101 Facts About The Titanic

greetings mother factors my name is Sam and today we're going to be learning all about the tragic yet enthralling story of the RMS Titanic a British ocean liner that well I don't want to ruin the ending steeped in history and mystery which rhyme the mere utterance of the name Titanic still evokes curiosity fascination horror and intrigue to this very day it also ended up making a bunch of people in Hollywood fat busy wealthy eighty-five years after it happened so glad something good came out of it but which Titanic passenger had their life turned into a play and a musical and a film what tiny object made avert a disaster and changed the course of history and why doesn't Kate Winslet ever apologize for what she did her silence frankly is deafening deafening to Hunter three those questions gonna be answered so strap on your life vests watch out for any particularly pointy icebergs trying to sneak up behind you and prepare to go down with the ship as we count through 101 facts about the Titanic number one the RMS Titanic was a British passenger ocean liner that spoiler alert famously sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912 after he got shanked by an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City now I know what you're thinking tell me something I don't know okay we will come to the point of the channel number two in the early years of the 20th century when the transatlantic passenger trade was highly lucrative a British shipping company called the oceanic Steam Navigation Company more commonly known as White Star Line was facing increasing pressure from competitors chief among them was the White Star Line's main rival Cunard which was preparing to launch the Lusitania and the Mauritania then the fastest passenger ships in service white star chairman J Bruce Ismay decided to compete on comfort and luxury rather than speed and began taught to construct three such opulent vessels the Olympic the Britannic and big boat boy I'm just kidding it was the Titanic number three and so three months after work began on the Olympic construction began on the Titanic with its keel being laid on the 31st of March 1909 in the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast Ireland the original Titanic construction cost was 1.5 million pounds equivalent to around 7.5 million dollars at the time in today's money the Titanic would have cost around 190 to million dollars to construct number four the Titanic measured an impressive 882 feet in length and had a breadth of little over 92 feet it's total heights measured from the base of the keel to the top of the bridge with 104 thirds when fully laden the Titanic weighed more than fifty two thousand three hundred and ten tons which is apparently about a tenth of the weight of the Empire State Building number five interestingly only three of the Titanic's four dramatic smokestacks were actually functional the fourth was included simply because the designers thought the ship would look more impressive with four funnels rather than three though the dummy funnel did also provide ventilation for the kitchen so number six as for safety features the Titanic was built with sixteen compartments that included doors which could easy to be closed from the bridge so that water could be contained in the suppose of the unlikely event that the hull was breached it was claimed that four of these compartments could be flooded without endangering the ship's buoyancy which emerges SPECT is somewhat hard to believe because of the sinking its scent remember air you remember number seven based on the ship's imposing size and technologically advanced safety features many people claim that the Titanic was virtually unsinkable an assertion that was advanced in newspapers and magazines on a number of occasions frankly they should have named the ship to hate to miss hubris just to make it a touch more poetic number eight indeed British and American Postal Service's were sufficiently convinced the ship's unsinkable 'ti that they were happy to have Titanic carry official mail hence the designation RMS at the front of its name which stands for Royal Mail ship number nine the Titanic was launched on the 31st of May 1911 and was furnished the following year throughout the ship's 26 month construction in Belfast there were 246 injuries and two deaths number 10 according to the ship's general arrangement plans the Titanic could accommodate 823 first-class passengers 614 second-class passengers and 1006 in third-class for a total capacity of 2,000 453 people the Titanic was also capable of accommodating over 900 crew members and most of the ship's documentation stated that its full carrying capacity for both passengers and crew was three thousand five hundred and forty seven people number eleven [Music] the first and second-class passenger areas aboard the Titanic were laid out in much the same manner as the high-class hotels of the era with luxurious interiors resplendent Lee furnished in the style of the Ritz Hotel in London the aim was to get passengers the impression that they were in a floating hotel rather than a ship and really stick it to those zippy little shops that Cunard number 12 that's way too indeed some of these swanky features and amenities available to first-class passengers included a 7 foot deep saltwater swimming pool a gymnasium a squash court a kennel for first-class D'Argo's and a Turkish bath which included a steam room call room massage room hot run and an electric bath which wasn't some kind of old-fashioned