In this video we talk about what happened to the people on the Titanic after she sank and all 1500 people still on the ship went into the cold Atlantic Ocean.
One of the survivors ended up living in Detroit by the baseball stadium and he said every time he heard the crowd cheer at baseball games, he said it took him back to the sinking and the people in the water screaming. 🥺
Let's not ever forget about the brave men that sacrificed themselves in the boiler rooms, in the cabin hallways, on the deck. Doing their duty even when freezing seawater lapped around their knees. Rest in Peace, lads.
Some did survive... As they needed strong people to row the boats... Many if the people on the boats have never done physical work plus they where able to testify what happened as staff and reported the fire in one of the coal bunkers so there was a chance that Titanic may have ran out of coal before it could reach the US
The thing about the darkness is terrifying to me. If you’ve never been aboard a ship at sea at night you can’t even comprehend how dark it is out there. It’s intimidating to see it from the deck of a ship. I can’t imagine being in the ocean at night.
I think about this too. I’ve seen the sea at night it’s very haunting how dark it is. I know in the movies they gave it some mild illumination once Titanic slips under but in real life they probably could not see who was right next to them.
No thank you to the ocean at night. I've only been on day trips. No extended cruises. Looking out into the darkness from the beach or shoreline tells me everything I need to know
@@him050 Venus also gives some visible light when on the sky but other planets and stars don't. Horror of being on the cold freezing sea in absolutly darknes is beyond my imagening ...
I can somehow feel the same as once in my childhood went to my village and and the electricity was cut for over several other villages too and also that day was bit cloudy and no moon. So yeah it was pretty much as dark as it is like for them! But luckily we had lanterns though!
The guy who balanced on the table did such a good job of surviving. Imagine balancing on a table in over freezing cold conditions for well over an hour, in the pitch black on the ocean, slowly hearing the screaming around you stop. So traumatic.
I remember it wasn’t until I visited the Titanic museum in Branson, MO that I first really understood how COLD that water must have been. I’m one of those crazy people who adores cold, and wears shorts, t-shirt, and sandals when it’s below freezing out at times. But at the museum, they had a setup where you could dunk your arm in a simulation of the North Atlantic that night, and it literally pulled the air out of my lungs, and then burned for almost an hour afterwards. Those poor souls, may they continue to Rest In Peace! Fantastic video, as always.
I was going to make basically this exact some comment. Same museum, a few years back. Stuck my hand in that cold water and instantly knew I would never have survived that. It's a shock that there were people who did survive longer. I can't image how much pain they were in during, and even long after. Because, like you said, even after you take your arm out and dry it and warm it, it still hurts for awhile. Great museum, hope to go back someday, will not be putting my hand in the water again.
@Lady Seashell Bikini The officers were worried that fully-loaded lifeboats might buckle. The plan was to lower lifeboats partially filled, then have the boats row to gangway doors and take on more people. The plan failed because once in the water, people promptly began rowing away from the ship. Captain Smith called for them to come back to no avail.
May the perpetual light shine upon the 1,500 souls who perished when the Titanic on April 15 1912.God grant the 1,500 souls and the Titanic rest in eternal peace
In 1994, while sailing to England to participate in the 50th anniversary of D Day (on board the USS Doyle, FFG 39, US Navy), we stopped at the wreck site and went dead in the water( term used when you stop the engines and drift). It was late May. The temperature there was about 15 degrees cooler than it had been just a half hour before. It was around 2:30 AM. We laid a wreath quietly and stayed there silent for about 15 minutes before resuming course. It’s the only time I ever saw the ocean completely motionless. So many images went through my mind there in those few minutes. I said a silent prayer for those who were on board. There is no doubt in my mind that we were not alone at that moment. 20 minutes into sailing again the outside temp was back to normal. Something I’ll never forget.
A number of people had their necks broken by their own lifejackets. They were made of cork, which was pretty solid, very buoyant, and there was noting to keep them moving vertically if you hit the water feet-first. From the height of Titanic's upper decks, the fall was easily enough to be an almost perfect simulation of a long-drop hanging. They died instantly, and in many ways were probably the lucky ones.
@@leonleon2276 3 sources: 1) There's a lifejacket in the Halifax museum from the Titanic that was cut from a recovered body, it has significant blood stains around the neck area. 2) The sinking of the Empress of Ireland. That ship sank much closer to shore than Titanic so they were able to autopsy the bodies. They found multiple cases of broken necks amongst victims who jumped from the ship wearing lifejackets of a similar design to the ones on Titanic. 3) A stunt man was nearly killed by his lifejacket during the filming of A Night To Remember, a Titanic film from the 1950s. They were originally using lifejackets built to an authentic design, but after that incident they switched to a less buoyant material.
I've often thought about that. Almost 2 and a half miles. To think it took thousands of tons of streamlined iron - the bow - a whole TEN MINUTES to plane prow-first down to the sea bed is quite something.
There's a story that when Lowe picked up the Chinese survivor, he said that there were others who better to save than him. However, after the man had recovered a bit and began tireless rowing, Lowe was heard to say that he was ashamed of his earlier remarks and "would save the likes of him ten times over" given the chance.
I hate that nobody talks about all the poor dogs from first class who died 😢 They had NO understanding of what was going on while they suffered. That’s even more heartbreaking.
I don't think 1500 were in the water splashing around. Some jumped maybe hoping to get into a lifeboat so how many died before her final plunge. How many got crushed by the funnels or it breaking in half ?? How many were in rooms or still inside the ship ?? All in I guess 600-800 people were alive after the actual sinking tbh
Huh, didn't realize that "thousand knives" quote Jack said in the movie was quoting an actual testimony. Seems like every time I watch new things about the Titanic I notice another thing in the movie that's actually a specific homage to the historical event.
The thing is, the water probably wasn't as cold as it was the night that Titanic sank, considering that they had gone into an arctic current that night (hence the iceberg). Previously it was not as cold, although the water was probably still cold, given that it was the middle of night in the north Atlantic.
The most terrifying thing about the sinking (to me), is the feeling of helplessness. There's not many situations where you have absolutely no ability to do something to mitigate your immediate danger. Just the thought of frantically running around the deck that's quickly vanishing beneath your feet and histarically pleading, "Please, dear God, make it stop! Pease just make it stop!" and desperately thinking, "What can I do?! What can I do?! What can I do to escape this horror?!", but there's absolutely no solutions. That absolutely terrorizes me, and makes my head spin just thinking about it. No word carries enough weight to accurately describe the feelings those people experienced that night. May they rest in peace.
6 years ago a tragedy happend in my country here and I always asociate that with the titanic. On the titanic people had died from too much water and cold, in the situation in my country people had died from fire and too hot. There was the same feeling of helplessness. There was a new club open and a popular band was launching a new album. That club was open without legal permissions, but people didn't knew that. It had no windows, no fire extinguisher, no hydrant, no fire exit,no water, no ventilation. The only entrance and exit was the main entrance and that was a very small door. Only one person at the time could go through that door. The club had acustic foam on the sealing and walls and it took one spark of a firework to lightup the fire. In seconds all the room become a hell, it rain with fire, that foam was melting and people had nowhere to go. It's terrifying to think that you can end in a situation like this by doing something that You think it's safe. I don't think only by sinking you can feel like there's nowhere to go or helpless. They thought the titanic was unsinkable.... The others thought the club was a fun and safe place, nothing could go wrong....dragedy has many faces.
When you're on the deck, you can still have that hope that MAYBE you can get on a lifeboat or get some sort of table to get yourself a raft. But when you're already in the water, that's where the real feeling of helplessness kicks in. You're in freezing water and there is literally NOTHING you can do because even if you find a barrel or a chair to hold onto, you're unable to get out of water and you have minutes left to live, not even knowing if any lifeboat will return (and if it does, will it return just in time). That's just the most terrifying moment ever.
I heard that when they would fire the SOS rockets up to signal distress that everyone in the dark crowd would try to swim towards the light thinking it was some sort of ship or help coming for them!
