Who Sank the Titanic? (2008) Discovery Channel

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Another look at the Titanic disaster and the actions of those held responsible.

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Deep Inside the Titanic (1999) Discovery Channel

Published on Apr 15, 2012 by SrDocumentado
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"Ghostwalking in Titanic" James Cameron`s final thoughts on the Titanic (National Geographic)

Ghostwalking in Titanic

Wandering room to room through the sunken wreck, the explorer and filmmaker finds himself at home among the spirits.

By James Cameron

Photograph by Stewart Volland

It had been five hours since my intrepid robot Gilligan left its garage on the front of the submersible Mir 1 and disappeared inside the cavernous shipwreck. Our sub was parked on the upper deck of the most famous wreck in history, surrounded by eternal blackness and over 5,000 pounds per square inch of pressure, both thanks to a two-and-a-half-mile column of water over our heads.

Safe inside the Mir, I flew the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) with gentle nudges of the joystick, its thrusters maneuvering it into the ship’s treacherous interior. The “bot” had penetrated to F Deck, paying out a thin fiber-optic cable like Theseus in the labyrinth, with only Ariadne’s twine to guide him back. Though the tiny vehicle was now seven decks below me, I felt as if my consciousness were inside the bot, its cameras my eyes, staring down the corridors of the ship. Its jeopardy was also mine, and my pulse raced with each new hazard. Turning a corner, I barely escaped being pinned by a falling “rusticle,” one of the stalactite-like formations created by the bacteria that are slowly devouring the steel of the ship.

As I passed through an entrance, suddenly revealed in my lights were sparkling reflections off a wall of gleaming blue and green tiles. Teak chaise lounges lay upturned on the floor, incredibly well preserved, and above them was an arabesque dome covered in gold leaf. I had entered the elegant spa on the most luxurious ship of its time. “Tell them we’re in the Turkish baths,” I said to Mike Arbuthnot, the marine archaeologist sitting next to me. He keyed the microphone and relayed the message up to the surface.

Our interior archaeological survey of the ship had begun in 1995, as I was wrapping up shooting the wreck for the movie Titanic. Back then we had an unwieldy ROV called Snoop Dog, which was little more than a movie prop, but we flew it down inside the ship’s grand staircase nevertheless, all the way down to D Deck. Its lights revealed that much of the ornate wood paneling remained intact. Snoop reached the end of its tether and could go no farther, but I could not help wondering what lay in the shadows just beyond its lights. After the movie was released, I commissioned the building of two revolutionary new robotic vehicles so we could return and truly explore the interior. In 2001 and again in 2005 I made multiple dives to the Titanic wreck and flew our bots deep inside, exhaustively surveying her interior. Ultimately we imaged and documented 65 percent of Titanic’s surviving internal spaces, including the first-class cabins, first-class reception and dining rooms, steerage cabins and open space, cargo holds, and Marconi room.

One incredible discovery followed another, in dizzying succession. In the first-class dining saloon and reception rooms, we found the tall leaded windows still intact. The hand-carved mahogany paneling on the walls and columns remains, some of it with the original white paint still visible. There are cut crystal chandeliers and, in the first-class staterooms, immaculately preserved brass beds. Filigreed iron grilles cover the yawning elevator shafts. When I first laid eyes on the intact brass call button, I felt as if I could reach out and touch it, and a ghostly elevator might still arrive. Titanic sank on her maiden voyage before her interiors could be photographed, so most of the archival images used as references for the movie’s sets were photos of her sister ship, Olympic. For the first time we were learning how Titanic herself was actually built, and the details of her decoration have now been painstakingly reconstructed from the bot videos. I now know where the movie is accurate, and where it’s not.

Of all our discoveries, the most evocative are the relics that suggest the human hands that touched them. In Henry Harper’s D Deck cabin, his bowler hat remains in the ruins of his closet, right where he left it. In Edith Russell’s cabin on A Deck, the mirror still gleams in her washstand, reflecting back the bot’s LED lights instead of Edith’s terrified face as she rushed back into the room to get her lucky toy pig before running to board a lifeboat. In another stateroom, a glass decanter and water glass sit, impossibly, still on the washstand. Had the glass been empty, it would have floated out of its holder when the room flooded, and been lost. But someone took a drink and left it half full, and there it sits today.

