April 23, 2022 - Hi folks. RU-vid added automatic chapters to this video and the timings were inaccurate relative to the pictures. I have fixed this as well as added a significant amount of information to some of the photos. Enjoy!
These chapters are in relation to the timestamps that you put in the description, it's how it does for every video on here. I swear at least one of these is from James Cameron's 1997 movie. A
My grandfather had a ticket to the Titanic, 3rd class. At last minute exchanged it for another ship that left 10 days later. Ship sailed through Titanic's debris field that floated south and east. He told me it was mostly deck chairs, empty life vests. He died in 1973 at age 88.
You're so right about the rabbit hole. I end up there every April myself. I was present at a disaster in England called the Hillsborough disaster, where 97 football fans were crushed to death. It seems that 15th April is a pivotal date. Titanic struck the berg on 14th April, but sank on 15th April. The Hillsborough stadium disaster took place on the same date and it happens to be the same date that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Notre Dame fire; San Francisco earthquake. April 15th is not a date to book a flight!
It is crazy to think, these artifacts, dishes, and pieces of the Titanic have literally been untouched for 110 years, they’ve been in the same place since the morning the Titanic hit the bottom of the ocean 110 years ago.
I find this fascinating because of the fact that Titanic’s wreck is deep below the surface of the ocean. Also because it is pitch black down there, it makes these photos pretty eerie.
Yes, I was thinking the same thing! I don't usually think about it being pitch black, but this time I did and it creeped me out. Would hate for that to be my resting place - it is for many.
I was fortunate to see the first photos of the Titanic after Bob Ballard came back from the expedition. As an employee of Sub Sea Systems, Escondido, CA, we were automatic members of the San Diego Chapter of the Marine Technology Society. We were treated to a slide presentation one night, before any photos had been released to the public.
I very much liked the descriptive captions - most photographs of the wreck are lacking any description or info. They are meaningless to non-naval or ship construction viewers. Thank you for taking the time to supply captions.
Thanks, I spend a lot of time making sure the captions are accurate and easy to understand. Edit: This comment has actually helped me make a decision on whether or not to spend the time to caption photos in the future as I was debating if it was worth the the time or not, but I'm glad at least one person appreciates it xD
@@collectorofcats294 Thank you. Ultimately I would like so that people of all levels of knowledge can gain something from my videos, experts and amateurs alike.
What’s interesting to me is the fact that after 110 years, those dishes are still in pretty good condition. It is a shame to see such a beautiful ship in such a state, but it comes with time. 110 years under the ocean will do that! Thanks for sharing these awesome photos!
@@nobshistoryengineering4421 Saw them at a Titanic exhibition in Budapest, Hungary. Arranged as they were found at the bottom of the ocean. First and third class corridor and cabins were also reconstructed. Walking through that first class corridor with music playing familiar from Cameron's film, and what the orchestra actually played on the ship I pretty strongly felt I was right there, on that very ship. There was also a washstand from a first class cabin, and it just hit pretty hard that this very washstand was used by a passenger on Titanic.
This massive shipwreck of the Titanic has mesmerized me for so many years! The haunting images give me such a feeling, but I can picture it on it's voyage and how beautiful it had to be!!💫💫✨✨
I have say for all the past interviews i have seen from all the previous expedition dives outlining just how rapid the deterioration of Titanic was.....it's actually in very good condition given the fact it's been down there for 109 (at the time of this footage) now 110 years with the immense pressure of the seabed and the currents..I mean the Bow still maintains that legendary shape that is recognizable instantly.
Thank you so much for the descriptive captions. Most of the time in these type of videos I have no idea what I’m looking at. It was very nice to understand what I was seeing here. 👍🏼
So glad we found this beautiful ship. So sad everyone on board was excited about the maiden voyage and it ended with alot of their lives. I can't imagine the horror and disbelief. The dishes all in a row really got to me. They fell there and have stayed in position for a very long time. Also, the bath tub makes it all so real. This would be the Captain's last voyage before he retired. And he went down with the ship. Amazing also how the men played and played with all the shouting and running trying to keep everyone calm with their music. Thank you for this video. Titanic will always fascinate for many years to come. 🛳️
It would be cool, if photos from the ship before it sank, could be found to match with these “after” photos. Seeing them side by side would be awesome.
