Il existe de nombreux mythes autour du Titanic, mais voici quelques faits intéressants qui les démentent. Pour commencer, le Titanic n'était pas vraiment présenté comme "insubmersible" avant son départ ; c'était plutôt une légende qui s'est développée après la catastrophe. Contrairement à la croyance populaire, le navire n'allait pas trop vite à cause d'une course contre la montre ; il se déplaçait en fait à une vitesse normale pour l'époque. Un autre mythe est que l'orchestre du navire jouait "Plus près de toi, mon Dieu" alors qu'il coulait, mais il n'y a aucune preuve solide pour confirmer cela. Enfin, il y avait de nombreux avertissements concernant les iceberg, mais une combinaison d'erreurs humaines et de mauvaise communication a conduit à la tragique collision. Animation créée par Sympa.
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00:00April 14, 1912. The Titanic hit a huge iceberg and sank. Yeah, we've already talked about
00:07it. But what if this time we used ice to bring the boat back to the surface? It requires
00:14several thousand meters of grid and a lot of liquid nitrogen. Our goal is to put the
00:18Titanic in a huge block of ice that will bring the ship back to the surface. To do this,
00:23you have to wrap the wreck in the grid and cover it with liquid nitrogen. The first
00:28problem you will encounter is the impossibility of completely wrapping the ship. You have to
00:33lift the boat a little to put the grid underneath. But let's say that by miracle, you
00:38succeed. Then you have to run hundreds of large tanks of liquid nitrogen. You are
00:44under water, you open the tanks and ... it is so cold that the icy water of the Atlantic
00:49Ocean seems to boil. The nitrogen thickens and dissipates, but certainly does not create
00:54a block of ice around the grid. New attempt. Lift the Titanic with huge
01:00magnets. To do this, you will need a large ship and extremely powerful magnets. You
01:05attach large cables to the magnets and you lower them to the bottom of the water. Powerful
01:09projectors illuminate the dark depths of the ocean. Parts of the wreck are visible.
01:13The magnets go lower and cling to the iron hull of the ship. It brings the cables
01:19and magnets up. Some of them detach from the Titanic because the iron surface
01:23is covered with reefs and corals. Some parts of the wreck detach from the ship and go up.
01:28The ship's power is not enough. One of the cables tears. It is not only the weight
01:33of the different parts of the Titanic that interferes with the operation, but also the colossal
01:38pressure of the water. The sunken ship cannot be lifted completely at once, but only
01:43in small parts. In reality, there has already been an attempt to reassemble the Titanic
01:47in several parts. The operation, at a cost of 5 million dollars, had failed. Nylon
01:53cables had been attached to a large part of the wreck. The other ends of the
01:56hulls were connected to diesel engines. For the entire operation, they had used a mini-submarine.
02:02A piece of the 21-ton Titanic had been pulled up, but one of the hulls had broken
02:07due to the high pressure of the water. Then, one by one, the other cables had begun to
02:12let go and a huge piece had fallen back to the bottom of the sea. At that moment, all
02:17those involved in the rescue operation had exhausted their food reserves and were
02:22far from the nearest coast. They had therefore decided not to make a second attempt.
02:26A book was written and a film was shot about how the Titanic was
02:31reassembled using compressed air. In reality, no one has ever attempted this operation.
02:35To do this, it would take several hundred large cylinders of compressed air.
02:39First, they are installed inside the hull of the Titanic and they are waited for to pull
02:44the ship to the surface. As soon as you lower the cylinders under the water, they float
02:48immediately upwards. This complicates the operation considerably. You have to attach
02:53the cylinders with cables and pull them to the bottom using a powerful submarine,
02:58or even better, several. Due to the high pressure, the cylinders can explode.
03:04In this case, the shock wave would hit other cylinders and cause a disaster.
03:08A solution that is too expensive and not safe. The most expensive and most complex plan
03:13to reassemble the Titanic is probably the one in which scientists extract
03:18the hydrogen and oxygen from the ocean water. Then, these extracted elements must fill
03:23special containers. These containers would be attached to the ship and the Titanic would return
03:28to the surface. Even if you managed to extract the oxygen and hydrogen from millions
03:32of tons of water, the rest of the ocean water would replace them. A machine that would be
03:37able to perform a filtration of this type would cost billions of dollars. Or you can
03:42imagine a chemical element that would use a chain reaction to purify all
03:46the water. In this case, all of the world's ocean would end up in its essential oxygen.
03:52Someone suggested once to blow up the Titanic. It will take a lot of boxes of
03:56dynamite to go down to the bottom of the ocean. They must be completely sealed to prevent
04:00the dynamite from getting wet. Then, you have to install several kilometers of electric current
04:05conducting wire up to it. Once all this is done, you sail at a safe distance.
04:10Now, you're going to press the button to get the current through the wire and activate
04:14the dynamite. 3, 2, 1, stop! Why do this? Even if it works, the wreck of the Titanic
04:22will be scattered in all directions on the bottom of the sea. It would be impossible
04:27to lift the Titanic from the ocean. Imagine a huge hook capable of catching the Titanic
04:32and lifting it from the bottom like a fish. This hook must be huge to be able to pick up
04:37a sinking ship. Let's say you created it. Then, you are on board a huge ship
04:41that sails to the site of the shipwreck and you lower the hook like an anchor. It falls
04:46directly on the Titanic but does not hang on to it. You need special equipment to attach
04:51a hook the size of a bus to the Titanic. For this, you would need a huge submarine
04:56equipped with mechanical arms. Building this kind of device and operating it under
05:00such high pressure is already almost impossible. But let's say you finally manage
05:05to hang the Titanic. Then you realize that the ship does not have enough power
05:10to lift the ship of more than 50 tons and the hook which adds about 10 tons more.
05:15To do your job well, you will need a few more cruisers and a few
05:20million dollars more. Hmm ... Once the hot wax cools, it hardens and floats
05:26on the surface of the water. What if we transported it to the bottom of the ocean and poured it
05:30inside the Titanic? It could work since wax is not
05:34a costly material. So we melt the wax, we pour it into solid tanks and we
05:41pull them to the bottom with the help of a submarine. The tanks can withstand
05:45a lot of pressure and the submarine has enough power to lower the wax to
05:49this depth. The containers are placed inside the Titanic. Thanks to the remote control,
05:55you open the containers but the wax does not flow. The more you go down, the cooler the water
05:59gets. While you were transporting the containers to the ship, the wax cooled
06:03and solidified inside. Several containers are pressed against the top of the ship.
