Wish there was more original footage!

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This boat is way taller than I would have thought and more narrow.
Am I being foolish to say it looks like it would sink if it hit an Iceberg - And I say this because it also looks as though it would tip if the right sized wave hit it as well. It must have quite a large hull under the water and an amazingly deep keel.

I guess I'm wrong - not as deep of a hull & keel as i would have expected...
http://www.titanicstory.com/cutaway.htm#top
Which still leaves it looking very "Tippy" to me.

• Draught: 34 feet. (the depth to which a vessel is immersed.)

• Displacement: 66,000 tons of water.
• The Titanic had 4 funnels (smokestacks). Each was 62 feet tall and had a diameter of 22 feet.
• The distance from keel to top of funnels was 175 feet.
• The rudder was 78 feet high, weighed about 101 tons and was cast in 6 separate pieces.
• Titanic's 3 anchors had a combined weight of 31 tons.
• More than 3 million rivets were used to build the Titanic.
• "Triple screw" - 3 propellers. The 2 outer propellers - diameter of 23', center propeller - diameter of 17'.
• The total horsepower of the engines was 51,000.
• 29 boilers - 24 double ended and 5 single ended.
• 159 furnaces.
• 16 watertight compartments.
• 15 transverse watertight bulkheads.
• Equipped with 20 lifeboats (total capacity 1,178)
http://www.titanicstory.com/shipspec.htm

Google ad that displayed for me: Croatian Cruise Ships.

Hmm, define the only footage?


I've seen other footage of it at a local museum, but if you want to get technical, it was of men riviting the hull and building it in dry-dock. So, while I know for a fact there's other footage, there may not be any other footage of it in water.

Weird, I just watched this the other day. My daughter was asking about shipwrecks and I did a youtube search for Titanic. I thought this was cool, but figured no one on the sift would find it interesting.

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Weird, I just watched this the other day. My daughter was asking about shipwrecks and I did a youtube search for Titanic. I thought this was cool, but figured no one on the sift would find it interesting.


As Nike says, "Just do it". You never know!

Just a strange thought but if the design was flawed, and the designer went down with the ship, does that make it evolution in action?

In the movie Titanic, he was very proud of his engineering feat, if they would have successfully made the first voyage, he would have been commissioned to build more ships like it. Since his ship may have been a faulty design, and it sank (and him with it), this guaranteed the end of future designs by this same designer/engineer - AKA EIA!

With Pachabel's canon, I felt like a bride was going to walk down an aisle on the ship!

What's with all the zooming in on already compressed footage? Just let us see it full frame dammit!

They called it the ship of dreams, and it was, it really was.

It's funny how much bigger ships have since been built but it still looks vast.