Such a beautiful yet sad time capsule that lies on the ocean floor...... I've always been fascinated with Titanic since I can remember.....RIP Titanic and to those who didn't make it!
@@calumbutter8959 my great grandfather went down with his armed merchant ship in the English Channel. He was a Boatswain on The SS Borg, which was torpedoed by a German U Boat and went down 20 miles SW by S at Lizard Point in 1918. The wreck is considered a war grave. Personally, I would love to see pictures of his grave site.
@@1961-v9k I kinda think we are starting an argument that doesn't deserve to be. Mangled English, sorry. Lazy. First, thanks for your family's sacrifice. I looked at the area you mentioned on an old style map. Scary, horrible way to die. We love the Titanic, yeah? Of course we do. That one fact puts you in the top 1% of my fav peeps.
@@calumbutter8959 oh no I was just thinking you are more respectful than me by wanting to let things like this lie. Me, I’m too nosey, but to be honest I would probs get too upset if I did one day see the wreck so best leave well alone. Incidentally, there is a memorial at Tower Hill (of which my grand father’s name is on) listing the names of hundreds of merchant seamen who went down with their ships. Thank you for the kind words.
@@1961-v9k let me be 100% crystal friggin clear. We should pull up every single thing that sank there. Before it's gone. Theres a boy, a hundred years from now, that's going to be taken by the story of RMS T. Whobthebheckbam I to deny him /her/they artifacts from the event? Obviously rhetorical question so don't answer. I remember the day the news broke about finding the Titanic. I was about 16yo and well on my way to supergeek status. I was so disappointed that I have not the words to express my feelings. Online thesaurus be damned. At that time we didn't know what really happened at that depth. My dumb young brain thought it would all be perfectly preserved because there is no light or oxygen at that depth. What I got was a rotten corpse. I know it's RMS but I'll never let myself get over that initial reflex. A defo right of passage of sorts.
Beautiful yet very haunting. It's hard to figure out what's what in the new ones. Poor old girl. Titanic was a really beautiful ship. Loved your video. I'm a big Titanic nerd. Hi from Toronto Canada 🇨🇦.
Yeah I wish I could do a better job identifying exactly what I'm looking at when I see wreck photos or video, sometimes its easy othertimes... not so much.
A lot (most) of the unlabeled images are from the stern section, which is massively destroyed and basically unrecognizable as a portion of a ship. I identified one as the one remaining cargo crane on the stern, and the one with the 3 "boxes" as right on the very aft end
Eerie yet beautiful. Titanic is what made me interested in ships to begin with. While I doubt it will be gone in 8 just years, us prodding around in there isn't helping to slow its deterioration down. My guess is more like 2050 unless we chill out and stop disturbing the resting ship.
Think we have acquired enough information now, to leave this alone as a grave site. Maybe a sanctioned dive to check the state of the wreck, but time to leave alone now, and allow the victims to rest in peace.
They need to bring up more pieces of the Titanic before it's all gone. Some will protest that it's a grave and should be left untouched. I say it's part of history and must be preserved.
people say it shouldn't be disturbed but there's little better way to understand history than to see it with your own eyes. some things really should be recovered before they're destroyed. from these photos the plates, the ship telegraph, the propeller, the bench end, and the bathtub would be better off in belfast or the smithsonian than rotting away. unfortunately the tub is likely broken now or at least buried. i don't know how the propellers could be salvaged at that depth but seeing one would give a more real sense of the scale and grandeur of the Titanic. real artifacts that connect the viewer with a real person who once lived have a power to them. if we want to remember the disaster and how important it is to the histories of sail, immigration, safety, colonialism, economics, etc then our museums must be visceral. it's important to feel history as much as to know it.
