Tom-lr4os 3 месяца назад

Loads of comments saying how accurate it is, like yeah it might be but it doesn't belong in a cruise ship video haha

@Chris-vk2zw Месяц назад

Transatlantic oceanliner might be too long of a title.

@Jayjay-qe6um Год назад

In the movie Deep Rising, the Argonautica was sabotage personally by its owner, so its assume he also sabotage all of its backups.

@OzzieBo 11 месяцев назад

Great cruise ship stability my front side. Them floating apartments center of gravity is just under the waterline. I’d say it’s takes the force of a feather to capsize it.

@wyldhowl2821 Год назад

She's Canadian, so I wonder if she is familiar with the "MV Queen Of The North" sinking. That was more of a long-range ferry than a full cruise ship, but what a debacle. The bridge crew were conspicuously absent from the bridge, so distracted they missed a course change point, and the ship (on auto-pilot) struck a seamount/rock, and sank. Not Canada's worst nautical disaster, but fairly recent and infamous.

@petervonkanel4963 Месяц назад

It was a very nice ferry too

@TrickiVicBB71 11 месяцев назад

I was surprised and happy they covered Deep Rising. Really good horror/action movie

@Sabrinajaine Год назад

The crew of Titanic were expecting ice, they'd had numerous warnings and told lookouts to keep an extra close eye out for them. Unfortunately, they didn’t think it was necessary to slow down.

@thepoet9253 Год назад

This was because it was protocol of the era to maintain speed, with the intentions of getting past the danger as quickly as possible. They felt they'd have sufficient time to spot and outmanoeuvre any ice and, should the ship take damage, nearby ships would be there to assist. It was NOT, however, believed that she couldn't sink and therefore no caution was needed. People do misconcept this often, so I'm leaving this here in case others in the comments see this, not saying you were saying it.

@foolsgold9993 Год назад

The lookouts didn't have the right equipment. What I read an officer forgot the key for the cabinet with the strong binoculars at home (or he didn't even make it to the ship?). In another video I saw a theory about a mirage covered up the iceberg till it was too late.

@caitlynskiff2001 Год назад

There were lots of factors in the striking of the iceberg. The first was how fast the ship was going, yes. But as someone else pointed out it was a standard practice to maintain speed. The second was that the lookouts did not have the right binoculars. And lastly it was unbelievably calm that night meaning there was no waves breaking on the ice so it was even harder to see.

@Gabriel26963 Год назад

@@foolsgold9993 No, thats not true, there were 2 sets of binoculars on board but those were for officials, not for the lookouts. Why? well because binoculars are ment to indentify distant objects not to locate them. The lookours had to locate an object quickly and sound the alarm, for the officers to take action or identify the object if necessary. Not to mention that binoculars dont work that well at night, and not to mention binoculars have a narrow field of vision. Thats another reason why lookouts didnt had them. You cant scan the horizon quickly with a set of binoculars, much less in the middle of a moonless night.

@Gabriel26963 Год назад

No, thats not true. They had an average cruise speed, they were not at full speed, there was nice weather, no wind, no clouds, there was no reason for them to slow. Not to mention they were already on a souther route precisely to avoid posible Icebergs. The Titanic didnt find an Iceberg but an Icefield, there were many scattered all around them, the survivors came to be aware of them when the sun was rising in the morning.

@SFS528 2 месяца назад

As a “ship nerd” her calling titanic a cruise ship genuinely made me angry as titanic is an ocean liner

@fidan2fast Год назад

actually, a small correction, the doors on the Titanic were watertight, but the compartments were not sealed from the top, they were just there to slow or stop the flow of water trough the ship on water level

@Jhonnyace Год назад

So the best portrayal of cruise ship disasters was the one that wasn't even a cruise ship :)

@brotkannschimmeln2875 Год назад

finally someone else who noticed that

@AmicusAdastra 3 месяца назад

14:00 i have a better example for that its the Sewol that sank in South Korea near the island of Jeiju due to capsizing caused by unsecured and too heavy marchandise and ship being unbalanced

@AkiraPoland 11 месяцев назад

I remember watching "Poseidon Adventure". I was probably 5-6 years old, I was sick at the time, the ambulance arrived at night, and I was watching a movie in bed, wrapped in a blanket. I remember that the doctor was very nice. And for me it was all one big adventure. Years later, my parents told me that they almost turned gray because of me when I was so seriously ill, even though for me it was nothing more than hmmm... not a very serious illness. A great movie, but I'm writing this out of sentiment. :3

@HrLBolle 5 месяцев назад

I highly recommend the channel Ocean liner Designs for any inquiry towards TITANIC and ships of that Vintage 1:33 minor correction : The watertight doors did their job perfectly, what allowed flooding to progress aft of the points of impact was the fact that the compartments were not closed watertight at the top. It gets even mentioned within the movie that the Bulkhead only went up as high as E-Deck, some went up higher, when they should have been reaching up to at least B-Deck with a firm connection to make the compartment as watertight as possible.

