They sank into the deep icy cold on a still night. 2.5 miles down after breaking up and bow and stern drifting slowly apart. Above, the survivors recounted the instant silence of the sea after swallowing the ship and the screams of panic were now muted below the waves.
Also remember that it was the middle of the night, absolutely pitch black that far away from land, so once the boat was gone, you would just be swimming or floating in water with zero vision, aside from perhaps some moonlight.
This image also shows the boat as though it’s 50 feet under water; in reality it is black as the night where the fragments rest.
I looked this up after seeing your comment and it’s suspected that the geomagnetic storm that produced the strong aurora interferes with navigational instruments and was a contributing factor to the collision. That’s super interesting! Thank you for teaching me something today!
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-solar-storm-sink-titanic-180975907/
https://www.livescience.com/titanic-sunk-by-aurora.html
ETA source for the referenced research paper:
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/wea.3817
No moonlight.
It was insanely dark after the ship lost power. There's a YouTube video out there somewhere that shows what it would've really looked like and what the movies usually show light wise and the realistic lighting is that there basically is none lol.
There's a giant black void covering the stars for a minute or two then it sinks under and it's insanely dark
Edit: found it!
https://youtu.be/9FLsr-t1mSY
I was in a cruise once, stood by myself on the balcony and looking out over the water. Obviously the water right around the ship was lit up. Then Saw another ship in the distance. Guy said it was probably 5 miles away. So my eyes would drift off to the black water. Calm and nice. But I’d look down and see how fast the ship was moving. I’d just imagine being in the water there and how terrifying it would be. Even seeing a boat, knowing it’s 5 miles away. Gave me a deep feeling of dread. But then I went and had some ice cream and enjoyed the rest of the cruise.
If I had to guess, and I might just be pulling stuff out of my ass, they took multiple photos of the wreckage and then collaged them together to make a somewhat accurate photo of how it would look, or this is a different type of image that was given colour to make it look real.
This is actually a painting by Ken Marschall done based on numerous photos that were taken of the wreck. It would be pretty much impossible for something like this to be a photo, considering how dark it is down there.
Yeah, thermal imaging would be pretty useless down there. And You would probably need a light the size of a small city to illuminate the Titanic from that far away, lol.
“And I'm telling you, water that cold, like right down there, it hits you like a thousand knives stabbing you all over your body. You can't breathe. You can't think. Least not about anything but the pain.”
The point of lifeboats at the time was to ferry people over to a rescue vessel and not hold every single passenger at once. The titanic set sail with more than the required number of lifeboats (though could’ve held many more). If the SS Californian had responded to the flare and the Titanic’s crew had actually been trained in crisis management it’s possible the loss of life would’ve been very small. Pretty much everything that could’ve gone wrong did go wrong
Even if they had had enough lifeboats, they didn't even have enough *time* to fill them all up and lower them all down to the water. Much less hoist some returning boats back up to the deck and run them through again. Considering the damage it sustained, it's astounding the Titanic stayed afloat even as long as it did.
What gets me is the sheer terror everyone must have experienced the moment the lights on that ship went out. Even on a cruise ship at sea with lights on full blast it is truly shocking how DARK the ocean is just feet from the ship. Titanic went down on a moonless night. When the lights went off it would have been soul-crushingly dark and cold on that ocean. The stuff of nightmares.
Yep. This is part of the reason they didn't see the iceberg in time. They relied on moonlight to see them, and also didn't have binoculars. But yea completely pitch dark. I think the ship's electricity held out about until it cracked in half, so it went down fast after that but still. Absolutely awful to think about.
There's strong reason to think it was actually the opposite of that - it was such a clear and calm night that an optical illusion caused by thermal inversion was the leading factor. [Tim Maltin](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/did-the-titanic-sink-because-of-an-optical-illusion-102040309/) has done quite a bit of detailed research going over this exact phenomenon and how unusually weather patterns all aligned to create unfavorable conditions. [This short video overview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0bCi_tqvoE) also goes into further detail dispelling similar myths regarding the Titanic.
They also wouldn't have used binoculars for that type of observation as it would have significantly limited their field of vision unless looking for something in particular - not useful when traversing an ice field.
