Why so many people are fascinated by the sinking of the Titanic?

Did people really think it was unsinkable? It was sometime advertise as such, but that's about it.

If I remember correctly, the interior was separated into compartments that could be closed off from each other in case of a beach. However, for some reason the separation didn't go all the way up so water could still enter the other sections even when sealed.

Some say it was actually a piece of shit built with cheap steel. Also one of its coal bunker was on fire since the departure to the point that many crewmen decided to disembark in Ireland or something.

Because it's seen as symbolic of man's hubris.

there was a movie

>largest ship built at the time
>boasted as unsinkable by everyone
>sinks on it's first cruise
>brings down like 1000 people with it
it's pretty kino, even more when you realize what a clusterfuck it was
Imagine being a 3rd Class passenger, waking up one night with your cabin leaking with ocean water, then realizing that the ship hit an iceberg and you're doomed because all the rich people took all the life boats with them

youtube.com/watch?v=RXb-_8Imt-0

There were many movies. The Titanic was famous way before the Cameron's movie.

>Cause the man that made it said, "not even [God] can sink the Titanic"

Thomas Andrews, who designed the ship, never said anything remotely close to that. Neither did Bruce Ismay, the chairman of the White Star Line. The whole "Not even God can sink this ship!" is a popular culture invention.

There were a handful of advertisements for the White Star Line's newer ships which said "Virtually unsinkable" and talked about how they had new safety precautions which covered a "standard" ship sinking.

>Can someone explain more about this to me? Was sinking unavoidable, or was the whole night just a series of clusterfucks?

It was basically a case of "everything that could possibly go wrong... going wrong."

The ship was designed to stay afloat with 4 of its watertight compartments flooded. The iceberg punctured 6 of the compartments.

There were no* other ships close enough to get there in time for an actual rescue. Titanic lasted almost 3 hours before going down, which is a very long time compared to other sinkings, but because no one happened to be close enough they couldn't get help. *The Californian was close enough but again, everything going wrong went wrong, so they had turned off their wireless telegraph and didn't get Titanic's messages for help and although some in the crew saw Titanic's emergency flares they didn't respond to them.

The crew's decision to keep everyone calm by not telling them the seriousness of the situation resulted in many lifeboats being launched with very few people inside. The captain ordered the lifeboats to remain nearby so that they could pick up more people, and pick up people in the water... which naturally didn't happen. The boats were ordered to come back at one point while the ship was still afloat, and they refused.

1/2

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They had never performed an evacuation drill, so the crew was basically scattered and very few did what they were supposed to do to help passengers get to the boats. The third class was left to their own devices by the crew. Only one of the third class stewards did his duty--stewards were supposed to go to all of the passengers assigned to their service, tell them to get their life jackets, and get them on the deck. However, when this steward brought his 35 3rd class passengers to one of the decks accessible to 3rd class, where (according to the official guidelines) a crew member was supposed to have unlocked and opened one of the big windows and the lifeboats were supposed to stop and allow the third class passengers were board.... none of that happened and he had to go through the maze that was the ship to get them on deck.

Titanic sank at night in cold waters. So, even though many of the lifeboats could have technically tried to pick up people in the water, it was far too dangerous. It was pitch black. If the ship had sunk in the day time, it's almost certain that the boats would have pulled people to safety--this is what happened with the Lusitania. Most of Lusitania's survivors did not make it into the boats while the ship was still afloat, but were pulled from the water by the boats.

To quote the author of one of those Scholastic "dear ____" history diaries:

>The Titanic lives on because it is the best of stories. It has exotic luxury, arrogance, greed, mystery, heroism, self-sacrifice, romance, suspense, vibrant characters, the implacable forces of nature, the power and ingenuity of huge machines and, at its heart, a little empty space, a space just big enough for us. In our private Titanic story are we a baroness or a lift boy, a second officer or a penniless peasant woman of Europe? Or maybe we play in the orchestra. Maybe we are one of the stokers who stayed too long in the pub in Southampton and missed the maiden voyage. At the end, maybe we were safely packed onto a lifeboat, or we jumped into the frigid water in desperation or we sat in the first-class lounge and played cards while the ship went down. In our private story, be our theme tragedy, irony or lucky, the one thing we never are is ordinary.

Because it's not the average boring "plane flew into a mountain, everyone died" story. It is extremely well documented with lots of eyewitness accounts. Also one of the first disasters like this to be covered by newsreel. This must have had a very big impact on people at the time.

Also it's genuinely interesting event.

kek

Because it's really ironic.

>Biggest, ship in the world, pinnacle of edwardian engineering, supposedly the safest ship as well with technology that should make her practically unsinkable. Four compartments can flood and she'd still float.

