What if the Titanic sank backwards? 

I just thought the same thing.

Not how buoyancy works. The engines were dead weight. Along with the whole stern above the waterline. The stern and all it's contents and mass were not buoyant... They we're only pushing the bow into the water. Only the hull below the waterline creates buoyancy. Remember that. Only the part of the ship below the surface was creating positive buoyancy... The bow section was holding up the stern... Not the reverse. The stern was dead weight. Displacing no water, giving no buoyancy. It was not full of helium and creating magic lift. He has a misunderstanding of buoyancy and physics. The idea that the engines were the center of mass is not correct. The ship was designed to float on an even keel. All the coal, the boilers, the ballast, the engines, etc. were all along the keel... Balancing the ship. The engines were not "the heaviest point of the ship"... They were only the heaviest of they were removed... That's not how this works. The ship was very balanced, with the mass distributed evenly along its keel.. He takes his intuition.and based his ideas on those intuitions. Bad science.

But wouldn't the weight of the water in her bow have fgar outweighed the weight of her engines? And can you imagine the panic with no lights? Few if any people would have survived.

@@harrietharlow9929 of course all that water weighed more.. But the water in the Hull is the same density as the water outside the hull... Water doesn't sink in water... Water inside a boat doesn't pull the ship down.. Only the weight of the ship itself is heavier than the water. It's a lack of buoyancy that causes the sinking. The air leaves the ship.. Replaced by neutrally buoyant water.. Then the steel sinks... People need to stop thinking of the water as added weight.. That's not how buoyancy works.. The incoming water reduces the buoyancy, by pushing out the air..

@@ryans9029 sounds like WITCHCRAFT to me!!!! Get a torch!!!!

even if it had enough boats crew didnt have enough time to launch them all

Wrong. The crew was definitely trained and they wouldn’t even have had enough time to launch extra boats. Collapsibles A and B literally floated off the boat deck as it’s submerged. The only problem that night was, was that the ship was mortally wounded (and maybe the uncooperative passengers), but really nothing else.

There is a great documentary on RU-vid called Zero Hour Estonia. Watch it, it's great

Oof, that one was sad.

There was a new documentary made about Estonia, it's really detailed and more up to date than zero hour. It's on Discovery+.

I really hope he does that one soon.

In a similar vein, the Sewol Ferry catastrophe

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@@nepheshaish8160 Given they were completely stopped and the first distress call was 45 mins after impact...they probably arrive in time at the earliest to watch the stern rise and get everything prepared at 2:20 AM. This might save 100-200 lives extra...but still well under half. More realistically, if forced to take a similar route they actually did to dodge the bergs...they probably just replace the Carpathia and save the 709...maybe they split the difference. No changes...except Lord gets better press and dies a less depressed and harassed man.

@@Warriorcats64 I think your assessment would be pretty darn close to what I would predict. I mean a steam powered ship doesn't just get up and go when asked to. From idle to full steam, at best I would assume 30-60 minutes depending. So Californian hears the call and the wireless operator wakes captain Lord. Lord sends the order to wake the stokers and get the ship up to full steam, this is where 30-60 minutes takes for them to get under way. Meanwhile, under stand they are surrounded with pack ice, soooooo at best he can move 1-2 knots to crawl out of the pack ice (remember this is a liner not an ice breaker). Then once free in the moonless night, he will spend about an hour going the 13 miles from them to Titanic. So time relapse here: 45 minutes has passed since the ship struck ice (12:30am) message received and 45 minutes to get enough power (1:15am) before they move. Then I would assume due to frantic messages, maybe at best 30-45 minutes to move to Titanic from their position. This leaves Californian arriving between 2:00 and 230am. This is the absolute WORST moment to arrive. At that point they couldn't simply lower a bridge to the stern for it would be suicide, but rather they would watch from a distance and wait. The crew would NOT lower lifeboats because it would be suicide for those in the boats. They would have to wait until the ship is gone and then pull up nearby and fully stop the engines and lower the ropes over the side. It would be utter pandemonium getting people out of the water before they die, and not ONE of those folks in the water would be of sound mind. They would be in the dangerous state of "fight or flight." These are people willing to KILL someone to grab a rope, these are people willing to drown someone to grab a rope, and these are people willing to harm others in order to get out of the water first. To say the least, they would and could help pull more people out of the water after the "swarm" calmed down. This means more people could come out of hypothermia due to being placed in a warmer environment. Or they would have more life boats to simply pull the dead out of the water. Carpathia could simply take on passengers, whereas Californian could take on the dead.

