Why are the Two Halves of Titanic so far apart?!
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- čas přidán 23. 01. 2024
- In this video we analyze the wreck of the RMS Titanic and try to answer the question of why the Titanic's bow and stern sections ended up so far apart on the wreck site today.
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A 400 ft, 20,000 t chunk of ship spiraling down to the seafloor only makes the ocean that much more terrifying.
True
Especially the abyss where the Titanic is laying right now !! 2 1/2 miles deep ( 12,500 feet ).
I've learned basically everything there is about Titanic from this channel but it's always a fun time watching more videos about it
If you want another channel about ships, OceanLiner Designs (I think they are friend) makes great content too!
@@whillard2447i know it, i'm mostly here for Titanic exclusively but i always enjoy when Sam discusses other stuff too. Thanks for the recommendation
It's going to be tough keeping a channel like this going you pretty much have to rehit topics add split any and every aspect that you can possibly think of into its own topic.
Even then you're looking at a shelf life
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Im going to titanic museum in Belfast for my 30th birthday in March. Never been so excited and nervous. Not sure what to expect or feel!
That's super awesome! I hope it's a wonderful experience for you!
You'll really love it Kelly. It's quite powerful. I went in 2018. And I wanted to take a picture of the dry dock Titanic was fitted out in. The drydock must have had some construction going on and i wasnt sure if I could go to take a picture of it. But the forman was really nice, put his arm round me and started telling me about all the history of the drydock. Friendly people the northern irish
Where is that at ?
@@TweetieAshton Belfast, Northern Ireland at the Harland and Wolff shipyard
@@spyrosbreath95 thats really cool, what else is there ?
What's more facinating about the Titanic's wreck, is just how near perfectly the halves are aligned, despite being so far apart. It's a miracle the stern isn't facing a different direction altogether. Also, it's amazing how both halves are sitting nearly as straigbt up as they were when they were connected on the surface.
Did you not watch the video? One of the first things he says is that the stern is facing a different direction. He says that before the intro even starts.
@@timothygodwin7575 Their point was more about the two halves being aligned. The stern wasn't sitting at a 90 or 270 degree turn from the direction the bow was facing, it was pretty much a 180 so they are still aligned together despite what the stern went through.
@@fnaffoxy1987 then it’s still a stupid point because the only miracle would be if they landed in the correct direction, the stern landing in a completely different direction isn’t a miracle, it’s just simply what happened.
The actual fascinating thing about the Titanic disaster is that over 100 years later people are still talking about it.
The hull shape would tend to keep both sections relatively upright because the keel would have a lot less water resistance than the superstructure. Kind of like a badminton shuttlecock. Then it is just a matter of luck as to which direction the spinning stern section reaches the bottom at. The direction is just happenstance, but being straight up is due to the shape of the ship.
Can you imagine how frightening this must have been? Crazy.
Great video! I always liked how James Cameron describes the stern becoming such a mess; if you stuck your hand out of a moving car with a stack of papers in your hand against the wind, the papers flay out and go wild and that’s basically the same thing that happened here.
There is actually a video "Titanic: Answers from the Abyss" with a segment covering the dynamics of the bow section's descent to the bottom using a large-scale model that was dropped into a deep water test tank.
Anyone wanting to watch the planning effect of the bow on its way to the bottom in action for real, not a CGI animation, this is it, it's amazing to see how stable the bow is, even in later drop tests where the team added large pieces of twisted metal jutting out near the break up point to see if that would alter the motion in any way.
That is a fantastic video that covers a lot of subjects, but the part you refer to is towards the end of the two-hour documentary, but it is very much worth it since you see that the bow glides, then stalls out, glide-stalling all the way to the bottom and nearly every time hits bow first on impact.
From it the researchers estimated the bow fell at approximately 22 knots, which was well within the hull's ability to withstand and explains while so much of the railings and equipment was intact until it hit bottom.
I saw that documentary, and they really did do an amazing job with the actual, physical scale model of the bow.
The model in question is large in size, about 4 feet in length or about 1/110th scale. And while not very detailed, it does have most of the major shapes and structures.
The interesting thing is that they were hoping the model drop tests would validate a theory that the bow corkscrewed its way tot he bottom, and they're completely taken by surprise when it does the glide-stall and despite that piece of jagged metal, there's no disrupting it at all, the metal not even acting like a rudder to push the prow in another direction.