suicide apparatus but an early form of a tanning bed number 13 [Music] first class common rooms were lavishly decorated in order to accommodate the ship's poshest passengers the facilities included an enormous reception room a lounge decorated in the salep the palace of versaille a men's smoking room and a reading and writing room number fourteen as for its dining the Titanic had a number of extravagant restaurants and cafes to cater to its first-class passengers these included an ala carte restaurant run by the famous Italian restaurant her Gasper Gotti and decorated in the style of the Ritz Hotel a cafe Parisien decked out in the style of a French cafe complete with wicker furniture and ivy cover trellises and they were and a cafe where tea and light refreshments were served offering spectacular views of the ocean number 15 the Titanic also featured several dining rooms including the enormous first-class dining saloon located on D deck at around 34 meters in length and 28 meters wide it was the largest room on the whole ship and could seat over 550 passengers at one time number 16 Titanic's first-class passengers too enjoyed extraordinary dining experiences for every meal feasting all manner of rich people to food like foie gras and Wardour pudding the most affluent passengers were treated to dinners consisting of up to 13 courses each of which were paired up with a different specially selected wine as a result these dinners could last up to five gut-busting hours number 17 one of the Titanic's most distinctive architectural features for C grand staircase an opulent curved stairway in the first-class section that descended through seven decks between boat deck and a deck before terminating in a simplified single flight on F deck the built of solid English oak the grand staircase was capped with a dome of wrought iron and glass allowing natural light to pour into the stairwell number eighteen however it wasn't just the first-class passengers who got to experience the Titanic's luxury the ship's second class accommodations were comparable to those one would find in the first-class on other ships and even its third-class section was considered to be fairly comfortable compared to other vessels number 19 the Titanic even had its own onboard newspaper called the Atlantic Daily Bulletin I wonder if they ever had anything interesting to report number 20 on the 10th of April 1912 the Titanic set sail her maiden voyage from Southampton the largest city in Hampshire England southern coast the ship was scheduled to reach New York week later on the 17th of April it didn't know just FYI number 21 the Titanic didn't have the most auspicious of starts to its maiden voyage as it almost nearly began with a collision when displacement of water by the colossal ship caused the similar ship the SS city of New York which was docked nearby to swing into the giant liners path the smaller vessel moved to within little over a metre of the Titanic before it was pulled away by a tugboat the near accident delayed the Titanic's launch by about an hour before it could begin its journey number 22 the Titanic was seen off by an enormous crowd more than 100,000 people who congregated to watch the ship set sail into the Atlantic I'm sure a fair number of them wish they were on the grand ship departing for the US even if a week or so later they felt they were very very lucky not to do so number 23 on the evening with the 1st of April the Titanic made its first scheduled stop at Cherbourg on the Cotentin Peninsula in northern France the city's dock was too small to accommodate the gargantuan Titanic so passengers had to be ferried to and from the ship in tenders number 24 on the morning of the 11th of April the Titanic made its last scheduled stop in Europe at the Irish town of Cove which was at the time known as Queenstown and approximately 1:30 in the afternoon the Titanic finally set sail into the Atlantic Ocean towards New York City number 25 interestingly the Titanic was carrying almost 6600 tons of coal to New York because if there's one thing New Yorkers love its tasty tasty coal number 26 it's been estimated that after picking up additional passengers in France and Ireland the Titanic was carrying 2,000 224 people it's believed at 1216 of these four passengers leaving a little under 900 crew members because of the Titanic's emphasis on luxury and comfort many of those traveling on the ship's maiden voyage were high-ranking officials wealthy businessman industrialists dignitaries and celebrities prominent figures aboard the ship included the American businessman Benjamin Guggenheim British journalist William Thomas stead and co-owner of Macy's department store Isidor Straus and his wife Ida number 28 the wealthiest passenger on board the Titanic was John Jacob Astor the fourth a member of the wealthy Astor family and heir to the family fortune with a net worth roughly equivalent to two billion dollars today Astor had made headlines a year earlier by divorcing his wife and quickly marrying 18 year-old Madeline Talmadge force a young woman 29 years his junior Lassie number 29 years his junior also aboard the ship was J Bruce Ismay the chairman of the White Star Line and Thomas Andrews the managing director of the shipbuilding company Hollander wolf Andrews was the ship builder in charged the plans for the Titanic and was aboard the ship in order to observe its operation and recommend improvement to future vessels and probably just broke vacay number 30 the largest group of passengers were those in the third class