- gestern
Kategorie
✨
MenschenTranskript
00:00:00Untertitelung des ZDF für funk, 2017
00:00:30Untertitelung des ZDF für funk, 2017
00:01:00Its destination
00:01:01Surface LF wreck on sonar
00:01:04The most famous wreck site in history
00:01:08Present depth 3810
00:01:11At bottom
00:01:13For over a century, the tragic fate of Titanic has been a global obsession
00:01:26Scientists have found wreckage of the SS Titanic
00:01:30A story so compelling that people risk their lives
00:01:34Spending millions of dollars
00:01:37Just to get a glimpse of the wreck
00:01:40This investigation will allow us to see Titanic in a whole new way
00:01:49The remarkable new images of the Titanic
00:01:52As you've never seen it before
00:01:54The largest underwater scanning project in history
00:01:57It's incredible to see it like this
00:01:59Over 700,000 scanned images
00:02:0216 terabytes of data
00:02:04And almost two years of research and processing
00:02:07Have produced a full-sized digital replica of the ship
00:02:10A virtual twin of Titanic
00:02:13Wow
00:02:15This is a view I've never had before
00:02:19A replica so detailed
00:02:25See the numbers?
00:02:26It's incredible when you see the full scale
00:02:28It will offer new insights into the sinking
00:02:30Looking at it in this scale
00:02:33You would think the ship had been struck by some enormous missile
00:02:37And new evidence of the final moments of those on board
00:02:42They were trying to launch one last lifeboat
00:02:46When she set sail from Southampton, England in the spring of 1912
00:03:01She was hailed as the most luxurious steamship in the world
00:03:03And on this her maiden voyage
00:03:05She was unsurpassed and unsinkable
00:03:07Her name of course
00:03:09The Titanic
00:03:16On 10th of April 1912
00:03:20Titanic begins her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York
00:03:24She's billed as the greatest, most luxurious ship of her day
00:03:29It is the golden age of the ocean liner
00:03:33Two companies
00:03:36White Star Line and Cunard
00:03:38Vie for supremacy on the route across the Atlantic
00:03:41Cunard ships were typically faster
00:03:45But White Star had the edge when it came to luxury
00:03:49And the gigantic Titanic was the jewel in their crown
00:03:54On board there are aristocrats
00:03:58There are business magnates
00:03:59But there's also immigrants who are going to the Americas to make a new life
00:04:02In just seven days' time
00:04:06Titanic should be steaming triumphantly into New York
00:04:11The world's press waiting to greet her
00:04:14Instead
00:04:16She'll be at the bottom of the Atlantic
00:04:18And almost 1,500 people
00:04:21Will be dead
00:04:23A century on
00:04:31Many details about the sinking are still debated
00:04:34Titanic's never given up her secrets easily
00:04:41And for 70 years nobody even knew where she was
00:04:44And then in 1985
00:04:46Bob Ballard found the wreck
00:04:48Today the French and the American men who found the Titanic will celebrate
00:04:54Ballard had found the greatest of all lost ships
00:04:58And scientists clamored to study the wreck
00:05:00But two and a half miles down
00:05:04Under atmospheric pressure
00:05:06Almost 400 times greater than at sea level
00:05:09Conditions make it hard to see more than fragments of the ship at a time
00:05:14Many expeditions have been down to the wreck over the past 40 years
00:05:25But it's pitch black down there
00:05:29So it's not been possible to see the whole ship
00:05:34Viewing it has been like shining a flashlight in the dark
00:05:38Until now
00:05:41After a two and a half hour descent to the ocean floor
00:05:52Two unmanned subs named Romeo and Juliet get to work
00:05:58While Romeo films high resolution footage of the ship and sea floor
00:06:05Equipped with lasers recording millions of measurements
00:06:15Juliet captures every inch of the wreck
00:06:19I have every expectation that we're going to see
00:06:28The most accurate portrayal of the wreck site
00:06:32That's ever been offered
00:06:34World-renowned expert Park Stevenson
00:06:39Has been on multiple dives to Titanic
00:06:42He hopes the scan will offer insights
00:06:47Into some of the questions which still surround the wreck
00:06:51I'm intrigued by mysteries
00:06:56People thought that the ship could not sink
00:07:00So how did she end up like this on the ocean floor?
00:07:06Coming up on the wreck site
00:07:07What actually happened that night?
00:07:12I often view the shipwreck
00:07:15As the last surviving witness to the disaster
00:07:19The way she's torn apart
00:07:23The way the pieces of her are bent or torn
00:07:27These all tell a story
00:07:30And so it's vital
00:07:33That we listen to the stories that the wreck can tell
00:07:37Footage from the Romeo sub
00:07:41Quickly offers glimpses of these stories
00:07:43Snapshots of humanity
00:07:46Among the scattered wreckage
00:07:48Hundreds of wine bottles
00:07:53A dress
00:07:58A doll's head
00:08:02All are a stark reminder
00:08:07Titanic
00:08:09Titanic
00:08:09Titanic
00:08:09Isn't just an object of fascination
00:08:11She's a graveyard
00:08:15One which the scan will allow us to study
00:08:20From a respectful distance
00:08:22After three weeks at sea
00:08:31Scanning 24 hours a day
00:08:33The work of the expedition team
00:08:37Is complete
00:08:38But it will take over a year
00:08:47To research and piece together
00:08:49The enormous amount of data gathered
00:08:51This operation has a lot of promise
00:08:54Having a tool
00:08:56Of a virtual twin
00:08:59Of the Titanic wreck
00:09:01That's huge
00:09:03Awaiting access to the digital twin
00:09:11Parks has assembled a team
00:09:14To help him examine it in detail
00:09:15This will give you just basically
00:09:20The context of the ship itself
00:09:22Master Mariner Captain Chris Hearn
00:09:25Wants to study the twin
00:09:27From a sailor's point of view
00:09:28As somebody who has crossed the Atlantic
00:09:34And been in ice
00:09:35A ship is very much about its crew
00:09:37What was their experience
00:09:41When the ship was sinking?
00:09:43If you had the whole wreck site
00:09:46What could you do with that?
00:09:48We could totally recreate that night
00:09:50Metallurgist Dr. Jennifer Hooper
00:09:53Has spent years in the lab
00:09:55Studying small fragments of the wreck
00:09:57Going from examining the materials
00:10:01In a laboratory
00:10:02To feeling like I'm on the sea floor
00:10:06Staring at this wreck site
00:10:08Is something I never thought
00:10:10That I would see in my lifetime
00:10:11Hopefully we're going to get
00:10:14The answers to some of these questions
00:10:16That have been bugging me
00:10:17For decades
00:10:18After almost two years
00:10:22Of research and processing
00:10:23Over 700,000 scan images
00:10:26Have been painstakingly pieced together
00:10:28At a gigantic sound stage
00:10:34Colossal LED panels
00:10:36Will project the image of the twin
00:10:38At up to full scale
00:10:39Bringing the investigators face to face
00:10:43With the severed wreckage
00:10:44Of Titanic
00:10:46Thor reached out to men
00:10:48What's the你
00:10:53Oh sure
00:10:55What's the release of morte
00:10:56Of your life
00:10:57Those two fail
00:10:58For you
00:10:58Loved
00:10:59Don't go
00:11:01logistics
00:11:01He left
00:11:01To continue
00:11:02To be ak
00:11:06To be an awakening
00:11:06ar
00:11:07That is
00:11:07To beду
00:11:12God
00:11:13Well, look at that.
