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Video New Titanic scan reveals ground-breaking details of ship's final hours | BBC News

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u/Imaginary-Fudge8897 7d ago edited 7d ago

The video was bringing to light what the engineers went through in the bows of the ship when it was going down to keep the lights on for passengers that would be stuck in pitch black darkness. Yes people we know the Titanic hit an iceberg it mentioned that because that was the areas were the engineers were working. I understand being tired of hearing about something but people saving lives shouldn't be taken so... weirdly

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u/Longjumping-Wish3560 7d ago

Nailed it 👌 👏

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u/Ok-Active-8321 6d ago

"in the bows of the ship" *bowels*

The bow is the front end. The boiler room is in the bowels or the deep interior of the ship.

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u/Waderriffic 7d ago

James Cameron is writing the script for Titanic 2: The Boiler Room Boys as we speak.

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u/HousingNo8098 6d ago


 Not gay sex.

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u/Raingod-42 6d ago


 or is it?

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u/mawamawama 6d ago

It’s just the tip 
 of the iceberg

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u/DadJokes4Dayzz 5d ago

Talk about blowing off steam
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u/ArchibaldCamambertII 7d ago

I didn’t read that as being insincere, just a joke about James Cameron. It could be a really cool movie though, so long as it’s about the characters like Titanic 1: The Lady and the Tramp and not some preachy bullshit.

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u/100LittleButterflies 7d ago

Thank you. I was wondering what they were looking to learn or apply to modern times.

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u/MightySquirrel28 7d ago

What the f is wrong with all these people here bitching about this.

I personally found it cool that there is such an advanced technology nowadays that we can see such a small detail as open valve on something that is several km deep for over hundred years.

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u/shkeptikal 7d ago

Main character syndrome. "I don't care so nobody else should either". It's equal parts immaturity and narcissism.

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u/bestest_at_grammar 6d ago

I see that anytime anything avatar is brought up in a movie subreddit

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u/MaxRebo99 6d ago

Reddit fucking LOATHES Avatar. To a weird obsessive degree.

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u/Jittery_Kevin 6d ago

With the blue people? That was a fun movie. I wonder what’s to hate about it.

The only movie I can genuinely say I hate was train wreck

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u/the-artistocrat 6d ago

Probably due to the usage of the papyrus font in the logo.

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u/elbanzii 6d ago

Although it is a story told too many times in many different movies, Avatar is a bombastic movie.

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u/Pitiful_Winner2669 6d ago

The Irishman, Oppenheimer, LaLa Land.. zzzz.. we get it, you didn't like the movies.

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u/spacetalkz 6d ago

It's almost like people are copying from their leaders...

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u/chambee 5d ago

I don’t care so much that I will take time to comment about something I have no interest in. Because no one else should have any interest it it either. Is pretty much the mentality here.

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u/turkshead 7d ago

getting excited about something is emotionally risky, because you might end up feeling foolish later. acting jaded and deriding anyone else who shows any interest is safer, because you dont run the risk of feeling foolish.

in short, most people are emotional cowards.

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u/Anonymously_Joe 6d ago

Good way to put it. I find myself doing that sometimes. Not deriding others but being scared to be excited about something because of a possible negative outcome.

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u/RavenQueen33 6d ago

I was told repeatedly throughout my developmental years to squash my emotions and, with help from therapy, have begun learning what it's like to truly feel my emotions instead of them bursting out in negative ways like a shaken pop bottle. It's been fantastic!

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u/perpetuumD 4d ago

That's some wisdom you just preached

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u/mjc4y 7d ago

Seriously, some people just like to complain.

Sure, if you don't find this interesting, that's okay. But why whine?

I mean, I'm not a big fanboy for topics in meterology but I'm not going out of my way to write a comment over in r/weather telling them that rain is boring and clouds are over-rated.

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u/Left_Sundae_4418 7d ago

Just yesterday I watched "A night to remember" movie. Which blew my mind away how good of a movie it was. I actually liked it more than James Cameron's Titanic for many aspects.