06:09But this is not enough to lift the Titanic. Other containers simply float
06:13to the surface. And even if the containers were thermostatic and kept the heat inside
06:18all the time, once released, the wax would solidify in an instant. It would not have
06:23time to spread and cover the Titanic from the inside. It would therefore float
06:28to the top. You fill several large robust bags with vaseline. This substance acts
06:34like wax in the cold. It becomes solid and floats. You want to put bags everywhere
06:39in the Titanic and wait for the vaseline to bring it back up. You load the bags
06:44in the submarine and you go down to the bottom of the sea. Some parts of the ship are inaccessible
06:49because of the corals that clung to it. You decide to unload all the bags
06:53in the same place. But as soon as you take the vaseline out of the submarine, the bags
06:57tear because of the high pressure. Solid pieces of vaseline float, pushed by the
07:03waters. Mission failed. The craziest idea is to fill the Titanic with millions
07:09of ping-pong balls. Small plastic balls filled with air should push the ship
07:13to the surface. But as soon as you start to bring them down to the bottom, the plastic
07:18flattens immediately and all the air from the balls escapes. You can put the balls
07:23in a submarine, but if you put them in the Titanic, the pressure will crush them again.
07:28You can also create balls made of ultra-light and solid material, then fill them
07:33with air. In this case, you will need a lot more money. As soon as you have placed the balls
07:39inside the ship, some of them will immediately slip through the holes in the ship,
07:44and the others will not be enough to lift the wreck from the bottom, which weighs more than 50 tons.
07:49No one could have imagined that the insubmersible Titanic would collide with an iceberg.
07:55Except for one man, William Thomas Stead. Well, not like that all of a sudden, of course.
08:00It's not like he woke up in a hurry on a beautiful day, imagining the disaster of the Titanic.
08:05He rather wrote a new edifying article, entitled
08:08How the Postal Paquebo will sink in the middle of the Atlantic by a survivor on March 3, 1886,
08:15that is, 26 years before the shipwreck of the Titanic.
08:18Let's recap briefly. The Titanic was going to Southampton, New York,
08:23across the North Atlantic in April 1912. The ship hit an iceberg, and less than 3 hours later,
08:29it was completely submerged. Of the 2,208 people on board, only 706 survived,
08:36due to the limited number of lifeboats and frozen water.
08:40Another passenger ship, the Carpaccia, heard its distress call,
08:44picked up the survivors and brought them back safe and sound to New York.
08:48The news written by William Stead tells the story of Thomas, a British sailor,
08:53who boards a boat to the United States. At one point, the protagonist realizes
08:58that there are not enough lifeboats for everyone on board the ship, in case something happens.
09:03A few days later, a thick fog hides all visibility.
09:07The ship is clearly unlucky, as it collides with a missing ship,
09:11just like the Titanic hit its iceberg. Only 200 of the 916 passengers
09:15manage to reach the United States safe and sound.
09:18The main character nevertheless manages to survive by jumping into the water
09:22and climbing into one of the lifeboats.
09:25One might think that this story would have encouraged all sailors
09:28to add additional lifeboats to the ships.
09:31But unfortunately, it received very little attention during its publication.
09:35Even more tragic, William Thomas Stead was on board the Titanic when it sank,
09:40and he did not survive.
09:42Survivors who had met Stead mentioned that he was an affable man
09:46who liked to talk a lot during meals.
09:49He admired the design of the ship and praised its robustness.
09:52Witnesses also reported that he had shown himself worthy of praise
09:56while the ship was sinking, giving his life jacket to another passenger.
10:00A professional journalist, he went to New York for a ceremony.
10:04One of his most important contributions to modern journalism
10:08was the use of illustrations in each of his articles.
10:11He also introduced press interviews,
10:14which are still used today, as well as illustrations.
10:18But this story was not the only work to have predicted such a disaster.
10:22Morgan Robertson was an author and a former captain of a ship
10:26who wrote news and novels.
10:28His most remarkable work is The Shipwreck of the Titanic.
10:32It is also known as Futility.
10:34The book was written in 1898, 14 years before the Titanic.
10:39It is a fiction about the adventure of the Titan,
10:42a shipwreck similar to the Titanic, crossing the North Atlantic.
10:46By an incredible coincidence, the Titan is as fast as the Titanic
10:50and shares many other similarities with it,
10:53such as its size or design.
10:55The book describes it as insubmersible
10:57and as the largest ship ever to cross the seas.
11:00And that's also what we said about the Titanic.
11:02Another strange similarity is the limited number of lifeboats it has.
11:07The story takes place in April,
11:09and it was at this moment that the Titanic began its journey
11:12and hit an iceberg.
11:14The story of the Titan also mentions that
11:16almost no one survived the horrible accident.
11:18Unlike the story of Stead,
11:20Robertson's protagonist takes a different path.
11:23The shipwreck of the Titan takes place somewhere in the middle of the book.
11:27Thus, after the disaster, the main character continues his life.
11:31This book is back on the front of the scene after the disaster of the Titanic.
11:35How could someone describe with such precision
11:38the events that would take place almost ten years later?
11:41Many began to believe that Robertson could guess the future.
11:44But in reality, Robertson simply knew about ships.
11:48It would have been easy for him to describe the smallest details
11:51without doing additional research.
11:53In reality, one of the greatest threats to ships of the time
11:56was to hit an iceberg or collide with other ships.
12:00The following story seems a little mysterious.
12:03One day, Alex McKenzie heard a voice
12:06warning him not to board the Titanic.
12:09But when he turned around, there was no one.
12:12As he continued to walk, the voice spoke to him again.
12:16But this time, it was stronger and more distinct.
12:19He took the warning seriously
12:21and decided to cancel his trip and return to Glasgow, Scotland,
12:25his hometown.
12:27His grandparents were not very happy to find him on the boat
12:30rather than on board the Titanic.
12:32After all, the ticket was very expensive.
12:35This disappointment quickly dissipated
12:37when they learned that the ship had hit an iceberg.
12:40John Coffey was a member of the crew of the Titanic,
12:43but he decided to give up the trip
12:45when the tugboat stopped in his hometown of Queenstown, Ireland.
12:49His inner voice told him to leave the ship, which he did.
12:53He was only 23 at the time.
12:55And for someone his age,
12:57it could have been a major boost to his career
12:59and an opportunity to flourish.
13:01However, this horrible tragedy did not prevent our man
13:04from signing on board the RMS Mauritania
13:06just a few months after the shipwreck of the Titanic.
13:08You're talking about a commitment.
13:10Additional information has been revealed
13:12on what could have contributed to the Titanic disaster.
13:15The builders insisted that the ship was unsinkable.
