A 400 ft, 20,000 t chunk of ship spiraling down to the seafloor only makes the ocean that much more terrifying.

I've learned basically everything there is about Titanic from this channel but it's always a fun time watching more videos about it

Im going to titanic museum in Belfast for my 30th birthday in March. Never been so excited and nervous. Not sure what to expect or feel!

What's more facinating about the Titanic's wreck, is just how near perfectly the halves are aligned, despite being so far apart. It's a miracle the stern isn't facing a different direction altogether. Also, it's amazing how both halves are sitting nearly as straigbt up as they were when they were connected on the surface.

Can you imagine how frightening this must have been? Crazy.

There is actually a video "Titanic: Answers from the Abyss" with a segment covering the dynamics of the bow section's descent to the bottom using a large-scale model that was dropped into a deep water test tank. Anyone wanting to watch the planning effect of the bow on its way to the bottom in action for real, not a CGI animation, this is it, it's amazing to see how stable the bow is, even in later drop tests where the team added large pieces of twisted metal jutting out near the break up point to see if that would alter the motion in any way.

What a well spoken young adult. No kinda like, no it was like, I was like, literally like, no dude, bro, brah, etc. just eloquent sentences! Very good!

It's about how the 2 parts of the ship fell to the ocean floor. While the bow flowed gently decent to the ocean floor, the stern's decent was chaotic due to it suffering from an implosion & spinning like a helicopter blade on the way down. Thus it's why the bow still looks like the bow while the stern looks like a large mess.

Great video! I always liked how James Cameron describes the stern becoming such a mess; if you stuck your hand out of a moving car with a stack of papers in your hand against the wind, the papers flay out and go wild and that’s basically the same thing that happened here.

Stern had a very violent fall to the ocean floor. Everything about Titanic fascinates me. She was a beauty. Thanks for the refresher Sam. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Well done!!! Thank you for making video for us even when you’re not in the comfort of your studio in WV!!! We appreciate you, Sam! You did great on your first vid in AZ. You rock!

I'M SOOO HAPPY YOU TOOK MY SUGGESTION THANK YOU SAM!!!

This is definitely one of my favorite Historic Travels video

So the bow fell like a paper airplane gliding on wards just a little as the lift starts to fail. The stern fell like an odd shaped rock being buffeted by the dense water and spinning. That makes complete sense, thanks! That also explains the state of many other shipwrecks that broke into 2 pieces.

This is an excellent explanation for not only why the bow and stern are as far apart as they are, but why the bow section (at the time the wreck was found in the 1980s) was still mostly intact and recognizable from old pictures of the ship before the sinking, while the stern was a torn-up, mangled mess. I first heard of the story of the Titanic by reading two mid-1980s issues of National Geographic Magazine that featured the Titanic right after the wreck was found. While the articles had some assumptions that were later found to be inaccurate (such as a supposed "300 foot gash" torn in the Titanic's hull by the iceberg, later found to be a long series of much smaller breaches), their explanation for the positions and condition of the bow and stern were remarkably similar to this one, though far shorter and less detailed. There was even a diagram showing the bow "landing" and the stern "crashing".

Don't forget that Godzilla was also a big part of why the two halves were so far part.

I am currently reading the book - On a Sea of Glass. It is a very fascinating read. Thank you for the wonderful recommendation!

Crazy how that high lip that the Stern had is completely flattned like a tin can either due to implosion or impact

YOOO Sam, I was looking up something on Murdoch and one of the suggested was "Did Murdoch kill himself" I click on it for a bit of a laugh the first "People also ask" question was "Did Captain Murdoch kill himself" I laughed for hours.

There's actually visual evidence of the stern's spiral in the form of swirl tracks carved into the sea floor leading up to the wreck itself. It finished it's final spiral after it hit the bottom.