who numbered more than 700 people more than first and second class combined third class passengers were mostly emigrants on their way to a new life in the United States with 33 nationalities represented among them while the large shipping companies often caught at the wealthy they made most of their money from those traveling in third-class number 31 because the Titanic caters so extravagantly to the original wealthy the ship acquired the nickname of millionaires special the Titanic was captained by Edward J Smith who was known as the millionaire's captain owing to his popularity among wealthy passengers number 32 the passengers on board the Titanic went through roughly 14,000 gallons of drinking water every 24 hours because there's nothing worse than being dehydrated at sea well maybe there's at least one thing worse than that we're getting to it though I promise number 33 the ship's provisions were plentiful to say the least and include 34,000 kilos of fresh meat over 1,800 kilos of bacon and ham 40,000 sausages almost 5,000 kilos of fresh fish 34,000 kilos of game poultry 40,000 eggs over 2,700 six of butter 36,000 oranges 16,000 lemons well over a metric ton of peas and a partridge in a pear tree it's July number 34 the Titanic didn't scream bomb the booze either aboard the ship there were a total of 20,000 bottles of beer 1,500 bottles of wine and 850 bottles of spirits as well as 8,000 cigars number 35 first-class passengers were also give music book containing a total of 352 songs all of which the musicians on board were required to know off by heart in case requests were made number thirty-six depressingly twenty-six of those aboard the Titanic were actually thirteen honeymooning couples can't really get worse than that for a marriage celebration can you number thirty-seven over 800 tons of coal were burned aboard the Titanic every day to pile the ship across the Atlantic I feel like that's a lot of coal I don't know much about coal but that does sound like a lot of coal coal number 38 four days into the Titanic's maiden voyage the ship was approaching the continent of North America throughout much of the voyage the Titanic received several iceberg warnings most of which were passed along to the bridge however the wireless operators on board the ship were not actually members of the crew but employees of Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company as such their primary responsibility was to send messages for the ship's passengers with weather report to say secondary concern oh dear number 39 the SS Californian which had stopped for the night amid a large ice field was only a few kilometers away from the Titanic at the time on the evening of the 14th of April the ship's only wireless operator cyril evans radioed a titanic about their eye situation which inadvertently obscured another message that the ship's radio operator Jack Phillips was in the process of receiving an annoyed Philips scolded Evans in response literally telling him shut up shut up I'm busy soon after Evans turned off his wireless and went to bed probably imagining the ways one could take revenge on people who are rude over early 20th century telecommunications technology number forty perching in the crow's nest of the Titanic were two lookouts Frederick fleet and Reginald Lee their task was made particularly difficult by the fact the ocean was unusually calm at nights which is now known to be a telltale sign of nearby ice the oceans calm surface also made icebergs far less easy to spot had the waters been rougher waves breaking against icebergs would have made them far more visible number 41 in addition the crow's nest was without binoculars as they were believed to be inside a locker secured with the key held by second officer David Blair who was removed from the crew at the last minute in favor of a more experienced crew member in the haste Blair forgot to hand over the key confining the binoculars in his locker with no way for anyone to access them soon after Blair wrote a postcard to his sister-in-law in which he professed to be very disappointed to have lost his spot on the Titanic a twist of fate that may well have saved his life but could have doomed several others the reading of life whether or not the binoculars would have been effective in the total darkness surrounding the ship has been thoroughly debated though fleet himself led to stated his belief that he would have been able to identify the iceberg sooner with the binoculars at least enough to get out the way number 43 and so at approximately 11:30 9:00 p.m. on the 14th of April 1912 roughly seven hundred forty kilometres south of Newfoundland Canada fleet sighted the infamous iceberg in the Titanic's path he immediately rang the lookout bell three times and telephoned the bridge to inform sixth officer James Moody fleet first asked is anyone there - which moody replied yes what do you see fleet then stated iceberg right ahead sorry I'm using this time to do some audio drama auditions was that good let me do it again iceberg right ahead that's better right number forty-four no evasive maneuvers were attempted they proved to be too little too late as the Titanic collided with the iceberg only 37 seconds after it was first sighted by fleet resulting in catastrophic damage to the front section of the ship starboard side the Titanic immediately began to take on icy ocean water sealing its fate number 45 because of the attempts made to avoid the iceberg the Titanic suffered a glancing blow resulting in damage to six of its compartments