The engineers who kept the engines going, the operator who kept repeating this message over and over until the end, the band who continued to play to calm the rest of the passengers, all those who accepted their fate so others would live, including Captain Edward J Smith, and chief engineer Thomas Andrews, are all true heroes.

This is like hearing a man's dying words except it is still in his voice.

The fact people could turn those beeps into letters so quickly is amazing in itself

His name was Jack Philips. He had just turned 25 years old. He didn’t leave his post until the radio room was flooding. Lots of comments about the bravery of this man but no mention of his name.

RIP Jack Phillips wireless operator the night the Titanic sank and a hero who stayed at his post right till the end.

Also worth remembering the 34 engineers that made sure the power was still running for this signal to be sent as late as 2:17 am. None of them made it but they shall never be forgotten.

The fact nobody knows where this recreation came from is more unnerving than anything. It's literally a recreation of a dead man's call for help on behalf of the passengers who died that same night. The audio is somewhat accurate for that time and the authentic sounding rotary spark is almost pitch perfect.

Interesting fact: CQD (Come Quick Danger) was the accepted distress call during the sinking. People knew of SOS (Save Our Souls) but it wasn't common, so when the Titanic began transmitting SOS, they receivers knew that their situation was dire and they were trying to emphasize just how bad their situation was.

Very sad. I can only imagine what the man receiving this transmission was feeling.

She's screaming out: "HELP ME, HELP ME!" But nobody came on time.

the fact that this actually happened is so unsettling and sad at the same time. this gave me goosebumps

RIP to the orchestra, postal clerks, restaurant workers, victualling department, Engineers, deck crew and officers who passed away that night. You worked till the very end.

Creepy

that "1912" voice give me goosebumps

Even though I, like literally everyone on KZfaq, was never onboard the Titanic, I can still feel the sheer terror of every last keystroke of this transmission.

It’s just horrible to think that one of the most amazing ocean liners of its time is at the bottom of the ocean

CDQ= All Stations: Distress

Note that when "SOS" is sent, it is not sent as three separate characters, but as one long one: "di-di-di-dah-dah-dah-di-di-dit". This is correct!

Now a submarine down there faces a similar fate.

I can’t stop listening to this over and over again. It is so captivating in a tragic way.

Sad fact, based off how fast Operator Phillips was in sending the message, goes to show that he not only took his job seriously, he was a very skilled wireless operator. Let's face it, that was pretty fast. Even I tried to recreate it, it didn't take, even with the Morse sheet in front of me. R.I.P. Operator Jack Phillips, Marconi Wireless Operator of the R.M.S. Titanic.

Thank you Captin of titanic Music band Engineers Wireless operator. R.I.P. Also:R.I.P anyone who died that night..

I remember reading once that the Titanic telegraph operators had a huge backlog of telegrams to send to Cape Race, Newfoundland. The SS Californian was relatively close to the Titanic and had stopped in an iceberg field out of caution. It tried warning other ships in the area of icebergs and interfered in Titanic's communications. The harried Titanic operators told the Californian operators to "shut up." The Californian operator then turned off his telegraph equipment, so the Californian did not receive a telegraphed SOS from Titanic. The crew of the Californian did observe the Titanic a few miles away and weren't sure of its status but did not bother trying to telegraph to find out.

The radio operator (Jack Phillips) on the Titanic initially sent the old "CQD," which is why ships listening for the proper "SOS" didn't react. Only later did he start alternating between the two. By the way, the call "CQD" translates to "CQ" (general call to any station) followed by "D" for "distress."

Imagine being on another ship and getting that message

i got extreme chills. this makes me sad. i wish they survived

youtube has a sick sense of humor recommending this rn

I'm going to be honest, I don't understand Morse code, but knowing the context is honestly very heart wrenching. This video makes me feel awful for the people who lost their lives. I hope they all are resting peacefully.

God bless Titanic crew members, they managed to save hundreds and call for a rescue.

There were two operators, one of whom survived the sinking. As I understand it, one op may have been sending the distress while the other was adjusting the spark for maximum output under conditions of failing power. 73, Drew

I know Morse code, but this is so fast that literally nothing is happening in my brain while listening to it.

You are on a ship, in the middle of the atlantic ocean, in the darkness of the night, tired and you hear this... creepy

Me trying to feed my brain any information 5 minutes before the exams...

For those who don’t know what do these sounds really mean; Back in old times, they didn’t have phones, so they used telegraph. A telegraph can send beeps to a receiver from a large distance (exactly like phones but telegraph only sends beeps) . These beeps cannot be understood by humans; so they needed to decode the beeps into letters and thus words for tele-communications to be understood by humans Morse Code is a series of beeps organized somehow to indicate each letter. Of course it takes a long time to understand what that person from the distance is trying to say, but that is how RMS Titanic sent the distress calls and requested SOS or CDQ

It's sad to know that 1500 were killed but the people who weren't were saved because of this Morse code call for help And to the engineers who kept the engines on you will never be forgotten

Imagine being at a repeater station or somewhere else where you received this and your horror slowing building as you translated it

I would say about 26 to 28 wpm. I was a sparker in the Navy. Back when Morse was still being used.