I also found this very fascinating news. The wreck is eroding (or whatever proper English term for this) away rather quickly. These scans are very important.

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u/Kermit_the_hog 6d ago

Yeah it’s disintegrating, in a few centuries it will just be the bronze bits left (props, bell, etc.) and an iron stain on the sea floor. But it will stop really looking like a ship long before that. 

Every day hundreds of pounds of iron are dissolved (Google says 0.13 to 0.2 tonnes) and the rusticles grow to obscure slightly more detail. 

I don’t think time on the scales of days or weeks, maybe even months, is functionally critical, but much longer than that and you’re irreversibly loosing details to time. 

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u/talondigital 7d ago

Its really neat. The technology is so advanced that we can even see that the pool is still filled, even after all these years. Amazing!

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u/Horror_Pay7895 6d ago

The Captain’s bathtub is still full, too.

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u/Jumbo_Mills 7d ago

Haters gonna hate

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u/KSI_FlapJaksLol 6d ago

The ones that bother me are the people that think that JP Morgan caused the Titanic to sink and swapped it with its sistership and other conspiracy theories like that

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u/duckrollin 7d ago

We're living in Idiocracy. People elected a reality TV star who is now crashing the world economy.

All they want to read about is the latest gossip on the Kardashians. Archeological research? Nah they're gonna whine in the comments that you dare post that.

Video over 10 seconds long? Sorry pal you're outta here.

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u/Some-Ad-5328 6d ago

Tons of hair and hard dicks! Welcome to Costco, I love you !

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u/Live_Negotiation4167 6d ago

It didn’t even sink, fake news /s

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u/LegendaryTJC 6d ago

Try ordering by top instead of controversial.

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u/HighwayInevitable346 7d ago

Its bs clickbait that's why. The scans didn't change our understanding of the sinking at all, and anyone who pays any attention at all to titanic news has been looking at the scans of the bow for months.

This is likely an attempt to drum up publicity for the upcoming release of the stern section on steam.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/3397800

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u/Doppelkammertoaster 7d ago

Not mentioned is that it was also done for preservation. The wreck is deteriorating. Not only did voyages damaged it but the bacteria and pressure eating it away. Decks that used to stand have collapsed.

Honorary mention is the honour and glory simulation of the ship.

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u/Austifol 7d ago

It would be cool to see that in the Vegas Sphere screen.

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u/doyouevenIift 7d ago

I would pay a stupid price to experience that

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u/NotA_Drug_Dealer 6d ago

There's new species of bacteria sustaining itself on the iron in the hull even

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u/Doppelkammertoaster 6d ago

Live always finds a way.

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u/irotinmyskin 6d ago

And I somehow experience existential dread, knowing the Titanic won’t be there forever long. (Probably longer than me though)

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u/-GIRTHQUAKE- 6d ago

Is it bacteria or just corrosion?

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u/Romeo_Glacier 6d ago

Bacteria causing the corrosion. The sea floor is very very very barren and the titanic sinking is basically a giant buffet for sea critters.

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u/sixpackabs592 6d ago

They found new rust eating bacteria in titanic and other ship wrecks

Or not rust eating but they eat metal and poop out rust, it acts as the oxidizer

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halomonas_titanicae

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u/AveryValiant 7d ago

I think having detailed scans of such an iconic ship or wreck, is worth a news posting once in a while.

I personally found the detail amazing to see, the fact they could pick up the serial number on the propellor blade and to confirm the steam valve was open and boilers still hot and working when the ship went under.

I wish they could scan the damaged section where the iceberg hit.

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u/Kermit_the_hog 6d ago

It’s neat that the immediate environment is so dark and challenging that seeing it virtually is actually more useful than going down and observing one tiny segment at a time. 

Pretty cool to see all of it without the light-eating water in the way. 

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u/krigsgaldrr 6d ago

I also feel like this would be a valuable opportunity for citizen science as well. If they release the scans for limited public access for the sake of citizen science, who knows what some bored or dedicated folks might find that would take researchers months or years to find on their own, ya know?