13:18But many people then hypothesized
13:21that the ship's steel plates were too fragile
13:23for the Atlantic's icy waters.
13:25This could have blown up the shores,
13:27allowing water from the ocean to infiltrate inside.
13:30Another theory is that a fire was declared
13:33under the Titanic's deck,
13:35which would have been raging for three weeks before the trip.
13:38This fire could have softened the steel,
13:40allowing the iceberg to tear it like a knife into butter.
13:44Some photos taken before the ship left for the trip
13:47show black marks on the hull,
13:49which could have been caused by the fire.
13:51In any case, the iceberg would have caused significant damage,
13:55whether there had been a fire or not.
13:59It was the very beginning of 1912.
14:01A huge piece of ice had detached from a glacier
14:04in the southwest of Greenland.
14:06This ice had come from a snowfall
14:08about 100,000 years before the event.
14:11At that time, mammoths were still hovering over the planet.
14:15The iceberg had begun its journey.
14:17It was huge.
14:18It was more than 500 meters long
14:20and weighed about 75 million tons.
14:23It was a very peaceful piece of ice.
14:25It wandered away from the most frequent ships and roads.
14:29There weren't many of them in the region, that's true.
14:34And then it began to drift a little further south.
14:36Our iceberg was lucky.
14:38In general, these big icicles melt well before reaching their latitudes.
14:43Of the 15,000 to 30,000 icebergs drifting far from Greenland's glaciers,
14:46only 1% reach the Atlantic.
14:51That's why it's so surprising that in April 1912,
14:53our iceberg-traveller had already drifted
14:55more than 2,400 kilometers from the Arctic Circle.
15:00Even after melting for months,
15:02this block of ice weighed another 1.5 million tons.
15:06It's almost twice as heavy as the Golden Gate Bridge.
15:09The upper part of the iceberg dominated the surface of the ocean
15:12for more than 30 meters.
15:14And yet, if you had noticed it near your boat,
15:17it would have seemed harmless to you.
15:19But only at first glance,
15:21because only a very small part of our iceberg was visible.
15:24The biggest of an iceberg is always hidden under the surface.
15:27Normally, only a tenth of its mass is visible above the water.
15:31And the iceberg we're talking about was no exception.
15:34Several days before our iceberg reached the Atlantic Ocean,
15:37a magnificent ship had left the Amars.
15:40It was a luxury steamboat
15:42that carried more than 3,000 passengers and crew.
15:45At the time, it was the largest ship ever built.
15:49This steamboat was called the Titanic.
15:52It was considered unsinkable.
15:54At the very beginning of its voyage,
15:56it almost collided with another ship, the New York.
15:59Fortunately, the Titanic was only a few meters away from it.
16:03The passengers, gathered on deck,
16:05breathed a big sigh of relief.
16:07But they didn't know what to expect in the near future.
16:10Meanwhile, the iceberg was approaching the area
16:13the Titanic was going to cross on its way to New York.
16:17It happened on April 14th,
16:19when the Titanic was in the North Atlantic,
16:22600 kilometers from New York.
16:25Around 11.40 p.m., those on board the Titanic were still awake,
16:28and were pushed to the ground by a mysterious and powerful force.
16:32Those who were lying down fell violently from their beds.
16:35Passengers and crew members screamed, panicked and disoriented.
16:41A few minutes before the tumult began,
16:43an iceberg appeared right in front of the boat.
16:46It was our passenger.
16:48How did the crew not notice it earlier?
16:51There may be several reasons for this.
16:53I'll tell you about it a little later.
16:57Anyway, once the steamboat collided with the huge piece of ice,
17:01it was doomed.
17:02Unable to divert its course,
17:04the ship quickly broke at least five of its hull compartments.
17:07They began to fill up with water at an alarming rate.
17:11The Titanic's compartments were not covered in their upper part.
17:15The water spilled and filled all the compartments one after the other.
17:20The front of the ship began to sink,
17:22and the rear part rose vertically into the air.
17:25Then, in a deafening rumble,
17:27the steamboat broke in two.
17:29The rest is history.
17:32But few people know what happened to the iceberg
17:34after its collision with the ship.
17:37This brings us back to the question of why no one had noticed
17:40the mountain of floating ice before it was too late.
17:44Let's follow the events of that fateful day.
17:48Around 6 p.m., Captain Smith finally decided to change the course of the Titanic.
17:52Throughout the day, he received alerts about the presence of icebergs.
17:57The ship began to head further south,
17:59but its speed remained the same.
18:02At 9.40 p.m., another ship informed the Titanic
18:04of a vast field of ice filled with icebergs.
18:08Unfortunately, no one took notice of this message.
18:12Around 11 p.m., another steamboat contacted the Titanic by radio.
18:16They said that the ice had encircled them and forced them to stop.
18:21This message was also ignored.
18:23During this time, most of the passengers of the luxurious boat
18:26had already withdrawn to their rooms.
18:28At 11.35 p.m., the getters of the Titanic's observation post noticed the iceberg.
18:33They rang the bell three times,
18:35which meant that there was something in front of them.
18:38Then, they called the bridge.
18:40The engines were reversed,
18:42and the doors of the supposedly waterproof compartments closed.
18:45Only five minutes later,
18:47the tribord phase of the huge steamboat collided with the iceberg.
18:52The mail room began to fill with water.
18:54Soon, more reports arrived.
18:57Things are not going well.
18:59At least five other compartments are flooded.
19:01It becomes clear that the Titanic will only float for a few hours.
19:06The night is exceptionally calm,
19:08with no moonlight, no wind and no swell.
19:10And as no wave breaks against the iceberg,
19:13it is very difficult to perceive its presence.
19:15But there is also a theory
19:17that it could be a black iceberg that sank the Titanic.
19:22If you had to draw an iceberg,
19:24I bet you would make a huge piece of white ice covered with snow.
19:28But those who have visited Antarctica
19:30know that icebergs can have many aspects.
19:33They can be multicolored, patterned or striped like candy.
19:38Icebergs can also be black.
19:41There may be two reasons for the formation of an iceberg of this unusual color.
19:46First, the ice can be extremely pure,
19:48without any air bubbles or cracks.
19:50In this case, there is nothing to disperse the light.
19:54The iceberg will absorb it entirely and appear black.
19:58The second possibility is that a volcanic eruption
20:00covers a volcanic ash glacier.
20:03Then the ice that will detach from this glacier
20:05will also be dark in color.
20:08Experts do not know why the Titanic's iceberg was so dark,
20:11or if it really was.
20:13But one of the observers at the observation post
20:15said that the ice was black.
20:18Another said that it was either gray or grayish.