00:11:39I can tell you, I'm in the ship's simulation business,
00:11:41and I've never seen anything like that.
00:11:42Well, I've actually been here in a submersible,
00:11:45but I only see just a little bit out my viewport.
00:11:48It's just so immense.
00:11:55When you are in a submersible,
00:11:57you can see maybe only a few meters in front of you.
00:12:01But with the digital twin, you can see the entire wreck site.
00:12:06Now I have a better view of Titanic than I ever
00:12:10did at the Titanic.
00:12:15We are around 12,000 feet at the bottom of the ocean,
00:12:20looking up at the Titanic.
00:12:22Studying this under a microscope doesn't really prepare you for this.
00:12:29Seeing the Titanic wreck site in full scale,
00:12:42I finally understood how small I am in comparison to everything that I'm looking at.
00:12:50I was able to truly experience this sense of destruction.
00:12:55This is where she ripped him to.
00:13:05This is where she ripped him to.
00:13:07The digital twin not only allows the team to explore the ship itself,
00:13:14but the destruction caused by the crash that sank her.
00:13:18I wasn't really prepared for the level of damage that the scan showed us.
00:13:24It's catastrophic in its scale.
00:13:29That really struck me.
00:13:35We've known since her discovery that the ship lies in two parts.
00:13:38But the wreck site is so massive, no one has ever seen it all at once until now.
00:13:46The stern sits a third of a mile from the bow.
00:13:49Okay, now this is something you don't normally see because it's very dangerous underneath the overhanging stern here.
00:14:15Trying to get down here with a submersible is not very often done.
00:14:25The twin allows the experts to study near inaccessible parts of the ship.
00:14:31Here's a starboard propeller over here.
00:14:33Taking in features, which are almost impossible to see on a manned mission to the site.
00:14:41Ah, you see that right there?
00:14:43The numbers?
00:14:45That's 401.
00:14:47That's Titanic's whole number.
00:14:49Oh, wow.
00:14:50It's in pristine condition.
00:14:52Look at that.
00:14:54From the tiniest details to its colossal scale,
00:14:58the scan offers an entirely new perspective on Titanic.
00:15:01And the experts have only just begun to scratch the surface of what the twin can tell them.
00:15:09I am really, really excited to see what the rest of this is going to look like.
00:15:17To have the wreck site at my command,
00:15:21to see what happened to the ship.
00:15:25Wow.
00:15:26The possibilities are endless.
00:15:28The disaster of 14th April 1912 happens on a cold, clear, starry night.
00:15:47Four days into Titanic's maiden voyage.
00:15:50Jack Phillips, a wireless operator, receives a message that there is pack ice and icebergs up ahead.
00:16:06In first class, Captain Smith is with Bruce Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line.
00:16:13While up on the bridge, First Officer Murdoch is keeping watch.
00:16:18At 11.39pm, three bells ring out.
00:16:23And that's the warning of an obstacle up ahead.
00:16:28First Officer Murdoch rams the engine ship's telegraph to stop, sending a signal to cut the power.
00:16:35He then demands that Titanic turn harder starboard, hoping to steer the ship to safety.
00:16:41And seconds later, the Titanic hits the iceberg.
00:16:51Many on board felt nothing.
00:16:54Even Frederick Fleet, who sounded that alarm from the crow's nest, said it felt like a close shave.
00:16:59And yet, this glancing blow sank a ship thought to be unsinkable.
00:17:08The experts were hoping that the twin can show us how.
00:17:16With the scan, what is exciting is that we actually do have our first visible ice damage.
00:17:23So, take a look up here at this porthole.
00:17:29This porthole was smashed by the ice.
00:17:36First class passenger, Margaret Swift, saw the ice that had come through that porthole.
00:17:44That tells us that the iceberg was at least 30 feet above waterline.
00:17:48So, the scan is telling us the size of the iceberg.
00:17:54It's definitively giving us information that will help us understand more about the collision that night.
00:18:00It's tantalizing new evidence of the iceberg strike.
00:18:11But Titanic's fatal wound appears hidden from view.
00:18:14When she sank, the ship's bow hit the seabed with such force that nearly half of it was buried in mud.
00:18:24Now the twin can provide the experts with a brand new perspective.
00:18:33Okay, I have never seen this depicted before, and certainly not in this scale.
00:18:41What a different view now.
00:18:42You see how much of the bow has dug into the ocean bottom?
00:18:47Can you imagine the force needed to propel that much of the ship into the ocean bottom?
00:18:54I mean, the iceberg damage should be here, but it's not.
00:18:59We can't see it because it's under the seafloor.
00:19:02No, it's at least 20, 25 feet below the mudline.
00:19:08Although evidence of the impact appears lost to the ocean floor,
00:19:13the experts think that the twin could still provide answers.
00:19:19To decode the clues offered by the wreckage, the investigation turns to Titanic's birthplace.
00:19:32Taking over two years to build, Titanic was designed and constructed here,
00:19:38at Harland and Wolfe in Northern Ireland, on the shores of Belfast Lock,
00:19:45a company at the forefront of shipbuilding, even today.
00:19:53Built in this dock, her blueprints were drawn up by skilled draftsmen next door.
00:20:02Titanic was the most technologically advanced ship of the age.
00:20:14These original blueprints show she was divided into 16 watertight compartments.
00:20:21These were designed to collect flood water in a small area.
00:20:26What's more, Titanic would stay afloat, even if up to four of these flooded.
00:20:32This was what cemented her reputation as the unsinkable ship.
00:20:45After the tragedy, Harland and Wolfe's naval architect, Edward Wilding,
00:20:50was called on to explain how the ship's fail-safes were so catastrophically overwhelmed.
00:20:55His starting point was that more than four compartments must have been damaged by the iceberg,
00:21:03the weight of the flood water pulling the ship below the surface.
00:21:08Wilding set about calculating the impact of the iceberg
00:21:11and concluded that there had been a series of puncture holes along the hull
00:21:16on an area of about 12 square feet.
00:21:20Wilding based his findings on the testimony of surviving crew and passengers
00:21:24and on his own detailed knowledge of the ship's design.
00:21:27But even after the wreck was discovered, testing his theory was impossible.
00:21:33The evidence buried below the mudline.
00:21:36But now, the investigation has brought together experts from around the world
00:21:46to put Wilding's findings to the test.
00:21:50At University College London, renowned naval architect Professor Chum Kee Puck
00:21:56is joined by fellow specialists Dr. Simon Benson
00:22:01and Dr. Stephen Payne, designer of the cruise liner Queen Mary 2.
00:22:07This is the first time we can actually use a computer simulation
00:22:11to test Wilding's hypothesis.
00:22:14Based on information from Titanic's blueprints,
00:22:17combined with their estimated speed of 22 knots,
00:22:20the team uses cutting-edge technology to simulate the iceberg strike.