Wow !! That down blast effect also effected the stern too just like the bow

I am officially Like #999! You do amazing work on your videos. I enjoy each one of them. Keep it going, Sam! :)

And now it makes total sense to me why the stern is in so much worse condition than the bow down there. Thanks for another great video

Your videos are always so cool! Keep up the great work! Best wishes!

Great video Sam; very detailed information and learnt a lot 😊

Awesome video Sam this material is what got me hooked on your channel a few years back thank you

It shows how violent the implosion was- a survivor reported seeing the pole from outside the Barbers’ Shop floating amongst wood from the sinking, the next morning, The Barbers was next to the Aft Crand Staircase, on ‘A’. deck, between the 3rd and 4th funnels (the breakup zone) The whole of this staircase was destroyed in the implosion.

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easy amswer, the back of the titanic didnt have time to get fully filled with water before it sunk, so when it fell it still had air in it and was trying to get all the air out and water in, that caused it to spin and bits to fly off.... you can try this with a cup and a bucket of water, very slowely lower a cup into a bucket of water untill its fully under, now just slam the cup under the water, youll see its not 100% full right away and there will be lots of air bubbles

This is a great detailing what happened during the sinking of Titanic. Thank you and subscribed😊

I love watching your videos. They are both interesting and clear to understand.

You are such an excellent illustrator and I think you make an incredible teacher! I’m also glad that you “teach” on the internet with your channel where you’re free to express your knowledge instead of at a school or university where you’d be restricted by political agendas and nefarious entities. Great job, as usual!!

I think the best way to describe it is that the Stern was tumbling down through the ocean.

You explained this so well! Thank you for answering this question. Well done 😊

This is very interesting. Thanks for talking about it.

The visual of this in the middle of the night, that cold and so far down is terrifying. Add the implosion sound and the screams. My god😮. Also the 400 foot silouette against the night sky, blocking out the stars as the power goes out!

Always an excellent video and presentation.

Shame the stern is in such bad shape can you imagine all the priceless decor and art down there

Great animation and commentary. Thank you.

The snarky me wants to say something about BrightSide but instead just want to say - Sam I love your videos! Keep up the good work!

Very clear explanation. Great information.

Pretty much how I understood it to happen also. Appreciate your time in teaching us.

Another great analogy you can use is if you’d drop a badminton birdie from a helicopter at 12,500 feet, then a minute later drop the racket in the same spot. You have one object designed to slice smoothly through the air (representing the bow section) and another irregular object that would certainly tumble wildly in freefall (representing the stern section). I’d also guarantee that the racket would have drifted much farther than the birdie due to the chaotic path it took to the ground. Much the same if you dropped a piece of paper off a bridge.

Thank you for sharing, love theese titanic videos 😍

I was on a family trip and at a Titanic exhibit at the museum in Melbourne I actually got to touch a piece of the hull that'd been salvaged so in other words I actually got to touch a piece of the Titanic

I think the stern section of Titanic's wreck is extremely underrepresented in popular media. For example: James Cameron's Titanic doesn't show any footage of the stern at all, whereas the bow section is shown a lot

Another great video! Bravo.

I give you props though guy I get more info out of your Titanic stuff than I do any of the other I've seen

Awesome video Sam hope you're well my Awesome friend . really injoy all you're videos buddy .

Expert narration. Thank you.

Watching the sinking animations of the sections falling under the water makes my stomach churn, the stern section bit especially makes me nauseous watching it.

The Implosion was also caused by trapped air pockets inside the stern , which blew out the starboard shell plating, the fantail and boat deck were ripped off, then the final insult, was a massive down blast of water, which had been displaced by this section. which weighed around 16000 tonnes….

Great presentation video. 👏

Another great video. Thanks.

When I saw the recent hi res pics of the 2 sections, the bow was spooky, but the stern section gave me chills. There is just something about how it’s split apart that’s just freaky.

You never disappoint!!!

Bright side has done it again!

Thinking about how heavy the props were too.

Enjoyed this Samand learned a lot. My hubby herd you and came to watch also

This man posts bangers after 112 years were still getting more theories!!!