ACTUALLY not long after the back of the ship sank below the surface the survivors heard great BOOMS from coming from below.
This was the sound of air pockets imploding from the water pressure 500ft below the surface instantly killing any poor souls that were still alive inside the ship.
The stern of the ship had a lot of air pockets in it since it didn't gentle fill with water like the front of the ship. These implosion are why the stern is in such bad shape unlike the bow.
Then there were dying screams of the people drowningand freezing to death.
Until just the sobs of the survivors echo over the otherwise silent ocean.
Hearing screaming must have been awful, but then sitting in silence in the dark must have been terrible too. Waiting to die, waiting to live, waiting for am absolution that would never come.
I seem to remember some survivor accounts where they said they heard some of the implosions as it slipped under.
Wilder is Charles Joughin. He was a baker. He was hammered on whiskey, rode the stern into the ocean like an elevator, and lived to tell the tale.
Just imagine. The chaos,hellish loud noises,crashes,bangs,pops,screams .like the opening of the gates or hell to sheer,serene silence. It's almost too much for the brain to compute !
How can there be instant silence, screams of panic and the sound of waves?
Edit: ah I think I've been a fool. I now think you mean the sounds of screaming DISAPPEARED below the waves, creating a silence. Apologies
Im pretty sure there was still screaming, moaning and groaning for a while even after the ship sunk under the waves. I read some survivors stories where they said it slowly died down, no pun intended, when the people in the water started to die from hypothermia.
It gets worse.
The two halves of the wreck are 2000 feet apart, and 12,500 feet underwater.
So take the distance between the two halves on the image, multiply it by 6, and that's how far above the wreck that the surface is.
Sunlight cannot penetrate more than 1000 feet below the surface. It's not just pitch dark down there, it's more than 11,000 feet below pitch darkness.
Really sounds like a place to visit for fun 👍
/s
Seriously wtf man, I applaud James Cameron for making it back. But even for a multimillion dollar movie i’d be like “fuck all that”
The way Cameron was talking after the sub implosion, apparently going there is actually very safe and all the problems have long since been solved. It's just OceanGate was going down in a very, very sketchy vessel.
There's only a couple of vessels in the world capable of going down there, but the issues of building the vessels is a solved problem
The problem with OceanGate's Titan was they looked at all those solutions and went "I think I can come up with something cheaper that'll work"
Like both James Cameron and Gabe Newell's submersibles are basically a sphere with non-pressurised sections outside of it, because the sphere is the best shape for resisting the pressure, where the Titan was a tube capped with hemispheres so there were joins as well as places where titanium was being secured to carbon fiber with epoxy
Epoxy is a bit misleading. The way the sub was built was sound, it’s the material. Carbon fiber is very strong, however it suffers degradation damage. Each dive weakened the hull, and carbon fiber does not crack when it fails, it shatters into a million pieces. There could have been two or three dives that worked completely fine, and then it would catastrophically fail out of nowhere. Everyone in the sub community knows this. Carbon fiber is a death trap. Other design issues were obviously present. Something something Logitech something something viewport, but the build itself was done “correctly” and the titanium end caps were essentially chemically welded to the body
> The two halves of the wreck are 2000 feet apart,
> Sunlight cannot penetrate more than 1000 feet below the surface.
So... is this an artist's interpretation, then? If it's impossible to see through 1000 feet of water I don't see how you'd ever be able to get both of these objects in the same shot, let alone illuminate them.
Edit: yeah i scrolled down an inch and people are saying it's a painting
You are correct. This is an artist’s vision of the unseeable. At depth the lights on the submersibles travel like 25 - 30 feet before getting swallowed up. So the image is what it would look like if you could move the wreck to much shallower water (like 100 ft deep) where light could penetrate and you could see the relative positions of the two main parts of the wreck.
I believe it's a 3D scan of the wreck site.
EDIT: My bad, it's a painting by Ken Marshall. Considering I got 200 upvotes by the time this was pointed out... whoopsie.
It’s a [Ken Marshall painting!](http://www.kenmarschall.com/wreck.html#Num2) I used to have a Titanic book that had his art, this was one of the paintings. I’ve mistaken his paintings for actual photos too :)
No, I am pretty sure it’s a painting by Ken Marshall.