Unfortunately, they never carried out a similar test for the stern. But I imagine that was just too difficult since the internal implosions and chunks of hull breaking off would be too many events and require a lot of mechanical work to pull off accurately.
Pls I want to see the video....
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@@OSAROERO-hn5py Type the title into the search engine. The drop test is near the end of the documentary.
What a well spoken young adult. No kinda like, no it was like, I was like, literally like, no dude, bro, brah, etc. just eloquent sentences! Very good!
A rehearsed video should be.😂
Stern had a very violent fall to the ocean floor. Everything about Titanic fascinates me. She was a beauty. Thanks for the refresher Sam. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Yes Titanic was a beautiful ship. My heart goes to 1,500 souls perished that sank with the Titanic .
Well done!!! Thank you for making video for us even when you’re not in the comfort of your studio in WV!!! We appreciate you, Sam! You did great on your first vid in AZ. You rock!
It's about how the 2 parts of the ship fell to the ocean floor. While the bow flowed gently decent to the ocean floor, the stern's decent was chaotic due to it suffering from an implosion & spinning like a helicopter blade on the way down. Thus it's why the bow still looks like the bow while the stern looks like a large mess.
thank you for repeating the video in a comment
Only thing is that the video is wrong in that point. The stern didn't implode because it just couldn't, simple laws of physics. The stern was not sealed and thus not a submarine. Air left inside was either pushed out violently or getting compressed, there is no other option. In both ways there is hardly any pressure differential building up and thus no implosion is able to occur.
Hydrodynamics at play .
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This is definitely one of my favorite Historic Travels video
Glad to hear it!
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This is an excellent explanation for not only why the bow and stern are as far apart as they are, but why the bow section (at the time the wreck was found in the 1980s) was still mostly intact and recognizable from old pictures of the ship before the sinking, while the stern was a torn-up, mangled mess. I first heard of the story of the Titanic by reading two mid-1980s issues of National Geographic Magazine that featured the Titanic right after the wreck was found. While the articles had some assumptions that were later found to be inaccurate (such as a supposed "300 foot gash" torn in the Titanic's hull by the iceberg, later found to be a long series of much smaller breaches), their explanation for the positions and condition of the bow and stern were remarkably similar to this one, though far shorter and less detailed. There was even a diagram showing the bow "landing" and the stern "crashing".
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Don't forget that Godzilla was also a big part of why the two halves were so far part.
Captain Smith was eaten by king Kong
Lol
People don’t give this fact enough credit.
Sure
That's ridiculous. Everyone knows it was the Kraken.
And now it makes total sense to me why the stern is in so much worse condition than the bow down there. Thanks for another great video
Your videos are always so cool! Keep up the great work! Best wishes!
Awesome video Sam this material is what got me hooked on your channel a few years back thank you
This is a great detailing what happened during the sinking of Titanic. Thank you and subscribed😊
This is very interesting. Thanks for talking about it.
I love watching your videos. They are both interesting and clear to understand.
Great video Sam; very detailed information and learnt a lot 😊
So the bow fell like a paper airplane gliding on wards just a little as the lift starts to fail. The stern fell like an odd shaped rock being buffeted by the dense water and spinning. That makes complete sense, thanks! That also explains the state of many other shipwrecks that broke into 2 pieces.
Also, the stern was suffering massive damage when sections with air still trapped inside them imploded due to water pressure, and it's likely several major pieces broke off from the stern during the descent, such as the two keel pieces and "Titanic tower".
Crazy how that high lip that the Stern had is completely flattned like a tin can either due to implosion or impact
Great animation and commentary. Thank you.
You are such an excellent illustrator and I think you make an incredible teacher! I’m also glad that you “teach” on the internet with your channel where you’re free to express your knowledge instead of at a school or university where you’d be restricted by political agendas and nefarious entities. Great job, as usual!!
Always an excellent video and presentation.
I am officially Like #999! You do amazing work on your videos. I enjoy each one of them. Keep it going, Sam! :)
YOOO Sam, I was looking up something on Murdoch and one of the suggested was "Did Murdoch kill himself" I click on it for a bit of a laugh the first "People also ask" question was "Did Captain Murdoch kill himself" I laughed for hours.