@@Monicalia Seldom (although a well known fact) is it mentioned, that many opted against boarding a lifeboat, feeling that they were better sticking with what they knew. What they believed was safer or for whatever reason, the better option. How must it have felt, to realise that (if you had had the choice) you turned down your only possible chance to live, once it was too late.
gotta admit, the baker's story sounds stupid, but it was a brilliant play: he knew the ship was doomed so he drank himself silly, his body absorbed that much alcohol from what he drank, that his body seemed to "ignore" the effect of hyperthermia that was taking the rest of the passengers in the water and he survived for around thirty mins n the freezing water
Probably not because of alcohol but because he was fat. Fat insulates, but alcohol makes it less miserable. Propably the best you can do is go back inside with your friends play some cards and drink whatever (fine) booze gets in your hands.
The most heartbreaking part of the movie Titanic is the part where they are going back looking for survivors and they come across the mother holding her infant. It rips my heart out. The reaction of the officer who finds them makes the scene even more poignant.
@@Ion_Petrov Yeah, a woman with her Great Dane. She would have been seated in a boat, but would have had to leave her dog behind. She chose to die with her dog. (Jan Griffiths).
I've seen hundreds of Titanic docs & videos...but for the first time, in my life, THIS video actually made me feel how horrific that night was for those 1500 souls. You did a great job conveying the pain & suffering they endured & humanized the story for me.
Lowe's decision of waiting until it was safe to go back may have been the only rational choice. Given the short time until the survivors eventually froze to death, he couldn't hope to save more than a few. Had he gone back earlier and the lifeboat been capsized, none would have survived let alone been rescued. It was a terrible business, but I'd say Lowe did the right thing.
@@karenryder6317 Lowe did know, that's the point. He knew had he gone back too soon, the boat would've BEEN ABSOLUTELY 100 percent swamped. A drowning man will always take another man with him.
How do you survive that and carry on constantly remembering the feelings and sheer terror you went through? I couldn't imagine carrying on without a really good psychologist who does hypnosis.
No. A survivor in a life boat from the Titanic explained the worst part was hearing the high pitched screaming from people in the water that was - 2 C°. The sea was so cold it kill you of hypothermia very fast. The eye witness said she then remembered the deafening silence after 5 minutes or so. No matter how quickly the people in the lifeboats rowed back they wouldn't have been swamped because each minute was culling hundreds. So very sad
As with everyone else, I was amazed by Jim Cameron's visuals in the titanic movie, especially having been interested in the tragic story all my life. I'd also heard the descriptions of the roar/screaming of the people in the water, but I have to tell you, by far...the most gripping and horrifying scene in Cameron's movie was bringing to life those initial moments after the ship fully sank... hearing those people...and getting the full scope of what they went through, it just sent chills down my spine.
1:05 For my fellow brits, 28 degrees Fahrenheit is -2.22222 degrees Celsius. I paused to look it up so that you don't have to :) Edit: after many comments from the rest of world, you are welcome as well. now if only we could get America to realise they are secretly metric now (all of their imperial measurements were standardised to metric)
Harold Lowe was a true hero, he was the only person who went back for the survivors. His Titanic testimony is really sad too, and the trauma that he must’ve had after surviving and going back for the survivors, I can’t even imagine
My dad was a fisherman and the captain of his own small vessel! The first thing he instilled in me is if we were in water below a certain temperature that I was never allowed or put myself in a position to fall overboard for it would mean certain death within 15 to 30 minutes. He told me this and the story of the tragic Titanic sinking. He was a tuff older man, and I can still remember him cringing and upset about the lives that were lost. He made me inspire to study the Titanic over the years and find your channel @Historic Travels, Part Time explores and others! Thank you for your outstanding content! May we always honor all who perished on that frigid night in the north Atlantic! May God bless your channel and work you do @HistoricTravels !! Dad always said Safety First Saves Lives!!
There was also this one dude named Charles Joughin who was actually in the movie. (The guy who was up on the top and was one of the five people with Jack & Rose being no 2 and 3. Unknown who 4&5 were) He managed to survive the LONGEST in the water - like TWO HOURS. ...As for what he did? He refused his spot on the lifeboat. So he proceeded to... get absolutely smashed. Then tossed things overboard for people to use as flotation devices. He managed to climb all the way up to the top of the stern and rode it down, so yes him being at the top was accurate - he was able to step off without even getting his hair wet and said it was like riding an elevator.
This is an impressive, professional and sensitive treatment of what - really, for most of us - is an unimaginable moment in history. You are doing history a great service. In the 1990's I was on a 40 foot masthead sloop in the Atlantic at night, in near-windless conditions (off Florida, in summer...a very non-Titanic season), when we suffered an electrical outage. I was to stay at the helm while the rest of the crew worked the problem down below. It turned out to be a corroded fuse, easily replaced. But for about 7 minutes, on that moonless night, it was like being in a spaceship, with stars above, and stars reflecting off the glassy water and...nothing else. Of course I immediately, and privately thought of the Titanic passengers who must have experienced, albeit in their final, dulling moments, much the same image I did. That memory has stayed with me, hauntingly, ever since.
Can't imagine how difficult it must have been for Lowe to judge the timing of when to go back into the site of the wreck. Waiting a full hour seems a very long time to delay if most of the people in the water would have succumbed within 15 minutes, perhaps after hearing the awful cries quieten that was the point at which Lowe began transferring the survivors in the boats?
When I was in the military I was stationed in Alaska and I went to a school called CW LC which is cold weather leadership course. and I've been in water just above 32 degrees. It is like nothing you've ever experienced before it's almost like being punched in the face you can barely breathe and you can barely think. And it really feels like your being stabbed all over. I was only in the water for a few seconds. I couldn't imagine what those poor people went through
Equally horrific was what happened to the passengers on the Empress of Ireland in 1914. It sank more quickly than the Titanic, and most people were asleep in their beds as the sinking happened in the wee hours of the morning. One of those who perished was a friend of my great grandmother.
I once visited the northwestern part of Greenland. It was late August and it already starting to get cold. On a bet that only a young, fit and foolish dude would take I agreed to do a polar bear plunge in a nearby iceberg filled bay. Note that I was not alone when I did this and had a warm sleeping bag, hot tea and chocolate for recovery. I waded out to into the shockingly cold water until I was about waist deep and then I dipped down until my shoulders were submerged. I stayed that way for 1 minute and then started back to shore. The affect of having my legs in that water for say 2-3 minutes (it took some time to get myself to submerge certain parts) was such that I stumbled and fell when I tried to fully support my weight. I was shaking all over. The soft towel that I brought to dry off felt like hot sandpaper on my skin. I could barely get my fingers to grasp the zipper on the sleeping bag. After that I no longer wondered why the locals said there was no point in wearing a life jacket while out in that water aboard their small motorboats.
Ever since I read the book with ken Marchall's art I've been infatuated with the history of the Titanic. It we well before the movie came out . So you can imagine my reaction when the cups at the movie theaters started showing rivets all over them as a teaser to the movie before it was announced with a trailer. I was so excited! When my mother took me and the rest of the family to see the movie, I demanded to sit alone. I cried my eyes out that night . I was only 10. Still till this day I cannot let go of my obsession. The thought of it all has attached to my soul. So happy to see someone else on the same page. I subbed yesterday or the day before and have watch quite a few of your videos. I love them! Great job bro. Would love to chat with a fellow fanatic!
You should pick up the two volumes entitled, 'Titanic: The Ship Magnificent' - no two books go into greater detail when it comes to the ship herself. They are expensive but they are VERY well produced.
*Congrats on 15k Sam!* The growth on this channel has been _insane_ and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy! Hope it keeps going at this pace. It’s been awesome to watch.
You would be so cold that you would go completely numb after a couple of minutes after the initial shock and pain of such cold water. You would shiver uncontrollably. After a few more minutes of that, you would suddenly feel warm and then you’d get really tired to the point you feel like you’re falling asleep, like you can’t stay awake. Then you’d stop breathing and die.