20:22There is nothing exciting or mysterious
20:24in the so-called black icebergs.
20:26These are icebergs that have turned over
20:28after their upper part has melted
20:30and changed the distribution of their weight.
20:33If their lower part is smooth enough to absorb the light,
20:36they will have a dark aspect.
20:38In addition, they are generally not exposed to the air for long enough
20:41for the white ash to accumulate.
20:44But let's admit that this theory is false
20:46and that the iceberg was not really black.
20:48It remains that if you see the objects,
20:50it is only because they reflect light.
20:52The less light there is,
20:54the less likely you are to notice something.
20:56The surface of the ocean
20:58will always reflect the light of the Moon and the stars.
21:01But an irregularly shaped iceberg,
21:03almost vertical, will have less chance of doing so.
21:06This is why it will look almost black on the surface of the bright water.
21:09At night, icebergs can be quite difficult to detect without a radar.
21:13Anyway, our iceberg was not noticed in time.
21:16The Titanic crashed against it and sank.
21:19End of story?
21:21Apparently not.
21:23On April 15, the German SS-Prinz Aldebar
21:26was sailing in the North Atlantic.
21:28He was a few kilometers from the place
21:30where the Titanic had sunk a few hours earlier.
21:33The captain of the German ship,
21:35who had not yet been informed of the disaster,
21:37spotted an iceberg.
21:39What caught his attention
21:41was a fairly large trail of red paint
21:43on the base of the iceberg.
21:45Surprised, the man took a picture.
21:48It is said that this trail of paint
21:50meant that a boat had hit the iceberg
21:52during the last 12 hours.
21:54The next person to see the sadly famous piece of ice,
21:56and who also photographed it,
21:58was the captain of the ship,
22:00serving to put the telecommunications cables at sea.
22:03The ship had been sent to the region
22:05where the Titanic had sunk.
22:07The captain later stated that the iceberg
22:09he had seen was the only one in this area.
22:11And then there was this red paint.
22:13It was not difficult to make the link.
22:15In 2015, one of these photos
22:17was sold at auction for more than $32,000.
22:19However, experts are not sure
22:21that the image really represents
22:23the famous block of ice.
22:25It could be an innocent iceberg
22:27floating in its waters at that moment.
22:31We know the Titanic by stories,
22:33and also by a movie.
22:35Now, we even have a scan of nature.
22:37And no, it is not one of these old models
22:39that made us wonder
22:41what the ship really looked like.
22:43This time, we obtained
22:45a digital VR eye scan.
22:47A team of experts mapped
22:49the seabed around the Titanic,
22:51as well as the ship itself.
22:53We therefore obtained a 3D image
22:55of the whole.
22:57It is as if we were diving
22:59to incredible depths
23:01to see the wreck without water all around.
23:03The history of the wreck
23:05began in 1985,
23:0773 years after the shipwreck of the Titanic.
23:09Explorer Robert Ballard
23:11discovered it hidden
23:13between two submarines
23:15that had also sunk in this area.
23:17He was in fact in charge of another mission at the time,
23:19and therefore did not have time
23:21to explore the ship properly.
23:23But during his research,
23:25he realized the influence
23:27of sea currents on wreck debris.
23:29He noticed that the heaviest objects
23:31were sinking rapidly
23:33and left a trail of debris
23:35behind them,
23:37according to the direction of the currents.
23:39Before he discovered the wreck,
23:41it was believed that the ship
23:43had sunk in one piece
23:45after hitting the iceberg.
23:47Thus, we now knew where the ship was
23:49and the adventure could begin.
23:51Or not, its exploration was very difficult.
23:53The wreck is huge
23:55and the darkness of the ocean
23:57did not allow us to see it in its entirety.
23:59So we had to settle for fragments
24:01in decomposition,
24:03and we could only speculate
24:05on what all these parts
24:07together.
24:09But in the summer of 2022,
24:11we finally had something different.
24:13A team of experts from Magellan Ltd.,
24:15a company specialized in
24:17mapping marine depths,
24:19partnered with Atlantic Productions,
24:21who were making a documentary on the project.
24:23They embarked on a mission
24:25to compose a complete image of the Titanic.
24:27They used submersibles.
24:29These are vehicles that go underwater,
24:31remotely controlled by a team
24:33of qualified explorers.
24:35The submersibles dived deep into the ocean.
24:37It was not an easy task.
24:39They spent more than 200 hours
24:41collecting information
24:43on the length and width of the wreck.
24:45A real treasure hunt.
24:47But instead of finding gold and jewels,
24:49they collected something
24:51even more precious.
24:53More than 700,000 images of the Titanic
24:55from all possible angles.
24:57Yes, they took pictures
24:59of each small part of the ship,
25:01even the less interesting ones.
25:03Identifying the parts covered with mud
25:05was important because it allowed
25:07to link the different pieces
25:09of the huge puzzle.
25:11And that allowed us to obtain
25:13a detailed reconstruction of the ship in 3D.
25:15Even if it's been more than 100 years,
25:17you can still recognize the bow of the Titanic.
25:19Covered with rust stalactites.
25:21Above the bow is the ship's deck,
25:23where a large hole gives us an overview
25:25of the space that once hosted
25:27the large staircase.
25:29A real window
25:31into the ship's past.
25:33Its deck is just a pile of twisted metal.
25:35When the Titanic sank,
25:37this part collapsed
25:39and sank into the depths.
25:41The bow and the deck were separated
25:43by about 800 meters.
25:45A vast field of debris surrounds
25:47this giant, immobilized at the bottom of the sea.
25:49These debris are like a treasure spread.
25:51Iron decorations
25:53from the ship, statues
25:55and even unopened champagne bottles.
25:57There are also personal effects
25:59that darkened at the same time as the ship.
26:01For example, dozens and dozens
26:03of shoes.
26:05It was not an easy task to get down
26:07and take all these photos.
26:09It doesn't seem so difficult at first glance
26:11since it's a robot that sank
26:13into these unimaginable depths
26:15and not people.
26:17But studying the ocean is difficult.
26:1980% of the ocean has not yet been explored,
26:21mapped or even seen.
26:23The conditions are extreme
26:25and the pressure is getting stronger
26:27and our vehicle had to dive
26:29up to almost 4,000 meters.
26:31It's like 12 Eiffel Towers stacked
26:33on top of each other.
26:35In addition, there is strong current in this area.
26:37So it was a bit like sailing
26:39in an aquatic labyrinth.
26:41And the submersibles were not supposed to touch
26:43anything.
26:45The slightest wrong step could damage the wreck
26:47already very fragile.
26:49We have the impression that the Titanic is frozen in time
26:51and that it will always be there waiting for us.