As always….an excellent video!

Awesome. Short and sweet!

I feel that animation James Cameron used in his 2012 documentary showing how the separate pieces fell in the water column are a good visual representation on how it likely happened

Sam I LOVE your videos. I learn soo much (visual learner).. My favorite subjects of history are the RMS Titanic and Anne Frank (she is a hero for that diary) I was wondering if you could go into the details bout the items, like the small replica of statue of Aphrodite, for example.

Well, the way the water shifted the stern, as well as the drifting in the ocean currents all means the reck was most likely gonna end up being pretty well seperated from either half.

Thanks for sharing!

The ship broke in half when the water pressure caused the emplosion on the stern, that's the noise they heard and that's when it broke in two, AFTER the entire ship was submerged. The reason this didn't happen on Britannic was because it sank in shallow water.

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Or a more simple way. As the bow sank deeper it started pitching up and landed somewhat softly. The spinning off the stern cause it to move away from the Titanic bow and smack into the ocean floor

Sam I just started watching your videos, and I love them. They are so informative and tell the stories I haven’t heard before. I know this is off topic, but what kind of flowers did they have? I’m sure they had vases full of beautiful flowers and grand center pieces. Who put them together. I just thought it was interesting to know if there was a florist of some sort on board.

One of the photos shows the stern with more pieces of debris around it, as opposed to the bow. It would indicate that there was a violent implosion in the stern.

Titanic month is next week. April 10 - 15 2024 Is the 112th year anniversary of the Titanic maiden voyage and sinking

I remeber watching you in 2021 back when I was 12, now I'm 15... man time files😔

Love your videos brother

Sam can you do a video on the SS princess Alice aka the titanic on the river Thames hundreds of people died and drowned in raw sewage

So I don’t know if this was ever discussed, but what happened to the funnels and why weren’t any of them ever found? Love your channel my friend.

Love this content

I'm surprised they weren't further apart.

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“If you were to dive the wreck of the Titanic-“ please, let’s not do THAT again.

There was NO ‘spiraling” down to the sea floor. The most accurate witness to the sinking, ‘Thayer”, perfectly predicted both the condition, and position of the wreck on the sea floor. Thayer explains that the stern did not rise into the air until AFTER she started to break amidships, but the break occurred underwater, with the middle of the ship dropping down, and both ends tipping up. He stated that just the tip of the bow surfaced briefly, before the last of the steel along her sides parted and it tipped back under and tore away. This description proved that her stern did NOT ‘break off’ from being in the air, but that her stern half was Pushed UP and her bottom parted in tension. Which is why a 20 foot long section of her bottom was found on the sea floor, UNBENT. ( as it would have been if the stern and snapped down ). It also predicted that the upper superstructure would be crushed and crumpled in a wedge shape that was wider at the top and narrowed toward the break at her bottom. Which is exactly how she was found. Thayer then explains that after the bow tore loose the stern dropped back down partly, and slowly spun 180 degrees until it was over the position the Bow had been and facing the opposite way, as it gradually filled form the broken end a tipped up to near vertical before sinking. This predicted that the stern would be found facing the wrong way. It was the force of buoyancy that broke the ship as every ton of water she shipped meant she had to displace another ton of water, with the force holding her at the surface eventually growing to nearly 120,000 tons pushing upwards, most of the force focused on the stern. Once the stern sank, as the air holding her stern upright was squeezed out, the stern righted itself ( as most sinking ships do if they go down in deep enough water ) and she sank to the ocean floor nearly level. She was slightly more hydrodynamic by the stern, but this was offset by the enormous weight of her engines in her open end, contributing to her falling level. The bow righted itself as well, but as it sank, its pointed bow offered lower drag, and so she tended to sink bow down, dragging the torn off end behind. That angle cause the bow to plane in the direction she was pointing and so she slid in that direction, which at the time was the opposite of the current flow. She hit bow down, which buckled her bow into the bottom, and she then settled slowly down. The stern hit the bottom dead level, but her open end had no bulkhead to stiffen it and the enormous open space of the engine room has fewer decks and other steel structures to stiffen its shape, as a result when she hit her upper decks collapsed down not the engine and turbine spaces, and, being full of water, the water pushed the exterior plating of the ship outwards as the volume inside the ship was crushed. The ship’s actual relative position as she sank can be seen in the 20 foot section of her bottom and the last row of boilers that spilled out she that bottom was torn apart- these dropped pretty much straight down. The stern is found a ways away since it sank almost 20 minutes later and its position reflect how far the current carried the stern as she filled with water on the surface. The bow planed away at an angle against the current and so ended up further away. The problem with Most titanic rehashes is the utter failure to consider the actual forces that act upon a ship’s hull as she fills with water. The entire time she remains at the surface, she is getting heavier… which means to stay at the surface she has to displace MORE water. This means that buoyancy has to increase to hold the ship, and the water she has taken on at the surface. This upwards force is 2-3 times her entire normal weight. For example… the pilothouse and funnels were NOT torn off by water as she plummeted down… rather, the moment the water around their bases was just a few feet deep, the upwards force of the buoyancy that created exceeds the strength of the bolts holding those structures down to the deck. Watch video of the Japanese tsunami, before the water even gets to the level of the windows, the houses literally just FLOAT free of their foundations. And once no longer held in shape by those foundations, the current distorts them and break them apart. But it’s the force of buoyancy that tears them off their foundations. They displace 3 or 4 times the entire weight of the house. That is what broke the titanic. And she was found exactly in the orientation that Thayer described her sinking in, with exactly the kind of damage his description would predict.