00:22:26Wow, here it goes.
00:22:29We can see the ship glancing below,
00:22:31and it's actually turning to starboard as it comes past.
00:22:34Oh, yeah, interesting.
00:22:35We can see the ice actually splintering off.
00:22:41We actually now find out from these simulations
00:22:43that the time it took for a Titanic to collide with the iceberg,
00:22:47the glancing below was 6.3 seconds.
00:22:526.3 seconds.
00:22:54A mere moment.
00:22:56Yet what could have been a fleeting scrape proved catastrophic.
00:23:01And the simulation can now reveal the full extent of the damage
00:23:04for the very first time.
00:23:07Well, this for me is where it gets really interesting
00:23:10because here we really see the power of the simulation.
00:23:13So here's the collision.
00:23:18And it very quickly spreads.
00:23:21Quite a thin line of gash, isn't it?
00:23:24But we can see the ruptures occurring.
00:23:29Wilding predicted that the total area of the holes
00:23:32would be about 12 square feet.
00:23:34We are, with this new prediction,
00:23:36looking at something in the order of 18.
00:23:39The wilding's estimation is incredible.
00:23:42The figures may differ slightly, but wilding was right.
00:23:47The scale of the damage was minimal
00:23:49compared to the size of the ship overall.
00:23:54But crucially, it wasn't confined to one area.
00:23:57Wow.
00:24:08So this is the damage.
00:24:10We're seeing a simulation of the iceberg damage
00:24:14for the very first time.
00:24:15The digital twin allows the experts
00:24:19to see the impact pattern precisely mapped out.
00:24:23The damage begins the front,
00:24:26and it crosses over the compartments
00:24:29all the way to boiler room number six.
00:24:33And then it crosses into boiler room number five.
00:24:36You have one small section in boiler room number five
00:24:43and another very small section of damage
00:24:46in the four-peak.
00:24:50How small?
00:24:51That last bit is only the size of two pieces of paper.
00:24:57That's six compartments along the starboard side,
00:25:00and the ship was only designed
00:25:02for four compartments to flood.
00:25:06So you've got small margins
00:25:09on one end or the other
00:25:11that sank this ship.
00:25:16So two small holes.
00:25:19That's what the simulation shows us.
00:25:21The areas that made all the difference are tiny.
00:25:27Small holes either side
00:25:29of the four badly damaged compartments.
00:25:32Without them, Titanic might not have sunk.
00:25:36We all imagine that it was a giant hole
00:25:41that sank such a massive ship.
00:25:43In reality, it was a very small amount of damage
00:25:47over a long distance
00:25:49and fractions of a second
00:25:51that ended up sinking the ship.
00:25:54So if true, it suggests an irony
00:26:01that in turning to avoid the iceberg,
00:26:04the crew had created an area of damage
00:26:07lengthy enough to open up too many compartments
00:26:11to the sea and sink the ship.
00:26:12The irony doesn't stop there.
00:26:23At the British inquiry into the sinking,
00:26:26Wilding, one of the men who knew Titanic best,
00:26:30predicted that had the crew not turned the ship
00:26:32to try and avoid the iceberg,
00:26:34instead hitting it head-on,
00:26:37she would have stayed afloat.
00:26:38The simulation will now put that theory to the test.
00:26:45Of course, this has never been done before.
00:26:47No, absolutely not.
00:26:48Let's see it go.
00:26:55Oh, wow.
00:26:57Look at this crumpling of that deck.
00:26:59All the energy of the Titanic
00:27:03is now going into that collision.
00:27:06OK, so can we have the close-up?
00:27:09So we're really going to see the crumple zone
00:27:11as that, wow!
00:27:16All that steel mashing into the ice.
00:27:18Just imagine the noise that there would have been.
00:27:20Wilding predicted that with this collision,
00:27:32Titanic would survive.
00:27:36We look at the blueprint.
00:27:38We see, well, where are we going to?
00:27:40We've lost the peak tank, cargo tanks,
00:27:43and we've ended...
00:27:43So it's just forward of the bridge?
00:27:44Just forward of the bridge,
00:27:45so we've actually only lost, what, four compartments?
00:27:47Four compartments.
00:27:48She would have stayed afloat?
00:27:49It would have.
00:27:57So, based on the simulation,
00:28:00it would not have sunk.
00:28:05Yeah.
00:28:07The front-on simulation
00:28:09gives us a fleeting glimpse
00:28:10of a different outcome for the tragic ship.
00:28:15What it doesn't provide
00:28:16is a sailor's perspective.
00:28:19Think about the crew.
00:28:23You don't steer directly into an iceberg.
00:28:27I doubt very highly anybody would have done it.
00:28:30A lot of the crew had their bunks forward.
00:28:33And so, if Murdoch making that kind of an action
00:28:36to take the iceberg right on the bow,
00:28:38he would have likely killed everybody
00:28:40that was in those forward spaces.
00:28:47But the officers' maneuver to try and turn away from the iceberg,
00:28:52as hard as it is to say,
00:28:55essentially seal the Titanic's fate.
00:28:57With the ship now taking on water,
00:29:01the lives of over 2,000 people hang in the balance.
00:29:07The decisions made by Titanic's crew
00:29:10are about to become more crucial by the minute.
00:29:13Within 20 minutes of the iceberg strike,
00:29:25Captain Smith has had multiple reports
00:29:27of flooding in the ship's boiler rooms.
00:29:32Fireman Fred Barrett was a witness to what happened.
00:29:35He was working in boiler room 6.
00:29:39When he gave his testimony to the inquiry,
00:29:42he said,
00:29:43the bell rang.
00:29:45He called out,
00:29:47Shuttle doors.
00:29:48Then a large volume of water
00:29:50came through the side of the ship.
00:30:00He ran from that section
00:30:02just as the watertight doors came down.
00:30:13The man responsible for keeping the ship's boilers alight
00:30:18was Chief Engineer Joseph Bell.
00:30:22He was in charge of 200 men
00:30:24who powered Titanic 24 hours a day.
00:30:32The boiler rooms ran over half the length of the ship.
00:30:3840 minutes after the collision,
00:30:40number 6 was already lost,
00:30:42and number 5 had a small paper-sized breach.
00:30:49Titanic was taking on water fast.
00:30:53Wilding estimated that 16,000 tons of it
00:30:56had now entered the ship.
00:30:58The damaged compartments fill up.
00:31:01The ship tilts forward,
00:31:03water spilling from one compartment to the next.
00:31:07Suddenly,
00:31:07the water bursts into boiler room 5,
00:31:15and Bell was heard to say,
00:31:18my God,
00:31:18we are lost.
00:31:19Bell and his men were forced back
00:31:33to boiler room 2,
00:31:35the only one still capable
00:31:36of providing power to the ship.
00:31:42One hour 40
00:31:43after the iceberg strike,
00:31:45Chief Bell sent his stokers
00:31:47up on deck
00:31:48to save themselves.
00:31:54And all 35 engineering officers
00:31:57stayed with him below deck.
00:32:01Ultimately,
00:32:02it came down to a skeleton crew
00:32:03in boiler room number 2,
00:32:05essentially of the engineers themselves.