Great video sir! I’m impressed with the facts you shared but also the compassion and respect you have for those who died that night. You’re a good man and I enjoy your channel!
That is very possible. They may have tried their best, but complete darkness in the middle of the ocean, in a time where there exponentionally less light pollution, with no moonlight, is a kind of darkness can can only be can only be compared to a room with no lights, no window, and no light coming out of that room door cracks. With hundreds bodies around the person calling for help, it can be quite hard
All this guy is doing is telling you what was in the James Cameron version of Titanic, and encyclopedia or 1st hand account interviews. I'm wondering if he got permission from the film studios involved in the JC movie or JC himself to use clips of the movie so this guy can make movie, via TH-cam for using unlicensed material, which is a Federal Law? THERE IS NO DISCLOSURE STATEMENT AT THE BOTTOM UNDER HIS DESCRIPTION OF THIS VIDEO.
Absolutely loving these titanic videos my man, it's been a topic that has fascinated me since I was a young child. I'm about to watch a bunch of these.
2:20 watched titanic multiple times. But this scene will always made me shiver down to my spine. James cameron did a great job on this scene. Imagine, you're alone, pitch black, screaming and yelling all around you, you tried to find your love one, how to survive...... God, it's horrifying.😢😭
Your synopsis of the events of the Titanic is absolutely awesome! Informative, interesting and not long winded. Great summary. Glad I found your channel and RIP to the lost souls❤
Charles Joughin, the chief baker on the Titanic, spent two hours in the water until he got on Collapsible B. He drank large portions of brandy, acting like an anti-freeze, and kept his hair dry after the Titanic sank. These saved his life despite his legs and feet getting swollen.
Very difficult topic to talk about ! I always get teary eyed when dealing with this sequence of the desaster. But you did a very good job adressing it and the point you made at the end was very well articulated and I agree a hundred percent !
When we went to the Titanic exhibit in Branson, Missouri we were assigned names of the passengers before we went in. At the end of the exhibit, there is a wall with the names of the people that made it out alive and a list for people that perished. My husband was Captain Smith who died and I was a lady (forget her name) that lived. Wow! Did that ever hit home with that scenario. What those people and crew went through was unimaginable. Thanks for the video.
I remember watching a video series early last year done by a couple who went on an Antarctic cruise right before the Covid thing shut down the cruise industry. The things that stand out from that series related to Titanic for me were that the ships are required to carry exposure suits for everybody on board, and they hold drills showing passengers how to quickly and correctly don them so if the need arises they know what to do. Later on in the series the crew offered the more adventurous passengers a chance to join the "polar bear club" and take a quick dunk off the stern of the ship. The response from the couple, who both did it, was it was like having your whole body set on fire. Cold water exposure suits were first patented in the late 1880s, and were commercially available by the time Titanic was built. Unlike more life boats, suits could be stowed out of sight without taking up deck space. They also have the advantage of still being usable when the ship is listing to one side preventing boat from launching on the opposite side. While I wouldn't expect an "unsinkable" ship Titanic's size to carry enough for everybody, enough for the crew isn't outside the realm of possibility. Given that a modern exposure suit will keep you alive for six hours at a minimum, and Carpathia was 4 hours away when Titanic sunk, I can't help but wonder how many of the 1500 who went in the water would've survived if they were wearing exposure suits when they did so.
Its sad but in the end the board of the white star line or any ship company at that time would never buy those suits it would be to expensive to buy and maintain them
It's such a sad situation! Absolutely horrific for everyone involved! I just found your channel this week and I'm hooked on your stories! Keep up the good work buddy!
It doesn't take long to die in freezing water. I've been in ice-covered water several times doing a sauna-lake-sauna ritual. You begin to hyperventilate the moment you enter the water and I started to lose the ability to tread water (to control arms and legs) after only about 60-90 seconds. It was quite noticeable, I imagine that if I'd stayed in another 1-2 minutes, I would have been unable to effectively tread water. The most unexpected thing was that out of the water and back on the deck, even with an ambient air temp of around 1 C, it felt as warm as a gentle spring day. That sensation lasted for some time, long enough to drink a beer before going into the sauna.
Wow, just wow, you literally had your 11K subscriber livestream less than a week ago and you're already at over 15K! Congratulations! Ive been here since before you reached 1,000 and I've been watching your channel ever since, congratulations on 15K and I hope you gain 15 more.
This video gave me chills. Keep up the good work and stay safe. P.S. May I suggest that in future you also list temperatures in °C as well, along with other values in metric. Given the growing success of your channel, you have many international (non-American) viewers, such as myself. Thanks for another great video.
This video does hit the spot. And it's the truth when you mismanage the operation of any vessel, consequences can be pretty severe. Just about all transport museums should have a permanent exhibit based on the famous ship. That was one terrible event that happened on April 14th, 1912. Sam you may be young, but you have a big heart showing a superior consideration for the family members of the 1500 souls that lost their lives on that fateful night in 1912.
New subscriber here! Love your take on everything you do! I don’t know 🤷♀️ anyone who has done anything about Titanic quite like you .....giving us a much more clear idea with wonderful details of what they really went through.. thanks so much my friend I can never get enough of this whole story. I will be watching every video you do. James is a hero in my book for all he is and does so you are doing justice to everyone on that ship 🚢 that night and James and people working with him deserve. I appreciate you all 👏👍🤩
Hi! I just want to start out by saying that I love your videos and I have learned so much from them. Anyway, I think a cool idea for a video is the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. Keep up the great vids!
This video made me cry...I have thought a lot about Titanic over the years but you brought to life what all those beautiful souls went through in the water. So sad.
Another great video! You have covered so much and I'm learning a great deal that I did not know. How about a video on Murdoch, his actions that night, and the role he played before and during the sinking?
Corrr this video sent chills down my spine! Imagine being in that situation. Hearing people suffer, but you have to wait until most die to save the lucky few that were still managing to hold on! Brrrrrrr spine tingling...
So refreshing and touching to hear the passengers spoken about in this way. I often felt almost gratuitous at times watching the movies or even documentaries that we cant really appreciate the full horror of the disaster from the point of view of the victims or the witnesses. I seem to recall reading somewhere that a survivor from the crew had his hair turn white due to the shock of what he had witnessed. And another crew member survived this sinking only to go down with another ship?
This was your best video of the series ive seen. You bring amazing insight into the pain and suffering those people went through. People just like you and me. I ask myself, if everyone had survived would we even be talking about it really? Maybe but surely not as much as we do. Very good video.
Could you do a video on the Japanese gentleman who survived the sinking, I’ve always been curious of his story because I know when he returned to Japan he was ridiculed and shamed for not dying on the titanic, I believe I’ve even heard that many years later when the James Cameron movie came out, that his relatives issued a statement apologizing for his surviving the sinking, I know times and culture now is different and in Japanese culture that honor is held extremely highly, but I honestly feel bad for the man. Also thank you this channel has become a favorite of mine, I’ve been watching and rewatching your videos while building a 1/570 scale model of the titanic haha, it helps get me in the zone and puts a deeper perspective of what happened that fateful night. -Kyle
I subbed at just over 10K about a week ago and the channel’s grown another 50% since then, wow! It’s fab to join a channel at this stage of it’s amazing growth. Your videos are fascinating, detailed, the info relayed so coherently. Well done sir! 👏👏👏
Charles Joughin, the ship's baker survived because he drank a lot of alcohol before leaving the ship and he was one of the last people to enter the water as he was on the stern. He said it was like riding an elevator going down and he simply stepped off into the water.....his blood was fortified with anti-freeze. He was in the water for almost three hours.
I used to obsess over the titanic when I was younger and learned just about everything about it, yet I’m sitting here still learning more from this man, I’ve met my match.