Great video!

I'm surprised that they are close together as they are. I never really thought that they were "far apart".

I have this insane fascination that there had to be at least 1 person on either section of the Titanic still alive in an air pocket, making it close or to the bottom

Amazing video.

I think it'd be cool if you made a short video explaining what that little hole on the front of the bow's tip is, and what its purpose is. I always notice it, but I've never seen anyone explain it.

Great video

The term you are Looking for to describe how the front half (I'm not using the term 'bow' as the vessel has at this point been severed in two, thus is no longer a ship with a bow and stern) of the vessel glided through the water is aquaplaning.

Question: we see through history of Olympic with HMS Hawke and Titanic's near collision with the New York the incredible pull these ships had. Do we know of similar incidents with the Lusitania and Mauretania or even other captains? Captain EJ Smith seems to come off as somewhat reckless.

Cool Historic travels

Oh Sam! Remember when I said, "Lets torture Sam by making him watch Bright Side video for our own viewing pleasure."? There's two new Titanic videos on the Bright Side channel! Also, I've always wondered why the stern and bow of the RMS Titanic are so far apart. This video just explained everything I needed to know. The same question has stuck with me for almost 14 long years and I've been searching for an answer to it. Now, my question has finally been answered in depth. Honestly, Sam should have the respect of the Titanic historians throughout the world because of how much knowledge he has and how well he's able to explain the aspects of the RMS Titanic, alongside her history. Like I said, I've been attached to the RMS Titanic for almost 14 years and she remains to be a very special part of my life. To see someone show as much love for the Titanic as I have brings a certain level of brightness to me.

Intresting to hear that

It seams to reason that the aft portion of the ship spun around as the propeller side would offer much less water flow resistance than the boxed shaped open portion of the ship. I wonder what position the rudders were in on the descent .

The back of your wall is intriguing

I already learned about the ship for a couple years and its a scary day of the accident

I would love to see an video about what if the door on the side of the Titanic was never opened during the sinking since it caused an bigger effect than the iceberg damage and made the ship go into an list

Always God bless the passengers that parished on the Titanic ship. & respect them as they no longer have a voice.

Most awesome vid!!!!!

Nice job.

Another astonishing fact is why bow points northeast knowing titanic was travelling towards west? It may be worth making a video for it!