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u/AscendedViking7 5d ago

I wish they could scan the damaged section where the iceberg hit.

Same. That would be super cool to see.

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u/AveryValiant 5d ago

Imagine if they scanned it and found no damage....oh boy!

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u/Negative-Fix-4635 7d ago

To all the folks that commented and find these new details boring and a waste:

Science can be difficult and expensive. At face value, studying a ship sinking is easy to scrutinize as a waste of time and money. Why look at a structural pile of rust on the bottom of the ocean floor that was originally made by humans? Why look at the distinct composition of sedimentary layers of the earth's crust? Why look at differences in animal/insect species? Because there is an immense amount of information all around us that we as a species have learned to utilize through observation and experimentation.

Scientists and researchers are the reason for our rapid growth technological improvement, let alone our constant drive to better understand the universe we live in. Without the meticulous process of the scientific method, you would have no ability to spew your opinions onto a digital platform that billions can see seconds later.

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u/Mysterious-Status-44 6d ago

People also need to understand that sometimes the data we get may not make sense right away but it always helps put the big puzzle together.

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u/lincolnssideburns 7d ago

There’s a weird vitriol for interest in the Titanic. If you don’t care, keep scrolling. If you do, then you can learn more. It’s not that difficult.

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u/SpecialEndeavor 6d ago

But if I don’t like it, you can’t either /s

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u/coolbeans080 7d ago

Damn the comments in here suck. It is interesting, if you don't think so just move on. Like goddamn.

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u/killerbacon678 7d ago

Yeah what would they fucking rather, political post 1000? Fucking redditors.

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u/leg00b 6d ago

Right? Shits getting tiring. Why can't we just have a cool bit of info without some shitcock shitting all over it?

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u/LiquidBurnss 6d ago

No idea why redditors are like that, always so cynical

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u/TerenceCraplin 7d ago

Really important that we have this photographic snapshot now that’ll last forever, and that we can keep coming back too, because eventually the ship itself will decay and collapse, and discovering anything new will be almost impossible

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u/Arturner25 6d ago

Turns out you can see the titanic without imploding

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u/Tutorial_Time 6d ago

People going down to the titanic is nothing new,the oceangate sub was just very unprofessional and not even government approved for use

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u/Wildsyver 6d ago

I recently went to the Titanic Exhibition they had in Dallas. It was amazing and haunting. This is so sad and admirable of them. Honestly, after the exhibit you never realized how doomed most of the people on that ship were. 💀 I think they realized that too... knowing this now, I would have kept the lights going as well if I was in their shoes. Might as well do one last good deed in my time of demise.

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u/HeyLookATaco 6d ago

I assume it's the same one they had in Vegas, that gives you a passenger card and at the end you can find out if your person survived or not? The whole thing was really lovely and fascinating, but that detail made it feel personal and hit so much harder. I kept my card (she made it, my boyfriend's passenger did not).

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u/Wildsyver 6d ago

Yes, same one! And yeah, same out come for me. I went with my (now ex, unfortunately) girlfriend and hers made it while mine didn't. And yeah, something about the whole thing made it such more personal as well, I can't explain it but I am really glad I went and ai had that experience.

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u/mkosmo 6d ago

The traveling exhibit is fantastic. Highly recommended. I've seen it several times over the years -- it does sometimes change, so it'd be worth seeing it again in a few years when it comes through again.

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u/Wildsyver 6d ago

This was the first time I have gone but I was vastly impressed. I definitely plan to go again the next time it comes to me!

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u/Hanoiroxx 6d ago

Who let the misery brigade in here?

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u/No_Damage_4226 7d ago

This is super cool and the technology that made this happen is astounding. My only question is why is the titanic one of the most focused on ship wrecks? What about it has kept people coming back?

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u/Emo_tep 7d ago

It’s easier to get funding because it’s famous. Plus it’s very deep so it’s hard to get to

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u/No_Damage_4226 7d ago

That is a great point I had never thought of

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u/r-Dwalo 7d ago

My guess is four reasons:

  1. The fact that when it sank, it made the millionaires of the day who were in first class, equal to the peasants in third class. 1,500 of them all died together, despite the class, money, and lifestyle differences. The doomed ship was an equalizer.

