:48:01
at the juncture
of two compartments,
:48:02
which would flood
two adjacent compartments.
:48:05
The ship would only sink so far
and still be safe.
:48:08
She was also designed to float
:48:10
with any three of the first five
compartments flooded.
:48:14
Or the first four in a row
could still flood
:48:18
if they were in some
traumatic...
:48:19
That was
the worst-case scenario.
:48:22
Run into a rock or something
like that, just full-on.
:48:25
She'd buckle back,
and the ship could still float.
:48:27
With all of this combination
of safety factors,
:48:31
she was considered
virtually unsinkable.
:48:32
What they didn't envision
is what happened that night.
:48:39
"Titanic" struck the iceberg,
:48:41
a glancing blow
along the starboard side,
:48:43
scraped along and ruptured
plates or split the seams,
:48:46
moving along into
this cargo compartment,
:48:48
into this cargo compartment,
and this baggage and cargo,
:48:51
into Boiler Room Number 6
:48:53
and two feet
into the coal bunker
:48:55
of Boiler Room Number 5.
:48:57
And as the ship sank,
:48:58
just at the point where it was
about ready to stabilize,
:49:01
it reached the top of this
watertight subdivision,
:49:03
and started flowing up
the stairways, across the deck
:49:05
and down into
the next compartment.
:49:07
It was just
a mathematical certainty.
:49:10
There was no way,
no matter how you slice it,
:49:12
that the ship
is going to make it.
:49:16
So where exactly did it split?
:49:18
Well, it broke in two
right back here.
:49:21
Just right about at
the third funnel and after that.
:49:25
There's a natural weak spot
here in the hull
:49:29
right above
the reciprocating engine room.
:49:31
There is a large air shaft here
for light and air
:49:34
to ventilate
the reciprocating engine room.
:49:37
My God.
:49:39
What that must have
sounded like, looked like.
:49:42
What that must have been like.
:49:45
What a deathblow
to this great ship.
:49:54
Imagine the vortex to create
that kind of twisting.
:49:58
That's what gets me.
:49:59
Seeing the end of the stern
piece, and seeing how...