@TheBattleMaster100 Год назад

Congratulations Ms. Williams on your Captain's post!

@chancellorjake 11 месяцев назад

This was fun. Thanks for the knowledge, Captain.

@stevennicovich8547 Год назад

If I remember correctly, one of the first documented (video) of a Rogue Wave happened on a Deadliest Catch boat, Aleutian Ballad in 2005. It turned the boat 90 degrees before it self righted.

@ericnorman5237 Год назад

LOL...In the Simpson's case, the ship was called "Royalty Valhalla!" Hilarious!

@Brock_Landers 2 месяца назад

Rogue waves absolutely exist. RMS Lusitania encountered one on Janurary 10th, 1910 which caused quite a bit of damage to her superstructure, and the Michelangelo encountered one on April 12th, 1966 which destroyed her forward aluminum superstructure.

@eepruls Год назад

Really enjoyed this! You are very knowledgeable!

@Xenoss2004 11 месяцев назад

The ship that was exploded by pirates, isn’t actually a cruise ship but a Greek yacht named Christina O My great grandmother was the accountant when it was owned by Aristotle Onassis.

@quincybriley4113 Год назад

I love Deep Rising. It's such a campy, truly 90s action horror movie.

@DanielKlein23 11 месяцев назад

EDIT: It turns out I'm wrong! Most of the gates were not locked and even some of the locked ones could easily be hopped. Original comment below for context. The locked gates on the Titanic that are shown in the movie ABSOLUTELY happened. Cameron proved that with one of his submersible dives. They literally locked the third class off.

@ChrisCooper312 11 месяцев назад

No they didn't. There were a few gates that were locked, but many of the gates could be stepped over, and there were also emergency doors leading from third class into first and second class and even directly to the boat deck.

@DanielKlein23 11 месяцев назад

@@ChrisCooper312 You are correct! I tried to find the documentary where I swear I saw Cameron talk about this and couldn't find it; all further googling yielded "there *WERE* gates to 3rd class, but the main one was open and most other gates were hip height and could easily be jumped". So there might have been the occasional full height gate the crew didn't have time to unlock, but mostly the gates were open. Just what you said. Thanks for correcting me!

@MrYfrank14 Год назад

There was a salvage crew recently that sent divers into a capsized ship several days after she capsized and they found a guy still alive.

@ln5321 2 месяца назад

The Titanic absolutely was expecting ice. They were in communication with ships in the area and all reported the ice sightings to each other.

@doctorbohr1585 Месяц назад

Yes. As I recall, Smith knew there was ice to the north which was heading south. He was travelling quickly to pass south of the danger; but the ice warning from the Baltic was misplaced, and the radio man cussed out the Californian for their transmissions. Those warnings would have informed the crew that the ice had drifted into their path, and that corrections were required. These weren't taken.

@JAMESFERNANDEZ 10 месяцев назад

Omg!! I love this!! What a great idea to bring experts to react to these scenes!!! Love it!!! .)

@MohammedKhaled-ju7gy Год назад

But titanic was an ocean liner. Not a cruise ship

@UncleBuZ Год назад

yup, Its sole purpose was as a transport link

@owenfitzgerald3219 11 месяцев назад

She was very interesting to listen to. Thank you Captian Wendy Williams 🙂

@jankykerle9256 11 месяцев назад

I like how she's saying "oh no, that couldn't happen like that, we have checklists!" We know what happened to costa concordia, lady! 😂

@jankykerle9256 11 месяцев назад

Oh, she mentioned it

@Allegheny500 3 месяца назад

Poseidon adventure, where chairs defy gravity but the dishware and piano go flying. I could go either way with the tables being bolted to the floor as unlikely but possible.

@sarat3913 Год назад

Triangle of sadness is so haunting!