00:32:08Everybody else has been released.
00:32:10It's clear to Bell
00:32:13that Titanic is doomed.
00:32:19He now had to pivot
00:32:20from saving the ship
00:32:22to saving lives.
00:32:26They were in the middle of the Atlantic
00:32:28and it was pitch black.
00:32:30If the power went off,
00:32:32they would be in total darkness,
00:32:34making it incredibly difficult
00:32:35for people to get to the deck
00:32:37and into lifeboats.
00:32:38And if the Titanic's
00:32:41wireless room went down,
00:32:43then nearby ships
00:32:44couldn't be alerted
00:32:45to stranded survivors.
00:32:48In short,
00:32:49without power,
00:32:51the chances of those
00:32:52on board surviving
00:32:53were slim.
00:33:00The courage of Titanic's engineers
00:33:02is a story
00:33:03that's endured
00:33:04for over a century.
00:33:08But now,
00:33:09the digital twin
00:33:10allows the experts
00:33:11to actually examine the place
00:33:13where Bell and his men
00:33:14battled on,
00:33:16clearly visible
00:33:17where the ship tore apart.
00:33:19Okay, so we're in
00:33:26boiler room number two.
00:33:30This is essentially
00:33:31the last place
00:33:34where they kept
00:33:35the fires going.
00:33:36This is what's left
00:33:44of the heart
00:33:44of Titanic.
00:33:46The steam
00:33:47that's being generated
00:33:49in these boilers
00:33:50is providing the power
00:33:52and the light
00:33:53to the ship.
00:33:57These engineers
00:33:58down here,
00:33:59they couldn't see
00:34:00what was going on
00:34:01outside.
00:34:02The conditions
00:34:05must have been
00:34:06terrible.
00:34:08Brutally hot.
00:34:10The steam.
00:34:14Real tests of leadership
00:34:16often come under
00:34:17the worst of circumstances.
00:34:21I reflect on Bell's
00:34:23efforts that night.
00:34:25He was going to
00:34:26do everything he could
00:34:28so that other people
00:34:31may have a chance to live.
00:34:32The digital twin
00:34:43shows us not only
00:34:44the location
00:34:45of Bell's last stand.
00:34:47It also offers
00:34:48new evidence
00:34:49of how he kept
00:34:50the power on,
00:34:52even as the ship
00:34:53began to sink.
00:34:58Nearly 2,300 feet
00:34:59across the wreck site,
00:35:00the experts
00:35:01have spotted a clue.
00:35:04Okay, we're coming up
00:35:06on the port side
00:35:07of the stern back here.
00:35:08There's the main mast
00:35:09that's collapsed
00:35:10and lying over the edge.
00:35:15So let's rotate
00:35:16this thing around
00:35:17and take a look
00:35:18at this.
00:35:19I found this very interesting.
00:35:26It's a steam valve.
00:35:27It didn't come from here.
00:35:28It landed on the wreck
00:35:30after the stern
00:35:31had settled.
00:35:33And the flap
00:35:35is seen in the open
00:35:36position right now.
00:35:40Why is that important?
00:35:41Well, this is a line
00:35:44that was taking
00:35:44the remaining steam
00:35:46from the boiler rooms
00:35:48to the emergency dynamos.
00:35:52They provided life
00:35:53to the ship.
00:35:55The lighting,
00:35:56the heating,
00:35:57running the pumps.
00:36:00Titanic's emergency dynamo
00:36:02was over 40 feet higher
00:36:03than the main generator,
00:36:05so it would take
00:36:05longer to flood.
00:36:06It was connected
00:36:08to boiler room two
00:36:09through an emergency pipe
00:36:10and the valve
00:36:12had to be opened manually.
00:36:15You can see
00:36:16this steam valve
00:36:18is clearly open,
00:36:19which means
00:36:20steam was continuously
00:36:22flowing through
00:36:23to the emergency dynamos.
00:36:26And this action
00:36:26to keep this open
00:36:27saved hundreds of lives.
00:36:36survivors testified
00:36:40that over two hours
00:36:41after striking the iceberg,
00:36:43the ship's lights
00:36:44were still on.
00:36:51So this is proof
00:36:52that the survivors
00:36:54who saw lights
00:36:55to the very end,
00:36:57it's true.
00:36:59Yeah.
00:37:02This steam valve
00:37:04is frozen
00:37:04in its final act.
00:37:06responding to
00:37:08Bell's orders,
00:37:11keeping the power on
00:37:12and hope alive.
00:37:25While Bell
00:37:26and his men fight on,
00:37:28above them,
00:37:29panic is starting
00:37:30to spread.
00:37:32At the lifeboats,
00:37:34the crew struggle
00:37:35to keep order.
00:37:36and senior officers
00:37:37are faced
00:37:38with life-and-death choices.
00:37:50Until 11.39 p.m.,
00:37:52passengers had enjoyed
00:37:55a peaceful evening
00:37:56in luxurious surroundings
00:37:57and were looking forward
00:37:58to arriving in New York.
00:38:00to the boat deck.
00:38:08But nearly two hours
00:38:09after Titanic
00:38:10hit the iceberg,
00:38:11the situation
00:38:12for those on board
00:38:13is deteriorating fast.
00:38:22As water begins
00:38:23to flood the corridors,
00:38:25the passengers
00:38:25start rushing
00:38:26to the boat deck.
00:38:27By law in 1912,
00:38:34ocean liners
00:38:34were only required
00:38:35to have 16 lifeboats.
00:38:37And in an emergency,
00:38:39would have been expected
00:38:39to stay afloat long enough
00:38:41to ferry people
00:38:41to a rescue ship.
00:38:43So Titanic
00:38:44only had
00:38:45enough lifeboat spaces
00:38:46for about half of those
00:38:48on board.
00:38:49The order is to start
00:38:51loading women
00:38:52and children
00:38:52into the boats.
00:38:54In the chaos,
00:38:56most of the lifeboats
00:38:57aren't even launched full.
00:38:59Tension
00:39:00quickly turns to panic.
00:39:02On the boat deck,
00:39:13there are scenes
00:39:14of both heroism
00:39:15and heartbreak.
00:39:25Ida Strauss,
00:39:26for instance,
00:39:27wouldn't board
00:39:28a lifeboat
00:39:29if she couldn't
00:39:30go with her husband
00:39:30and said,
00:39:32we have lived together
00:39:32and we'll die together.
00:39:39Rhoda Abbott,
00:39:40who was traveling
00:39:41with her two teenage sons,
00:39:43reached a lifeboat
00:39:44being boarded.
00:39:45But realizing
00:39:46that her boys
00:39:47were considered
00:39:47too old
00:39:48to go on a lifeboat,
00:39:50stepped back
00:39:51and remained
00:39:51with her children.
00:39:5417-year-old
00:39:55first-class passenger
00:39:56Jack Thayer
00:39:57noted who joined
00:39:58the boat
00:39:58after Rhoda Abbott
00:39:59retreated.
00:40:00He recorded,
00:40:04there was some disturbance
00:40:05in loading
00:40:06the last two
00:40:06forward starboard boats.
