Pourquoi le Titanic Avait une Fausse Cheminée

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Saviez-vous que le Titanic avait une fausse cheminée ? En réalité, il avait trois cheminées fonctionnelles, mais la quatrième était juste là pour faire joli ! Cette "fausse" cheminée supplémentaire a été ajoutée pour rendre le navire plus imposant et équilibré, donnant aux passagers davantage confiance en sa robustesse et sa vitesse. Elle servait également à améliorer la ventilation pour les cuisines et les salles des machines. C'est l'un de ces choix de conception originaux qui rendent l'histoire du Titanic encore plus fascinante !  Animation créée par Sympa. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Musique par Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com   Pour ne rien perdre de Sympa, abonnez-vous!: https://goo.gl/6E4Xna​ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nos réseaux sociaux : Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sympasympacom/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sympa.officiel/  Stock de fichiers (photos, vidéos et autres): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Si tu en veux encore plus, fais un tour ici:  http://sympa-sympa.com

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00:00In the movie Titanic, you will notice the absence of smoke above the 4th chimney of the famous deck and this is not a mistake.

00:08In 1911, the year before the departure of the famous deck, the large ships were mainly equipped with 4 chimneys.

00:16They were necessary to evacuate the heat and the smoke generated by their huge boilers.

00:22The Titanic, a real masterpiece of engineering, needed only 3 chimneys to function efficiently.

00:28Thus, the 4th was added for purely aesthetic reasons.

00:33The White Star Line thought that the public would have been disappointed to see only 3 conduits on the largest ship of all time.

00:40The twin ships of the Titanic, the Olympic and the British also each had a fake chimney for the same reason.

00:48This fake chimney was not totally useless and was actually used for ventilation.

00:53It allowed to evacuate the smoke from the room of the machines located in the lower deck as well as that of one of the large first class lounges.

01:01A large ventilation duct, instead of several smaller ones, allowed to unclog the upper decks, thus leaving more free space for passengers.

01:11When the Titanic sank, its chimneys, each weighing 60 tons, sank with the rest of the ship.

01:17They were exceptionally high in order to ensure that passengers were not covered with sweat.

01:22Their size and weight allowed them to remain in a vertical position until the ship began its final dive.

01:29Lighter than the bow, these chimneys dispersed among the other debris.

01:34The relatively light material of which they were made flattened by touching the bottom of the ocean

01:39and the eating bacteria of living iron in the depths then contributed to their decomposition.

01:45The bow of the Titanic remained intact when it touched the bottom of the ocean, but the stern was completely destroyed.

01:52When the famous Pak Bo hit this iceberg, the situation quickly turned sour.

01:59It took 2 hours and 40 minutes for this future movie star to be completely submerged.

02:06The collision first allowed water to flood 6 of the 16 compartments.

02:11As it rushed ashore, the ship began to tilt forward and slightly to the right.

02:18At midnight, the damaged compartments poured water into the adjacent compartments, creating a real chaos,

02:25because these compartments were only watertight horizontally.

02:28Shortly after, the water began to infiltrate through the hole used to raise the anchor,

02:34and at 2 o'clock in the morning, the bow sank while the propellers of the stern were lifted out of the water.

02:40The ship continued to take water until the bow was submerged and the stern rose to almost 45 degrees.

02:49The weight of these huge propellers exerted immense pressure on the medial part of the ship.

02:55The steel did not resist and eventually gave in.

02:59Survivors described this deafening noise, similar to that of broken porcelain or a collapsing scaffolding,

03:06it was the upper structure of the Titanic that gave in.

03:09At 2.12 a.m., the bow and stern were no longer connected by the internal structure of the hull.

03:16A few minutes later, the bow, weighing about 16,000 tons, detached from the stern.

03:22The stern then suddenly straightened up in an almost vertical position before slowly starting to sink.

03:29At 2.20 a.m., it completely disappeared under the water.

03:33The bow dived at nearly 20 km per hour and reached the bottom of the ocean about half an hour before the stern.

03:40The two sections of the Titanic now rest 610 meters from each other, pointing in opposite directions.

03:47The stern remained mainly intact, simply covered with mud.