@joyceandrews1617 Год назад

Can't make it past her saying the crew of the Titanic weren't expecting ice. They had numerous warnings from other ships and Captain Smith ordered a more southern course than usual specifically to avoid the biggest part of the ice fields. The crew knew there was ice.

@salpon Год назад

Yeah she immediately got something wrong.

@stillfoufou Год назад

I took it to mean they weren't expecting ice before the voyage, it wasn't part of their sailing plan

@salpon Год назад

They were warned seven times about iceberg sightings in their voyage path. @@stillfoufou

@Tman001100 Год назад

I swear, so many people are overly biased for Titanic. I mean I like James Cameron but COME ON! Don't sacrifice facts for mere entertainment ffs

@Tman001100 Год назад

@Ks-101 Yeah, I don't know how she missed/overlooked that

@markrixson7791 3 месяца назад

Thank you Captain ~ I too am in the works of getting my Captain's license (not easy, being in the mid-west) ~ much respect ma'am.

@mark99k Год назад

Really good stuff, both reassuring and entertaining.

@cleverusername9369 Год назад

I take slight issue with her A) calling Titanic a cruise ship (she was an ocean liner, there is a difference) and B) saying that the crew of the Titanic weren't even expecting icebergs. MOST of the crew may not have been, given it was slightly late in the year for icebergs that far south, and worked in roles that had nothing to do with the actual sailing of the ship. However, the Titanic had received numerous reports of ice from other ships throughout the voyage, including 7 on the very day she hit the berg.

@mehere8038 Год назад

yup, that name calling is certainly not going to happen in reverse is it! No ocean liner captain is going to treat a cruise ship as being it's equal!

@nathieboy1987 Год назад

And if I recall the information correctly, it's been said that the lookouts saw up to three icebergs in their vicinity (but not path) that night before the one they collided with appeared out of the darkness.

@IvyroseGullwhacker 11 месяцев назад

Ah, another Titanic Person and Ocean Liner Snob! I was literally about to comment the same thing.

@bluecollarbuilds 11 месяцев назад

True Titanic wasn’t a cruise ship but how can you make a video about maritime disasters without mentioning Titanic

@SigmaLibra 8 месяцев назад

She said "nowadays we train for ice, back then they weren't expecting it", as in "the crew got no special training to handle ice before setting sail". Context matters.

@jessetorres8738 Год назад

The only 1 they left off I wanted to see her rate is The Last Voyage from 1960.

@soulfoodsmama2980 Год назад

I was waiting to see if she would give an expert opinion on whether or not Rose should have let Jack stay on the door.

@JudithWilder-e5b Год назад

An AED is not a “super medical procedure”. While I am trained the machine talks you through it. I think they need to be anywhere a lot of people congregate.

@mehere8038 Год назад

Yup, exactly! and anyone that needs one needs one immediately, it would be inappropriate to transport them to a medical bay before using it! Presumably in that scenario, that 1 doctor & nurse she talks about being onboard are going to be rather busy too, so it's more than believable if there is an AED on the wall that anyone that's learnt to use it in the past would know to grab it off the wall & use it in that situation. There are a LOT of them attached to walls in various places where people gather in my city. From my understanding, they are always alarmed, so if anyone pulls one off a wall, it effectively, automatically alerts security & anyone else that can assist & is in the area as to the medical emergency - all while preventing theft of them :)

@IntrepidMilo 3 месяца назад

The Poseidon Adventure is based on the events involving the Queen Mary in October of 1942 when the ship was hit by a rogue wave and listed 52 degrees. The ship was somthing like a half foot away from sinking before slowly rising.

@amandawade7803 Год назад

There are so many amazing videos about the Titanic Disaster. Oceanliner Designs has a few of these videos. There was one that said that one of the reasons why the Titanic didn't sink faster was because the captain was so experienced, that he "drifted", making the damage far less. He also has a video detailing the Carpathia, that came to the aid of the Titanic, in the captain's journal it said that when the sun came up he was shocked that somehow the Carpathia avoided striking an iceberg, since they were in an ice field surrounded by icebergs. Also Ask a Mortician has an interesting video about the tragedy of the SS Eastland, that capsized in Chicago, and how it was caused by a lack of safety procedures and inspections.

@zammich3649 Год назад

*Carpathia :v

@amandawade7803 Год назад

@@zammich3649 Thanks. Brain where are you? 😄

@SergeiBoy Год назад

Thank you captain . Great commentary

@AmicusAdastra 3 месяца назад

Thing she seem to forget is that the Queen Mary actually almost capsized in 1942 because of a rogue wave and that's where the movie Poseidon is inspired from.