I enjoy your videos very much ... I can`t explain it but I have always been drawn to anything about Titanic , as many others I imagine ... Thanks again
Not only the people in the lifeboats had to listen to all that people dying in the water, they also knew those people were there children, partners, friends, colleagues etc. as in almost all lifeboats were only women and little children allowed... The officers in the lifeboats had an incredible hard decision to make by not going back into the mass. As a (former) firefighter/lifeguard I once had the situation it was not safe for us to go in and rescue someone. Was the hardest decision I had ever to make in my life.
Everyone forgets about the story of survivor fang Lang he was traveling with 7 other Chinese immigrants who they believed to be stowaways on titanic but were all paying 3rd class passengers on the same ticket his other 7 companions didn’t survive the sinking fang Lang was 26 years old at the time of the sinking
But if they did have enough lifeboats they wouldn't have had enough time to launch them. The ship sank before the last two lifeboats could be launched.
This is heartbreaking but you did a great job covering this topic. I think it’s easy for most people to look at the survivors in the life boats and judge them but as you mentioned, making them a victim too wouldn’t have helped anybody. I hope your channel continues to grow because I enjoy this channel
The person with the key to the locker of the binocular was replaced before titanic left and he forgot to hand over the key, lucky for him he could have ended as a casualty but unfortunate for his replacement i guess
@@ex-soldier4341 I don’t believe that theory why would they have a specific room for the binoculars. And I’m pretty sure that the room where the binoculars are had the distress rockets they launched.
@@hititanic4082 Ex Soldier is correct. As was written, the binoculars were in a locker, not their own room. The key to the locker was taken accidentally by David Blair when he lost his position on the ship.
Cold water immersion brings another lethal complication that you missed: Hyperventilation. Water that cold will quite literally suck the air from your lungs, and in your panicked state you will fight to breathe and you will hyperventilate. And it's very hard to do anything when you can't breathe. Had people (passengers & crew) been instructed on the lifeboats, they would have known that the chances of a boat rolling over because they were pulling people in, were zero. Those boats weighed about 4+ tons each.
Indeed. Anyone who has tried to climb into a boat using life-lines strung as they were on the Titanic's lifeboats would be able to tell them that it is impossible to put much load on those ropes even in warm conditions with hands that can still grip and impossible to get over the gunwales without help from within the boat. Sad indeed that those that were prepared to go in and help those in the water were, in most cases, out-voted by those fearing being capsized. (I recall reading a letter that had been exchanged between two survivors who were over-ruled in this way. Those on the oars simply refused to row back)
I love your videos! I’ve always been interested in the titanic but your passion for it is admirable! Looking forward to more ship wreck videos! (I almost said “looking forward to more shipwrecks” 😳)
Hey dude! I'm a teacher and my Summer School class has been fascinated with learning more about the titanic, and I've been showing them a lot of your videos because of how informative you are! One of them had a rather interesting question that I realized may have affected a lot more than just the people who were in the water; What if the waters the Titanic sank in were just barely above freezing? Would everyone in the water have survived? How would it have affected the rescue, and would it have had any significant affect on the structural integrity of the Titanic's hull and the resulting damage?
I think it would be really interesting to see CGI footage if we found the Titanic say a week or so after she went down (since it wasn't possible in 1912). To see it with all the wood decks intact, the new paint without all the rusticals, clearer images of the wreckage to better help us understand how she broke apart etc etc
One of the survivors ended up living in Detroit by the baseball stadium and he said every time he heard the crowd cheer at baseball games, he said it took him back to the sinking and the people in the water screaming. 🥺
I heard that as well, and that several survivors committed suicide
Frankie Goldsmith. Aged 8 when he survived the Titanic
That’s textbook PTSD! Poor guy.
That stadium, Tiger Stadium, opened on the very same day that Titanic sunk.
@@andyanderson6522
Why?!
Let's not ever forget about the brave men that sacrificed themselves in the boiler rooms, in the cabin hallways, on the deck.
Doing their duty even when freezing seawater lapped around their knees.
Rest in Peace, lads.
I forgot about them
Some did survive... As they needed strong people to row the boats... Many if the people on the boats have never done physical work plus they where able to testify what happened as staff and reported the fire in one of the coal bunkers so there was a chance that Titanic may have ran out of coal before it could reach the US
As i understand it some down in the boiler rooms who were offered the chance to go and have a chance to live volunteered to stay and help others live?
Unimaginable. I'm not worthy :(
Well said
The thing about the darkness is terrifying to me. If you’ve never been aboard a ship at sea at night you can’t even comprehend how dark it is out there. It’s intimidating to see it from the deck of a ship. I can’t imagine being in the ocean at night.
I think about this too. I’ve seen the sea at night it’s very haunting how dark it is. I know in the movies they gave it some mild illumination once Titanic slips under but in real life they probably could not see who was right next to them.
ever been in a cave its one of the darkest places on earth you eyes never adjust like in normal darkness its bizarre!
No thank you to the ocean at night. I've only been on day trips. No extended cruises. Looking out into the darkness from the beach or shoreline tells me everything I need to know
@@him050 Venus also gives some visible light when on the sky but other planets and stars don't. Horror of being on the cold freezing sea in absolutly darknes is beyond my imagening ...
I can somehow feel the same as once in my childhood went to my village and and the electricity was cut for over several other villages too and also that day was bit cloudy and no moon. So yeah it was pretty much as dark as it is like for them!
But luckily we had lanterns though!
The guy who balanced on the table did such a good job of surviving. Imagine balancing on a table in over freezing cold conditions for well over an hour, in the pitch black on the ocean, slowly hearing the screaming around you stop. So traumatic.
im surprised no one else in the water interrupted him by trying to get on as well
He just got lucky when it comes down to things
Tom here in Belfast L, when picked up he rowed like 👍a Lion 🦁 Human spirit 💪
He was Japanese! Lowe actually said he'd swap a 💯 of what he had for one of him 🥊 📦 Legend
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I remember it wasn’t until I visited the Titanic museum in Branson, MO that I first really understood how COLD that water must have been. I’m one of those crazy people who adores cold, and wears shorts, t-shirt, and sandals when it’s below freezing out at times. But at the museum, they had a setup where you could dunk your arm in a simulation of the North Atlantic that night, and it literally pulled the air out of my lungs, and then burned for almost an hour afterwards. Those poor souls, may they continue to Rest In Peace!
Fantastic video, as always.
Whoa. That's intense. Would love to experience that in person. Nothing like a live demo to drive the point home.
Wow.
I visited the one in Pigeon Forge, and my god it was unbearably cold, and I only had my hand in there for 2 seconds.
I visited a museum with something like that once when I was little. It certainly is insane how freezing that water was!
I was going to make basically this exact some comment. Same museum, a few years back. Stuck my hand in that cold water and instantly knew I would never have survived that. It's a shock that there were people who did survive longer. I can't image how much pain they were in during, and even long after. Because, like you said, even after you take your arm out and dry it and warm it, it still hurts for awhile. Great museum, hope to go back someday, will not be putting my hand in the water again.
In seriousness, that would be a version of hell 😔 hearing 1500 people dying beside you and knowing you don’t have the room to save them.
Sounds like he'll
@Lady Seashell Bikini The officers were worried that fully-loaded lifeboats might buckle. The plan was to lower lifeboats partially filled, then have the boats row to gangway doors and take on more people. The plan failed because once in the water, people promptly began rowing away from the ship. Captain Smith called for them to come back to no avail.
May the perpetual light shine upon the 1,500 souls who perished when the Titanic on April 15 1912.God grant the 1,500 souls and the Titanic rest in eternal peace
@@InstinctiveFirearmReviewsThose 1,500 souls God grant them peace and the Titanic rest in eternal peace
In 1994, while sailing to England to participate in the 50th anniversary of D Day (on board the USS Doyle, FFG 39, US Navy), we stopped at the wreck site and went dead in the water( term used when you stop the engines and drift). It was late May. The temperature there was about 15 degrees cooler than it had been just a half hour before. It was around 2:30 AM. We laid a wreath quietly and stayed there silent for about 15 minutes before resuming course. It’s the only time I ever saw the ocean completely motionless. So many images went through my mind there in those few minutes. I said a silent prayer for those who were on board. There is no doubt in my mind that we were not alone at that moment. 20 minutes into sailing again the outside temp was back to normal. Something I’ll never forget.