26:53But in reality, it disappears slowly.
26:55It is quite obvious that the water of the ocean
26:57damaged it, given the time it spent
26:59underneath. But that's not all.
27:01The wreck now houses a particular type of bacteria
27:03which has even received the name of the famous ship.
27:05These bacteria have a particular
27:07habit. They can survive
27:09inside rust formations
27:11known as rusticles.
27:13They look a bit like stalactites,
27:15these ice spikes
27:17that form when the water falls from a height
27:19by freezing. These bacteria are
27:21iron shards that can be found in abundance
27:23in the hull of the ship.
27:25A real buffet for these creatures.
27:27And over time,
27:29these bacteria will continue to
27:31iron the ship, little by little,
27:33until one day, the feast ends
27:35with the disappearance of the ship.
27:37It's like a slow but regular
27:39recycling process.
27:41Thus, this 3D model that we have
27:43obtained thanks to the hard work of the researchers
27:45and the technology comes at the right time.
27:47Because we don't know how much
27:49time we have left to explore the wreck.
27:51And this could allow us to better
27:53understand the collision between the Titanic
27:55and the iceberg. The movies always show us
27:57the Titanic hitting the iceberg
27:59on the right side. Well, we can't
28:01really be sure.
28:03These images could help us understand
28:05if the ship really landed on the iceberg.
28:07If it's hooked.
28:09We can study the stern
28:11and analyze the way the Titanic
28:13hit the seabed.
28:15This will also help us understand what
28:17really happened during the shipwreck.
28:19Maybe we will have the chance to discover
28:21if it's really a violent fire
28:23that sealed the fate of the Titanic.
28:25According to a theory, a fire would have
28:27raged for three weeks before
28:29the ship made its first and last
28:31voyage. This would have weakened
28:33its hull, which means
28:35that the biggest part of the work had already been done.
28:37The iceberg would have only
28:39given it thanks. And if there was
28:41even an iceberg, as some wonder.
28:43According to another theory,
28:45the Titanic would have actually hit
28:47a massive ice mass instead of an iceberg.
28:49The bank is made up of
28:51large plates of ice floating
28:53near the surface of the ocean,
28:55which can be difficult to spot.
28:57They think that this mass
28:59could have drifted into the Atlantic
29:01from the Arctic Ocean.
29:03According to a professional sailor who defends this idea,
29:05if the Titanic had hit an ordinary iceberg,
29:07the ship would have sank
29:09much faster than it did.
29:11And since the Titanic managed
29:13to stay on the surface for a relatively
29:15long time, almost three hours,
29:17it may have been a different
29:19type of collision.
29:21He also said that the testimonies of the people
29:23present were sometimes contradictory.
29:25They think these differences
29:27are due to optical illusions.
29:29When people looked at the ocean
29:31that night, the way the light
29:33reflected on the water, as well as the
29:35particular conditions at that time,
29:37could give them the impression that some objects
29:39were closer to being than they were
29:41in reality. Thus, they may have
29:43seen something other than what was really
29:45in front of them. An iceberg,
29:47or something else.
29:49Twins could have helped the crew members
29:51to spot the potential danger,
29:53but unfortunately, they did not.
29:55It seems that they were
29:57in a closet where no one
29:59apparently had the key.
30:01The night was dark and scary.
30:03A few hundred people were sitting
30:05in lifeboats, not knowing
30:07what was going to happen next,
30:09or what their lives would look like
30:11at that moment. All they knew
30:13was that the giant ship on which
30:15they were sailing a few hours earlier
30:17had disappeared before their eyes.
30:19They were alone and waiting for help.
30:21Was someone going to come?
30:23They did not know if the other ships,
30:25which were relatively close to them,
30:27had heard their call for help.
30:29There was nothing else to do but wait.
30:31The Titanic, an iceberg,
30:33is the night of April 14, 1912.
30:35It is one of the most famous
30:37stories in modern history
30:39that everyone still talks about today,
30:41more than 100 years later.
30:43The lifeboats on board
30:45could only accommodate
30:47a little more than 50%
30:49of the total number of passengers,
30:51and many of them were still half empty.
30:53In one of them, there was
30:55a two-month-old girl, Milvina Dean.
30:57She was the youngest passenger
30:59on board the giant ship.
31:01Her parents had decided to leave
31:03England because they dreamed
31:05of a better life in the United States.
31:07Her father had family in Kansas
31:09and he hoped he could create
31:11his own business there.
31:13The Dean family had not really
31:15chosen to be on board this legendary
31:17giant lifeboat, but because of a coal strike,
31:19they had been transferred there
31:21so that they embarked in St. Hampton
31:23as third-class passengers.
31:25Milvina's father felt something
31:27when the ship hit the iceberg
31:29during this cold and apparently
31:31peaceful night.
31:33He immediately went up to investigate.
31:35When he saw people panicking
31:37and crew members giving warnings
31:39about the real danger of the situation,
31:41he rushed into the cabin
31:43to find his wife.
31:45He told her to dress the children
31:47and get on the deck quickly.
31:49The crew members gave the order
31:51to prepare the lifeboats
31:53and to start transferring
31:55the women and children first.
31:57It was a chance for at least
31:59a few family members
32:01to put themselves in safety.
32:03Milvina's family was the first
32:05to leave the lifeboat
32:07among the 706 crew members
32:09who managed to escape
32:11from the sinking ship.
32:13Later, a lifeboat named Carpathia
32:15heard their call for help
32:17and came to pick up the passengers
32:19and took them to New York.
32:21Unfortunately, her father
32:23was left behind and failed
32:25to save himself.
32:27Milvina grew up in the small town
32:29of Ashhurst, England,
32:31where she worked as a secretary
32:33and assistant in small companies
32:35in St. Hampton.
32:37She never got married.
32:39Milvina always said
32:41she never talked about the Titanic
32:43because she didn't remember anything
32:45and she didn't want people
32:47to think she drew attention to her.
32:49In 1985, a Franco-American team
32:51gathered and located the wreck
32:53of the Titanic.
32:55It was located about 600 km
32:57east of Mistaken Point
32:59and more than 3 mm deep.
33:01It was then that they confirmed
33:03that the ship had split in two.
33:05For decades, people had believed
33:07that the ship had sunk in one block.
33:09They thought that the only major damage
33:11was that suffered by the hull
33:13during its contact with the iceberg.
33:15In reality, it broke in two
33:17between its third
33:19and fourth chimney.
33:21This happened shortly before
33:23the ship disappeared
33:25under the surface of the water
33:27and hit the iceberg.