00:40:08A large crowd
00:40:10of men
00:40:10was pressing
00:40:11to get to the lifeboats.
00:40:12No women were around
00:40:14as far as I could see.
00:40:16I saw Ismay,
00:40:17who had been assisting
00:40:18in the loading
00:40:19of the last boat,
00:40:20push his way
00:40:21into it.
00:40:22It was really
00:40:23every man
00:40:23for himself.
00:40:24Bruce Ismay
00:40:27was the chairman
00:40:28of the White Star Line.
00:40:30He went on
00:40:30to survive,
00:40:31but his reputation
00:40:32never recovered.
00:40:38As passengers
00:40:39become increasingly
00:40:40desperate,
00:40:41the crew struggle
00:40:42to keep order.
00:40:42Michelle Navratil said,
00:40:47honest people
00:40:47didn't stand a chance
00:40:49as passengers
00:40:49descended to deviance
00:40:50in order to survive.
00:40:52with the sinking
00:41:02of Titanic
00:41:03making headlines
00:41:04around the world,
00:41:05the press was hungry
00:41:07for heroes
00:41:08and villains.
00:41:08But these were
00:41:11some of the most
00:41:12chaotic moments
00:41:12of the whole tragedy
00:41:13and conflicting
00:41:15versions of events
00:41:16quickly emerged.
00:41:21First officer
00:41:22William Murdoch
00:41:23was in charge
00:41:24of the lifeboats
00:41:25on the starboard
00:41:25side of the ship
00:41:26and he was desperately
00:41:27trying to lower them
00:41:28as the water
00:41:29was gushing up
00:41:29to meet them.
00:41:33Afterwards,
00:41:34as these newspaper
00:41:34reports show,
00:41:36he was accused
00:41:37of having shot himself
00:41:38on the bridge
00:41:38and abandoning
00:41:39his post.
00:41:41It says here
00:41:41he was seen
00:41:42whipping a gleaming
00:41:43bit of metal
00:41:44from his pocket,
00:41:45deliberately placing
00:41:46it to his temple
00:41:46and pulling the trigger.
00:41:55The story
00:41:56was headline news.
00:41:59Murdoch was painted
00:42:00as cowardly,
00:42:02his reputation
00:42:02in tatters.
00:42:05But even at the time,
00:42:07his actions
00:42:08were disputed.
00:42:10Second officer
00:42:11Lightoller,
00:42:12the most senior officer
00:42:13who survived the sinking,
00:42:14refuted the accusation
00:42:15of suicide,
00:42:17writing that he'd seen
00:42:18Murdoch swept overboard
00:42:19and that he had died
00:42:20a hero's death.
00:42:24Now,
00:42:25Parks believes
00:42:26that the twin
00:42:27can offer clues
00:42:28about Murdoch's
00:42:29final moments.
00:42:30is the number one
00:42:41lifeboat station,
00:42:43the forward davit.
00:42:45That was Murdoch
00:42:45station, right?
00:42:47Yes,
00:42:47it was.
00:42:49And you'll notice here
00:42:51that that davit
00:42:52is in the upright
00:42:53or retracted position.
00:42:54Davits are cranes
00:42:59used to winch
00:43:00lifeboats down
00:43:01to the water
00:43:01before being wound back
00:43:04to launch the next.
00:43:07This davit
00:43:08is in the up position,
00:43:10meaning its crew
00:43:11is basically trying
00:43:12to get a lifeboat
00:43:13ready to be launched.
00:43:14In an attempt
00:43:17to save as many lives
00:43:18as possible,
00:43:20Murdoch,
00:43:20unlike some officers,
00:43:22had allowed men
00:43:23to join the women
00:43:24and children
00:43:24aboard his lifeboats.
00:43:27Murdoch has been
00:43:28watching the water
00:43:29rise this whole time.
00:43:30He knows he's
00:43:31out of time
00:43:31and he's working
00:43:32against the rising water
00:43:34to try and get
00:43:35one more boat
00:43:36into the water.
00:43:38And this
00:43:38coincides
00:43:40with second officer
00:43:42Lightoller's description
00:43:43who was standing
00:43:44on top of the deckhouse
00:43:45back here.
00:43:47At 2.15 a.m.,
00:43:49minutes before
00:43:50the ship went down,
00:43:51Lightoller witnessed
00:43:52Murdoch trying
00:43:53to launch
00:43:54one final boat.
00:43:57Suddenly,
00:43:58Titanic dipped
00:43:59and the lifeboat
00:44:00was washed overboard.
00:44:02While survivors
00:44:03scrambled onto it
00:44:04from the freezing water,
00:44:06Murdoch was swept away.
00:44:14historians have disputed that,
00:44:17but this davit right here
00:44:19stands in mute testimony
00:44:22that supports
00:44:25Lightoller's version
00:44:26of events
00:44:27because being in
00:44:29the up position
00:44:30is exactly what
00:44:32Lightoller described.
00:44:33History has not been
00:44:37kind to Murdoch,
00:44:38and while we may
00:44:39never know exactly
00:44:40how he died,
00:44:41the twin does suggest
00:44:43that the accusation
00:44:44of cowardice,
00:44:45of abandoning his ship,
00:44:47may not be fair.
00:44:51I think it really shows
00:44:53that he was struggling
00:44:55to save as many lives
00:44:56as possible
00:44:57right up to the very end.
00:44:59they were trying
00:45:00to launch
00:45:01one last lifeboat.
00:45:04He never gave up
00:45:05on his duty.
00:45:10For survivors
00:45:11like Lightoll,
00:45:12the scenes at the lifeboats
00:45:14were some of the most
00:45:15distressing
00:45:15of the whole disaster.
00:45:20But for those
00:45:21left on board,
00:45:22the worst
00:45:23is still to come.
00:45:29Two hours
00:45:35after Titanic
00:45:35hit the iceberg.
00:45:40The ship
00:45:41is partially submerged,
00:45:42but remarkably,
00:45:44thanks to Bell
00:45:44and his engineers,
00:45:46she still has power.
00:45:49In Titanic's
00:45:50wireless room,
00:45:51two operators,
00:45:52Jack Phillips
00:45:53and Harold Bride,
00:45:54are still at their post
00:45:55and desperately
00:45:56sending out messages.
00:45:59Shortly after 2 a.m.,
00:46:18Captain Smith
00:46:18told the men
00:46:19they had done
00:46:20their duty
00:46:20and were relieved
00:46:22from their posts.
00:46:24Bride prepared
00:46:25to leave,
00:46:26but Phillips
00:46:26worked on.
00:46:29Bride,
00:46:30who survived
00:46:30the wreck,
00:46:31recalled his colleague
00:46:33Jack Phillips'
00:46:34selfless conduct,
00:46:36saying,
00:46:37He was a brave man.
00:46:39I learned to love him
00:46:40that night.
00:46:42And I suddenly felt
00:46:44a great reverence
00:46:45to see him
00:46:45standing there,
00:46:46sticking to his work
00:46:47while everybody
00:46:48was raging about.
00:46:51I will never live
00:46:53to forget the work
00:46:53of Phillips
00:46:54for the last
00:46:55awful 15 minutes.