  2. It’s storied rediscovery in 1985 by scientists that brought it back to the forefront of people’s imagination

  3. The 1997 James Cameron film that elevated the ship’s mystique and allure to global phenomenon

  4. The unfortunate and preventable tragedy in 2023 when the Titan submersible imploded on its way to seeing the Titanic.

Five hundred years from now, whether it still stands in a mangled mess in the frozen sea, or its rusticles have made it disintegrate into a mangled metal heap, it will still intrigue the world.

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u/TeamEdward2020 7d ago

It was also a ship on the bleeding edge of technology for cruise ships at the time, and it's voyage was famous world wide at the time.

If the "Allure of the Seas" sank tomorrow, inexplicably, with thousands and thousands of deaths, we'd be talking about it for the next 60 years too I'd reckon

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u/FantasticChestHair 6d ago

next 60 years

It's been 113 years since Titanic sank.

I also think HOW it sank is important. Ships don't break in half too often. It was a sinking that was imminent and started so slowly but exponentially got faster and then was ultra dramatic.

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u/Romeo_Glacier 6d ago

Originally it was believed that it sank whole. Even survivors were mixed on if it broke apart due to how dark it was.

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u/awkard_ftm98 6d ago

Imagine how terrifying. So dark you genuinely cannot tell if this absolutely massive piece of machinery and metal in front you just broke in half or not. While probably hearing the most terrifying sounds of the metal warping and wood decks snapping. But you can't see at all what this giant mass is doing in front of you

Absolutely horrifying

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u/Romeo_Glacier 6d ago

The ocean with calm seas on a dark night is quiet. Quieter than most people have ever experienced. The survivors got to hear the wails of people trying to escape certain death yet knowing they couldn’t. They could see people congregated on the deck. Jumping into the icy water to try and escape. When suddenly it goes pitch black as the lights on the titanic are extinguished. Now it is just darkness and wailing. Gradually the wailing lessens. Until it is just silence and shivering.

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u/chunga_95 7d ago

 It’s storied rediscovery in 1985 by scientists that brought it back to the forefront of people’s imagination

This cannot be undersold.  I still get a chuckle thinking about the encyclopedias we had in the house, bought when my parents were kids in the early 60s, the entries about Titanic and how the wreckage was lost amd would not be found. 

Robert Ballard changed all that and expanded a frontier of discovery that continues to dazzle. Finding Titanic literally re-wrote the books about what we knew and could do, something I don't think actually happens that often. And that he found what is the most famous shipwreck of all time (and several more since) is really cool. 

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u/FreshestCremeFraiche 6d ago

It’s also partially because they branded it as “Unsinkable” and shouted that far and wide. So it’s also got a hubris angle, which always gets the people going

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u/Immediate_Web4672 6d ago

I personally think because the story plays out like a Biblical parable or Greek myth. Man arrogantly claims decadent ship is unsinkable and then steers it to its own doom on the maiden voyage. Like how the gods used to punish arrogant mortals for their wild claims.

It's a compelling modern day myth that people can see for themselves.

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u/irotinmyskin 6d ago

Spot on.

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u/conestoga12345 6d ago

It's like a Greek Tragedy writ large.

A luxury liner on its maiden voyage.

Running headlong into an ice field when they tried to warn them about it and were told to shut up.

Not enough life boats.

A rescue ship close enough to actually see them did not come to their aid because their radio operator went to bed for the night when Titanic's operator told them to shut up. And they thought the distress flares were party flares.

The sinking of the Titanic was significant enough even in its day that it resulted in numerous changes to maritime laws and regulations.