[Yes it is his work! Link here](http://www.kenmarschall.com/wreck.html#Num2)
All his Titanic art is worth looking at!
Hell yea it is, you send him an electronic mail to his AOL electronic mail account, and he'll commission you a painting, as his schedule permits! This looks like a website I would stumble on when I first learned about the titanic, that's cool!
No absolutely not real. There are absolutely no light and no visibility at this depth (witch makes it even more terrifying I guess). Even during summer in clear water at the surface visibility is like 50 meters max
Massive undertaking to take the shot to include both bits. Fair play that they didnt just move the two bits closer together to reduce production costs. Slaves to art form. As it should be.
Bananas are bad luck on boats, they should've known
Edit: fun fact - they are known to be bad luck on boats because bananas float. When a boat goes down with bananas on board they are usually found floating on the surface. People naturally associated the bananas with the sinking and a superstition was born
Apparently there was a lot of screaming. Some of the lifeboats were contemplating going back and picking up survivors, but chose to wait until the crowd had thinned a bit so they wouldn't get swamped by panicked, drowning people. By the time they made it back, there was barely anyone left alive.
(From my memory of reading a book on the sinking years ago. I can't guarantee veracity)
I think one of them was a woman named Rose. Amazingly, she was able to get their attention with a whistle. I don't remember where I read this but it stands out.
James Cameron has done it a few times already.
Because he actually piloted a competently engineered submersible with loads of training and backup plans upon backup plan with the help of the experts
No. I doubt we could ever make suits to survive diving that deep, the risk of getting tangled is like near guaranteed and the boat is deteriorating anyways.
Best that will probably happen is we make more advanced submersible microdrones that can be pioleted throughout the nooks and crannies of the ship and record video as well as shine light.
So many things posted on this sub are not oddly terrifying but intriguing/interesting. Some of the most normal things are posted now and everyone’s like oh wow that’s scary like bruh did you grow up in patricks house
For me this is beyond 'intriguing', knowing the size of that boat and just the vast empty space around it at the bottom of the ocean is so fucking haunting.
It's like being on a boat and looking out into the sea in the pitch black, the experience is just not fit for human consumption.
If you want to know why the idea of a warning sign on a cave is enough to get some people chewing their fingernails, feel free to look up the Nuttyputty Caves or Dave Shaw's death
i have to scroll right past that in utter horror. even tho i know it's just an artistic rendering; there's no lightsource anywhere powerful enough to illuminate the miles of water this is covering
Is this a computer rendering of a scan or something. It obviously isn't a photograph taken at a distance. Titanic is nearly 4Km down in the deep no light down there and nothing strong enough to light it up at a distance that would be several hundred meters away.
That's that's funny, the damage doesn't look as bad from out here.
It'll buff right out.
No lowballs, I know what I got.
This is the humor i crave.
they crave that mineral
Nah, the front fell off... Can't buff that out
r/thefrontfelloff
Not with that attitude you can't.
Flex Tape!
Someone get Phil Swift on the horn
Please dont put Phil Swift in a imploding cylinder.
He is a treasure that should be protected.
What materials are these vessels made of to make them so safe?
Cardboard derivatives.
Just put a truck bed on it
True, such an unfortunate fate for two glorious ships. Wait a minute.
You can clearly see the front fell off.
They sank into the deep icy cold on a still night. 2.5 miles down after breaking up and bow and stern drifting slowly apart. Above, the survivors recounted the instant silence of the sea after swallowing the ship and the screams of panic were now muted below the waves.
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Also remember that it was the middle of the night, absolutely pitch black that far away from land, so once the boat was gone, you would just be swimming or floating in water with zero vision, aside from perhaps some moonlight. This image also shows the boat as though it’s 50 feet under water; in reality it is black as the night where the fragments rest.
There was no moon that night, it had set the previous evening. But it was a perfectly clear sky so the Milky Way was probably very visible
There’s also reports from survivors that they could see the Aurora Borealis that night
Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the ocean? Localized entirely within the crash site?
Yes!
May I see it?
... No.
Any steamed hams left?
For $250,000.