33:29The whole process lasted
33:31about 2 hours and 40 minutes.
33:33People didn't pay much attention
33:35to the Titanic until this team
33:37of researchers discovered the wreck.
33:39During the last years of her life,
33:41Milvina sold some of her family's
33:43property at auction to pay
33:45for her stay in a retirement home.
33:47The objects she sold also included
33:49a suitcase full of clothes
33:51that her family had received
33:53when they arrived in the United States
33:55from the Titanic Relief Fund.
33:57Her letters of compensation
33:59described the financial aid
34:01that some passengers
34:03who had survived the loss
34:05of their loved ones would receive.
34:07Milvina would have lived
34:09until the age of 97
34:11before catching pneumonia.
34:13She was the youngest
34:15of the 705 people
34:17who survived the event.
34:19The Titanic was the largest ship
34:21in the world.
34:23The Titanic had a chimney
34:25that was purely decorative.
34:272,200 people were on board
34:29when the ship sank.
34:31There were 908 crew members
34:33and the maximum number of passengers
34:35was 3,500.
34:37As you have probably seen
34:39in the film,
34:41there were different classes
34:43of passengers.
34:45The accumulated wealth
34:47estimated by those who were
34:49in the first class
34:51that objects worth
34:536 million dollars
34:55had sunk to the bottom of the ocean
34:57with the ship.
34:59The first class
35:01was a place of great luxury.
35:03There were four restaurants,
35:05two libraries,
35:07two hair salons,
35:09reading rooms
35:11and a black room
35:13for photography.
35:15There was also
35:17a heated pool
35:19with electric heating
35:21and passengers could use it
35:23for 4 shillings.
35:25The cost of building
35:27this massive giant
35:29was 7.5 million dollars.
35:31But that was in 1912.
35:33Today it would represent
35:35about 200 million dollars.
35:37First class tickets
35:39cost 2,560 dollars at the time
35:41which is equivalent
35:43to 61,000 dollars today.
35:45What did you get
35:47for this luxury?
35:49Researchers have not yet
35:51explored many areas
35:53of the Titanic
35:55and it is still difficult
35:57to access it with submarines.
35:59A rescue boat exercise
36:01was planned the day
36:03the Titanic sank
36:05but it was cancelled
36:07for unknown reasons.
36:09The crew had only done
36:11one rescue boat exercise
36:13and it was when the ship
36:15was not properly formed
36:17that each rescue boat
36:19had been filled.
36:21The capacity was still
36:23not enough to save
36:25each passenger.
36:27The Titanic was the largest
36:29mobile object in the world
36:31at the time.
36:33On May 31, 1911
36:35its huge hull
36:37was lowered from the dry
36:39hulls and found itself
36:41on the lagging river
36:43facing a huge
36:45development dock.
36:47Thousands of workers
36:49spent most of the following year
36:51working hard to build
36:53the bridges and to build
36:55all these luxurious interiors
36:57which gave the Titanic
36:59its unique appearance.
37:01They also installed
37:03the 29 giant boilers
37:05which would supply
37:07the two main steam engines
37:09of the ship.
37:11At the time,
37:13the water was not
37:15completely sealed
37:17on the top.
37:19This allowed the water
37:21to pass from one compartment
37:23to the other
37:25which ended up
37:27flooding the deck.
37:29But the Titanic
37:31had other failures.
37:33The strong hold suffered
37:35from the cold temperatures
37:37and the high speeds
37:39which made the Titanic
37:41sink 24 times faster
37:43than expected.
37:45There are many theories
37:47about what caused
37:49the sinking of such a giant.
37:51Once a famous giant,
37:53it was the largest ship
37:55of its time.
37:57Today, there are only
37:59two large pieces
38:01lying at the bottom
38:03of the ocean
38:05about 600 meters
38:07above sea level.
38:09But we can still
38:11recognize the wreck
38:13because many interiors
38:15have been preserved.
38:17There is a particular type
38:19of bacteria on the ship's rust.
38:21Rust is a grime
38:23formed under water
38:25when the forged iron
38:27oxidizes.
38:29This means that the bacteria
38:31eat the iron
38:33from the Titanic's hull
38:35by 2030,
38:37so the wreck will disappear
38:39forever sooner than expected.
38:41It would be easier
38:43to remove the wreck
38:45from the water
38:47to preserve it,
38:49but it would crumble
38:51if we tried to do it.
38:53It has been under water
38:55for more than 110 years
38:57and it is so rusty
38:59that we could not
39:01rebuild the pieces
39:03that made the Titanic
39:05hit the bottom of the ocean.
39:07After all, the largest ship
39:09ever built
39:11literally sank under their eyes.
39:13It turns out that the sound
39:15probably did not travel
39:17from water to air.
39:19We do not hear very well in the water
39:21because our body is not designed
39:23to perceive sounds
39:25in such an environment.
39:27And although the passengers
39:29were close to the wreck,
39:31there were a lot of landslides
39:33and underwater earthquakes
39:35that we could not even hear.
39:37And yet they make a lot more noise
39:39than a simple ship
39:41crashing into the bottom of the ocean.
39:43Most of the vibrations
39:45and sounds must have spread
39:47over a vast area.
39:49In addition, the breath of water,
39:51which many think hit the Titanic
39:53after it hit the bottom of the ocean,
39:55must have repulsed
39:57most of the potential acoustic vibrations.
39:59This is the only way
40:01to produce such loud sounds.
40:03Many survivors claimed
40:05to have heard terrifying noises
40:07when the Titanic broke,
40:09but no one mentioned
40:11having heard anything
40:13after the ship disappeared
40:15under the surface of the water.
40:17Some survivors told
40:19of the chaos that reigned
40:21when passengers,
40:23mainly women and children,
40:25boarded the lifeboats.
40:27No one knew
40:29how to react
40:31in such a situation.
40:33The lifeboat landing exercise
40:35was planned for the morning
40:37before the collision of the Titanic
40:39with the iceberg,
40:41but for some unknown reason
40:43it was canceled.
40:45A giant shipwreck
40:47that everyone thinks
40:49is unsinkable
40:51crosses the ocean.
40:53On the way,
40:55a novel was published in 1898,
40:5714 years before
40:59the Titanic sank
41:01or even built.
41:03In the novel,
41:05the Titan,
41:07whose name is frightening,
41:09did not have enough life jackets,
41:11jackets and canoes
41:13for all passengers on board.
41:15It was also the largest ship
41:17of the time,
41:19almost the same size
41:21as the Titanic.
41:23Dorothy, an American actress
41:25of silent films,
41:27is one of the passengers of the Titanic.
41:29She survived the disaster.