00:46:56But soon after 2 a.m.,
00:47:11the messages
00:47:14abruptly stop.
00:47:20Titanic
00:47:20is about to go under.
00:47:22Titanic
00:47:22is about to go under.
00:47:22Titanic
00:47:22is about to go under.
00:47:26After the sinking,
00:47:43two official inquiries
00:47:44concluded that the ship
00:47:45gently slipped
00:47:46below the waves.
00:47:50But even at the time,
00:47:52many survivors
00:47:52contradicted that,
00:47:53testifying Titanic
00:47:55broke apart
00:47:56before she sank.
00:48:01Something confirmed
00:48:02when the wreck
00:48:02was discovered
00:48:03in 1985.
00:48:06And the twin
00:48:07now allows us
00:48:08to see
00:48:08an unprecedented detail
00:48:09where the pieces
00:48:11came to rest,
00:48:11a third of a mile apart
00:48:15on the ocean floor.
00:48:19But exactly how
00:48:20this great ship
00:48:21broke into
00:48:22is something
00:48:23Parks has been
00:48:24investigating
00:48:24for decades.
00:48:29There's a lot
00:48:30of mysteries
00:48:30in the Titanic disaster.
00:48:32But the one
00:48:36that I've been
00:48:37most focused on
00:48:38throughout my career
00:48:40in Titanic research
00:48:41is the breakup.
00:48:45And I think
00:48:47we've got the evidence
00:48:48that's going to answer
00:48:49those questions
00:48:50right here.
00:48:52The severed ship
00:48:53is too badly damaged
00:48:55to reveal exactly
00:48:56what happened.
00:48:58But Parks believes
00:48:59that the scan
00:49:00can still provide answers.
00:49:02Not by studying
00:49:03the wounded wreck itself,
00:49:05but the seabed
00:49:06around it.
00:49:08There's an entire
00:49:09debris field
00:49:10of artifacts,
00:49:11of steel sections,
00:49:13that you need
00:49:14to take a look at.
00:49:19Wow.
00:49:21We're flying away?
00:49:24Wait a minute.
00:49:26Oh, it's the stern.
00:49:27We're looking down.
00:49:28We're going to get
00:49:30a God's eye view
00:49:31of the debris field.
00:49:33Covering around
00:49:3415 square miles,
00:49:36countless shards
00:49:37of Titanic
00:49:38are scattered
00:49:38across the ocean floor.
00:49:41Among them,
00:49:43key pieces
00:49:43which Parks believes
00:49:44may be clues.
00:49:48You can see
00:49:49how immense it is.
00:49:52I mean,
00:49:52it looks chaotic,
00:49:53but there is
00:49:54a pattern to this.
00:49:55and I bet
00:49:56we can find
00:49:57the evidence
00:49:57that we're looking
00:49:58for to reconstruct
00:49:59the breakup here.
00:50:01The twin allows
00:50:02the experts
00:50:03to study Titanic's
00:50:04shattered fragments
00:50:05in more detail
00:50:06than ever before.
00:50:09If they can piece
00:50:10together this
00:50:11twisted metal jigsaw,
00:50:13the experts
00:50:14may be able
00:50:14to find out
00:50:15how Titanic broke
00:50:16in two
00:50:17and what it meant
00:50:18for those on board.
00:50:19When Titanic broke
00:50:35in two
00:50:35at 2.17 a.m.
00:50:37on April 15th,
00:50:39almost 1,500 people
00:50:40were still
00:50:41on board the ship.
00:50:45Those in the lifeboats
00:50:46watched on in horror.
00:50:48Jack Thayer,
00:50:56who was a 17-year-old
00:50:57first-class passenger,
00:50:59recorded in his memoirs
00:51:00what he saw.
00:51:02Suddenly,
00:51:03the whole superstructure
00:51:04of the ship
00:51:05appeared to split.
00:51:07Her stern
00:51:07was gradually
00:51:08rising into the air.
00:51:09We could see groups
00:51:18of people still
00:51:18aboard,
00:51:19clinging in clusters
00:51:20or bunches
00:51:21like swarming bees,
00:51:22only to fall
00:51:23in masses,
00:51:24pairs or singly,
00:51:26as the great
00:51:26afterpart of the ship,
00:51:28250 feet of it,
00:51:30rose into the sky.
00:51:31Gradually,
00:51:39she turned her deck
00:51:40away from us,
00:51:41as though to hide
00:51:42from our sight
00:51:42the awful spectacle.
00:51:46Based on historical
00:51:47accounts like these,
00:51:49many have assumed
00:51:50that the ship
00:51:50snapped cleanly in two.
00:51:52but the investigation
00:51:56suggests
00:51:57the truth
00:51:58may be more complex.
00:52:00To find out
00:52:01what really happened,
00:52:02the experts have used
00:52:03the unique level
00:52:04of detail
00:52:04provided by the scan
00:52:06to comb through
00:52:07the debris field,
00:52:10identifying shattered
00:52:11sections of the hull,
00:52:14and painstakingly
00:52:15piecing them back together.
00:52:16Wow, look at the size
00:52:39of that area.
00:52:43So we're looking
00:52:44at the side of the ship,
00:52:45and we're seeing
00:52:47some of the pieces
00:52:48of the hull
00:52:50found in the debris field.
00:52:52They're massive.
00:52:54We're talking like
00:52:55100 feet or more
00:52:57up the side of the ship.
00:53:03The big piece
00:53:04at the top,
00:53:05I've studied rivets
00:53:07from that big piece
00:53:08under the microscope,
00:53:09still rivets,
00:53:10and how that piece
00:53:11was actually held
00:53:12onto the ship.
00:53:13So you have a personal
00:53:14connection to this piece.
00:53:15Wow, that's amazing.
00:53:18I'm speechless.
00:53:20Like, the size
00:53:20of these pieces
00:53:21is huge.
00:53:24By allowing us
00:53:25to see the hull
00:53:26reassembled,
00:53:27the digital twin
00:53:28shows that far
00:53:29from snapping neatly,
00:53:30a huge section
00:53:31of the ship
00:53:32was completely destroyed.
00:53:34It was a giant,
00:53:37catastrophic fracture.
00:53:41As the stresses
00:53:42are building up,
00:53:43you've got tension
00:53:44across the top,
00:53:46compression and buckling
00:53:47on the bottom
00:53:47of the ship,
00:53:48and slowly,
00:53:49it turns into
00:53:51a domino effect.
00:53:52It's stress
00:53:53on the next component
00:53:54and the next component.
00:53:55It's like a chain reaction.
00:53:58Almost all
00:53:59of a ship's strength
00:54:00is in its shell.
00:54:01With that compromised,
00:54:03her exposed interior
00:54:04was obliterated.
00:54:06I thought it was
00:54:10more of a clean break,
00:54:11and it certainly
00:54:12was not.
00:54:14You would think
00:54:15the ship
00:54:16had been struck
00:54:16by some enormous missile.
00:54:21It's that catastrophic.
00:54:2220% of the ship
00:54:26just completely destroyed
00:54:28in probably
00:54:29a matter of seconds.
00:54:34So many people
00:54:35lost their lives.
