What Titanic's Bridge Misread in the Ice

In 1907, Captain Edward Smith declared that he could not "imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder." Five years later, his liner sank into the North Atlantic in two hours and forty minutes. Yet during the sinking, Quartermaster George Rowe phoned the bridge simply to ask why a lifeboat had just drifted past his watch station. Sources: Titanic (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic Sinking of the Titanic (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking... British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry into the sinking of the: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British... They Said It Couldn’t Sink | National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/publications... National Archives Loans Artifacts from the Titanic | Nationa: https://www.archives.gov/news/article... Survivors of the Titanic who were taken aboard the Carpathia: https://www.archives.gov/research/imm... Maritime Heritage Program - Titanic: https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/maritime... 0:00 Introduction 2:36 The Lookout's Bell and the Helm 3:49 The Naval Architect's Damage Assessment 4:59 The Midpoint Turn: The Measured Gash That Never Was 7:41 The Quartermaster's Query and the Boat Deck 10:50 The Watch Officer's Rockets and the Unheard Morse 12:00 The Final Plunge and the Inward Collapse 12:29 The Departure from Southampton 13:23 Finding the Wreckage 14:40 The Verdict of the London Inquiry Credits: Titanic voyage map Arabic antique-look (CC BY-SA 4.0, Timdwilliamson) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Engine order telegraph close-up (CC BY-SA 4.0, TedColes) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Titanic boat deck plan (CC BY-SA 3.0, User 699) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Ocean waves at Lækjavik beach, Iceland (CC BY 3.0, Alexander Grebenkov) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Poisson et fonds abyssaux (Ifremer 00701-81286) (CC BY 4.0, null) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Historical photographs: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, U.S. Navy and other archives. Narration is synthetic. Script research is drawn from the sources above. Stock footage is illustrative and may not show the exact events. #deepsea #shipwrecks #oceanmysteries