41:31As soon as she arrived in New York,
41:33she started shooting
41:35Save the Titanic.
41:37The film was released
41:39only a month after the shipwreck.
41:41Dorothy even wore the same shoes
41:43and clothes as those she wore
41:45when she was on the boat.
41:47The film was a success,
41:49but the film was destroyed
41:51by the Titanic.
41:53The Titanic was not the only one
41:55to sail in the cold ocean
41:57near the iceberg that hit it.
41:59The California SS was relatively close.
42:01But its radar was off that night.
42:03At some point,
42:05the crew members noticed
42:07mysterious lights in the sky.
42:09They immediately went to wake up
42:11their captain to warn him,
42:13but he did not give any order.
42:15They thought it was
42:17a simple firework.
42:19But it turned out to be
42:21a call for help.
42:23The lightning rockets
42:25that the crew members
42:27had launched into the sky
42:29hoping that someone would notice them.
42:31When the California SS
42:33received the SOS messages,
42:35it was already too late.
42:37According to some,
42:39the full moon would be
42:41at the origin of the collision
42:43between the iceberg
42:45and the gigantic ship.
42:48If you watched the film,
42:50you know that the ship did not sink
42:52immediately after the meeting
42:54with the iceberg occurred.
42:56The whole process lasted
42:582 hours and 40 minutes.
43:00But the situation was delicate.
43:02There were 2,200 people
43:04to take charge,
43:06including the crew and passengers,
43:08and chaos reigned on board.
43:10Chief Engineer Thomas Andrew
43:12quickly understood
43:14that he could not stay afloat.
43:16At midnight,
43:18all the crew began
43:20to prepare the lifeboats
43:22for the inflow.
43:24They had 20 canoes
43:26with room for only 1,178 people,
43:28which represented
43:30barely more than 50%
43:32of the people on board.
43:34The order was to put
43:36the women and children
43:38in safety first.
43:40The crew members
43:42were there to row
43:44and warn the passengers
43:46that something serious
43:48was happening.
43:50They wanted to put them
43:52in a lifeboat
43:54as soon as possible.
43:56At midnight,
43:5815 crew members
44:00sent a distress signal.
44:02A steamboat called
44:04the Frankfurt was
44:06among the first
44:08to receive this message
44:10and respond.
44:12Unfortunately,
44:14they were too far away.
44:16At 8.20 p.m.,
44:18the ship Capartia
44:20from Cunard
44:22received a distress signal
44:24from the Titanic
44:26and immediately changed course.
44:28They were then
44:3058 nautical miles away,
44:32or 107 km,
44:34and it would take
44:36more than three hours
44:38to get there.
44:40While there was room
44:42for 65,
44:44many of the first
44:46lifeboats were filled
44:48well below their capacity.
44:50The crew members were worried
44:52that the cranes
44:54could not bear
44:56the weight of a fully loaded
44:58lifeboat.
45:00At first,
45:02many passengers were simply
45:04too afraid to leave the ship.
45:06They still thought
45:08they would die two hours later.
45:10The crew shot the first
45:12of the eight distress rockets,
45:14without success.
45:16No one was close enough
45:18to help them.
45:20At 1.20 p.m.,
45:22they had lowered
45:2410 lifeboats.
45:26The eighth contained
45:28only 28 people.
45:30One of the passengers
45:32of the tenth
45:34was little Milvina Dean,
45:3627 years old.
45:38Two o'clock in the morning,
45:40three foldable hulls
45:42were the last remaining
45:44lifeboats.
45:46The bow of the ship
45:48had sunk very low
45:50and had tilted
45:52far below the surface.
45:54People who were not far
45:56could now clearly see
45:58the propellers of the stern
46:00above the water.
46:02The crew members
46:04were trying to get
46:06the hull out of the water,
46:08while the bow of the ship
46:10was sinking.
46:12These 20 people were
46:14struggling because
46:16their boat was partially
46:18filled with water.
46:20While the crew members
46:22were trying to free
46:24the foldable hull B,
46:26it fell.
46:28Before they could get it up,
46:30the water carried it
46:32away.
46:34The ship decided to
46:36transmit a last distress call.
46:38A minute later,
46:40the light of the ship
46:42finally went out.
46:44The Titanic and all
46:46those who remained on board
46:48dived into the darkness.
46:50The bow continued to sink
46:52and the hull rose higher
46:54above the surface,
46:56which exerted great pressure
46:58on the central part of the ship.
47:00It broke in two
47:02between the third and
47:04the fourth chimney.
47:06According to the reports,
47:08it took about six minutes
47:10to reach the bottom of the ocean.
47:12The hull fell back on the water
47:14before rising again
47:16in a vertical position.
47:18It stayed in this position
47:20until it finally disappeared
47:22in the ocean.
47:24At 2.20 p.m.,
47:26the hull had apparently
47:28crashed while it was
47:30going down.
47:32The hull had landed
47:34about 600 meters from the surface.
47:36People considered the Titanic
47:38as the fastest boat in the world.
47:40They thought it was unsinkable
47:42because four of its compartments
47:44could have been flooded
47:46and it would still not cause
47:48a critical loss of flotability.
47:50But its life would have been
47:52problematic from the start.
47:54You know SOS, right?
47:56It was a pretty easy signal
47:58to pick up in Morse,
48:00which means
48:02Save Our Souls.
48:04The crew of the legendary Titanic
48:06desperately tried to send
48:08this signal for two hours
48:10on the night of April 14, 1912.
48:12There were other ships
48:14not far from the place
48:16where the iceberg destroyed
48:18the powerful sea titan,
48:20but the call for help
48:22seemed to have disappeared
48:24but the Titanic never received
48:26the answer.
48:28So what reduced the call for help
48:30to the ship to silence?
48:32A triangle of unknown bermudas
48:34in the North Atlantic?
48:36Consider this.
48:38Witnesses said that the sky
48:40was illuminated by a bright
48:42aurora borealis during
48:44this cold, fateful night.
48:46Magnificent, yes,
48:48but that day the aurora borealis
48:50may have sealed the fate
48:52of the Titanic.
48:54The sun itself is responsible
48:56for the magnetic fluctuations
48:58in the Earth's magnetic sphere.
49:00The magnetosphere is like
49:02a protective bubble
49:04around our planet.
49:06It prevents harmful solar rays,
49:08winds and other cosmic dangers
49:10from reaching us.
49:12Without it, life on our planet
49:14would not be possible.
49:16The Earth would look more like
49:18Mars.
49:20Recently, a researcher
49:22in meteorology, Mila Zinkova,
49:24proposed a theory that
49:26solar eruptions that caused
49:28a geomagnetic storm could play
49:30a major role in the premature
49:32disappearance of the Titanic.