00:54:37Titanic shattered
00:54:38in multiple places.
00:54:41This was
00:54:42a cataclysmic moment.
00:54:4470, 80 feet of it
00:54:46broke at the same time
00:54:48with human beings
00:54:50in there.
00:54:52is unimaginable.
00:55:00As Titanic
00:55:01broke in two,
00:55:03the fate of everyone
00:55:04in that part
00:55:05of the ship
00:55:05was sealed.
00:55:09The twin can offer
00:55:10a glimpse
00:55:10into the final moments
00:55:12of those on board.
00:55:17Including two
00:55:18of America's
00:55:19richest men.
00:55:22When Titanic
00:55:34goes down,
00:55:3680% of the men
00:55:37are lost.
00:55:38although some male
00:55:44passengers did survive,
00:55:45Edwardian ideals
00:55:47of stoicism
00:55:48and chivalry
00:55:49meant that the vast
00:55:50majority of men
00:55:51would stay behind
00:55:52on the ship.
00:55:58Alfred Rush,
00:55:59a 17-year-old
00:56:00who'd only been
00:56:01presented with his
00:56:02first pair
00:56:03of long trousers
00:56:03the night before,
00:56:05refused to enter
00:56:06the lifeboat
00:56:06saying,
00:56:07I will stay
00:56:08with the men.
00:56:13Another famous tale
00:56:14of self-sacrifice
00:56:15was that of
00:56:16multi-millionaire
00:56:17Benjamin Guggenheim.
00:56:18We have the testimony
00:56:21of James Etches,
00:56:23a steward,
00:56:25who said,
00:56:26I gave a lifebelt
00:56:27to Guggenheim
00:56:28and he gave me
00:56:29a message.
00:56:30It said,
00:56:30if anything should
00:56:32happen to me,
00:56:32tell my wife
00:56:33in New York
00:56:33that I've done
00:56:34my best
00:56:35in doing my duty.
00:56:36We've dressed up
00:56:37in our best
00:56:38and are prepared
00:56:38to go down
00:56:39like gentlemen.
00:56:42Another steward
00:56:43reported hearing him
00:56:44say,
00:56:44no woman
00:56:46shall be left
00:56:46on this ship
00:56:47because Ben Guggenheim
00:56:48was a coward.
00:56:50The popular narrative
00:56:52is that he escorted
00:56:53his mistress
00:56:53and her servant
00:56:54to the lifeboats
00:56:55and then went back
00:56:56to the first-class cabins.
00:57:00The image of Guggenheim
00:57:01waiting bravely
00:57:02for the waters
00:57:03to meet him
00:57:03is a romantic one.
00:57:05But if he did
00:57:06remain in his room,
00:57:08his death
00:57:08would have been
00:57:09far from peaceful.
00:57:13The digital twin
00:57:14makes clear
00:57:15the violence
00:57:16that those
00:57:16in this section
00:57:17of the ship
00:57:17experienced
00:57:18in their final moments.
00:57:25Guggenheim's suite
00:57:26was right at the epicenter
00:57:28of where the ship
00:57:28broke up.
00:57:31Near Guggenheim's room
00:57:33was that of another
00:57:34of America's richest men,
00:57:37J.J. Astor.
00:57:40Titanic had over
00:57:41300 first-class cabins
00:57:43and Astor was reported
00:57:44to have paid
00:57:45over $30,000
00:57:46in today's money
00:57:47for a pair
00:57:48of these premium suites.
00:57:51What's left of them
00:57:52is visible on the twin,
00:57:58blown apart
00:57:59as the ship went down.
00:58:08Astor's body
00:58:08was recovered
00:58:09a week after
00:58:10the sinking.
00:58:15It seems to have
00:58:16been important
00:58:17at the time
00:58:18that the noblemen
00:58:20like the J.J. Astors
00:58:21or the Benjamin Guggenheims
00:58:22died a very noble,
00:58:26rather peaceful death.
00:58:29But in Titanic,
00:58:32it didn't matter
00:58:33what your status was,
00:58:35you would all meet
00:58:37the same fate.
00:58:40On that night
00:58:41in 1912,
00:58:43death did not discriminate.
00:58:46Over 60 feet
00:58:48below Astor's suite,
00:58:49Joseph Bell
00:58:50and his engineers
00:58:51had remained,
00:58:52tending to the fires
00:58:53as the ship went down.
00:58:58Made visible
00:58:59by its position
00:59:00right at the ship's fracture
00:59:01is what's left
00:59:03of Boiler Room 2.
00:59:09If you look
00:59:09at this boiler here,
00:59:11do you see the shadow
00:59:12up in the upper quadrant?
00:59:14It's concaved inward,
00:59:16and that's an indication
00:59:17of an implosive event,
00:59:19which means
00:59:20that these boilers
00:59:21had to have been
00:59:23operating at the time.
00:59:24The ship breaks
00:59:26and the bow starts
00:59:27to go under.
00:59:31They stayed here.
00:59:37They steel themselves
00:59:39to their tasks
00:59:39because they were
00:59:40professionals
00:59:41and they knew
00:59:42their duty.
00:59:43And their duty was
00:59:44to give people
00:59:45a chance up
00:59:45on the top deck.
00:59:47For me,
00:59:49this is a really
00:59:49powerful place.
00:59:55All 35 engineers
00:59:56would go down
00:59:57with the ship.
01:00:01We're standing
01:00:05right at the point
01:00:07where their lives
01:00:09ended.
01:00:14So this scan
01:00:15gives us
01:00:17an opportunity
01:00:18to observe
01:00:20a memorial
01:00:21to the bravery
01:00:22and the dedication
01:00:24of those engineers.
01:00:26Bell's body
01:00:37was never found.
01:00:44Two hours
01:00:45and 40 minutes
01:00:46after the ship
01:00:47hit the iceberg,
01:00:48about 700 people
01:00:49are huddled together
01:00:50in lifeboats.
01:00:52The rest
01:00:53are either fighting
01:00:54for their lives
01:00:54in the freezing water
01:00:55or dead.
01:01:00But over a century on,
01:01:02the scan
01:01:03can still shine a light
01:01:04on the lives
01:01:05lost to the ocean floor.
01:01:06after the ship
01:01:17broke up,
01:01:18the bow
01:01:19quickly disappeared,
01:01:20but the stern
01:01:21stayed afloat
01:01:21for a few more minutes.
01:01:23And up there
01:01:24on the poop deck
01:01:25was assistant
01:01:26per se
01:01:27Frank Prentiss
01:01:28who saw exactly
01:01:29what was happening.
01:01:31He recalled
01:01:32that Titanic
01:01:32rose suddenly
01:01:33and described
01:01:35hearing everything
01:01:36that wasn't secured
01:01:37crashing through
01:01:38the ship.
01:01:40Then she began
01:01:42to plummet.
01:01:44Frank Prentiss
01:01:45climbed over the railing
01:01:46and he dropped down
01:01:47100 feet
01:01:47into the water below.
01:01:48The bow sinks first,
01:02:03shedding its contents
01:02:04the whole way down.
01:02:11It hits the mud
01:02:12with such force
01:02:13that it jackknifes.