@@markjensen7091 This does seem reasonable. A best case scenario would likely be the Californian arriving right around the time of the final plunge or in the aftermath shortly afterwards. In the British and American government inquiries after the sinking they took into account that the Californian took almost 2 1/2 hours after first spotting the Carpathia and Mount Temple to navigate the ice field to reach where Carpathia was and decided that in all probability had the Californian heard the distress call it would have arrived just shortly before Carpathia did as acrazyutuber13 mentioned. The Californian was exonerated legally but crucified in public opinion.

@@Warriorcats64 Californian only had a top speed of 13 knots. If she pushed like carpathia, since she was only some 10 miles away, Might have been arriving at 1:44-2:05

Why don’t you have a seat for me

Don't have you have predators to catch, hansen?

Guy was nice enough to offer you pizza and you declined.

so it says here in the text...I want to blank you in the blank while blanking your blank...did you remember saying this to a 13 year old ?

I agree. The Daniel J. Morell is an insane story.

I'd like to know how often it happened too

Good idea!

From what I've found, there's been a lot of incidents of ships (of all types) hitting icebergs. Not all of them sank though. There's been a few that sank but did have any fatalities. It looks like after the ice patrol was formed there has been less incidents but it still happens sometimes. In fact, in 2007 a cruise ship called the MS Explorer hit an iceberg and sank with no fatalities. It would be an interesting topic though because I would love to know the statistics of iceberg incidents before and after the formation of the ice patrol.

@Titán IIRC around 5:30 AM.

@Titán IIRC when the Carpathia arrived at the site of the Titanic's sinking it was already dawn.

Or better yet, what would happen if they left the watertight doors open instead of closing them? More chaotic scenario.

@@CH-gr7tn titanic ewoud sink faster and the power would have gone out faster too

I think they did a scale model test years ago with the watertight doors open. The ship capsized after I think an hour or hour and a half had passed.

@@benjohnson8175 yes they did that in a special, Titanic: Secrets Revealed.

Probably the Titanic would sink like her younger sister the Britannic, but much slower because when the Britannic was sinking, the ship was still moving, and that make her sink faster.

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Thanks man! I try to approach this as scientific as possible. The story of the Titanic is interesting enough without throwing in a bunch of lies to get views. (Coal Fire) (Bright Side) etc

Yeah bright side sayed titanic didn't hit a ice berg

@@mariasmall536 yea lol

Video idea: if you could warn anyone involved I.e. (Andrews,Captain Smith) who would you warn and when?

@@HistoricTravelswhat you taliking about brightside is totally the truth you are the lie 👍 (I’m joking

@@eltiofresca4998Watertight bulkheads are vertically designed watertight divisions/walls within the ship's structure to avoid ingress of water in the compartment if the adjacent compartment is flooded due to damage in ship's hul

@@eltiofresca4998 What about the 7th one?

1. Smart but he is planning it 2. He has done it 3. Smart but there is a lot of videos on it 4. Cool 5. Again pretty good idea 6. That would be awesome to talk more about some officers 7. That could be cool 8. Awesome idea 9. Maybe... I would like it if he made more videos on other ships and not just the Titanic.

@@eltiofresca4998 What do you think about the bulkhead video?

and the extra two are Lusitania and Cunards owner lmao

Nah the Titan.

The other 3 are carpthia lusitania Mauritania

And so as aquitania

they added Mauretania, Lusitania, and Aquatania.

i like this idea

could explain the sinking

I think he already did a video on it

@@williamgauthier2153 no from the beginning of the voyage

@Casey Gabriel no from the beginning of the voyage

Don't forget that the fact that the Tablas Strait is shark infested too! As if things couldn't get any worse

Great question, I'm gonna copy and paste so hopefully he sees it!

Knowing what I know now? I would go find a family of non English speaking immigrants with lots of women and children. I would usher them up the lifeboat loading area (Murdoch’s side, as I am a man), pretend to be with them or working for them, and try to escape that way. Even if it didn’t work out for me, at least maybe I could save a family that didn’t know what to do.

He has actually answered this question a few times during his lives; he said he'd look for a sturdy and buoyant enough wood panel or similar and put together a makeshift raft

Hopefully i was a caepenter and i had my tools.. (I would make a kind of raft...)

I'm male and poor, so... I'd die.