Thanks for sharing that story!
ty for sharing
2:30 am was the exact time the wreck hit the bottom of the ocean, not a coinsidence.
as much as i respect those who died, please don't assume ghosts and spirits exist. lol
@@windshearahead7012 Don't assume they don't.
A number of people had their necks broken by their own lifejackets. They were made of cork, which was pretty solid, very buoyant, and there was noting to keep them moving vertically if you hit the water feet-first. From the height of Titanic's upper decks, the fall was easily enough to be an almost perfect simulation of a long-drop hanging. They died instantly, and in many ways were probably the lucky ones.
Holy shit, I had no idea about this. Another detail the movie didn't depict I guess.
S*** that's so scary 😢 I really feel for those people who were stuck in the water 💔
Really? Are you sure? How do you know something this horrible?
Nice fairytale. Now where is the proof of this? Cheers
@@leonleon2276 3 sources: 1) There's a lifejacket in the Halifax museum from the Titanic that was cut from a recovered body, it has significant blood stains around the neck area. 2) The sinking of the Empress of Ireland. That ship sank much closer to shore than Titanic so they were able to autopsy the bodies. They found multiple cases of broken necks amongst victims who jumped from the ship wearing lifejackets of a similar design to the ones on Titanic. 3) A stunt man was nearly killed by his lifejacket during the filming of A Night To Remember, a Titanic film from the 1950s. They were originally using lifejackets built to an authentic design, but after that incident they switched to a less buoyant material.
Even more creepy and terrifying, thinking that there’s over 2 miles of deep abyss below you..
I know , it's one of my most terrifying fear.
Beyond 10 feet it doesn't matter. I wonder if any of them knew how deep it was there?
Would have been the least of their worries
Although most wouldnt have known they had only minutes to live if they were lucky
I've often thought about that. Almost 2 and a half miles. To think it took thousands of tons of streamlined iron - the bow - a whole TEN MINUTES to plane prow-first down to the sea bed is quite something.
I thought its 2.5 miles
It's easy to be judgmental from the comfort of our homes, but you're always considerate towards those involved in the tragedy. I respect that a lot.
Watching this after the Titan imploded. Thinking about the spouses and mother of the son up waiting for a safe return on the dive.
There's a story that when Lowe picked up the Chinese survivor, he said that there were others who better to save than him. However, after the man had recovered a bit and began tireless rowing, Lowe was heard to say that he was ashamed of his earlier remarks and "would save the likes of him ten times over" given the chance.
I was looking for this comment
That story was told by a woman who wasn't even in the lifeboat at the time. It's not true.
@@emmab3275 He did pick a Chinese survivor, but Lowe wasn't racist (didn't use the jpn slur) towards him like that woman had claimed.
@@Monicalia Exactly.
@@emmab3275 Women lie.
I hate that nobody talks about all the poor dogs from first class who died 😢 They had NO understanding of what was going on while they suffered. That’s even more heartbreaking.
It is truly a shocking thought that only 2 out of 1,500 people made it out of the water and survived.
i think some others that ended up in the water survived but they were the ones who climbed onto the collapsible life boat right after the sinking
13 People were saved from the water. 4 of them later died.
Also, this man was from British Hong Kong.
I don't think 1500 were in the water splashing around. Some jumped maybe hoping to get into a lifeboat so how many died before her final plunge. How many got crushed by the funnels or it breaking in half ?? How many were in rooms or still inside the ship ?? All in I guess 600-800 people were alive after the actual sinking tbh
Huh, didn't realize that "thousand knives" quote Jack said in the movie was quoting an actual testimony. Seems like every time I watch new things about the Titanic I notice another thing in the movie that's actually a specific homage to the historical event.
movies are gay.
Did jack happened to know how a thousand knives to the body feels like by experience?
@@ex-soldier4341 he fell into the water once while ice fishing I believe.
@@ex-soldier4341 if you ever accidentally cut yourself with a knife, well it hurts as much as that x1000
The thing is, the water probably wasn't as cold as it was the night that Titanic sank, considering that they had gone into an arctic current that night (hence the iceberg). Previously it was not as cold, although the water was probably still cold, given that it was the middle of night in the north Atlantic.
The most terrifying thing about the sinking (to me), is the feeling of helplessness. There's not many situations where you have absolutely no ability to do something to mitigate your immediate danger. Just the thought of frantically running around the deck that's quickly vanishing beneath your feet and histarically pleading, "Please, dear God, make it stop! Pease just make it stop!" and desperately thinking, "What can I do?! What can I do?! What can I do to escape this horror?!", but there's absolutely no solutions. That absolutely terrorizes me, and makes my head spin just thinking about it. No word carries enough weight to accurately describe the feelings those people experienced that night. May they rest in peace.
6 years ago a tragedy happend in my country here and I always asociate that with the titanic. On the titanic people had died from too much water and cold, in the situation in my country people had died from fire and too hot. There was the same feeling of helplessness. There was a new club open and a popular band was launching a new album. That club was open without legal permissions, but people didn't knew that. It had no windows, no fire extinguisher, no hydrant, no fire exit,no water, no ventilation. The only entrance and exit was the main entrance and that was a very small door. Only one person at the time could go through that door. The club had acustic foam on the sealing and walls and it took one spark of a firework to lightup the fire. In seconds all the room become a hell, it rain with fire, that foam was melting and people had nowhere to go. It's terrifying to think that you can end in a situation like this by doing something that You think it's safe. I don't think only by sinking you can feel like there's nowhere to go or helpless. They thought the titanic was unsinkable.... The others thought the club was a fun and safe place, nothing could go wrong....dragedy has many faces.
When you're on the deck, you can still have that hope that MAYBE you can get on a lifeboat or get some sort of table to get yourself a raft. But when you're already in the water, that's where the real feeling of helplessness kicks in. You're in freezing water and there is literally NOTHING you can do because even if you find a barrel or a chair to hold onto, you're unable to get out of water and you have minutes left to live, not even knowing if any lifeboat will return (and if it does, will it return just in time). That's just the most terrifying moment ever.
I heard that when they would fire the SOS rockets up to signal distress that everyone in the dark crowd would try to swim towards the light thinking it was some sort of ship or help coming for them!
@@Monicalia Seldom (although a well known fact) is it mentioned, that many opted against boarding a lifeboat, feeling that they were better sticking with what they knew. What they believed was safer or for whatever reason, the better option. How must it have felt, to realise that (if you had had the choice) you turned down your only possible chance to live, once it was too late.
That’s just what I was thinking.
gotta admit, the baker's story sounds stupid, but it was a brilliant play: he knew the ship was doomed so he drank himself silly, his body absorbed that much alcohol from what he drank, that his body seemed to "ignore" the effect of hyperthermia that was taking the rest of the passengers in the water and he survived for around thirty mins n the freezing water
Probably not because of alcohol but because he was fat.
Fat insulates, but alcohol makes it less miserable.
Propably the best you can do is go back inside with your friends play some cards and drink whatever (fine) booze gets in your hands.
It's "hypothermia". "Hyperthermia" is when the body temperature rises higher than a person can handle.
Wasn't that not true?
He got so drunk he gained plot armor
@@vivy-kun3510 Yes, hypo means below normal and hyper means above normal
The most heartbreaking part of the movie Titanic is the part where they are going back looking for survivors and they come across the mother holding her infant. It rips my heart out. The reaction of the officer who finds them makes the scene even more poignant.
Me too! God Bless You Heather!!