In the soundproof Marconi room, the wireless apparatus survives, the knife switches still in the positions left by the young operators, Harold Bride and Jonathan Phillips, revealing that they cut the power when they abandoned their post as the water rushed up the deck outside. We even imaged the transformer they had repaired just the night before the sinking. Acting against guidelines, the two young wireless geeks managed to restore the set to full power—an act that may have saved 712 lives, since without this power they might not have reached the rescue ship Carpathia with their historic SOS. Capturing these precious bot images was like touching history itself.

In 2001 I had wanted to get into the C Deck suite of Ida and Isidor Straus, the elderly couple famous for choosing to die together rather than be separated by the evacuation rule of “women and children only.” Their suite was the most ornately decorated on the ship, and in fact had been the basis for Rose’s suite, the room in which Jack Dawson draws the heroine’s portrait in my fictional narrative. I got our stalwart bot Jake as far as the purser’s office, discovering the tall purser’s safe in the process, but I couldn’t penetrate to the Straus suite next door. In 2005, determined to find a way, I wriggled the slightly smaller Gilligan through a constriction, knocking rusticles out of the way, and emerged into an open space. The bot’s lights revealed gleaming gold sparkles. Not only was the ornate mahogany fireplace still intact, but sitting on it was the gold-plated clock, just as it appeared in the archival photo, and just as we had re-created it for the movie. It was a surreal moment, fiction and reality merging in the stygian depths.

After 33 dives to the wreck, averaging 14 hours each, I have spent more time on the ship than Captain Smith himself did. In all that exploration, the strongest memories are these out-of-body experiences of ghostwalking through the corridors and stairwells of Titanic via my ROV avatar. Its gothic ruin exists now in a ghostly limbo, neither in our world nor completely gone from it. The rusticles have transformed Edwardian elegance into a phantasmagorical cavern, a surreal underworld ruled only by dream logic. But despite the sheer alienness of the place, I felt a tingling déjà vu exploring there. Having walked the faithfully built movie set for many weeks, I would turn a corner in the wreck and already know, before the bot’s video camera revealed it, what would be there. It was an eerie feeling but also strangely comforting, as if I were somehow home.

Source: National Geographic Mag., April 2012: Cameron Text - Ghostwalking in Titanic

• Watch: The Final Word with James Cameron (2012) w/ new updated CGI model on sinking

• View the 'Unseen Titanic' (NGM) Image Gallery :
At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the “unsinkable” R.M.S. Titanic disappeared beneath the waves, taking with her 1,500 souls. One hundred years later, new technologies have revealed the most complete—and most intimate—images of the famous wreck.

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Watch: Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) - Cameron returns to the Titanic yielding the best detailed images yet

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Director James Cameron returns to the site of the wreck of the RMS Titanic. With a team of history and marine experts and friend Bill Paxton, he embarks on an unscripted adventure back to the final grave where 1,517 people lost their lives. Using technology developed for this expedition, Cameron and his crew are able to explore virtually all of the wreckage, inside and out, as never before.

RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. The sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,517 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time.
Producer & Director James Cameron
Cast Bill Paxton, Dr. John Broadwater, Dr. Lori Johnston, Charles Pellegrino, Don Lynch
Director of Photography Vince Pace
Music Joel McNeely, Lisa Torban
Released by Walt Disney Pictures & Walden Media
Release date 2003
Running time 90 min.

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Watch: Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron (2012 NatGeoTV)

Titanic: The final word with James Cameron

National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence James Cameron leads a forensic investigation to determine how Titanic sank. (National Geographic)

James Cameron’s epic 1997 film Titanic won 11 Oscars and grossed well over a billion dollars worldwide. Now, National Geographic Channel joins the director and explorer-in-residence for the ultimate forensic investigation into the most infamous shipwreck of all time in Titanic: The Final Word With James Cameron. Cameron, who has made more than 30 dives to explore the Titanic, brings together a team of engineers, naval architects, artists, and historians to solve the lingering mysteries of why and how an “unsinkable” ship sank. With their combined expertise, they’ll examine the feature film and determine what technology has revealed since its release. An investigation of this magnitude has never been attempted before, and some of the revelations may alter the fundamental interpretation of what exactly happened to the Titanic on April 14, 1912.