amazingly many experts believe that had it hit the iceberg head-on the titanic may have survived number forty-six crucially the watertight walls of the Titanic that extended across the width of the ship known in fancy sailor speakers bulkheads did not extend all the way up the hull of the ship this meant that as the front compartments flooded and the bow dipped into the ocean the water spilled over into the preceding compartment in sequence comparable to water spilling across the top of an ice cube tray number 47 soon after the collision captain Smith ordered radio operator Jack Phillips to begin sending distress signals one of which reached the RMS Carpathia at approximately 12:20 a.m. on the 15th of April the Carpathia which was owned by the White Star Line's rival Cunard immediately headed towards the sinking liner but was roughly 107 kilometers away when it received a distress signal the ship took more than three hours to reach the Titanic number 48 the subsequent evacuation of the Titanic was chaotic and disorganized rather unfortunately only one lifeboat drill had been ducted while the ship was docked at Southampton and a drill that had been scheduled for only hours before the collision was cancelled for unknown reasons by captain Smith not his best decision all things considered then again how was he to know number 49 at five minutes past midnight captain Smith gave instructions to wake the passengers and have them congregate on the deck initially many of the passengers and crew failed to grasp the seriousness of the situation and didn't follow orders to put on life belts and move outside of their cabins some passengers had even begun to play football with the chunks of ice that had fallen onto the deck my god people number 50 at around 20 minutes past midnight about 40 minutes after the collision the launching of lifeboats was underway although the Titanic had been designed to accommodate up to 68 lifeboats it was only carrying 20 on its maiden voyage which was actually more than was legally required by the British Board of Trade the night boat could accommodate roughly 68 passengers each and could therefore only carry a total of 1178 people which the mathematicians watching will tell you is substantially less than the 2224 people on board number 51 this disaster a shortage of lifeboats was exacerbated by crew members launching the lifeboats they did have and well below their intended capacity in part because it was feared that the apparatus used to lower them would not be able to support the weight of a fully loaded boat the first lifeboat to leave the Titanic lifeboat number 7 was launched carrying only 27 people despite the fact a dead space 465 ultimately only 705 people were rescued in lifeboats number 52 not only that the crew members in charge of launching the lifeboats interpreted captain Smith's order to put the women and children in and lower away differently while first officer William Murdoch took Smith's order to mean women and children first with men filling any remaining spaces second officer Charles Lightoller assumed it meant women and children only as a result many men were actually prevented from boarding the lifeboats number 53 by this time several members of the crew aboard the Californian had noticed a Titanic by its lights and had observed the signal rockets that were being fired above it when crew members brought this to the attention of the ship's captain Stanley Lord their concerns were dismissed and nothing was done to make contact with the Titanic other than signalling with a Morse lamp number 54 the musicians aboard the Titanic a known - a played music for over two hours as the ship was sinking in - calm down passengers it's often stated that the last song they played was a hymn entitled nearer my God to thee although there is conflicting evidence of this sadly all these ship's musicians went down with it number 25 the Titanic continued to rapidly take on water by 1 a.m. water was seen at the base of the Grand Staircase on e deck an hour later the Titanic was pitching so far forward that his propellers were clearly visible above the water which generally isn't a good sign at around 2:05 am captain smith released the crew declaring it's every man for himself again generally not a good sign number 56 and around this time lifeboat number 1 was launched carrying only 12 people despite factors capable of holding 40 among these 12 passengers were Sur Cosmo Edmond Gordon who's rumored to have given seven crew members aboard the lifeboat five pounds each the equivalent over six hundred ninety dollars today while duff-gordon claimed that this was a gesture to the men who lost not only their possessions but also their jobs he later faced frequent accusations that he'd actually bribed the crew to not let anyone else on the boat while duff-gordon was eventually vindicated it certainly does sound like something a rich person would do number 57 terrifyingly at approximately 2:18 a.m. all the lights on the Titanic went out plunging the sinking vessel into darkness large boomers were heard as the ship buckled and internal machinery failed causing several loud explosions only a couple of minutes later with the ship stern rising ever further out of the water the Titanic finally dramatically broke into two number 58 the first section of the ship quickly sunk beneath the surface of the ocean while the stern rapidly rose to a near vertical angle with hundreds of terrified people still clinging to it mere moments off of the Titanic's Brittain to the stern finally