I can't believe those two parts of the ship are so far away from each other!
Another great video. Thanks.
Another great video! Bravo.
You never disappoint!!!
Very clear explanation. Great information.
Pretty much how I understood it to happen also. Appreciate your time in teaching us.
Awesome. Short and sweet!
Great presentation video. 👏
Expert narration. Thank you.
easy amswer, the back of the titanic didnt have time to get fully filled with water before it sunk, so when it fell it still had air in it and was trying to get all the air out and water in, that caused it to spin and bits to fly off.... you can try this with a cup and a bucket of water, very slowely lower a cup into a bucket of water untill its fully under, now just slam the cup under the water, youll see its not 100% full right away and there will be lots of air bubbles
Ok
You explained this so well! Thank you for answering this question. Well done 😊
Thank you for sharing, love theese titanic videos 😍
As always….an excellent video!
I give you props though guy I get more info out of your Titanic stuff than I do any of the other I've seen
The snarky me wants to say something about BrightSide but instead just want to say - Sam I love your videos! Keep up the good work!
Thanks for sharing!
There's actually visual evidence of the stern's spiral in the form of swirl tracks carved into the sea floor leading up to the wreck itself. It finished it's final spiral after it hit the bottom.
Awesome video Sam hope you're well my Awesome friend . really injoy all you're videos buddy .
The visual of this in the middle of the night, that cold and so far down is terrifying. Add the implosion sound and the screams. My god😮.
Also the 400 foot silouette against the night sky, blocking out the stars as the power goes out!
Love this content
Bright side has done it again!
Ugh !!!
This man posts bangers after 112 years were still getting more theories!!!
When I saw the recent hi res pics of the 2 sections, the bow was spooky, but the stern section gave me chills. There is just something about how it’s split apart that’s just freaky.
I think the best way to describe it is that the Stern was tumbling down through the ocean.
Love your videos brother
It shows how violent the implosion was- a survivor reported seeing the pole from outside the Barbers’ Shop floating amongst wood from the sinking, the next morning, The Barbers was next to the Aft Crand Staircase, on ‘A’. deck, between the 3rd and 4th funnels (the breakup zone) The whole of this staircase was destroyed in the implosion.
Great video!
Shame the stern is in such bad shape can you imagine all the priceless decor and art down there
Even if we somehow were able to explore the sterns interiors I doubt there’s much
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Enjoyed this Samand learned a lot. My hubby herd you and came to watch also
Sam I just started watching your videos, and I love them. They are so informative and tell the stories I haven’t heard before. I know this is off topic, but what kind of flowers did they have? I’m sure they had vases full of beautiful flowers and grand center pieces. Who put them together. I just thought it was interesting to know if there was a florist of some sort on board.
Amazing video.
Finally i found the Channel again!
Thinking about how heavy the props were too.
Sam I LOVE your videos. I learn soo much (visual learner).. My favorite subjects of history are the RMS Titanic and Anne Frank (she is a hero for that diary) I was wondering if you could go into the details bout the items, like the small replica of statue of Aphrodite, for example.
Great video
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Intresting to hear that
Another great analogy you can use is if you’d drop a badminton birdie from a helicopter at 12,500 feet, then a minute later drop the racket in the same spot. You have one object designed to slice smoothly through the air (representing the bow section) and another irregular object that would certainly tumble wildly in freefall (representing the stern section). I’d also guarantee that the racket would have drifted much farther than the birdie due to the chaotic path it took to the ground. Much the same if you dropped a piece of paper off a bridge.
I think the stern section of Titanic's wreck is extremely underrepresented in popular media. For example: James Cameron's Titanic doesn't show any footage of the stern at all, whereas the bow section is shown a lot
Cameron actually filmed the wreck. The bow section is far more striking, visually. It's the first image that materializes out of the darkness. The stern is a very dangerous, tangled mess, and almost unrecognizable.
In Cameron's film, Dawson anoints himself "King of the World" from the bow, and later, he teaches Rose how to "fly from there." They wind up exploring the ship together from stem to stern.
Trying to depict (and explain for the audience) the sad, smashed remains of the stern section, in the already 3+ hour runtime, would have been impossible.