01:02:14The stern follows,
01:02:31flattening out
01:02:32into a spiral.
01:02:37Her freight
01:02:38and furnishings
01:02:38are strewn
01:02:39across the ocean floor.
01:02:44thousands of items
01:02:49are buried
01:02:49in the mud.
01:02:51Some are about
01:02:52to be seen
01:02:53for the first time
01:02:54in over 100 years.
01:03:01When I saw
01:03:02the debris fields,
01:03:04my first instinct
01:03:05was thinking
01:03:06about putting
01:03:07the ship back together,
01:03:08thinking about
01:03:09the materials.
01:03:11But part of me
01:03:12understands that
01:03:14there are
01:03:16personal possessions.
01:03:19There's cups.
01:03:20There's suitcases.
01:03:22There's bits of leather.
01:03:24There's people's things
01:03:25that may last
01:03:27a lot longer
01:03:28than the metal.
01:03:33The debris field
01:03:34has already yielded
01:03:35answers about
01:03:36the ship itself.
01:03:38But it can also offer
01:03:39a unique insight
01:03:40into life on board.
01:03:41An ornate bench,
01:03:58which lies
01:03:59715 feet
01:04:01from the stern,
01:04:02once adorned
01:04:03one of the upper decks.
01:04:04and 416 feet away,
01:04:10the centerpiece
01:04:10of a glass ceiling dome,
01:04:12which once capped
01:04:13one of the grandest
01:04:14staircases on the ship.
01:04:20Footage captured
01:04:21during the scan
01:04:22has been subject
01:04:23to months of research,
01:04:24using records
01:04:25and insurance claims
01:04:27to try and identify
01:04:28the owners of items
01:04:29glimpsed on the seabed.
01:04:30One of the suitcases
01:04:34matches the claim
01:04:35of first-class passenger
01:04:36Charlotte Cardezza,
01:04:38who survived the wreck.
01:04:40She was well known
01:04:41for her Louis Vuitton luggage
01:04:42and her extensive
01:04:44collection of shoes.
01:04:49Charlotte Cardezza's maid
01:04:51recalled being impressed
01:04:52by her mistress's bravery,
01:04:55reporting that she remained
01:04:56entirely calm
01:04:57in spite of the danger.
01:04:58This array of shoes
01:05:04and opera glasses
01:05:05may have belonged
01:05:07to theater owner
01:05:08Henry B. Harris,
01:05:09who perished in the sinking.
01:05:17One of the most intriguing
01:05:18personal items
01:05:19lies nearly 500 feet
01:05:21from the stern,
01:05:23a pig's tusk bangle
01:05:25next to a shark's tooth.
01:05:28This shark's tooth
01:05:30is a lucky charm
01:05:31and it would have been
01:05:32attached to this pocket watch
01:05:34which bears
01:05:35an Advance Australia crest.
01:05:37We've tracked down
01:05:38that belonged
01:05:39to a Scottish businessman,
01:05:41Colonel John Weir.
01:05:44After his death,
01:05:45a family secret was revealed.
01:05:47His Scottish wife
01:05:48had a nasty surprise
01:05:49when she made her claim
01:05:50to the estate
01:05:51because it turned out
01:05:52he had an Australian family
01:05:53who were making
01:05:54exactly the same claim.
01:05:58These remarkable findings
01:06:01bring humanity
01:06:02to the dark
01:06:03and desolate wreck site.
01:06:07But there are still
01:06:08countless items
01:06:09on the sea floor
01:06:10whose owners
01:06:11are unknown.
01:06:14A pair of men's shoes
01:06:16lying together
01:06:17on the promenade deck
01:06:19suggests they mark
01:06:20the final resting place
01:06:21of a third-class passenger
01:06:23whose remains
01:06:24are long gone.
01:06:25and this ornate doll's head
01:06:31which may have belonged
01:06:33to any of some
01:06:3360 children
01:06:34who did not survive
01:06:36the tragedy.
01:06:49For prolific Titanic explorer
01:06:51Park Stevenson,
01:06:53the digital twin
01:06:53enables investigation
01:06:55and study of the site
01:06:56without disturbing
01:06:57or further damaging
01:06:59the wreck.
01:07:01Every time I think
01:07:02I've seen everything
01:07:03I need to see out of this,
01:07:04I see something new.
01:07:06This digital twin
01:07:08has opened up
01:07:09a whole new
01:07:10thought process
01:07:11and where that takes me,
01:07:14I don't know
01:07:15if I see the end of it.
01:07:16This is the most impactful
01:07:23thing that has happened
01:07:25since the wreck
01:07:25was first found
01:07:26in 1985.
01:07:32Look at the rusticles
01:07:33all over the ship.
01:07:37It's like the
01:07:38bi-partic bacteria, right?
01:07:40Yeah, it's actually
01:07:41corrosion
01:07:41on the sea floor.
01:07:42It's bacteria
01:07:45that eats the iron
01:07:48and produces rust.
01:07:51So it's slowly eating
01:07:53the wreck.
01:07:55It's eating the ship
01:07:56and the ship
01:07:57will eventually degrade
01:07:58and just fall in
01:08:00on itself.
01:08:02This is a unique site.
01:08:05It's its own ecosystem now.
01:08:07It's living and breathing
01:08:08and changing constantly.
01:08:17Titanic won't be here forever.
01:08:21But the digital twin
01:08:22has now frozen
01:08:23the evidence in time,
01:08:26allowing research
01:08:28to continue
01:08:28long after the wreck's
01:08:30inevitable decay.
01:08:31It has already offered
01:08:40remarkable insights
01:08:41into what happened
01:08:42to the ship that night
01:08:43and the response
01:08:46of those on board.
01:08:51Now, thanks to the twin,
01:08:53the search for answers
01:08:54can continue.
01:08:56to the ship.
01:08:57To the ship.
01:08:58To the ship.
01:08:59To the ship.
01:08:59To the ship.
01:09:00To the ship.
01:09:00To the ship.
01:09:01To the ship.
01:09:01To the ship.
01:09:02To the ship.
01:09:02To the ship.
01:09:03To the ship.
01:09:03To the ship.
01:09:04To the ship.
01:09:05To the ship.
01:09:05To the ship.
01:09:06To the ship.
01:09:06To the ship.
01:09:07To the ship.
01:09:07To the ship.
01:09:08To the ship.
01:09:08To the ship.
01:09:09To the ship.
01:09:09To the ship.
01:09:10To the ship.
01:09:10To the ship.
01:09:11To the ship.
01:09:11To the ship.
01:09:12To the ship.
01:09:13To the ship.
01:09:14To the ship.
01:09:15To the ship.
01:09:16To the ship.
01:09:17To the ship.
01:09:18To the ship.
01:09:19To the ship.
01:09:20To the ship.
Empfohlen
1:29:52
|
Als nächstes auf Sendung
2:03:22
1:18:06
1:32:47
1:56:34
1:28:11
2:20:47
2:00:46
1:55:23
1:41:14
1:48:33
1:46:24
1:50:51
1:34:38
1:41:06
1:35:41
1:36:52
1:47:47
1:44:50
1:45:36
1:30:42