I agree, some more pieces should be salvaged and put into museum's with honor and care. Why let it all rot? A propeller, the plates, maybe a porthole, I agree
@@108chaitea imagine going to the titanic museum and seeing before you the real bow of the world's most famous ship, with "TITANIC" still visible. imagine reconstructing from the hull fragments the great gash from the iceberg as a dividing wall, seeing through the hole a reconstruction of one of the grand rooms like the first class restaurants. absolutely you should go to the titanic museum in belfast, it's great, but bringing the ship home would make it so much better. Titanic captivates you and doesn't let you go. it touches you and you will never forget it. it's not right to leave it there to be forgotten and buried. everyone who died there in the freezing atlantic on the 15th of april, 1912 deserves to be remembered.
It’s hard to say what picture was the best….they all just make you stop and think of all the things that happened that night. It is eerie to think how pitch black the waters are down there. The music was a good choice for the video. I will say, the bathtub kind of brought a more personal touch to what is down there. It is amazing how the dishes and the tub looks so white as if they were just put there. Thank you for sharing.
Three years ago I visited Ireland and Queenstown its the closest I'm ever going to be to the titanic. Thanks for sharing these pictures I don't have any specific favorites I just really like to see the ship now a 110 years later.
I'd love to see a modern day titanic built to the same specs and outfitted with the exact same furniture and things on it , I'd love to sail from Liverpool to N.Y. on it but not with the same outcome!
Unfortunately I would say that it's impossible for a 100% original Titanic to be made, Due to the new safety standards and whatnot, The closest is/was the Titanic II project which would look MOSTLY like Titanic but not 100% the same unfortunately.
Back in early 2000 I was serving in the US NAVY as an Administration Officer(LT./O-3) and we made a port visit to Halifax NS Canada. I bought a submarine ticket to view Titanic at 2:37am on the 100yr Anniversary. You talk about eerie/spooky(down to your core). It’s a site I’ll never forget. Plus I toured the 3 cemeteries of where some passengers were laid to rest. I took pictures of the tombstones close enough that you can read them off the picture
One other reason why the titanic is rapidly corroding and deteriorating is because each time they go down there they are stirring it up and just aggravates the rusting and the bacterior eating it and when its prodded and poked all the time and nudged and budged of course its going to accelerate the deterioration process, especially when the subs land on the deck. Any shipwreck will be fine for many decafes or even centuries dependind on whete it sank and the type of water, currents etc bit when you go down to it and start interfering with the wreck then ots going to start rapidly deteriorating.
There are only a few places in the oceans where wrecks endure well and none in the north Atlantic are better than this. It's a hostile environment but yeah, man-made disturbances speed up the decay.
This is amazing footage. It's so hard to look at the images of the ship. When you know the story ,there were so many ships in the area , that could have saved a lot of lives. Cannot imagine what it must have been like to have been on that ship. 110 years later. 🕊️
Well, the only ship that was close enough to actually be able to help was the Californian. They had stopped for the night due to the icebergs and when they were told to shut up by Phillips they switched the radio off and went to bed. They never heard the distress calls from the Titanic.
@@destructionnl8165 There was more than one ship in the area you need to read the facts. And flares were seen by that ship you're speaking of and they ignored them.
@@melaniebrantner6844 I'm definately not saying Californian was the ONLY ship that was close. It was one of the closest. I know the facts. Titanic sank because: - The lookouts didn't have binoculars - They wanted to make the voyage fastest - Iceberg warnings were ignored More people could've been saved if 1) the Titanic had more lifeboats and 2) the crew did their job properly, instead of the woman and children ONLY thing they did. If i'd heard a ship closeby decided to stop for the night, i'd have thought that might be a pretty good advice in those circumstances. Problem is of course Smith only heard what the marconi operators tell him, and they didn't tell him everything.