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James Cameron presents new and final CGI of how the Titanic actually sank:


James Cameron and his team pull together a new CGI of how they believe the TItanic sank and reached the ocean floor.
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Titanic 1985 discovery images: Robert Ballard captures the first images of the Titanic wreck in 1985

1985 Titanic Discovery
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Mir 2 Submersible (Photograph by Emory Kristof)

Lights from the Mir 2 submersible illuminate the port anchor winch on the foredeck of the sunken Titanic.

Bow Railing of the Titanic (Photograph by Emory Kristof)

The Mir 1 submersible illuminates the bow railing of the Titanic.

Titanic Window (Photograph by Emory Kristof)

An intact glass pane from the window of Captain Edward J. Smith's cabin hangs open on the Titanic, which lies two and a half miles (four kilometers) beneath the North Atlantic Ocean.

Titanic's Propeller (Photograph by Emory Kristof)

In the early morning hours of September 1, 1985, oceanographer Robert Ballard and photographer Emory Kristof found and photographed the shipwreck of the century, the R.M.S. Titanic. Kristof and his crew used a submersible search vehicle and a towed sled with a still camera to shoot more than 20,000 frames, including this one of the ocean liner's starboard propeller.

Titanic Debris (Photograph by Emory Kristof)

A ceramic bowl and other debris from the Titanic litter the floor of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland.

Titanic Hull Fragment (Photograph by Emory Kristof)

A hull fragment from the Titanic lies on the ocean floor.

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New and FINAL Titanic sinking theory model: by James Cameron

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James Cameron reveals the latest research related to the sinking of the R.M.S TITANIC. National Geographic shows the most comprehensive forensic investigation of the most famous shipwreck of all time. Cameron assembled a team of engineers, naval architects, artists and historians to solve the enduring mysteries of why and how the ship sank "UNSINKABLE".
Never before has conducted an investigation of this magnitude. His revelations could change what we know about the last hours of the TITANIC, elapsed hundred years ago.


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With Titanic`s centenary anniversary approaching, a look at the luxury ocean liner

The Titanic, a luxury passenger ship once thought to be unsinkable, hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912 and sank in the early morning of April 15, 1912, killing 1,500 people.

The bow of the Titanic on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean (AP Photo/RMS Titanic Inc.)

The stern of the Titanic on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean (AP Photo/RMS Titanic Inc.)  

Image: Detail of the bow of the Titanic taken from a comprehensive map of the 3-by-5 mile debris field. Credit: RMS Titanic Inc.

Undated artist impression showing the 14 April 1912 shipwreck of the British luxury passenger liner Titanic off the Nova-Scotia coasts, during its maiden voyage (AFP Photo)

Bow railing of the Titanic, photo credit: National Geographic

Photo credit: Premier Exhibitions, Inc. / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; The photo features a view of the Titanic bow from the starboard side. (2007)

Photo credit: Premier Exhibitions, Inc. / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; the image shows rusticle growth along one of the anchors on the starboard side of the Titanic bow. (2007)

 
Titanic's Crew:
Left to Right: William McMaster Murdoch, Charles A. Bartlett, Henry Tingle Wilde and Captain Edward John Smith; (Right) Capt. Edward Smith
  
(Left) Titanic leaving Southampton harbor, England; (Right) Last time Titanic left shores of Ireland

Titanic going on sea trials April 2, 1912.

( Image from NARA, RG 306, Records of the U.S. Information Agency)

Titanic going on sea trials April 2, 1912.

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Titanic Artwork

Artist impression showing the 14 April 1912 shipwreck of the British luxury passenger liner Titanic off the Nova-Scotia coasts, during its maiden voyage (AFP Photo)

Disaster: An artist's depiction of the moment the ship went down shows the mad scramble to safety among the handful of passengers who managed to get lifeboats, photo credit: Bettmann/CORBIS

The first-ever comprehensive full Titanic wreck site imaged

Full Titanic site mapped for 1st time
NY POST/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Last Updated: 1:38 PM, March 8, 2012
Posted: 1:37 PM, March 8, 2012

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — Researchers have pieced together what's believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field and hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened the night 100 years ago when the superliner hit an iceberg, plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic and became a legend.