A (mostly) accurate timeline of what happened that night: April 14 1912. 11:39 PM- Iceberg is Spotted by lookouts Frederick Fleet & Reginald Lee. 11:40 PM- Iceberg Hits, creating small slits in the hull from the Forepeak Tank, up to the Coal Bunker in Boiler Room 5 (the 2nd frontmost boiler room). April 15 1912. ~12:15 AM- Senior Wireless Operator Jack Philip’s messages are received by multiple radio stations onboard ships or Cape Race. ~1:00 AM- Most Lifeboats have left the ship. 2:06 AM- Wireless Room Abandoned hastily, Last message: “CQD SOS CQD SOS this is” ~2:08 AM- Area where the band was playing submerges. ~2:10 AM- Final Plunge Begins. ~2:17 AM- Titanic’s last message _Received_ by other ships (signal range was low, so the message was weaker and could barely be received. ~2:18 AM- Titanic Breaks from the bottom-up (go watch Titanic Animation’s analysis on the break up, it agrees with physics) into the Bow, Forward Tower, Aft Tower, and Stern. Emergency lights may have remained on in the stern, but not for more than a minute, obscuring the ship in *TOTAL* darkness. ~2:20 AM- Titanic goes under, taking with her around ~1,400 lives, ~100 more die in the water of hypothermia. ~2:22 - 2:40- few Lifeboats return to the site (3, I think. Correct me if I’m wrong), Lowe distributes his passengers between a chain of 4 lifeboats connected by ropes. ~3:00 RMS Carpathia arrives at the site. ~4:00 SS Californian Arrives at the site, soon followed by the Mount Temple, Birma, Frankfurt, and some others (I forgot). April 18 1912. Carpathia Arrives in New York with 705 Survivors. (I know the comment section will explode, so to *try* to prevent that; THIS IS A LITERAL TIMELINE NOT AN ARGUMENT)

I couldn’t make any sense out of that . No wonder no one came to their rescue

I'd love to see someone pounding brass that fast. Not that I'm saying it isn't possible, just the fact that I'd love to see it. That's a lot of work.

Whenever I think life is shit, I remember the people in RMS Titanic!

This is really haunting.

It's reasonably authentic and reflects what might have been received by a station in the immediate vicinity. The spark transmitter was driven by 15kHz AC, which resulted in a slightly musical tone. At greater distances, it would have been received with a slight "ghostly" echo, based on my own experience with the 630 metre band. That echo, due to multipath distortion, would have smoothed out the rough sound to some extent. The cw speed is a bit fast. One thing to remember is that the receiver bandwidth or selectivity would have been enormous compared to modern receivers. You could add some static too for authenticity.

Rest in peace Titanic we will miss you😭😭

This is haunting. This morse code transcript from Titanic is as eerie as listening to the cockpit voice recorder from a plane crash.

And now 5 more deaths 😰 (Submarine)

That 1912 voice is very creepy to hear... Imagine being on another ship and listening to this... 😱😱😱

IIRC, legend has it that the radio operator stayed at his position and went down with the ship.

On the night the Titanic struck the iceberg, Jack Phillips received a message from the Mesaba (a near by ship from the Titanic) warning them about the icebergs ahead of the Titanic, but Phillips did not pass the message to the Captain because it wasn’t marked as “urgent“.

Man why am I crying right now, don’t think I’ve ever cried this hard at a radio 📻 transmission

I can only imagine the shock on the radio operators faces when the captain came in and said the ship was sinking.

The way it just ended in static felt like the equivalent of a lifeline flattening...

Makes me realise how great these people were

This is in essence equal to listening to the black box of Titanic. Very humbling indeed. Oh how incredibly powerful it would be to hear a perfect recording of that night's events start to finish

it's 1:30am and i watched 12 seconds into this and couldn't watch any more because it just scared me so much.

The call of somebody in distress, facing death.

This is amazing, I can only imagine the anguish of the radio operator. Regards KN1W

That fact that you can still hear a "panicked voice" in the brass telegraph is so horrifyingly sad

This is very eerie

thanks for posting..it's like bringing Titanic's voice back to life....

"It's a CQD old man... This is Titanic."

Felicidades, has encontrado un comentario español!

My respect to those people who died in this tragedy. Thank you for posting this video.👍

No, it is a simulation of the actual logged distress transmission. It is technically interesting in that it supposedly sounds like the spark gap transmitter technology that would have been in use at that time. Also, the speed of the transmission is very fast for manual straight-key Morse Code. Note the dash-to-dot ratio is about 2:1, not the standard 3:1.

This does sound like rotary spark gap. The pacing is fast- that is a characteristic of a "spark gap fist". Even if it isn't original, ie: the "actual" distress call; it is a really good example of what a then-nearly 100 year old form of communication sent over early radio transmission capabilities might have sounded like. Thanks for posting this, and 73!!