@@destructionnl8165 Actually, Here's a Fun fact: The Course that the Titanic took, would have actually _Been_ the clearest... But on that fateful night, The Moon was the closest to the Earth than it had been for nearly a thousand years... Meaning that it pulled an Iceberg right into the path of the Titanic. It's why the Crew were so shocked and unable to react. The Warnings indicated that the Path was Clear... So there should _not_ have been icebergs... But since the moon was so close, the Tides became unpredictable. It was less "Human Error" or "Human Pride", than it was due to the stars aligning.
@@Victor-056 Human error was certainly a part of the story. Sight was bad (in regards to finding icebergs), with all the warnings Titanic received they should've been more carefull. Sailing at 22 knots isn't exactly what i call carefull. Californian deciding to stop for the night, that was probably the best idea. But no, they wanted to show the Titanic was the fastest around, sadly.
This is a well-presented video so I am not taking issue with the poster, but I fail to understand how it took the Titanic 110 years to get to its present state but will be "gone" in just eight more. Could someone explain?
I am not a marine biologist, I am an engineer, so this might not be the most relevant comparison but here goes. Think of a bridge, building, or any structure. It can be fine for years, and then the next moment it collapses, even though there is no new force acting on it... No wind, no explosion, no accident, it just fails abruptly. Bridges, buildings, and other structures get inspected routinely for these reasons, so they can see damage and repair it before failure happens. Degradation is not a linear thing. A crack or flaw can exist in an object and be totally seemingly harmless, and grow for several years detected or undetected, at a very very slow pace. Once it reaches the "critical flaw" or "critical crack" size, it propagates (moves) at the speed of sound, which is extremely fast, and the building/structure/Titanic collapses in a matter of seconds. These difficult to detect cracks or flaws in a structure are very often the cause for even modern engineering disasters, and they are very poorly understood, and at times very difficult to predict or prevent. I believe the term "gone" when used by experts and amateurs alike is extremely ambiguous, and has multiple meanings. If a large part of the bow of Titanic pancakes abruptly on top of itself, does that mean Titanic is gone? Well, I'm not sure. Hope that helps.
@@nobshistoryengineering4421 Many thanks. Yes, this does help explain. Essentially, as I understand you, the degradation reaches a point of criticality and then the entire house of cards implodes. I think I misunderstood the term "gone". Rather than structural collapse I took it to mean something more akin to the materials of the Titanic being entirely dissolved by the sea.
Yes, I’ll explain. It won’t. It will continue to deteriorate, even collapsing exponentially, but it won’t be “gone”. People that say that are drama queens.
I've doubts that the wreck will be completely gone by 2030... that's only 8 years away. One thing I find interesting is that many recoverable pieces are left behind whilst others that should be left alone have been brought back. For instance, personal items. The telegraph for inner ship coms is one of those that could be a great museum piece.
@@brodriguez11000 and the ocean floor will claim the remains of the titanic facts. In the 2000's the documentaries and scientist spoke of that fact. Going as far as saying it will probably get buried under the ocean floor before it rusts away. So what exactly is the point you are trying to make. It's over two miles under the ocean no way right now to do an archeological dig at that depth.
The sad thing is so many people lost their lives due to corporate greed, arrogance and ignorance. Travel is safer now because of this tragedy. God bless everyone who travels for business and or luxury.
I like the picture of the plates it’s interesting to say they are untouched. I’m surprised that they are still quite a number left. I must admit that if I was going down I would want one not as a souvenir book more of a reminder of what went wrong in the hope that it will never go so tragically wrong again
I had an interesting dream a while ago. It was about how people were able to send giant lights down to the bottom of the ocean to Titanic and take clear as day pics of the wreck. And a photo was from above the ship before it got to the ground and you could see it as if it was daylight. No clue why id dream of something like that but it was interesting. Maybe it can really be done? doubt it but it would be stunning nonetheless
If this is disappearing then imagine how many other ships have. Also though it may be very controversial and unethical, I think we should bring up whatever we can of the titanic cuz honestly it's history and we need to preserve it
So lucky we found the Titanic when we did and had people with the passion and capability to go and explore her over the decades....She is slowly losing her shape and in another 50-100 years she will slowly fall apart and be covered by the sea floor. Feel privlidged to be able to see all the wonderful images of the wreck over the years and to go and see artifacts from the ship. Future generations will appreciate all the hard work to record the site and to save some of the pricless artifacts from the most famous Marine disaster in history.