disappeared beneath the Atlantic taking scores of helpless passengers with it number 59 it speculated that the bow of the Titanic sank at approximately 30 miles an hour reaching the ocean floor in less than 10 minutes number 60 the temperature of the ocean water when the Titanic sank was minus 2 degrees Celsius that's 28 point four degrees Fahrenheit add that temperature a few passengers would have survived along within 15 minutes but many would have died even quicker as a result of shock number 61 Thomas Andrews the Titanic ship builder went down with the ship he design some stated he was last seen in the first-class smoking room staring blankly at a painting of the ship hanging about the fireplace with his arms folded and his life belt lying on a nearby table others say he was last seen frantically throwing deck chairs into the ocean for passengers to hold onto in the water captain smith also died in the disaster constituting a famous example of the captain going down with his ship number 62 the Titanic's first-class passengers were roughly 44 percent more likely to survive than those traveling in third-class probably because the rich for bribing crew members to leave everyone else behind allegedly number 63 still a number of prominent figures perished in the disaster the aforementioned wealthiest person on board John Jacob Astor the fourth was last seen aboard the sinking ship smoking a cigarette with the American writer Jacques Cottrell his body was later recovered ten days after the disaster floating in the Atlantic not far from the site of the Titanic sinking nintendo64 Benjamin Guggenheim a wealthy American businessman eventually changed into formal evening dress along with his valet Victor jiggly Oh declaring boldly we are dressed in our best and prepared to go down like gentlemen Guggenheim and jiggly Oh were last seen sitting on deck chair sipping brandy and smoking cigars number 65 German born American businessman Isidor Straus who co-owned the American department store Macy's also refused to board a lifeboat stating that he would not take up any space while women and children was still waiting to be rescued likewise his wife Ida refused to be separated from her husband stating as we have lived so we will die together and that's exactly what they did number 66 the Titanic's chief Baker charge on was one of the few members who survived after ending up in the Atlantic having apparently descended into the chilly water while riding up the sinking ship like an elevator as such Joanne is thought to be the last survivor to leave the Titanic number 67 Joe and then paddled around in the water for three hours before being rescued apparently suffering no ill effects this is popularly attributed to the fact that Joanne had helped himself to a drink as the Titanic was going down Joanne was apparently back at work ten days after the disaster occurred number 68 one of the ship's first class passengers Margaret brown actually helped load the boats and was finally forced into one of the last to leave lifeboat six after a crew member literally picked her up and dropped her into the boat as it was being possibly after observing that she was one of the only 23 people in the lifeboat able to carry 65 Brown famously demanded that they turned back to look for survivors number 69 I feel weird doing this for this one going down like the Titanic interestingly each lifeboat was equipped with ting crackers and water though most of the survivors never realized they had provisions while they were waiting to be rescued number 7 tea from the moment of collision to the ship's last seconds above the ocean surface the Titanic ultimately took approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes to sink after being gored by some spiky water number 71 though the exact figure is hard to discern more than 1,500 people perished in the sinking of the Titanic more than two-thirds of the total number of the people aboard the ship number 72 because of Captain Smith swimmin in children first order and the subsequent confusion that arose regarding how exactly to interpret it 73 percent of women aboard the Titanic survived two sinking compared to a measly 19 percent of the men making women more than fifty percent more likely to survive number 73 and around 3:30 a.m. the Carpathia finally arrived at the site of the sinking more than an hour after the Titanic went under lifeboat number 2 was the first to reach the ship and over the next few hours the Carpathia picked up all the survivors before arriving at pier 54 in New York City and around 9 a.m. on the 18th of April where it was met by massive crowds of roughly 40,000 people number 74 in these subsequent days after the sinking of the Titanic a number of people such as Margaret Brown and Arthur Henry rostrum the captain of the Carpathia were identified and celebrated for their actions and bravery Margaret Brown and particular was dubbed as the Unsinkable Molly Brown which served as a title of both a 1960 Broadway musical based on her life and its 1964 film adaptation number 75 others however were vilified in particular J Bruce Ismay was savaged in the press and was branded the coward of the Titanic because he had the audacity to be a man who didn't see the point in dying for the sake of masculinity in contrast and the manner in which he was represented in the media it's believed that his may actually helped many of the ships passengers before taking a place in the last lifeboat to leave the starboard side number 76 one of the survivors a fellow named Bhumika solo