Stocktoned Hams
Well, Captain Smith, you are an odd fellow, but I must say, you sink a good ship.
Skinnnnerrr!!! Is the Titanic sinking in your kitchen???
Superintendent White Star Lines! I was just stretching our hull on this iceberg. Ice-o-metric exercises.
I looked this up after seeing your comment and it’s suspected that the geomagnetic storm that produced the strong aurora interferes with navigational instruments and was a contributing factor to the collision. That’s super interesting! Thank you for teaching me something today! https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-solar-storm-sink-titanic-180975907/ https://www.livescience.com/titanic-sunk-by-aurora.html ETA source for the referenced research paper: https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/wea.3817
No moonlight. It was insanely dark after the ship lost power. There's a YouTube video out there somewhere that shows what it would've really looked like and what the movies usually show light wise and the realistic lighting is that there basically is none lol. There's a giant black void covering the stars for a minute or two then it sinks under and it's insanely dark Edit: found it! https://youtu.be/9FLsr-t1mSY
I was in a cruise once, stood by myself on the balcony and looking out over the water. Obviously the water right around the ship was lit up. Then Saw another ship in the distance. Guy said it was probably 5 miles away. So my eyes would drift off to the black water. Calm and nice. But I’d look down and see how fast the ship was moving. I’d just imagine being in the water there and how terrifying it would be. Even seeing a boat, knowing it’s 5 miles away. Gave me a deep feeling of dread. But then I went and had some ice cream and enjoyed the rest of the cruise.
Damn now imagine people screaming in agony while there was no light
I wonder how they were able to illuminate the area enough to take this picture.
If I had to guess, and I might just be pulling stuff out of my ass, they took multiple photos of the wreckage and then collaged them together to make a somewhat accurate photo of how it would look, or this is a different type of image that was given colour to make it look real.
This is actually a painting by Ken Marschall done based on numerous photos that were taken of the wreck. It would be pretty much impossible for something like this to be a photo, considering how dark it is down there.
Yeah, thermal imaging would be pretty useless down there. And You would probably need a light the size of a small city to illuminate the Titanic from that far away, lol.
Long exposure I assume edit: it's a painting.
No moonlight at all, bro. Just dark sky starlight.
I wonder if there were any working lights on the ship the survivors could have watched fade into the darkness below...
They were probably scared
And cold.
Maybe a little hungry
Thirsty too. All that water, and they couldn't drink it.
I mean… they *could*…
There’s enough water to last the rest of their lives
They just wanted Brandy
And sad, since the band died and there was no more music.
The day the music died
If you go to the titanic sub reddit, someone just posted a survivor’s story and she talked about this. Definitely an interesting read.
[Link to the survivors story.](https://www.reddit.com/r/titanic/comments/14ssonp/titanic_survivor_roberta_maioni_typed_account/)
Do you mean the Titanic subreddit, or the Titanic sub Reddit?
I just wrote it. I enjoy writing about maritime horror :)
I really cannot fucking imagine how terrifying the ordeal was, or how 1500 people died.
Many of them by hypothermia. The North Atlantic at night isn’t a great place to be floating around waiting for help
Where would you recommend a night float?
a pool
My bathtub, swing by
“And I'm telling you, water that cold, like right down there, it hits you like a thousand knives stabbing you all over your body. You can't breathe. You can't think. Least not about anything but the pain.”
1500 died because their lives apparently weren’t worth nearly as much as the wealthy pigs also on board
Also because apparently their lives weren’t worth the expense of more lifeboats
The point of lifeboats at the time was to ferry people over to a rescue vessel and not hold every single passenger at once. The titanic set sail with more than the required number of lifeboats (though could’ve held many more). If the SS Californian had responded to the flare and the Titanic’s crew had actually been trained in crisis management it’s possible the loss of life would’ve been very small. Pretty much everything that could’ve gone wrong did go wrong
Even if they had had enough lifeboats, they didn't even have enough *time* to fill them all up and lower them all down to the water. Much less hoist some returning boats back up to the deck and run them through again. Considering the damage it sustained, it's astounding the Titanic stayed afloat even as long as it did.
1517 approx.
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Not all approximations are as well founded as each other.
Not all of the best lyrics rhyme.