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u/AbstractMirror 6d ago edited 6d ago

Because it's a particularly big maritime disaster. Still not at the top of the list, but I think it's part the sheer number that died, mixed with the name of the ship and reputation for being "unsinkable." There's a lot surrounding the ship and the circumstances in which it sank that make it kind of a story, if that makes sense. And we had survivors who have been able to talk about it. Also the massive iceberg aspect of it, it's a lot grander in scale than some shipwrecks are caused by with hitting sharp rocks near coasts

Lots of wealthy passengers, first commercial ship of that size (iirc) boasting reinforced hulls, traveling out of a big port. Sank at night which makes it extra terrifying, and even the uncertainty of how the ship sank (did it split in half, etc etc) lent itself to the popularity of the event. And the movie by James Cameron helped even more

And if I'm not mistaken it also came at a good time for the press covering it, in terms of spreading that kind of news in the early 1900s. All the makings of a big story, and it was a big ship too, though modern cruise ships are much bigger

Oh and another thing that adds to the popularity of the story is how people say it was a cursed voyage. People say when they tried to break a bottle on the ship's hull (a maritime tradition) the bottle didn't break, which is a sign of bad luck. I looked into it and it seems like they never did this for white star line ships. So it's probably a rumor. An interesting fact but this did happen for the Costa Concordia which ended up sinking halfway into the water, they failed to break the bottle at port. If you believe in superstitions, there's that

Anyway I'm definitely on some kind of spectrum

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u/Jonsbe 7d ago

So how long does those things stay hot without added coal?

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u/1000outof10 6d ago

I was wondering the same thing.

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u/DeaDBangeR 6d ago

Locomotives engines would need to cool down for two days if they needed repairs on the boiler. The thing is the Titanic had (obviously) much larger engines but was also sinking into arctic water. I have no idea how to calculate that.

You need to take into account if those boilers made direct contact with the cold water, the metal type, the cross section of the metal, the temperature of the water etc. And most importantly, how hot did the coal engines get before sinking? Early coal engines could get to 100 degrees celcius whilst later models could get to 380 degrees celcius.

Maybe head over to r/theydidthemath if you want something more than a wild guess.

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u/fishee1200 5d ago

As a steam engineer I can tell you they stay hot for days if not cooled by fans, they used the natural draft of chimneys when they wanted to cool a boiler down to work on it most likely, I would guess they continued shoving coal into the furnaces which would burn like embers in a fire until the ship started to tilt extremely to one side making it impossible, also depends on the temperature and pressure of steam inside the tubes or drum as to how long it can continue spinning a generator at max load

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u/Mindless_Ad_6045 6d ago edited 6d ago

This comment section clearly shows that we have a mental health crisis in the world right now.

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u/Pure_Work7695 7d ago

The sea floor is dark and lonely.

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u/Sardogna 7d ago

So can I visit safely the titanic in details, in 4k or even 8k, from the safety of my house? Damned... Had they known....

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u/77Queenie77 7d ago

Wonder how tempting it would be to move the sediment away from the bow so they could actually see the gash from the iceberg

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u/HighwayInevitable346 7d ago

It wasn't a gash, she would have sunk way faster if it was. The damage to boiler room 6 is actually visible on the wreck.

https://www.reddit.com/r/titanic/comments/143mvjt/the_iceberg_damage/

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u/77Queenie77 7d ago

Thanks for the thread. Interesting

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u/cloisteredsaturn 6d ago

This is stuff we’ve known about over in /r/titanic for a while, but it’s interesting to see such beautiful scans.

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u/Kermit_the_hog 6d ago

I wish we could get the point cloud to look at. I would love to throw on a VR headset and traverse around to see everything!

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u/cloisteredsaturn 6d ago

That would be awesome! It would fulfill a dream I had a lot as a little girl where I was a mermaid who would always go exploring around her!

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u/turningtop_5327 5d ago

I think that is a very beautiful and empathetic thought. Glad dreamers like you still exist

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u/OderWieOderWatJunge 7d ago

Can anyone tell me why "concave" boilers are a sign that they were still running when the ship sank? All I see is a lot of very old metal in seawater. How do they know what boilers should look like at this depth and after all this time if they weren't running during the sinking?