Me too.... even reading your comment and visualising them literally chokes me up instantly and brings a tear 😥
There was a woman with a dog in the water in in real life
@@Ion_Petrov Yeah, a woman with her Great Dane. She would have been seated in a boat, but would have had to leave her dog behind. She chose to die with her dog. (Jan Griffiths).
movies are lame.
I've seen hundreds of Titanic docs & videos...but for the first time, in my life, THIS video actually made me feel how horrific that night was for those 1500 souls. You did a great job conveying the pain & suffering they endured & humanized the story for me.
Lowe's decision of waiting until it was safe to go back may have been the only rational choice. Given the short time until the survivors eventually froze to death, he couldn't hope to save more than a few. Had he gone back earlier and the lifeboat been capsized, none would have survived let alone been rescued. It was a terrible business, but I'd say Lowe did the right thing.
Atleast he came back for where as others didn't even try...
If Lowe had known the statistic you gave about the 15-minute window, perhaps he would have gone back after just 20 - 30 minutes instead of 60.
@@karenryder6317 Lowe did know, that's the point. He knew had he gone back too soon, the boat would've BEEN ABSOLUTELY 100 percent swamped. A drowning man will always take another man with him.
How do you survive that and carry on constantly remembering the feelings and sheer terror you went through? I couldn't imagine carrying on without a really good psychologist who does hypnosis.
No. A survivor in a life boat from the Titanic explained the worst part was hearing the high pitched screaming from people in the water that was - 2 C°. The sea was so cold it kill you of hypothermia very fast. The eye witness said she then remembered the deafening silence after 5 minutes or so. No matter how quickly the people in the lifeboats rowed back they wouldn't have been swamped because each minute was culling hundreds. So very sad
As with everyone else, I was amazed by Jim Cameron's visuals in the titanic movie, especially having been interested in the tragic story all my life. I'd also heard the descriptions of the roar/screaming of the people in the water, but I have to tell you, by far...the most gripping and horrifying scene in Cameron's movie was bringing to life those initial moments after the ship fully sank... hearing those people...and getting the full scope of what they went through, it just sent chills down my spine.
Excellent coverage of a sensitive topic. Thanks so much. I’m really enjoying all of your content.
Much appreciated!
@@HistoricTravels I think the current would have eventually taken the bodies out)
@@HistoricTravels please do a video about Door 13 on the Queen Mary ship
@@HistoricTravels can you please if you can put the cc in English and the transcript for this video?? I do not understand Turkish
1:05 For my fellow brits, 28 degrees Fahrenheit is -2.22222 degrees Celsius.
I paused to look it up so that you don't have to :)
Edit: after many comments from the rest of world, you are welcome as well. now if only we could get America to realise they are secretly metric now (all of their imperial measurements were standardised to metric)
Thanks!
@@ministryofanti-feminism1493 Your welcome :)
Thankyou.
Nice one😅
Im not a Brit but a Canadian. But thanks, I was just about to pause the vid to do the conversion.
Harold Lowe was a true hero, he was the only person who went back for the survivors. His Titanic testimony is really sad too, and the trauma that he must’ve had after surviving and going back for the survivors, I can’t even imagine
My dad was a fisherman and the captain of his own small vessel! The first thing he instilled in me is if we were in water below a certain temperature that I was never allowed or put myself in a position to fall overboard for it would mean certain death within 15 to 30 minutes. He told me this and the story of the tragic Titanic sinking. He was a tuff older man, and I can still remember him cringing and upset about the lives that were lost. He made me inspire to study the Titanic over the years and find your channel @Historic Travels, Part Time explores and others! Thank you for your outstanding content! May we always honor all who perished on that frigid night in the north Atlantic! May God bless your channel and work you do @HistoricTravels !! Dad always said Safety First Saves Lives!!
There was also this one dude named Charles Joughin who was actually in the movie. (The guy who was up on the top and was one of the five people with Jack & Rose being no 2 and 3. Unknown who 4&5 were) He managed to survive the LONGEST in the water - like TWO HOURS.
...As for what he did? He refused his spot on the lifeboat. So he proceeded to... get absolutely smashed. Then tossed things overboard for people to use as flotation devices. He managed to climb all the way up to the top of the stern and rode it down, so yes him being at the top was accurate - he was able to step off without even getting his hair wet and said it was like riding an elevator.
I came for the excellent videos.
I stayed because of how humble and thankful you are, and for the community here🙂
I couldnt do this without people like you!
This is an impressive, professional and sensitive treatment of what - really, for most of us - is an unimaginable moment in history. You are doing history a great service.
In the 1990's I was on a 40 foot masthead sloop in the Atlantic at night, in near-windless conditions (off Florida, in summer...a very non-Titanic season), when we suffered an electrical outage. I was to stay at the helm while the rest of the crew worked the problem down below. It turned out to be a corroded fuse, easily replaced. But for about 7 minutes, on that moonless night, it was like being in a spaceship, with stars above, and stars reflecting off the glassy water and...nothing else. Of course I immediately, and privately thought of the Titanic passengers who must have experienced, albeit in their final, dulling moments, much the same image I did. That memory has stayed with me, hauntingly, ever since.
Can't imagine how difficult it must have been for Lowe to judge the timing of when to go back into the site of the wreck. Waiting a full hour seems a very long time to delay if most of the people in the water would have succumbed within 15 minutes, perhaps after hearing the awful cries quieten that was the point at which Lowe began transferring the survivors in the boats?
When I was in the military I was stationed in Alaska and I went to a school called CW LC which is cold weather leadership course. and I've been in water just above 32 degrees. It is like nothing you've ever experienced before it's almost like being punched in the face you can barely breathe and you can barely think. And it really feels like your being stabbed all over. I was only in the water for a few seconds. I couldn't imagine what those poor people went through
Kudos to this chinese guy who did what Jack and Rose coudn't do, balance that damn piece of furniture.
I almost put a joke about that in the video but decided against it due to the seriousness of the topic
I bet that is why they decided to remove that scene from the film.
@@HistoricTravels But I sure will. Here goes..........: ME CHINESE! ME NO DUMB!!!!!!!!!!!
Craig Ferguson beat you to it with the joke about Rose.
To his credit he did have a point.
He was Japanese, not Chinese. His name was Masabumi Hosono. He was shunned in his native country for surviving.
Equally horrific was what happened to the passengers on the Empress of Ireland in 1914. It sank more quickly than the Titanic, and most people were asleep in their beds as the sinking happened in the wee hours of the morning. One of those who perished was a friend of my great grandmother.
Sounds like it would make a great movie. But horrifically sad to hear about it.😢
@@TheFrenchPugthe empress sank in like 14 minutes you couldn't really make a movie off that
I once visited the northwestern part of Greenland. It was late August and it already starting to get cold. On a bet that only a young, fit and foolish dude would take I agreed to do a polar bear plunge in a nearby iceberg filled bay. Note that I was not alone when I did this and had a warm sleeping bag, hot tea and chocolate for recovery.
I waded out to into the shockingly cold water until I was about waist deep and then I dipped down until my shoulders were submerged.
I stayed that way for 1 minute and then started back to shore. The affect of having my legs in that water for say 2-3 minutes (it took some time to get myself to submerge certain parts) was such that I stumbled and fell when I tried to fully support my weight. I was shaking all over. The soft towel that I brought to dry off felt like hot sandpaper on my skin. I could barely get my fingers to grasp the zipper on the sleeping bag.
After that I no longer wondered why the locals said there was no point in wearing a life jacket while out in that water aboard their small motorboats.
Ever since I read the book with ken Marchall's art I've been infatuated with the history of the Titanic. It we well before the movie came out . So you can imagine my reaction when the cups at the movie theaters started showing rivets all over them as a teaser to the movie before it was announced with a trailer. I was so excited! When my mother took me and the rest of the family to see the movie, I demanded to sit alone. I cried my eyes out that night . I was only 10. Still till this day I cannot let go of my obsession. The thought of it all has attached to my soul. So happy to see someone else on the same page. I subbed yesterday or the day before and have watch quite a few of your videos. I love them! Great job bro. Would love to chat with a fellow fanatic!