@Chris-vk2zw Месяц назад

I was on the Queen Mary in June and thought of that movie. Even thought QM is over 100 ft longer than Titanic, it didn't feel that big. I was able to walk all the decks, from bow to stern, in no time.

@bsquared9288 Год назад

So cool to see “It’s Always Sunny”

@rosskinghorn Год назад

Man I love these videos.

@sledgehammerk35 Год назад

What’s interesting is that a rogue wave almost sank both Lusitania and Queen Mary.

@lorekeepermeerah 3 месяца назад

this was a joy to watch, Capt'n Wendy is so knowledgeable and charming!

@ComandanteToht Год назад

I love cruise ships, it's amazing they got a captain for the video

@2120musiclover 10 месяцев назад

You should’ve showed her the rest of the Always Sunny scene, cuz they do get rescued

@sinisterintelligence3568 Год назад

Thank you for the info. Capt. Wendy!

@sonnipetersen1708 11 месяцев назад

Amazing captain

@zippersocks 11 месяцев назад

What an awesome guest to have on and hear her thoughts about nightmare fuel!

@chezsnailez 3 месяца назад

in 1959 the Danish passenger/cargo vessel Hans Hedtoft disappeared on her maiden voyage to Greenland. Only a single lifeboat was found... @4:04 ~ Aristotle Onassis's former yacht Christina...

@just_passing_through Год назад

I totally understand the complete implausibility of The Poseidon Adventure, but….. I still absolutely love that movie. I just suspend disbelief (as you have to in order to enjoy many, ms y movies). Also, how can you not love Maureen McGovern - There;s Got to be a Morning After…

@Maazzzo Год назад

I love these videos, look forward to the next one. Wendy was great.

@EpicTrainsCanada Год назад

Agreed.

@subman721 3 месяца назад

10:06 no wait a minute Carnival Triumph (The Poop Cruise) looked pretty bad after just four days!

@HistorysRaven 6 месяцев назад

With respect to Captain Williams, she gets two things wrong about the Titanic. The first is that multiple "water tight" bulkheads were damaged. She's correct that they weren't completely water tight, but the implication, intended or otherwise, is that had the bulkheads been properly water-tight the Titanic wouldn't have sunk. The second is her saying the doors wouldn't be locked. She is correct on today's practice. However, in 1912, it was a common practice to lock gates between class levels. Also, concerning the 2012 Simpsons episode, there had been multiple epidemics/pandemics that hit the US, including the 2009 H1N1 epidemic.

@jameswightman6347 Год назад

Triangle of Sadness wasn't food illness, it was extreme motion sickness.

@gydkel Год назад

It was also food illness. It is very subtle but mentioned/hinted by one of the cook that the food will go bad, when the woman insists that every staff member have to go into the water.

@toddjones1480 Год назад

She has a lot of faith that staff would not block guests from using exits… because they’re not supposed to… I guess? Nevermind that it happens in practice.

@imsomewhatcertain1024 Год назад

The most inaccurate ship disaster movie in history was “Britannic” (2000); which tried to capitalize on the popularity of “Titanic” (1997). The Britannic was one of the three Olympic Class ocean liners for the White Star Line, and her sister ships were the Olympic and Titanic. The Titanic sank on 4/15/1912; then WW1 started, in 1914. The Olympic was put into military service as a troop carrier, and the Britannic became a hospital ship. On 11/21/1916, the Britannic was in the Aegean Sea, when she struck a mine and sank with only 30 deaths. She sank in just 55 minutes. “Britannic” (2000) was nothing more than a knock-off of “Titanic” (1997). For some reason, in the movie, the Britannic was transporting paying passengers; which would never happen on a military ship, during a war. It also had the knock-off version of Jack and Rose. A German u-boat could never keep up with an ocean liner, and u-boats never attempted to sink the Britannic because she was a hospital ship. German spies, as far as we know, we’re never on the Britannic before or during her sinking. Lastly, the way the Britannic sinks in the movie is physically impossible. The ship sinks slowly; then she instantly rolls over and disappears into the sea. A ship that’s one-third flooded at that point can’t just sink instantly without getting rid of all the air that’s left inside. Also, something seriously bad would’ve had to happen to the ship’s buoyancy for it to just turn over that fast.