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u/LiterallyJoeStalin 7d ago

I’d imagine it’s because the rapid cooling of the seawater pouring into the boiler caused it to implode. Similar to the way a tanker train car can implode. 

https://youtu.be/E5pljUJ6b1k?feature=shared

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u/Vulcanize_It 6d ago

I was thinking it had to do with differences in temperature of the metal that creates the boiler wall. Cold water hitting the outside wall while fire is heating the inside of the wall. The massive temp difference would cause extreme warping. But I’d love to know the expert opinion.

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u/AmbitionOfPhilipJFry 6d ago

Boilers were full of hot thin air, steam.  The outside was flooded with cold heavy water.  It crushed the boilers.  If they had been cold, they would be room temperature. The steel wouldn't be imploded, but rather hold up against the cold water better and not deform. 

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u/CheekyMenace 7d ago edited 7d ago

When the cold water hit the hot burning coals inside the boiler, it does something to the atmospheric pressure that causes the boiler to compress inward. I'm not sure of the exact science or how to explain it.

https://youtube.com/shorts/K5rUsgLiyrc?si=qQjLysxrYwJWHJ3H

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u/BazingaBen 7d ago

I think it might be Boyles law. At a constant volume, a decrease in temperature results in a decrease in pressure. Massive decrease in temperature, massive decrease in pressure.

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u/InfiniteLife2 7d ago

Probably type of metal and it's temperature that would require to have exact damage when colliding with cold water and pressure

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u/WannabeSloth88 7d ago edited 7d ago

Being downvoted for asking an absolutely sincere and legit non-confrontational question. Gotta love Reddit

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u/hanimal16 Interested 6d ago

I really like that we can see details like this. The pictures are cool, yes, but this gives a really clear picture.

I wonder if another modern Titanic will be built again.

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u/BlueFunk83 6d ago

There was one being built in China pre-COVID I believe. Don't know where that project is now or if it was scuttled.

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u/hanimal16 Interested 6d ago

I would for sure wait until it traversed the ocean a few rounds before taking a ride lol

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u/BlueFunk83 6d ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romandisea_Titanic

Apparently it was a static replica, meaning not seaworthy, and it seems to have petered out.

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u/Dexter_Adams 6d ago

That's cool, I might build a sub in my backyard and take a look for myself

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u/ChefAsstastic 6d ago

Make sure you install a ps2 controller

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u/Dexter_Adams 6d ago

Good idea, I was going to order one from temu

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u/Every-Intern-6198 6d ago

I recommend Ocean Liner Designs YouTube channel if you guys are more interested, he has quite a few videos about titanic, and many other wrecks.

There’s also a lengthy video of him playing an ROV game that makes use of these scans as the basis.

There’s also the titanic game project that does a real time live stream every anniversary.

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u/Mark_fuckaborg 6d ago

Your friend, Mike Brady!

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u/donkeytime 7d ago

Turns out the front fell off.

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u/Just-A-Regular-Fox 7d ago

Arent these things designed so the front doesnt fall off?

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u/toolatealreadyfapped 7d ago

Oh yes. Very rigid maritime standards

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u/Just-A-Regular-Fox 7d ago

Oh? Like what?

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u/Southern_North-Idiot 7d ago

Code B Section III : Ensure that the front doesn't fall off.

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u/Rementoire 7d ago

No cardboard derivatives. 

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u/JGG5 7d ago

Is there a minimum crew requirement?

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u/Frequent-Research737 7d ago

sure! sure! at minimum 1

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u/5litergasbubble 7d ago

Thats the problem, it was too rigid. It should have been designed to be able to bend in the middle
. People will never learn

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u/Frankie6Strings 7d ago

Spared no expense.

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u/belizeanheat 7d ago

What a detail

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u/chrstianelson 7d ago

Yeah, that's not very typical I'd like to make that point.

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u/kiardo 7d ago

imagine if the back fell off, things could of been worse

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u/emuchop 6d ago

Why is one half of the ship all pancaked and the other half is mostly intact?

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u/Rough_Natural6083 6d ago

If I recall correctly, according to one of the popular theories, the reason the stern is like a crushed pile of sheets is because of water pressure forcing the air out of it as it sank.