Same I use to get books from the catalogs in school and I got some Titanic books in the mid 90's when the movie came out I was ecstatic.
I credit that same book to my lifelong obsession too! Pre movie when I was 5 , I still remember asking my parents to buy it while we were at Costco.
You should pick up the two volumes entitled, 'Titanic: The Ship Magnificent' - no two books go into greater detail when it comes to the ship herself. They are expensive but they are VERY well produced.
movies are lame.
@@davidhusband5022 ???? Movies are lame????
Those 15 minutes probably felt like an eternity to these people. Those getting crushed by the funnel were the lucky ones.
If I knew the ship was going down and I would be subjected to a slow and agonizing death like that. I would of just slit my throat
@@candlestyx8517 I'd find a table or door. I'm sure there was tons of crap that went down with the ship that they could have used.
That dude on the table deserved to be a character in the movie
*Congrats on 15k Sam!* The growth on this channel has been _insane_ and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy! Hope it keeps going at this pace. It’s been awesome to watch.
i just can’t imagine what they felt that night.. screaming for help in the darkness.. died slowly.. oh my..😢
You would be so cold that you would go completely numb after a couple of minutes after the initial shock and pain of such cold water. You would shiver uncontrollably. After a few more minutes of that, you would suddenly feel warm and then you’d get really tired to the point you feel like you’re falling asleep, like you can’t stay awake. Then you’d stop breathing and die.
@@CamaroAmx you've experience freezing in there before? Just kidding
Can’t wait for it to start! Your vids are AMAZING!!
YES
Same
I could sit down talk Titanic all day with this guy. What a Buff
Great video sir! I’m impressed with the facts you shared but also the compassion and respect you have for those who died that night. You’re a good man and I enjoy your channel!
I actually heard that because of the issue of visibility, they could actually hear many more survivors in the distance but were unable to find them.
That is very possible. They may have tried their best, but complete darkness in the middle of the ocean, in a time where there exponentionally less light pollution, with no moonlight, is a kind of darkness can can only be can only be compared to a room with no lights, no window, and no light coming out of that room door cracks. With hundreds bodies around the person calling for help, it can be quite hard
@@FlorenceSlugcat You’re never in pure darkness outside. The stars shines light a bit and your vision start to adapt after some moments
How does this man not have 100,000 subs yet?
Give it time! He's racked up 15k in record time. I reckon by this time next year he'll have hit six-figures.
At the rate his channel is growing, he’ll hit that by the end of the month. Lol.
All this guy is doing is telling you what was in the James Cameron version of Titanic, and encyclopedia or 1st hand account interviews. I'm wondering if he got permission from the film studios involved in the JC movie or JC himself to use clips of the movie so this guy can make movie, via TH-cam for using unlicensed material, which is a Federal Law? THERE IS NO DISCLOSURE STATEMENT AT THE BOTTOM UNDER HIS DESCRIPTION OF THIS VIDEO.
@@melinda5777 What a sad little individual you are.
@@ministryofanti-feminism1493 Right! LOL! Look in the mirror. Or better yet, pay the people he hasn't disclosed and showed on his VIDEO!!
Absolutely loving these titanic videos my man, it's been a topic that has fascinated me since I was a young child. I'm about to watch a bunch of these.
Found this channel yesterday and I've binged so many videos already! This is great content, simple and understandable yet super informative! Fantastic
2:20 watched titanic multiple times. But this scene will always made me shiver down to my spine. James cameron did a great job on this scene. Imagine, you're alone, pitch black, screaming and yelling all around you, you tried to find your love one, how to survive...... God, it's horrifying.😢😭
You covered this so well and I was quite frankly elated to learn that any survivors were picked up at all. Thank you for your great research!
Your synopsis of the events of the Titanic is absolutely awesome! Informative, interesting and not long winded. Great summary. Glad I found your channel and RIP to the lost souls❤
Charles Joughin, the chief baker on the Titanic, spent two hours in the water until he got on Collapsible B. He drank large portions of brandy, acting like an anti-freeze, and kept his hair dry after the Titanic sank. These saved his life despite his legs and feet getting swollen.
Isn't that a myth about brandy being like anti-freeze?
Man, you are growing up so fast! you totally deserve it
Very difficult topic to talk about ! I always get teary eyed when dealing with this sequence of the desaster. But you did a very good job adressing it and the point you made at the end was very well articulated and I agree a hundred percent !
When we went to the Titanic exhibit in Branson, Missouri we were assigned names of the passengers before we went in. At the end of the exhibit, there is a wall with the names of the people that made it out alive and a list for people that perished. My husband was Captain Smith who died and I was a lady (forget her name) that lived. Wow! Did that ever hit home with that scenario. What those people and crew went through was unimaginable. Thanks for the video.
I swear I can’t stop watching these videos. One was recommended to me yesterday and I’ve been binge watching them between shifts at work.
I remember watching a video series early last year done by a couple who went on an Antarctic cruise right before the Covid thing shut down the cruise industry. The things that stand out from that series related to Titanic for me were that the ships are required to carry exposure suits for everybody on board, and they hold drills showing passengers how to quickly and correctly don them so if the need arises they know what to do. Later on in the series the crew offered the more adventurous passengers a chance to join the "polar bear club" and take a quick dunk off the stern of the ship. The response from the couple, who both did it, was it was like having your whole body set on fire.
Cold water exposure suits were first patented in the late 1880s, and were commercially available by the time Titanic was built. Unlike more life boats, suits could be stowed out of sight without taking up deck space. They also have the advantage of still being usable when the ship is listing to one side preventing boat from launching on the opposite side. While I wouldn't expect an "unsinkable" ship Titanic's size to carry enough for everybody, enough for the crew isn't outside the realm of possibility. Given that a modern exposure suit will keep you alive for six hours at a minimum, and Carpathia was 4 hours away when Titanic sunk, I can't help but wonder how many of the 1500 who went in the water would've survived if they were wearing exposure suits when they did so.
Its sad but in the end the board of the white star line or any ship company at that time would never buy those suits it would be to expensive to buy and maintain them
I just love your videos. I can't seem to thank you enough for making them.
Glad you like them!
It's such a sad situation! Absolutely horrific for everyone involved! I just found your channel this week and I'm hooked on your stories! Keep up the good work buddy!
Your videos are the most fascinating things on TH-cam. Great job as always. Really good
It doesn't take long to die in freezing water. I've been in ice-covered water several times doing a sauna-lake-sauna ritual. You begin to hyperventilate the moment you enter the water and I started to lose the ability to tread water (to control arms and legs) after only about 60-90 seconds. It was quite noticeable, I imagine that if I'd stayed in another 1-2 minutes, I would have been unable to effectively tread water. The most unexpected thing was that out of the water and back on the deck, even with an ambient air temp of around 1 C, it felt as warm as a gentle spring day. That sensation lasted for some time, long enough to drink a beer before going into the sauna.
Wow, just wow, you literally had your 11K subscriber livestream less than a week ago and you're already at over 15K! Congratulations! Ive been here since before you reached 1,000 and I've been watching your channel ever since, congratulations on 15K and I hope you gain 15 more.
All your videos are amazing. Your dedication to producing quality content about Titanic history/science is the reason TH-cam is a great platform!
Thank you for the sharing of your studies of the Titanic. Your telling stuff I wondered for years.
This video gave me chills.
Keep up the good work and stay safe.
P.S. May I suggest that in future you also list temperatures in °C as well, along with other values in metric. Given the growing success of your channel, you have many international (non-American) viewers, such as myself.
Thanks for another great video.
This video does hit the spot. And it's the truth when you mismanage the operation of any vessel, consequences can be pretty severe. Just about all transport museums should have a permanent exhibit based on the famous ship. That was one terrible event that happened on April 14th, 1912. Sam you may be young, but you have a big heart showing a superior consideration for the family members of the 1500 souls that lost their lives on that fateful night in 1912.