>Sinks on her first voyage because five compartments are breached

Also
>Doesn't have enough lifeboats for every passenger because it's believed that in the extremely unlikely chance anything goes wrong, another ship can arrive on time and the lifeboats can ferry passengers from Titanic to rescuing ship, as was common belief/ actual practice at the time

>No ships in the area can arrive on time
>Only enough lifeboats for slightly less than half of ship's passengers
>>>T-T-T-TRIPLE KILL: Titanic was actually carrying more lifeboats than what regulation required at the time for passenger ships. Didn't really come in handy though.

There's just a bunch of stuff in this whole event that was just fantastically unlikely to happen, but did anyway. Prime example of Murphy's Law-- Anything that could go wrong, did go wrong.

>tfw the lifeboat laws requiring enough life vessels (either boats or rafts, as well as belts) for every single passenger on board, enacted because of lots of protests and media attention on lifeboat numbers after the Titanic sinking, contributed to the SS Eastland disaster, which killed 844 people in a ship that was 20 feet away from the dock and in water less than 25 feet deep

70% of the victims were under 25, and 300 of that 70% were children. 22 entire families were wiped out. The niece of one of the men who went to the scene to try to save people and later, recovered bodies, wrote that he never recovered from the experience and would frequently talk about the horrific sight of babies floating like corks and stretchers carrying countless little bodies.

I wasn't ready for those eyes.

already know how it will end.

How the fuck did this predict it

>Say old man, we are surrounded by ice and stopped.

Legit one of my favorite phrases from history.

Still looking forward when that game comes out.

>tfw the lifeboat laws requiring enough life vessels (either boats or rafts, as well as belts) for every single passenger on board, enacted because of lots of protests and media attention on lifeboat numbers after the Titanic sinking, contributed to the SS Eastland disaster

How so?

Did they ever set a date for it?

Because the Eastland (and similar vessels) were not designed to carry the additional weight, especially since the additional weight was mostly carried on the top decks. Before the law was passed, the Eastland had 6 lifeboats--the maximum amount she was designed to hold--as well as lifebelts. However, in order to meet the standards of the new law, after it passed the Eastland had 11 lifeboats, plus 1100 lbs of life rafts (I forget how many exactly), plus the lifebelts for all passengers and crew. Most of the rafts and all the new boats were stored on the top decks, which made the ship highly susceptible to listing.

It's not the only reason why the Eastland sank, but the additional weight was a contributing factor as to why it was listing initially. Then when a bunch of passengers on the top deck went to the port side of the ship to see what was going on, it caused the ship to lurch and then roll completely on its side.

Nope.

I'd say at least 2 years, and that's being hopeful. Then again they keep a lot of things tight to their chest because of a few programmers ripping off their models, so maybe they're farther than people know.

I thought they said it will be ready sometime in 2018. But regardless, its gonna be great. I'd hate to turn into Plinkett and say its the worst thing since my son if they fuck up.

just play SOS

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I don't know, I can't see it happening in 2018 unless they either do really have secret big-name sponsors that they can't name for legal reasons as has been rumored, or they decide to severely cut back on what the game is supposed to be. Which, to be fair, they already did by limiting the sinking to the actual gameplay only, and restricting where you can go in the sinking.

The Titanic was missing from 1912 until 1985, a total of 73 years. That also made for a great legend for all those years. No One knew for sure why it sank so fast until after it was found and researched.

It was a big boat.

I think from what I recall of it that was mostly down in the boiler rooms at the lowest levels of the deck. Ideally, one boiler section could be closed off to prevent more water filling the bottom of the ship, but the combination of the size of the breach and the general time it took to get full bearing on the situation meant that by the time they could start the ship had already taken on so much water it was indeed spilling over the partitions.

As was mentioned earlier in the thread, it would've halted a "normal" sinking, however that's not what this ended up being.

The titanic sinking was an inside job

Were they seriously supposed to pause lowering the lifeboats down so the poors could jump on? LMAO. Beyond the logistical difficulties, is there any universe in which richys would spare even a second to save a poor in such a sitation?

the ship was designed so that people could get into the lifeboats at multiple levels on the deck because it would be easier for 3rd class and certain 2nd class passengers (depending on where their cabin was) to get to lower decks than to make it all the way up to the boat deck easily accessible by 1st class and some of 2nd class.

Again, of course, the problem was that they didn't do any drills or practicing so only some of the crew were following this plan/guideline, which rendered it completely ineffective.

Tbh all ships of the Olympic-class were unlucky.
>olympic rammed shit no matter where she went
>titanic slutted it up with an iceberg
>britanic got mined

Be sinking on the first trip as a UNSINKABLE boat is ironic

I thought the Olympic had a fairly normal career.
If that's not the case, was there a problem with the way the Titanic was built?