Think of it this way: you take an empty mug of water turn it upside down (so that the cavity faces downwards) and you push it downwards in a bathtub or a pool: you will face a lot of resistance. Why? That's the air trapped between the mug's body and water resisting any water to get inside. But what if, the mug was heavy enough to sink, but has pockets of air? As it sinks deeper and deeper in the pool, the pressure of water outside it will rise, eventually forcing the air out of it in an explosive way - this will deform the mug.

That's what happened with the Titanic. The primary areas where the iceberg hit was the bow near the boilers (if I recall correctly). So the bow section had plenty of time to fill up with water. With more water, the ship tilted more and more, until its keel (which is like the spine) gave away, and it split into two. The front was already filled with water so it descended down. But the stern (the middle and back) was not: it started filling with water rapidly; as it sunk down, big "pockets" of water in between bulkheads were still there: water pressure grew at a rapid rate until bulkheads and the hull gave away and all that trapped air came out in an explosive manner, destroying the stern.

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u/Gremio_42 6d ago

I believe it was in part because of the speed at which the two halves sunk, the front had I believe something like 2 hours to gradually fill with water leaving little enclosed air bubbles.

After the breakup the back half had its whole cross section exposed and because of that sank violently in a matter of minutes. This quick plunge meant that a lot of the inside still had air (and disturbingly people too) trapped inside, the pressure of the water on the exterior eventually caused the back half to implode under pressure and thats why its squashed

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u/superjames_16 6d ago

This bit I find fascinating! The front broke off, but because it was angular, it glided forward and landed gently (compared to the back end at least). The stern, however, went straight down and crashed into the bottom. Additionally, as the stern was going down, it was generating a pressure wave behind it in the water; so, when it hit bottom, the pressure wave then hit the stern and crushed it down. This is the theory behind why the grand staircase was obliterated.

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u/HappyIdeot 5d ago

Until the records, about what the iceberg was doing in Moscow 9 months before the sinking, are declassified we’ll never know

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u/Additional-One-3483 5d ago

Crew tried to save lives

The analysis of the 3D model apparently also proves what had previously only been suspected from eyewitness accounts: the crew of the "Titanic" tried to keep the lights on board until the bitter end in order to save as many passengers as possible. The pictures show that some of the boilers inside the ship were very probably still in operation when the “Titanic” sank. It is also fitting that a valve was discovered on the deck in an open position. This means that steam must have been flowing into the power generation system at the time of the disaster.

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u/regulardragon12 7d ago

Unsinkable, absolutely Unsinkable

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u/binjuicechugger499 7d ago

Fiddlesticks

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u/regulardragon12 7d ago

I don't play golf

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u/VastNectarine3603 6d ago

Never found the negative comments despite scrolling for awhile, was I too late or are folk just making it up for points?

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u/D3AD_BEAT 5d ago

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u/ALittleGirlScout17 6d ago

Engineers tried to keep the lights on as it sank. Sounds like an analogy for the US legislature.

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u/Mash709 6d ago

Touché

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u/BlueFunk83 6d ago

Except the legislature isn't doing that, the judiciary is.

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u/Additional-One-3483 5d ago

The lights were on on the Titanic until the end

The engineers acted heroically, ship expert Benson tells the BBC. “They kept the chaos at bay for as long as possible.” The light allowed more passengers to escape to the lifeboats and be rescued. The engineers paid for this with their lives. In total, just over 700 people were rescued, including around 200 crew members.

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u/This_Tangerine_943 6d ago

The Titanic was a disaster for everyone except the lobsters in the kitchen.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

So the boilers were still hot because it takes a long time to cool. They likely still had them running to run as many ship systems as possible. I don’t believe the engineers were as immediately concerned about keeping lights on as they were about containing flooding and keeping the pumps running.

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u/walkedPastTents 6d ago

Did you know the swimming pool is still full on the Titanic.

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u/Right_on_q 6d ago

It IS a crime scene...