...An expedition team used sonar imaging and more than 100,000 photos taken from underwater robots to create the map, which shows where hundreds of objects and pieces of the presumed-unsinkable vessel landed after striking an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people.

The mapping took place in the summer of 2010 during an expedition to the Titanic led by RMS Titanic Inc., the legal custodian of the wreck, along with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, Mass., and the Waitt Institute of La Jolla, Calif

Photo credit: AP

This composite image, released by RMS Titanic Inc., and made from sonar and more than 100,000 photos taken in 2010 from by unmanned, underwater robots, shows a portion of a comprehensive map of the 3-by-5-mile debris field surrounding the bow and stern of the Titanic on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.

...The expedition team ran two independently self-controlled robots known as autonomous underwater vehicles along the ocean bottom day and night. The torpedo-shaped AUVs surveyed the site with side-scan sonar, moving at a little more than 3 miles per hour as...

Titanic bow section, image credit: RMS Titanic Inc.

Titanic bow section with blown hatch cover (north of bow), image credit: RMS Titanic Inc.  

The stern of the Titanic on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean (AP Photo/RMS Titanic Inc.)

Close-up of the stern section of Titanic (RMS Titanic Inc.) 

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Additional info and readings (more images and graphics); MUST VIEW:

• HISTORY.COM - First Map of Entire Titanic Wreck Site Sheds New Light on Disaster (MARCH 8, 2012) --numerous, high quality specific images of Titanic wreck site with captions

• http://www.rmstitanic.net/expedition/

Understanding: In contrast to the previous photo, the photo above shows sonar imagery of the front of the ship which sunk first

The first complete views of the legendary wreck: As the starboard profile shows, the Titanic buckled as it plowed nose-first into the seabed, leaving the forward hull buried deep in mud—obscuring, possibly forever, the mortal wounds inflicted by the iceberg. Photo credit: RMS Titanic Inc., WHOI (larger image)

The first complete views of the legendary wreck: Titanic’s battered stern is captured overhead here. Making sense of this tangle of metal presents endless challenges to experts. Says one, 'If you’re going to interpret this stuff, you gotta love Picasso.' Photo credit: RMS Titanic Inc., WHOI (larger image)

READ & View: The Titanic as you've never seen it before: A century after it sank, stunning new hi-tech images reveal doomed ship on ocean floor - DAILY MAIL


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New theory into Titanic`s sinking: The Moon?

Moon might have been the cause of Titanic disaster
Press TV
Thu Mar 8, 2012 6:42PM
Updated: 3/9/2012 9:00PM EST

A new study has suggested that gravitational forces caused by an alignment of the Moon and Sun may have pushed icebergs into the path of Titanic.

The Titanic, photo credit: Press TV

Texas State University researchers investigated a previous research by the late oceanographer Fergus Wood which indicated that an unusually close approach by the moon in January 1912 may have produced high tides which helped icebergs separate from Greenland and float into shipping lanes.

"The lunar connection may explain how an unusually large number of icebergs got into the path of the Titanic," said lead researcher Donald Olson. 

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Results showed that several factors were involved in the formation of such strong gravitational fields including the alignment of the moon and sun on January 4, 1912, the moon's closest approach to Earth in the same month and Earth's closest approach to the sun in a year that had happened just the previous day.

"This configuration maximized the moon's tide-raising forces on the Earth's oceans," Olson said.

Findings also show that the iceberg that the Titanic struck must have broken off from Greenland in January 1912 to reach the shipping lanes by mid-April.

“The high tide caused by the bizarre combination of astronomical events would have been enough to dislodge icebergs and give them enough buoyancy to reach the shipping lanes by April,” Olson added.

Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner, which struck an iceberg during her maiden voyage from England to New York in 1912, bringing death to more than 1,500 people.

The research will appear in the April issue of the magazine Sky & Telescope.

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