I’ve seen a lot of animations on the titanic but when you see or hear real recordings then the scariness and reality sets in

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I think the Telegrapher Is Philips.. He did sadly die

This day 105 years ago, the Titanic set sail for her maiden voyage. ~Fennett

This is a gold mine of a sample pack.

The titanic: SOS CQD help SS Californian: eh they might be practicing swimming or a sinking drill

This is undoubtedly the most scary SOS call i ever heard.. gosh i have chills

I could just feel the horrifying urgency behind the code. May they rest in peace.

Man that guy certainly had his balls in a vise grip...a hundred years later and I still feel for those poor souls who just wanted a better life or just a vacation. In any sense, I LOOOVVE that spark gap sound, you really aren't gonna hear that on the airwaves anymore. God rest their souls and thanks for uploading.

so fast... i cant believe... this is an art !!!

Fire beat bro 🔥

It's hard to image how much hopelessness were accompanying that sinking ship to the end, how much fear was in the eyes of every people who was there when they realize that death is coming for them in any seconds in this sinking freezing hell, even females and kids were on boats it doesn't mean that there couldn't be any females or children on that ship, just that moment when everything what you have is hope that something would just appear and save your life but nothing happen... I hear in this sounds despair and fear what nobody Heared when it was needed a most... Respect to orchestra that was playing when it was sinking and rest in peace everyone who is lying on the ground of the sea...

Bone chilling... I remember hearing this in the Titanic museum in Belfast when my family went there, loved who the place went from "This is how amazing the Titanic was!" to creepy morse code leading to devices that let you see every person who was on the Titanic, their race, where they were from and the scary part : If they made it out. Fun fact : There was only one Japanese man on the whole Titanic and he lived to tell the tale!

Actual morse code: "MICHEAL DONT LEAVE ME HERE" "MICHEAL." "MICHEAAAALLLL"

Excellent representation, that frame sound for hundreds of people the difference between life and death.

I'm not sure how accurate this is but on a website I found these were the meanings of the codes: DE - "This is" MGY - "Titanic" CQD - "Calling all vessels" SOS - "Save Our Souls" So the entire message reads - "This is Titanic, calling all ships, save our souls, calling all ships..."

this hurts 😢💔

I wonder how eerie it was to listen to the titanic’s broadcasts slowly get worse and more unstable then just to hear silence after hours of the ships cries for help

Im from this little place in Nova Scotia, Canada called Canso. We used to have this old cable building (the foundation is still there but the building isnt) and that cable building was the first place to get the signals that the Titanic was sending out. I just think thats awesome

2年間聞いてきたけどだんだん聞き取れるようになってきたぞ

Beat goes hard

For all on board very traumatic, rest in peace now that you are in a better place.

The speed at which Morse code was typed gave a sense of the feelings of the person staying in the radio room at the time. I feel it...

I made a spark gap transmitter when I was a child, to transmit to my cousin about seven kilometres away. But not just my cousin was receiving my telegraphy. All the analogue televisions, early cordless phones, radios, could hear it as well. When my father found out, I got in big trouble. I had to apologise to all the neighbours, and mow their lawns for the summer, for free. My cousin, which I made an identical transmitter for him, did not get in trouble because he told my father and his father that I forced him to do it. It was not bad enough that I got in trouble for all interference, my father got me in bigger trouble because I stole the riding mower battery and motorcycle battery, two ignition coils from abandoned cars in a property that was abandoned, and found an old Lionell telegraphy key in the abandoned property that I entered to find. I made my cousin something very similar for his key out of junk. Today, I still have the ancient, World War II J-47 telegraphy key, and the memories. My dad did get me a CB radio at the end of the summer, and I made an antenna for it. Today, the old CB radio is in my vehicle. I have had it in all my vehicles. It is just now starting to fail. But nobody uses CB anymore. It may be time to lay it to rest as a keep sake. Now, where to I find internal panels for a 1997 Jeep Wrangler? When I bought the Jeep new, parts abounded. Today, a vehicle that old is hard to find any interior panels for it. Ah, good times.

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The way it goes so fast and the tone goes up and down frantically shows how distressed they were.

This give me chills

The ships' operators always sent character morse, each with there own swing, but I feel this was a little imperfect. I think the sound is very realistic.

Gdybym usłyszał coś takiego w moim radio, pomyślałbym sobie. Masz Ci los, głośnik mi się zespół ;D

Imagine, being on a massive ship. And seeing the water rushing onto and into the bow, screaming and shouting everywhere, falling, jumping, and even dying. The ship starting to sink faster each hour, the fear is everywhere.

Hearing this is so heartbreaking

Wow. The audio, the signal visuals, and the really dark comment stories I'm seeing are so haunting... I don't think I'll be sleeping tonight.

Everytime I hear the distress call from the Titanic (in the movies) I can copy it in my head, since I've been around Morse code all my life. I taught myself to send and receive Morse code when I was twelve years old and then used it in the Army for years. Once you learn it, code becomes like a second language.

WOW AMAZING....RIP all passengers who went down with the ship...

bro this is legendary sound