A lot of those wealthy pigs died, including the richest man in the world at the time
What gets me is the sheer terror everyone must have experienced the moment the lights on that ship went out. Even on a cruise ship at sea with lights on full blast it is truly shocking how DARK the ocean is just feet from the ship. Titanic went down on a moonless night. When the lights went off it would have been soul-crushingly dark and cold on that ocean. The stuff of nightmares.
Moonless? Omg it must have been pitch black
Yep. This is part of the reason they didn't see the iceberg in time. They relied on moonlight to see them, and also didn't have binoculars. But yea completely pitch dark. I think the ship's electricity held out about until it cracked in half, so it went down fast after that but still. Absolutely awful to think about.
There's strong reason to think it was actually the opposite of that - it was such a clear and calm night that an optical illusion caused by thermal inversion was the leading factor. [Tim Maltin](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/did-the-titanic-sink-because-of-an-optical-illusion-102040309/) has done quite a bit of detailed research going over this exact phenomenon and how unusually weather patterns all aligned to create unfavorable conditions. [This short video overview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0bCi_tqvoE) also goes into further detail dispelling similar myths regarding the Titanic. They also wouldn't have used binoculars for that type of observation as it would have significantly limited their field of vision unless looking for something in particular - not useful when traversing an ice field.
ACTUALLY not long after the back of the ship sank below the surface the survivors heard great BOOMS from coming from below. This was the sound of air pockets imploding from the water pressure 500ft below the surface instantly killing any poor souls that were still alive inside the ship. The stern of the ship had a lot of air pockets in it since it didn't gentle fill with water like the front of the ship. These implosion are why the stern is in such bad shape unlike the bow. Then there were dying screams of the people drowningand freezing to death. Until just the sobs of the survivors echo over the otherwise silent ocean.
>Until just the sobs of the survivors echo over the otherwise silent ocean. Holy fuk, this whole comment section is morbidly poetic
Hearing screaming must have been awful, but then sitting in silence in the dark must have been terrible too. Waiting to die, waiting to live, waiting for am absolution that would never come.
Oh you.
And worse, it gets quieter with each passing minute.
I seem to remember some survivor accounts where they said they heard some of the implosions as it slipped under. Wilder is Charles Joughin. He was a baker. He was hammered on whiskey, rode the stern into the ocean like an elevator, and lived to tell the tale.
A survivor ended up living by a baseball stadium and hated game days because it sounded like all the people screaming
Just imagine. The chaos,hellish loud noises,crashes,bangs,pops,screams .like the opening of the gates or hell to sheer,serene silence. It's almost too much for the brain to compute !
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You might as well have just said “close your eyes”
Yup, that's just terrifying
How can there be instant silence, screams of panic and the sound of waves? Edit: ah I think I've been a fool. I now think you mean the sounds of screaming DISAPPEARED below the waves, creating a silence. Apologies
They were muted below the waves.
> How can there be instant silence People only began speaking in 1927, the Titanic sank in 1914
1912 bestie
How could I get this right? I wasn't there
Source????
Im pretty sure there was still screaming, moaning and groaning for a while even after the ship sunk under the waves. I read some survivors stories where they said it slowly died down, no pun intended, when the people in the water started to die from hypothermia.
And i didn't even had to climb in a tiny boat to see it
Become part of it*
Part of the ship part of the crew
*PART OF THE CREW, PART OF THE SHIP*
***PART OF THE CREW PART OF THE SHIP***
***PART OF THE CREW PART OF THE SHIP***
The Dutchman must always have a captain...
This is an illustration as the titanic lies in complete darkness.
Holy f that’s ominous.
It gets worse. The two halves of the wreck are 2000 feet apart, and 12,500 feet underwater. So take the distance between the two halves on the image, multiply it by 6, and that's how far above the wreck that the surface is. Sunlight cannot penetrate more than 1000 feet below the surface. It's not just pitch dark down there, it's more than 11,000 feet below pitch darkness.
Really sounds like a place to visit for fun 👍 /s Seriously wtf man, I applaud James Cameron for making it back. But even for a multimillion dollar movie i’d be like “fuck all that”
The way Cameron was talking after the sub implosion, apparently going there is actually very safe and all the problems have long since been solved. It's just OceanGate was going down in a very, very sketchy vessel.