Great vids! Any updates on Titan sub? Why has news stream disappeared.
I was on a family trip and at a Titanic exhibit at the museum in Melbourne I actually got to touch a piece of the hull that'd been salvaged so in other words I actually got to touch a piece of the Titanic
Most awesome vid!!!!!
Watching the sinking animations of the sections falling under the water makes my stomach churn, the stern section bit especially makes me nauseous watching it.
I'm surprised they weren't further apart.
The Implosion was also caused by trapped air pockets inside the stern , which blew out the starboard shell plating, the fantail and boat deck were ripped off, then the final insult, was a massive down blast of water, which had been displaced by this section. which weighed around 16000 tonnes….
There was no implosion because an implosion just couldn't occur from a physical point of view. In addition the fantail is still there and more or less the most recognizeable part of the whole stern. In case of a theoretic implosion the shell plating would have been pushed inwards and not outwards or blown away.
Nice job.
Sam can you do a video on the SS princess Alice aka the titanic on the river Thames hundreds of people died and drowned in raw sewage
I feel that animation James Cameron used in his 2012 documentary showing how the separate pieces fell in the water column are a good visual representation on how it likely happened
The back of your wall is intriguing
I have this insane fascination that there had to be at least 1 person on either section of the Titanic still alive in an air pocket, making it close or to the bottom
So I don’t know if this was ever discussed, but what happened to the funnels and why weren’t any of them ever found? Love your channel my friend.
The funnels don't exist anymore because they were made of thin steel and they struck the ocean floor and crumbled then the bacteria that eats rust consumed the funnels rather quickly in the first several years after the sinking.
@@josephbennett3482 ok Joe makes sense. Thnx
Good video, hinged on plausible thereoy
Titanic month is next week. April 10 - 15 2024 Is the 112th year anniversary of the Titanic maiden voyage and sinking
Its april 10th today..
Well, the way the water shifted the stern, as well as the drifting in the ocean currents all means the reck was most likely gonna end up being pretty well seperated from either half.
Can you do a more in detail/newer version of the S.S Edmund Fitzgerald! Love to see a new video and a new video of the S.S Edmund Fitzgerald.
Or a more simple way. As the bow sank deeper it started pitching up and landed somewhat softly. The spinning off the stern cause it to move away from the Titanic bow and smack into the ocean floor
I'm surprised that they are close together as they are. I never really thought that they were "far apart".
Sam, how long did it take for the bow and stern to impact the bottom?
I remeber watching you in 2021 back when I was 12, now I'm 15... man time files😔
Very interesting
One of the photos shows the stern with more pieces of debris around it, as opposed to the bow. It would indicate that there was a violent implosion in the stern.
“If you were to dive the wreck of the Titanic-“ please, let’s not do THAT again.
The term you are Looking for to describe how the front half (I'm not using the term 'bow' as the vessel has at this point been severed in two, thus is no longer a ship with a bow and stern) of the vessel glided through the water is aquaplaning.
six lengths down for one length across, apparently, she reached 25-26 knots as the bow sank and took only five minutes to hit the floor, the "gap" she left behind as she sank through the water, caused a HUGE rush of water to go through the bow and it all congregated at the forward most hatch, which sheared off every bolt instantly and, i believe, landed it 60 feet infront of the ship
as for the stern, i'm under the impression that when it sank, she not only spiralled, but i recon she imploddd and then exploded, causing it to be flipped upside down over and over again, and when she hit the floor almost upright, the water slammed into her broadside and ripped it to pieces
At what point did the Cold water hit the hot boilers that they worked to keep the lights on? Also is there any possibility his could have caused an explosion? Love your videos. Thank you!
There isn't a possibility of an explosion because they vented off the remaining steam during the sinking. It was so loud they couldn't hear one another.
I already learned about the ship for a couple years and its a scary day of the accident
I would love to see an video about what if the door on the side of the Titanic was never opened during the sinking since it caused an bigger effect than the iceberg damage and made the ship go into an list
I haven’t watched the rest of the video, but I’m going to assume that because the bow of the ship wasn’t pointed directly at the sea bed like the stern was, it had forward momentum in the water column as it was descending. Whereas the actual break up of the ship probably happened a lot closer to where the stern ended up on the sea bed.