was the only Japanese person on the Titanic again as a man who didn't heroically die for no reason hassan o was condemned in both United States and his native Japan even facing entirely false accusations that he dressed up as a woman to get a place on board a lifeboat number 77 one of the survivors was a woman named violet Jessop who was working on the Titanic as a stewardess after managing not to die in the sinking of the Titanic Jessie Balto managed not to die in the sinking of the sister ship the Britannic which was sunk by a naval mine in 1916 during the First World War Jessup was also aboard the Titanic's other sister ship the Olympic when it collided with a British warship the HMS Hawke in 1911 although no one was injured or seriously hurt in the incident basically she's lucky or unlucky depends on how you look at it number 78 the last remaining survivor of the disaster millvina dean dined on the 31st of may 2009 and the respectable age of 97 Dean was just 2 months old at the time of the sinking making her also the youngest person aboard the Titanic during its fateful voyage number 7 Oh No number 79 after the disaster two inquiries were carried out one in the US and one in the UK between them over 170 people were interviewed and included a number of notable witnesses including Ismay and second officer Charles Lightoller the most senior officer to survive both inquiries came to broadly similar conclusions Captain Smith had failed to take proper heed of ice warnings the number of lifeboats was obviously inadequate and the evacuation was disorganized and chaotic number 18 they also heavily criticized the inaction of the SS Californians captain Lord though no criminal charges were brought against him it's believed by many that's had Lord ordered the wireless to be turned back on in an attempt contact the Titanic its condition could have been discovered far sooner and the SS Californian may have been able to arrive the site of the disaster soon enough to save many more lives number 81 in the aftermath of the tragedy the first international conference for safety of life at sea was held in London in 1913 the conference led to widespread adoption of regulations requiring that all ships must maintain a 24-hour radio watch and have enough lifeboats to carry every person on board number 82 in the wake of the disaster International pop groups knowbut rip sorry no I mean the International Ice patrol was also established in 1913 and to this day continues to break up ice and warn ship of icebergs in the North Atlantic shipping lanes between Europe and the US and Canada number 83 after the Titanic sank at least two photos emerge which claim to show the iceberg that gave the ship its fatal wounds although no one knows for sure if either showed the iceberg in question one was taken from the ocean liner SMS Prince Albert which was sailing through the Atlantic mere hours after the Titanic sank a steward aboard the ship noted a nearby iceberg with a curious wedge streaked across it which was speculated to have come from its collision with the Titanic another iceberg photo was captured by Captain William George squared a cart array of the SS Minear which was in the area while acting as a recovery vessel number 84 regardless experts believe that they know with the nortis ship sinking iceberg came from using a complex array of research and analysis and investigations and other sciency stuff it's believed that the iceberg began a snowfall in western Greenland somewhere around 1000 BCE over the centuries the snow was pushed down compacted and slowly forced further westward towards the sea a section of this mass eventually broke off as a single solid iceberg then drifted merrily down the coast of Canada before a bunch of humans in a boat rudely rammed into it in 1912 number 85 the Titanic is now located on the sea floor roughly 3,800 meters below the surface of the ocean and approximately these coordinates which is a fancy naughty nautical way of saying it's around 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland Canada the stern and bow lie on the ocean floor around 600 metres apart from each other number 86 within days of the disaster discussions arose regarding the possibility of finding the wreck but given the limits of technology at the time no serious attempts were made to do this until several decades later on the 1st of September 1985 the wreck of the Titanic was finally discovered by a franco-american expedition led by American oceanographer Robert Ballard using an underwater submersible called Argo the first underwater images of the wreck were produced revealing the Titanic to human eyes for the first time in over 73 years number 87 interestingly enough part of the reason the Titanic was discovered at all was because of funding provided by the US Navy who first had Ballard use their submersible for secret reconnaissance of two nuclear submarines that sank in the 1960s this information was unknown by many of the people working on the expedition number eighty-eight upon its discovery the expedition found that the two sections of the Titanic was sitting upright on the ocean floor and while the bow was clearly recognizable the stern was severely damaged upon impact with the seabed and had almost entirely collapsed as such the stern has received far less attention from subsequent expeditions to the site number 89 based on the misguided belief that such a grand ship could not be sunk by anything less than an enormous breach it was initially believed that the iceberg had torn an opening in a