New subscriber here! Love your take on everything you do! I don’t know 🤷♀️ anyone who has done anything about Titanic quite like you .....giving us a much more clear idea with wonderful details of what they really went through.. thanks so much my friend I can never get enough of this whole story. I will be watching every video you do. James is a hero in my book for all he is and does so you are doing justice to everyone on that ship 🚢 that night and James and people working with him deserve. I appreciate you all 👏👍🤩
I guess one good thing about the missing sub is I found this channel!! Great stuff. Not much of a history guy but follow you really easily
Great video and commentary! You did a great job!
Thank you kindly!
Hi! I just want to start out by saying that I love your videos and I have learned so much from them. Anyway, I think a cool idea for a video is the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. Keep up the great vids!
And the story of the sharks.
This video made me cry...I have thought a lot about Titanic over the years but you brought to life what all those beautiful souls went through in the water. So sad.
Thank you Sam keep up the great work. I love the Titanic since I was a little boy.
Another great video! You have covered so much and I'm learning a great deal that I did not know. How about a video on Murdoch, his actions that night, and the role he played before and during the sinking?
I do talk about him in my women and children confusion video :)
You have a great deal of passion for a historic tragedy. It is appreciated.
I appreciate how much emotion you feel recounting the plight of the Titanic's passengers.
Fav new channel of 2021. Lifelong Titanic fan. Keep up the great work and stay safe!
Same
Thanks for all your videos. So great.
Absolutely love your videos, so very interesting!
Corrr this video sent chills down my spine! Imagine being in that situation. Hearing people suffer, but you have to wait until most die to save the lucky few that were still managing to hold on! Brrrrrrr spine tingling...
So refreshing and touching to hear the passengers spoken about in this way.
I often felt almost gratuitous at times watching the movies or even documentaries that we cant really appreciate the full horror of the disaster from the point of view of the victims or the witnesses.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that a survivor from the crew had his hair turn white due to the shock of what he had witnessed.
And another crew member survived this sinking only to go down with another ship?
This was your best video of the series ive seen. You bring amazing insight into the pain and suffering those people went through. People just like you and me. I ask myself, if everyone had survived would we even be talking about it really? Maybe but surely not as much as we do. Very good video.
Awesome video and your analysis!!
I really appreciate your excellent content! Love from a subscriber in South Australia.
Thank you very much!
Yo same
Could you do a video on the Japanese gentleman who survived the sinking, I’ve always been curious of his story because I know when he returned to Japan he was ridiculed and shamed for not dying on the titanic, I believe I’ve even heard that many years later when the James Cameron movie came out, that his relatives issued a statement apologizing for his surviving the sinking, I know times and culture now is different and in Japanese culture that honor is held extremely highly, but I honestly feel bad for the man. Also thank you this channel has become a favorite of mine, I’ve been watching and rewatching your videos while building a 1/570 scale model of the titanic haha, it helps get me in the zone and puts a deeper perspective of what happened that fateful night. -Kyle
I subbed at just over 10K about a week ago and the channel’s grown another 50% since then, wow! It’s fab to join a channel at this stage of it’s amazing growth. Your videos are fascinating, detailed, the info relayed so coherently. Well done sir! 👏👏👏
Thank you, I couldn’t do it without you!!
I’m a Titanic fanatic and finding this channel has been so relatable and interesting! Always more to learn
Charles Joughin, the ship's baker survived because he drank a lot of alcohol before leaving the ship and he was one of the last people to enter the water as he was on the stern. He said it was like riding an elevator going down and he simply stepped off into the water.....his blood was fortified with anti-freeze. He was in the water for almost three hours.
I used to obsess over the titanic when I was younger and learned just about everything about it, yet I’m sitting here still learning more from this man, I’ve met my match.
Just found your channel! About to binge.
I enjoy your videos very much ... I can`t explain it but I have always been drawn to anything about Titanic , as many others I imagine ... Thanks again
Not only the people in the lifeboats had to listen to all that people dying in the water, they also knew those people were there children, partners, friends, colleagues etc. as in almost all lifeboats were only women and little children allowed...
The officers in the lifeboats had an incredible hard decision to make by not going back into the mass. As a (former) firefighter/lifeguard I once had the situation it was not safe for us to go in and rescue someone. Was the hardest decision I had ever to make in my life.
Everyone forgets about the story of survivor fang Lang he was traveling with 7 other Chinese immigrants who they believed to be stowaways on titanic but were all paying 3rd class passengers on the same ticket his other 7 companions didn’t survive the sinking fang Lang was 26 years old at the time of the sinking
@Jack Der Hauptmann💀 A preview of what Japanese immigrants would face 30 years later
You're Channel has grown almost 800%!!! In the last 30 days that is insane
Great job
This channel has me so interested! Good Job! This is some really good research and I love it!
In the dark. WOW. This video was very well done. You put me right there. Very well done. A++
Wow, thank you!
For real...if I'd been one of the survivors, I'm 100% certain I'd never let myself be in total darkness again the rest of my life.
It’s beyond incomprehensible how they didn’t have enough life boats for all passengers
But if they did have enough lifeboats they wouldn't have had enough time to launch them. The ship sank before the last two lifeboats could be launched.
This is heartbreaking but you did a great job covering this topic. I think it’s easy for most people to look at the survivors in the life boats and judge them but as you mentioned, making them a victim too wouldn’t have helped anybody. I hope your channel continues to grow because I enjoy this channel
Great series on the titanic, been watching your past few videos. Well done.
Could you please do a video on what happened to the Binoculars and why the lookouts didn't have them.
good idea
The person with the key to the locker of the binocular was replaced before titanic left and he forgot to hand over the key, lucky for him he could have ended as a casualty but unfortunate for his replacement i guess
@@ex-soldier4341 I don’t believe that theory why would they have a specific room for the binoculars. And I’m pretty sure that the room where the binoculars are had the distress rockets they launched.
@@hititanic4082 Ex Soldier is correct. As was written, the binoculars were in a locker, not their own room. The key to the locker was taken accidentally by David Blair when he lost his position on the ship.
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Cold water immersion brings another lethal complication that you missed: Hyperventilation. Water that cold will quite literally suck the air from your lungs, and in your panicked state you will fight to breathe and you will hyperventilate. And it's very hard to do anything when you can't breathe.
Had people (passengers & crew) been instructed on the lifeboats, they would have known that the chances of a boat rolling over because they were pulling people in, were zero. Those boats weighed about 4+ tons each.
Indeed. Anyone who has tried to climb into a boat using life-lines strung as they were on the Titanic's lifeboats would be able to tell them that it is impossible to put much load on those ropes even in warm conditions with hands that can still grip and impossible to get over the gunwales without help from within the boat. Sad indeed that those that were prepared to go in and help those in the water were, in most cases, out-voted by those fearing being capsized. (I recall reading a letter that had been exchanged between two survivors who were over-ruled in this way. Those on the oars simply refused to row back)
Love the TITANIC videos, keep up the great work!!! Looking forward to the next one!!
I love your videos! I’ve always been interested in the titanic but your passion for it is admirable! Looking forward to more ship wreck videos! (I almost said “looking forward to more shipwrecks” 😳)
Hey dude! I'm a teacher and my Summer School class has been fascinated with learning more about the titanic, and I've been showing them a lot of your videos because of how informative you are! One of them had a rather interesting question that I realized may have affected a lot more than just the people who were in the water;
What if the waters the Titanic sank in were just barely above freezing? Would everyone in the water have survived? How would it have affected the rescue, and would it have had any significant affect on the structural integrity of the Titanic's hull and the resulting damage?
I think it would be really interesting to see CGI footage if we found the Titanic say a week or so after she went down (since it wasn't possible in 1912). To see it with all the wood decks intact, the new paint without all the rusticals, clearer images of the wreckage to better help us understand how she broke apart etc etc