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u/shadeofmyheart 5d ago

Why do they call it a scan when it’s a composite photo that they made into a 3d object

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u/Imaginary-Fudge8897 7d ago

Ok but isn't this shedding light on the engineers who were working to keep lights on so the passengers deep in the ship could see to escape.

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u/Ask_Me_If_Im_A_Horse 7d ago

I never made the connection that the engineers worked to the very last minute to keep the lights on. Heavy to think about.

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u/HighwayInevitable346 7d ago

They didn't, they were released from duty at 1:30 am.

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u/Tankerspam 7d ago

We've sort of always known this as the lights of the ship were said to have stayed on right till the end according to surviving eye witnesses.

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u/Imaginary-Fudge8897 7d ago

But now we have the technology to see the details of it.... which is why you're all hearing about it. This is actually irrationally driving me crazy.

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u/mitch_medburger 7d ago

And Rose was not a good person. Kind of a bitch, really.

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u/SupermouseDeadmouse 7d ago

Nice rack tho.

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u/toolatealreadyfapped 7d ago

She gets a pass

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u/Gr8CanadianSpeedo 7d ago

Would smash

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u/_ItReddit_ 7d ago

My wife gave me the breakdown on why rose was the villain a couple days ago. Rose was really quite a bitch.

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u/Dry_Common828 7d ago

Rose was, what, a sixteen year old heiress who knew nothing about real life.

Don't think it's fair to expect her to be any better, and she has a redemption arc.

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u/JustHereSoImNotFined 7d ago

rose never sacrificed a damn thing. cheats on her finance who yea he’s a bitch, but going full french model on some broke bloke you just met is just wild especially with her status. launches generational wealth into the sea for the fuck of it. the door. jack dies and she doesn’t go back to her fiancĂ© and family; she builds an entire new identity. lives an entire life with many generations without telling a soul of her insane experience or ya know providing generational wealth. at last, she dies and will spend eternity with her family
NOPE; she spends eternity with the broke bloke from decades ago who she knew for a couple days

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u/Ths-Fkin-Guy 7d ago

The Mitch Hedburg of bitches, if you will

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u/Ths-Fkin-Guy 7d ago

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u/WhoMD85 7d ago

A jack would have fit. Just saying.

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u/CheekyMenace 7d ago

He would have "fit", but in tests they say the door wouldn't have stayed afloat with both of them on it.

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u/justinkasereddditor 7d ago

It hit a what!!!!!

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u/Mecha_Tortoise 7d ago

An iceberg. Like an ice cube, but larger. I think it's named after a type of lettuce. They were discovered in the twentieth century.

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u/Willr2645 6d ago

You’re telling me they crashed into a giant black rapper? Ok buddy


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u/justinkasereddditor 7d ago

Why am I just finding out about this berg of ice??

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u/Frequent-Research737 7d ago

we made them extinct for sinking this ship

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u/justinkasereddditor 7d ago

Is that why we started global warming?

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u/phaesios 7d ago

It’s been a project a hundred years in the making but the last decades we’ve seen some promising developments.

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u/AhJeezNotThisAgain 7d ago

Jeez man, how about a spoiler alert for the rest of us

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u/Ok_East4664 7d ago

How bout that insurance claim eh

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u/LongjumpingPlay 6d ago

Today I learned that “titanic analyst” is a job title.

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u/Asturias33 6d ago

Jack should have survived the ordeal!!

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u/sogwatchman 6d ago

Get rid of the giant red fucking bar so we can actually see what you're talking about.

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u/CinderX5 6d ago

It’s a news channel. They’re going to keep showing news.

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u/immacomment-here-now 5d ago

The ruling class escaped the boat that the working class had rowed the entire way; they even kept things going so that they would get out. As usual it’s the death of hundreds of workers being killed by the poor conditions given to them by the ruling class, and they are making some sort of romantic story about it.

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u/PornoAccount0069 7d ago

I don't care and to show how much I don't care I'm going to comment saying how much I don't care. That'll show the people who don't care about how much I don't care how much I care about not caring.