49:34Solar eruptions occur on Earth
49:36all the time.
49:38Some people are particularly
49:40sensitive to the magnetic storms
49:42they cause.
49:44They may feel weakness,
49:46fatigue, headaches
49:48or even depression.
49:50The magnetosphere blocks
49:52all bad things,
49:54and we are all happy.
49:56But sometimes explosions
49:58occur in the sun.
50:00They can be massive
50:02like the size of the Earth.
50:04These eruptions project
50:06a wave of charged particles
50:08that collide with the magnetosphere
50:10at high speed.
50:12Our protective bubble
50:14then defends itself.
50:16This is called the aurora borealis.
50:18In the South, it's called the aurora australis
50:20or the lights of the South.
50:22When the magnetosphere pushes
50:24its solar and cosmic particles
50:26towards the poles,
50:28they collide with molecules
50:30of different gases.
50:32That's why you have this range of colors.
50:34For example, oxygen can be green or red
50:36depending on the distance,
50:38and nitrogen is blue or purple.
50:40What several people,
50:42including the second officer
50:44noticed in the newspaper
50:46before receiving the distress call
50:48from the Titanic.
50:50The auroras are a visible sign
50:52of a geomagnetic storm.
50:54Now let's talk about navigation equipment.
50:56This applies to satellites
50:58and radio frequencies.
51:00Let's remember that at the time of the Titanic
51:02there was no iPhone,
51:04so the average citizen could not notice
51:06that his gadgets were out of order.
51:08But the navigation and telegraph devices
51:10were actively used.
51:12It was the Middle Ages,
51:14when sailors noticed that their compass
51:16was out of order.
51:18The arrows were turning in all directions
51:20and people did not know why.
51:22It was only in the 18th century
51:24that French scientists discovered
51:26that these problematic days occurred
51:28at the same time as the appearance
51:30of black spots on the sun.
51:32The solar eruptions.
51:34The mystery was solved.
51:36But the Titanic had the most advanced
51:38and most famous radio equipment of the time.
51:40The Titanic was able to do all the tests.
51:42On April 10, 1912,
51:44the huge boat left Sossumton
51:46and set sail for New York.
51:48The next day,
51:50the crew began to receive the first reports
51:52on icebergs and drifting ice fields.
51:54They put dots on the map
51:56to mark the coordinates
51:58and breathed a sigh of relief.
52:00All the problematic points were
52:02north of the route planned for the Titanic.
52:04But after a few days,
52:06the warnings began to move more and more
52:08towards the majestic ship.
52:10On April 14, 1912,
52:12Captain Edward Smith decided
52:14to change course to the south
52:16in the hope of bypassing the ice.
52:18This turned out to be a huge mistake
52:20penetrating directly into the magnetic storm.
52:22If the navigation equipment was out of order,
52:24if only by a small error of half a degree,
52:26the captain could be wrong
52:28by bringing the ship straight to an iceberg.
52:30Even worse,
52:32radio operators ignored the warnings
52:34coming from other ships.
52:36They simply forgot to transmit them to the captain.
52:38As a contractor,
52:40hired by the radio company,
52:42they were more interested in the telegram transmission
52:44paid by the passengers of the luxurious ship.
52:46The radio transmitter was left out of service
52:48that night, probably because
52:50of all this little private traffic.
52:52When it was finally reactivated,
52:54the operator Jack Phillips
52:56received another message from the California SS
52:58at 10.30 p.m.
53:00Their operator tried to warn
53:02Phillips of the iceberg coordinates
53:04but he did not pay attention.
53:06He was nervous and in a hurry.
53:08Was the magnetic storm responsible
53:10for his fragile nerves and bad mood?
53:12We can only speculate.
53:14But as you know, some people are more sensitive
53:16to this kind of thing.
53:18The weather was pleasant.
53:20The ocean was calm. The water was perfectly smooth.
53:22Despite all the warnings,
53:24the ship continued to sail at a maximum speed
53:26of more than 40 km per hour.
53:28An hour later, the Titanic collided
53:30with the infamous iceberg.
53:32On April 15,
53:34at midnight,
53:36in the middle of the night,
53:38Titanic operators began to transmit
53:40the first emergency signals.
53:42The California SS was sailing
53:44only 32 km from the Titanic.
53:46It could have easily come to its rescue.
53:48But 10 minutes before the disaster,
53:50the California radio operator
53:52had gone to bed.
53:54He was the only one on the ship
53:56to understand the Morse code.
53:58According to this new theory,
54:00the Morse code could have been
54:02a signal from the Titanic to other ships.
54:04For example, the steam ship
54:06SS La Provence
54:08did not receive any signal
54:10from the ship in distress.
54:12However, it was still receiving
54:14transmissions from another giant,
54:16the Olympic,
54:18which was 800 km from the Titanic.
54:20That night, the signals were strange.
54:22They simply got lost somewhere in space.
54:24Or they were like a complex puzzle,
54:26impossible to solve.
54:28Fate wanted the rescue ship
54:30to be stuck in the ice.
54:32It arrived at the last known coordinates
54:34of the Titanic, but the luxurious deck
54:36was not visible.
54:38Were the coordinates correct?
54:40The steam ship Carpathia
54:42was about 100 km away.
54:44At 12.30, their radio operator
54:46told the crew of the Titanic
54:48that he was hurrying to help him.
54:50The Carpathia, the ship famous
54:52for coming to its rescue,
54:54was sailing at full speed.
54:56The magnetic field could have disturbed
54:58the equipment.
55:00The good news is that the ship
55:02ended up in the right place
55:04when they saw the rescue boats
55:06full of passengers.
55:08It is interesting to note that
55:10once back at the port,
55:12no problem was detected
55:14with the equipment of the Carpathia.
55:16The breakdown occurred
55:18just around the wreck site.
55:20The investigation that followed
55:22accused amateur radio operators
55:24that the sun influenced the Earth.
55:26No one could have guessed
55:28that the sun could alter
55:30the navigation equipment
55:32of these huge ships,
55:34especially the one that had
55:36the most ultra neck of its time.
55:38There is another theory
55:40according to which the Moon
55:42could have played a role.
55:44Some researchers claim that
55:46in January 1912,
55:48our natural satellite was
55:50closer to Earth than normal.
55:52But not that year.
55:54The increase in water flow
55:56pushed them further for three months.
55:58In April, they found themselves
56:00on the path of transatlantic ships.
56:02Unfortunately, it was a set
56:04of disastrous circumstances
56:06for the Titanic.