How Titanic's Swimming Pool Worked 

toilets and waste disposal systems

Watertight doors

I heard the Captain's log is still in his toilet.

The extension of the bulkhead on Olympic and Britannic after Titanic sank.

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How young were you?

​@@oufukubinta r u japones

@@amentco8445 No I just love Japan

It was really bland looking for a ship that was praised so much for luxury. Compare it to the SS Imperators pool, a ship that was build just one year later.

@@jonny2954 Hi. I follow some of the old passenger liner channels, so I am familiar with quite a few names (I mean nothing compared to the "real deal" boat historians like you) But, that is a name that has, at least to my knowledge, has never crossed my screen! Thanks for the tip! Very much appreciated! Have a shipshape type day! :)

Indeed,it’s such an overused joke. :)

So is Captain Smith's bath tub...

Sick and tired of that ignorant joke.

The pool water is a bit cold right now

Okay. Fun fact: the pool on the Titanic is still filled with water.

Modern ship pools aren’t all chlorinated, was recently on a Carnival Cruise Ship (the Valor specifically) and it’s cold water pools were salt water. The only chlorinated pools were the hot tubs.

@@Dwarg91 that’s interesting. Salt water is good. I’m going on a Celebrity cruise in September. I’ll taste the tip of my wet finger in the pool and find out!

@@afm62 I wish you a fun time on your cruise then!

@@Dwarg91 thank you!

It was really bland looking for a ship that was praised so much for luxury. Compare it to the SS Imperators pool, a ship that was build just one year later.

I see what you mean

No it’s cozy to me lol

now that i’m looking at it i kinda see it

I agree. And I feel similarly about the Queen Mary's pool too. Something about them is just eerie. Maybe it's the fact that they're indoors? And not just indoors, but deep in the bowels of the ship?

they had the first heated pools

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The Titanic's swimming pool was not the size of the entire Olympic, so it was not Olympic-sized.

The titanic! Has the oldest pool in all cruise ships with water in it to this very day! Did you know that?

Britannics pool did not have water when it hit the mine

i hear that on every single video mentioning any sunken olympic class ship

​@@Someguy4007 It does now.

Hahahahahahahahabababahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha........

Britannic was a hospital Ship. There for did not have it operating at the time.

How original

There are more people who made this joke than the amount that died during the sinking

Only sealed and contained until water spilled over the top of the bulkheads. Remember that the bulkheads only extended a few feet above the waterline.

@@stephenp448 Looking at the blueprints, the only point of ingress to that section that isn't a watertight door is via a staircase that accesses the linen department on the other side of the ship. It appears it would have been flooded as the ship sank, as you say.

I wish we could see it but apparently it's impossible to access

Thank you!

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The port holes are too mucky with grime to be able to see anything through them. They just reflect the light back

@@oufukubinta Well darn, too bad it's not as simple of sending a rag on an ROV with some window cleaner down there... It would be interesting to see the condition of the pool compartment.

I'm going to guess that the doors or walls around it have been compromised and the whole section is filled with water now.

Watertight at sea level. Not pressure rated to survive 2 miles deep. I'm sure the watertight doors failed on the way to the bottom.

The pool was never sealed off. The watertight bulkheads only extended to E or D deck. As the water spilled over the top of the bulkheads, it would have flooded the pool (on F deck) from above.

Worth about $7.75 today.... about the entry price per person for an ordinary community pool near me. (not a waterpark, no slides, just a pool)

maybe it was drained and replaced daily.

Wasnt a thing in 1912.

not at thing on liners.. you just use the sea water.. on land they did have filtration, but they did not have a entire sea to use. :) on new cruse ships they have a filtration system :)

Probably due to the conditions Post-WW1. Olympic was already very popular in her own right so I guess that they must have thought that spending money to refurbish the swimming bath was pointless. Also, Majestic had a pretty nice pool. She was also the largest ship in the world until 1935 and as a result most people would have been drawn more to Majestic as she was larger and newer so they probably didn't need to fix the pool on Olympic

Ahh yes the joke that has been joked for decades.

There's more people who made this joke then there was victims on the Titanic

Probably because all space on centerline are either used for grand staircase or main dinning rooms

Also the boiler exhausts as well.

Salt water

Finally a more original joke

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agh I couldn’t laugh 😐

As far as I know, Olympic's pool was never refitted, which is surprising given the upgrades planned for Britannic.

this is so accurate

More people made this joke than the amount that died during her sinking

It wasn't the biggest ship of all time. It wasn't the worst marine disaster. it didn't sink the in the deepest part of the ocean. And it wasn't the last tragedy. But people are still hung up on it.

@@seanwebb605 maybe it is talked about a lot because it has been romanticized

@@comicalsteamengine9344 My best guess is Anglo/American relations and the names that were on that voyage. But the true could be said of train derailments and they don't quite capture the imagination of Titanic. I am quite impressed with the work the went into finding it. But the mania over Titanic today seems weird.

Many reasons. Even many modern cruise ships use salt water to fill their pools.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahajahahahahahahahahahahahahaha good joke

They felt that they needed daylight I suppose, and they couldn't put it on the top deck because of all the equipment and the funnels they had there

@@oufukubinta Seems that it was small enough that it would fit between funnels and other equipment. Although maybe they thought that the users would be nervous about people getting on the top deck and looking down through the skylight?

@@Lucius_Chiaraviglio Well also a key factor to consider is that for most of the year the middle of the North-Atlantic is freezing cold as well, so it's better to have it inside where there's central heating I suppose

@@oufukubinta You could put it under a roof with a big skylight in the center, or in something like a greenhouse, and I think that one the size shown in the video would still fit between 2 funnels (although some other stuff up there might have to be moved)..

I thought the same. But maybe there was something else heavy on the other side of the centre line to balance out?

It’s still full to this day

At least it didn’t drain when it sank

Ay someone forgot to turn off the water

Ay we are filling it up so there is room for 1 submarine fishes SpongeBob crew and etc can fit inside it