@russellcollins52 Год назад

I would argue against some of her breakdown of Titanic sinking is wrong for the time because the same safety procedures that she referred to were put in place after Titanic.

@The_ZeroLine 5 месяцев назад

One nitpick. The Titanic was not a cruise ship. It was an ocean liner. Very different types of ship construction.

@michaelrecycle9838 11 месяцев назад

I'm unsure why Titanic wasn't 10/10. The sinking was modelled on the best knowledge at the time (witness testimony), passage doors between third class and the rest of the ship were locked (witness testimony and footage of still-locked doors from the wreck. I mean, they literally built a 7/8 scale set model of the ship based on the blueprints of Titanic, commissioned the carpets, cutlery, dishes, etc., from the original manufactures that supplied the Titanic. Like, if ever there was a 10/10 in any of these videos, this was it.

@brunozeigerts6379 Месяц назад

Most frequently depicted shipwreck: The Titanic. Second most... the Poseidon? At least four movies that I know of... for an incident that never took place.

@crowdcontroler6539 4 месяца назад

“Ive never been a ship thats had any issues with food” WHATA FLEX

@becknelson7692 Год назад

Interesting video as usual! Missed opportunity for an Avenue 5 clip though :)

@greenman6141 3 месяца назад

I like how she says, "oh there are crew to look after passengers in emergencies" Um...except that all too often, when bad things happen, the captain and the crew just run off and leave everyone. It happened on the Costa Concordia. The captain ran the cruise ship aground. He and the crew just fled. The captain claimed that he, "tripped and fell into a lifeboat" which then just happened to whizz off from the ship as quickly as it could. People died. But he was alright Jack. Then there was that famous case of the cruise ship off South Africa. The captain and the crew put themselves into the life boats and roared off without telling anyone the ship was sinking. The keyboard player from the ship band had to take charge. Or then there is the unspeakable case of the South Korean ship, and all the students who were killed. That is too painful to write about. So they can have checklists for everything. But what is on paper, is not always what HAPPENS.

@seantlewis376 4 месяца назад

I've been on three luxury cruises, and first day, just after leaving port, there was the muster drill. Everyone had instructions on the wall in their cabin, and the crew went to every cabin to ensure that no one missed the drill. I don't know that these things existed in 1912.

@hi14993 2 месяца назад

Funnily enough, the Titanic disaster changes to shipping actually caused a few other disasters mostly because some ships needed extensive refits that did not occur immediately after the regulations changed. The Eastland disaster is an example but negligence was partly at fault for that one.

@antrazitaj5209 Год назад

Watching the Poseidon Adventure is one of my first memories from when I was 3 or 4

@GregInHouston2 Год назад

What? No Goliath Awaits!!!! I am shocked.

@mikedicenso2778 Год назад

Another Hollywood Queen Mary Clone (even filmed in parts of her interiors) that was an ocean liner (not a cruise ship) sunk by torpedo at the start of WW2.

@nikkiwikki73 Год назад

There’s a major difference between a cruise ship and ocean liner, in terms of form, design, function, areas of operation, patrons etc. Both are cool in their own right, but I feel ocean liners are historic and get unfairly overshadowed by cruise ships, hence this comment lol

@ep8755 3 месяца назад

She mentioned that the Titanic was not prepared for ice, but in fact they knew that there was ice ahead. They had received several communications of large icebergs in the area. It was just very difficult for the spotters to see them at night with calm seas. This woman clearly doesn't know the specific history of Titanic, how she was built, and the details of the damage she sustained. I wouldn't say that she doesn't know about seafaring today, and today's ships, but her discounting of actual historical fact is a glaring indicator.

@williamschlotterer9802 3 месяца назад

On 11 December, 1942, the RMS Queen Mary was transporting 10,000 service members to Great Britain and was hit broadside by a rouge wave on her starboard side during a gale about 1100 kilometres (700 miles) from Scotland. The wave was 28 metres (92 feet) in height and she rolled 52 degrees to port. It has been calculated that she would have capsized had she rolled 3 more degrees.

@carastone3473 Год назад

The crew of the Titanic WAS reportedly expecting icebergs. They were in the North Atlantic and that’s what the lookouts were watching out for.

@SigmaLibra 8 месяцев назад

In context, she said "nowadays we train for ice, back then they weren't expecting it", as in "the crew got no special training to handle ice before setting sail". Context matters.