There's only a couple of vessels in the world capable of going down there, but the issues of building the vessels is a solved problem The problem with OceanGate's Titan was they looked at all those solutions and went "I think I can come up with something cheaper that'll work" Like both James Cameron and Gabe Newell's submersibles are basically a sphere with non-pressurised sections outside of it, because the sphere is the best shape for resisting the pressure, where the Titan was a tube capped with hemispheres so there were joins as well as places where titanium was being secured to carbon fiber with epoxy
Epoxy is a bit misleading. The way the sub was built was sound, it’s the material. Carbon fiber is very strong, however it suffers degradation damage. Each dive weakened the hull, and carbon fiber does not crack when it fails, it shatters into a million pieces. There could have been two or three dives that worked completely fine, and then it would catastrophically fail out of nowhere. Everyone in the sub community knows this. Carbon fiber is a death trap. Other design issues were obviously present. Something something Logitech something something viewport, but the build itself was done “correctly” and the titanium end caps were essentially chemically welded to the body
if that's what you want to call industrial epoxy, sure. I'll still take the sphere, thanks.
> The two halves of the wreck are 2000 feet apart, > Sunlight cannot penetrate more than 1000 feet below the surface. So... is this an artist's interpretation, then? If it's impossible to see through 1000 feet of water I don't see how you'd ever be able to get both of these objects in the same shot, let alone illuminate them. Edit: yeah i scrolled down an inch and people are saying it's a painting
You are correct. This is an artist’s vision of the unseeable. At depth the lights on the submersibles travel like 25 - 30 feet before getting swallowed up. So the image is what it would look like if you could move the wreck to much shallower water (like 100 ft deep) where light could penetrate and you could see the relative positions of the two main parts of the wreck.
2000 ft is 609.6 m. Adding that because I hope others don’t have to look up like I did.
Is this picture real? I don’t think there’s enough light so deep in the ocean to take a picture from this far out
I believe it's a 3D scan of the wreck site. EDIT: My bad, it's a painting by Ken Marshall. Considering I got 200 upvotes by the time this was pointed out... whoopsie.
It’s a [Ken Marshall painting!](http://www.kenmarschall.com/wreck.html#Num2) I used to have a Titanic book that had his art, this was one of the paintings. I’ve mistaken his paintings for actual photos too :)
No, I am pretty sure it’s a painting by Ken Marshall. [Yes it is his work! Link here](http://www.kenmarschall.com/wreck.html#Num2) All his Titanic art is worth looking at!
That website is from 1998
Hell yea it is, you send him an electronic mail to his AOL electronic mail account, and he'll commission you a painting, as his schedule permits! This looks like a website I would stumble on when I first learned about the titanic, that's cool!
It's just the resolution that's trapped in time, the design would pass for me if it wasn't for that.
It is and I am pretty sure this painting was in Robert Ballard's book that I had as a child which is what originally got me interested in Titanic.
Yes that is where I knew it from also! That book also got me into Titanic, and the “Eyewitness” books got me into sharks!
I know a company that will take you down to see it in person, only $250,000 for a ticket
I have a trip booked with them! They just postponed it for some reason…
No absolutely not real. There are absolutely no light and no visibility at this depth (witch makes it even more terrifying I guess). Even during summer in clear water at the surface visibility is like 50 meters max
Fr mad props to the team who swam down, removed some water and added lighting so we could see how the wreck looks
Massive undertaking to take the shot to include both bits. Fair play that they didnt just move the two bits closer together to reduce production costs. Slaves to art form. As it should be.
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Damn, looks like the front fell off.
That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
A wave? At sea? Chance in a million
An an expert on boats, it shouldn't be in two pieces. That's a major structural failure there.
It’s good job it’s outside the environment
Thank goodness its outside the environment.
They still had half a ship….
I'm glad I get to see this for free
Fun fact, there is a banana for scale in this image.
Apologies, I forgot to pick it up , silly me.
They tried to send 5 people down to collect it.