03:51The stern, on the other hand, turned into an unrecognizable wreck due to the implosions suffered during the descent.

03:58The air trapped inside the structure could not resist the increasing pressure of the water at such a depth.

04:04The distress rockets played a crucial role in the tragedy of the Titanic.

04:08In the event of a shipwreck, red rockets must be launched to report a problem.

04:13However, someone had decided to equip the Titanic with white rockets instead of the usual red ones.

04:19Thus, when the ship hit the iceberg, the crew fired the so-called white rockets.

04:24The California SS, which was nearby, had been warned of the presence of dangerous icebergs in the area.

04:31The Californian crew did not spot the Titanic in distress, but they did see the white rockets.

04:37Their radio was also useless because the Californian operator had turned it off.

04:42The captain, suspecting a problem, then sent a bright signal in Morse to the Titanic,

04:48but received no response because the ship was already dark.

04:52Another ship, the Samson, was also sailing near the Titanic.

04:56Loaded with large quantities of seal meat, illegally hunted in Canadian waters and frozen,

05:01it sailed without fire to remain discreet.

05:04Seeing the Titanic's white rockets, the crew thought they were coast guards and quickly left these waters.

05:11Without radio, the Samson could not be informed of the disaster in progress

05:15and learned the news only by reaching the Icelandic coast the following month.

05:19Many theories have been advanced to explain the tragedy of the Titanic,

05:23and one of the most recent suggests that a fire played a role in it.

05:27An Irish journalist, Senan Molony, played detectives for decades,

05:32exploring the mysteries of the shipwreck and made a major discovery.

05:36A photo album, hidden for a century after the tragedy.

05:40In the photos taken at the Arland & Wolfe Naval Shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland,

05:44just a week before the shipwreck took to the sea,

05:47we can clearly see a huge 9-meter black spot on the ship's hull.

05:52Molony studied these photos and testimonies of the time,

05:55stating that a fire had spontaneously occurred inside one of the huge coal soot of the Titanic.

06:01This fire raged for three whole weeks, severely weakening a crucial segment of the ship's hull.

06:08At that time, most of the hulls had only one hull,

06:12and it was the only protection the Titanic had.

06:15This is why the iceberg managed to pierce the ship's flank so easily.

06:19If it hadn't been for the fire, the Titanic might have resisted its impact with the iceberg.

06:24The company that operated the hull was also aware of this disaster,

06:28but had chosen to conceal this information to avoid any negative publicity,

06:32because it faced strong competition on transatlantic voyages.

06:36The Titanic was complete, so they filled it with coal and sailed in spite of everything.

06:41The moon could also have played a role in the shipwreck.

06:45Our satellite exerts a great influence on terrestrial tides.

06:49The closer it is to our planet, the stronger the tides are due to the increase in lunar attraction.

06:55In 1912, the moon was so close that it caused the rupture of several glaciers in Greenland.

07:02Enormous pieces of ice separated and began to drift south.

07:07This supermoon event occurred just 6 minutes after a great tide.

07:12During the new moons and full moons, the alignment of our satellite, the sun and the earth,

07:18causes their combined gravity to reach its peak.

07:21The day before, our planet was closer to the sun of the year,

07:25which made this gravity even stronger.

07:28This cocktail of events created perfect conditions for one of the most powerful tides in history,

07:34favoring the drift of the icebergs detached from the glaciers of Greenland.

07:38Opponents to this theory argue that the difference in strength of this tide

07:43would not have been significant enough to be the main cause of the shipwreck.

07:48The iceberg tore the side of the ship, leaving a huge opening in its hull.

07:52It was not a continuous tear, and several places were damaged.

07:56Some experts believe that the ship would have survived the iceberg if it had hit it head-on.

08:01The Titanic, which has waterproof compartments designed to prevent floods in the event of a collision,

08:07only the first three or four of these compartments would have been flooded.

08:11The iceberg tore the side of the ship, leaving a huge opening in its hull.

08:15It was not a continuous tear, and several places were damaged.

08:19Some experts believe that the ship would have survived the iceberg if it had hit it head-on.

08:24The Titanic, which has waterproof compartments designed to prevent floods in the event of a collision,

08:30only the first three or four of these compartments would have been flooded.

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