Titanic measuring roughly 91 metres in length roughly a third of the ship's total length however modern ultrasound surveys of the wreckage have found that the damage consisted of six narrow gashes covering a total area of only 1.1 square meters number nine covering the wreckage are numerous porous and delicate select type like formations which Barnard later dubbed rusticles it was later determined that these rusticles were created by iron eating microorganisms which are slowly but surely consuming the wreck number 91 in 2010 a new species of bacteria living inside the Titanic's rusticles were discovered by biologist henrietta man who promptly named the plucky metal muncher hello Manas Titanus I in tribute to the ship number 92 man has predicted that as a result of bacteria currently chowing down on ships wreckage Titanic will likely have completely collapsed into a heap of rust and earlier 2030 number 93 the two main sections of the wreck lie in a debris field covering an area of roughly 38 square kilometres which itself is littered with smaller pieces of the Titanic and machinery furniture utensils and coal as well as personal items that belong to passengers and crew the site is also the final resting place of many of those who died in the disaster while most of the bodies and clothes have long been since consumed by secret to some bacteria but we're proved to mostly be inedible and pairs of shoes and boots lying together on the ocean floor and now the only sign of the victims who once lay there number 94 in total over 5000 artifacts have been recovered from the wreck of the Titanic including pocket watches jewelry fur coats perfume bottles first-class plates and cutlery and various documents number 95 a number of these items have been sold at auction for incredible amounts of money on the 30th of September 2015 the last known first-class lunch menu from the Titanic was sold at auction to a private collector the princely sum of $88,000 number 96 a few years earlier yet in 2007 an unassuming key was put up for auction and although at the time it didn't seem particularly interesting it was later claimed that the key in question may fitted the locker in the crow's nest which contained the binoculars and was possibly the very same key that David Blair had forgotten to hand over after being relieved from his position on the Titanic I would emerge that is tiny iron key may have averted history's most infamous maritime disaster had it been properly handed over it sold for ninety thousand dollars number 97 after seven years of rigorous authentication it was confirmed in 2013 that a violin supposedly belonging to Wallace Hartley the violinist who led the eighth member band who played as the Titanic sank was indeed genuine the instrument was found strapped to Hartley's body which was recovered almost two weeks after the sinking and was passed down through various owners over the subsequent years the violin was eventually sold at auction for an incredible nine hundred thousand pounds or roughly 1.7 million dollars number 98 an author named Morgan Robertson once wrote a novella the wreck of the Titan or futility in which a fictional ocean liner called the Titan sinks due to a collision with an iceberg the Titan is described in the book is being unsinkable and also doesn't have lifeboats for everyone on board now I know what you're thinking ripoff right but spookily the book was published in 1898 fourteen years before the sinking of the Titanic while numerous people claim that Robertson must have written the book with some kind of supernatural precognition Robertson himself credited the similarities to his extensive knowledge of shipbuilding and maritime trends one nerd number 99 oh I almost forgot in 1987 a bunch of people got together and made a teensy-weensy record-breaking film about the disaster which follows a pair of fictional passengers who fall another bought the ship directed by filmmaker and Explorer James Cameron the film Bank 11 Oscars at the 70th Academy Awards in 1998 tying with the 1959 film Ben Hur for the most Oscars one by one film didn't even have Jennifer Lawrence in it so can't be that good number 100 oh yeah yeah the film had also made an initial worldwide gross of 1.84 billion dollars making it the highest-grossing film of all time until the release of avatar also by James Cameron in 2010 until that was beaten by Avengers game because it's a better film than both of them as such Titanic was the first film in history to make more than 1 billion dollars of the box-office incredibly even when adjusted for inflation Titanic cost more to make than the Titanic itself did number 101 Clive Palmer an Australian businessman and politician frequently described as an eccentric billionaire announced in 2012 his plans to build a near-perfect full-size replica of the Titanic dubbed Titanic 2 the ship is due to set sail in 2022 and will follow the exact same route as the original ship that could screw you mother nature you can only keep us humans down for so long 110 years to be exact would you go on a cruise in Titanic 2 or is there just too much bad juju for you to take a chance let us know in our snazzy YouTube Hall in the meantime though that was 101 parts about the Titanic I hope you learned something about this awful historical disaster what would you like to see us cover next style let us know in the comments down below also give this video like I'm subscribed to one on one factory I'm done so already because all the cool kids are 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