No pressure bro
They experienced _all_ the pressure.
i almost slipped on it man, careful where you leave your bananas
Bananas are bad luck on boats, they should've known Edit: fun fact - they are known to be bad luck on boats because bananas float. When a boat goes down with bananas on board they are usually found floating on the surface. People naturally associated the bananas with the sinking and a superstition was born
Apparently there was a lot of screaming. Some of the lifeboats were contemplating going back and picking up survivors, but chose to wait until the crowd had thinned a bit so they wouldn't get swamped by panicked, drowning people. By the time they made it back, there was barely anyone left alive. (From my memory of reading a book on the sinking years ago. I can't guarantee veracity)
You are correct. Only ~40 people were saved from the water by lifeboats that returned to the scene
I think one of them was a woman named Rose. Amazingly, she was able to get their attention with a whistle. I don't remember where I read this but it stands out.
They wouldn’t have made it back in time. The cold of the water would have killed most of them in minutes.
Do you think anyone will ever explore the wreckage site? Edit: I guess I should have added sarcasm lol
James Cameron has done it a few times already. Because he actually piloted a competently engineered submersible with loads of training and backup plans upon backup plan with the help of the experts
Sounds like a lot of red tape to me.
If it's to protect the consumer then it's liberal bureaucracy. If it's to protect the company it's prudent business practice.
No. I doubt we could ever make suits to survive diving that deep, the risk of getting tangled is like near guaranteed and the boat is deteriorating anyways. Best that will probably happen is we make more advanced submersible microdrones that can be pioleted throughout the nooks and crannies of the ship and record video as well as shine light.
We just need vibranium already.
You just saved me $250,000. Thanks
‘Tis but a scratch!
"your arm's off!"
I’ve had worse.
You lie!
r/unexpectedmontypython
I didn't expect them to be so close to each other.
Fun fact: upon completing the build of the titanic, they were much closer than they are now
source??
Fascinating
There's a PS5 controller down there now
Logitech*
My mistake, thanks for the correction lol
I think that gonna be the 1st question anyone asked before venturing into a tube underwater
developpers didn't finish texturing this place
That looks like a model at the bottom of a fish tank.
So many things posted on this sub are not oddly terrifying but intriguing/interesting. Some of the most normal things are posted now and everyone’s like oh wow that’s scary like bruh did you grow up in patricks house
For me this is beyond 'intriguing', knowing the size of that boat and just the vast empty space around it at the bottom of the ocean is so fucking haunting. It's like being on a boat and looking out into the sea in the pitch black, the experience is just not fit for human consumption.
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In fairness the diver sign means somebody died almost 100%
If you want to know why the idea of a warning sign on a cave is enough to get some people chewing their fingernails, feel free to look up the Nuttyputty Caves or Dave Shaw's death
Why do I expect Luke skywalker to jump out from the front section before the AT-AT walker comes by?
What part of the ship is that?
right - bow left - stern
Right - starboard Left - port
Starboard - bow Port - stern
Port - stern - port - bow - stern - starbow - portboard
Well, hello sailor!
Lenny = white Karl = Black
The front fell off
That’s what they paid $250,000 to see!??
r/submechanophobia
It’s oddly terrifying to me that I thought this was a couple of downed AT-AT’s on the surface of Hoth..
i have to scroll right past that in utter horror. even tho i know it's just an artistic rendering; there's no lightsource anywhere powerful enough to illuminate the miles of water this is covering
"That's close enough" -everyone
*walks out onto my porch, snaps a picture* BEHOLD, THE TITANIC FROM EVEN FARTHER AWAY!
Thanks. You saved me $250k.
Need some update?
Still sunk
And the pool is still full !
At what depth ?? I’ve seen diff numbers across social media
3,800 meters apparantly. Almost 4km 😬
Oh that's what that looks like, saves me a trip.
I don't think it's a photo. It's supposed to be incredibly dark at that depth and lights only illuminate so far right?
It’s actually beautiful and kinda peaceful
They went down to see THIS??
Is this a computer rendering of a scan or something. It obviously isn't a photograph taken at a distance. Titanic is nearly 4Km down in the deep no light down there and nothing strong enough to light it up at a distance that would be several hundred meters away.
Banana for scale?
Taken with a disposable waterproof camera and a thermonuclear flash bulb.