You are correct of course the problem with all of these systems as they were all powered by Steam so really the people working in the boiler rooms were the true heroes of the disaster they kept those boilers lit as long as humanly possible to provide steam to Oliver systems including the backup Dynamo Electric System that was located in the stern of the ship there was a secondary backup Dynamo steam power turbine room higher up in the stern of the ship that you could divert Steam from one of the boiler rooms to in the event that there was flooding in the engine room or some other failure with the main Dynamo system and this backup system would provide emergency power to the ship and power to the wireless set and in fact as the boiler rooms were compromised with flooding and the engine room became compromised with flooding they were able to get that emergency Dynamo system online and provide Power in the very last moments of Titanic's life and also it is the reason why the lights stayed on even after the ship broke apart because after she broke apart the thinking is that there was still enough steam pressure in that pipe system to keep that Dynamo running for a few seconds after the ship had broken to thus keeping those lights on in the stern for just a second or two there are numerous eyewitness accounts that say that the lights stayed on the stern even after the ship broke into for a couple seconds

He mentioned it a while ago in a different video

Do you know what vid

@@stevetheweeb40 He already made that video. Just sort the videos from oldest to newest and you'll find it.

I know of it, and I also know that our government blamed the Captain and essentially ruined him, instead of taking responsibility for their own lack of actions, even the captain of the sub that sank her said there was nothing the Captain Mcvay could've done

Since I was a child I always tought of this...what about the iceberg? , seems stupid cuz its just Ice, but then again, always wondered

theres a few photos of a few suspected icebergs

Good idea, the Nomadic is the only surviving Whitestar ship (Well, there are others but they're all wrecks at the bottom of the sea).

@@nicholasmaude6906 Yeah I totally agree. It was made to look similar to her big Sisters that she tendered, Olympic and Titanic. Lots of similar design features and like you said, only surviving White star ship above the water!

I thought the very same thing but I listened to a recording of Charles Lightoller where he says the funnel falling down created a wave which pushed collapsible B away from Titanic. I would love to hear this anomaly explained because unless I’m mistaken in every report it’s stated the funnels fell to starboard.

historic travels*

No one actually knows. After the inquiries the recovered life boats disappear from recorded history. Many of their unique identifiers were removed quickly by collectors, already anticipating a hot market and/or workmen. Without those they were most likely quietly pressed back into service on other ships, possibly even the Olympic since lifeboats weren't exactly cheap and demand for them had just skyrocketed. The few that weren't recovered probably drifted until they rotted apart.

@@nathanbond8165 no, I never said they ran off the main engines. They had their own Reciprocating engines, you can actually find pictures of Olympic's Generators online.

@@nathanbond8165 static.wikia.nocookie.net/titanic/images/9/95/Electrical-machinery-diagram-titanic-science-source.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20191108012616 here is a link to a snippet from Titanic's plans, showing the 4 reciprocating engines that drove the generators. She had emergency Dynamos on D deck, which is a steam turbine driven generator, but those only kicked in in the event that all four Reciprocating generators failed.

@@sburbStuck well sir I stand corrected I misunderstood your post sorry but it seems to me that it would have been more energy efficient to run the Electric dynamos off of steam turbines instead of reciprocating engines but that does make a lot more sense that you would have an independent reciprocating engine to run the dynamos because the main reciprocating engine direct drive to the propellers other words if the engines were working the propellers were spinning

@@nathanbond8165 yeah, but to be fair, steam turbine technology was very new at the time and very expensive. It made sense to use one for a ship's main propulsion, but not as much for 4 steam powered generators. Reciprocating engines needed less steam to operate, less maintenance and we're proven reliable, so it made more sense at the time.

@@sburbStuck very interesting I understand what you're saying about new and expensive technology but more reliable steam turbine or any kind of turbine engine is extremely reliable with the exception of that 767 jet engine this week that came apart in there but even that is an extremely rare event to have one of those jet engine destruct themself in flight and I have a sneaking suspicion the reason that engine came apart is because Airlines to save money because of the whole pandemic nonsense have really reduce the maintenance programs of their aircraft in order to save money and try and save their industry therefore I would be very worried about flying on a jet for the next year or so after the pandemic because of what kind of condition these planes are in after they've been sitting on tarmac for months and months and months on end with no maintenance

It was

Answer: No.

Wrong.

@@nic9954 he is right search it up

@@trufflesandfriendsmegapizz4889 The "They didnt understand" part is wrong. The rest is correct.

@@nic9954 ohh sorry 😐

Yes 😮

What if my aunt had balls? She would have been my uncle.

@@biga87718 not funny

@@kimmici5676 actually it was.

Pizza with ranch is noice

wed probably never have heard of titanic beyond being a sister ship to britanic

I'd say 1. The ship was worth more as scrap then a museum/hotel.

@@paulboger7377 I think I have to disagree with that because the Titanic is a ship that we all care about because we have the movies do fact the hole reason why the Titanic is historic ship because it is unsinkable for example the queen Mary in Long Beach was the biggest ship in world during her times as a ocean liner but she is not unsinkable like the Titanic is

@@drewadventurehistory, I was thinking on how much it would cost to maintain her as such.

@@paulboger7377 well how did it cost to build the Titanic