I agree with everyone that some of these items should be recovered and put into a museum. However, I totally understand their reasoning for not. 1) The expense would be tremendous and 2) And most importantly- The Titanic in a sense is a cemetery. After the Titanic sank, searchers recovered 340 bodies. Thus, of the roughly 1,500 people killed in the disaster, about 1,160 bodies remain lost. Although their remains are most likely completely decomposed now with nothing left, it is still their final resting place. So they do not want to destroy or disturb that resting place. Great video.
That the dishes are still intact is unbelievable after this catastrophic accident. The lives lost is the sad thing we forget about all this it's a grave side.
Incredible footage. Note: Just seen a show on the unknown child buried in Halifax. After 86 years of searching through DNA and other things. Check it out.
Don't know how possible it would be, but I wish they could drop a bunch of lights down there and get a photo of the whole wreck from a distance. Water looks really murky though, probably wouldn't see much even with lights.
Great video, if I may ask a stupid question, how deep is the old lady and what kind of pressure is exerted on her? Apologies if it’s a dumb question 🤦♂️
From memory, I think she's 2.5-3 miles down approx (not sure what it is in feet or meters). Not sure of the pressure but if you were to go to that depth (hypothetically speaking), the pressure would instantaneously crush you out of existence. There's a whole load of videos which cover the Titanic (and other vessels) on the Historic Travels channel, which I highly recommend if you want to know more.
The depth is in the description of this video, 12600 feet which is 3840 m. The pressure is approximately 5500 psi, which is 380 bar. If you want to know more about this I have a brief video on this here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Fsq1JiZcp-g.html
@@lauraway706 Thank you for your reply, very much appreciated. I will certainly have a look at your recommendations on videos to watch. I’m just fascinated how the Titanic could last so long with all the elements of the Sea against her (a testament to early 1900’s engineering?) Once again, thank you.
As time marches forward the Earth will reclaim RMS Titanic and return her to which she came. God's speed to all who went down with the ship, rest in peace.
8:27 "Unrecognizeable wreckage" is the innards of a steam turbine, the compressor blades are easily visible. The thin outer casing has dissolved away, revealing the compressor blade assembly.
I have read this on many websites, and it does look similar to what you describe but, I don't believe it is associated with any turbine. I have asked one Titanic expert what he believes it is and he doesn't know what it is, but agreed it was not a turbine. I have gone back and forth looking at this picture for quite some time. I would rather label it as nothing than incorrectly label it as something, hopefully that makes sense. Maybe it is what you describe though, and if it is, I will happily eat my words. Also, since you're a scooby1961 subscriber, you're one of my best friends.
I’m so glad they did not touch the dishes nor the wine or anything else. Let those lie there. That is a graveyard and should be shown with respect. I would love to have a piece of history, but then again it wouldn’t feel right. Thank you for taking these pictures. It is quite sad to see the waters kind of ‘claim’ the ship and slowly eroding it away…
To think that so much work, effort and materials were put into the creation of this marvelous ship just for it to sink in 2 hours on its first voyage. Such a pity and such waste. Trying to imagine myself as one of the passengers, enthusiastic to travel with the biggest most luxurious ship in the world, not expecting to actually travel to my death. The thought is horrifying!
The original discoverer of the wreck, Ballard, showed the fully present Crow's Nest when he first saw the wreck back in the 80s and filmed it. That Crow's Nest has since disappeared so it was likely removed by a subsequent adventurer. Theft. It exists somewhere because somebody stole it!
