What Titanic Survivors Saw When Titanic Was Sinking

the lookout shouts Iceberg right ahead the Titanic strikes the ice water starts flooding in third class passengers are locked up there aren't enough lifeboats for everyone Panic sets in violins are playing the ship sinks well we all know the story of the movie Titanic like the back of our Hand by now but what if I told you that Hollywood lied to us to tell the real story of what happened that freezing night in 19112 we need to rewind a bit the lookout shouts Iceberg right ahead yep that part was true just before 11:40 at night

Frederick Fleet noticed something darker than the sea directly ahead as the ship got closer he realized it was an iceberg the engines were quickly reversed and the ship turned sharply instead of hitting it headon Titanic scraped along the side of the bird sprinkling ice on the forward death if you remember in the movie Jack and Rose are having a romantic moment when they feel the ship shudder after hitting the iceberg everything shakes as if they were in the middle of a light earthquake some real life passengers reported feeling something similar after the impact but according

to Titanic Survivor Frank Apprentice it wasn't exactly like that he said there was no impact as such and it all felt more like slamming on your car brakes the ship stopped and that was that some people even slept right through the Collision confirming that there wasn't such an Abrupt impact Mr Apprentice curious about what had happened left his cabin and went out to the deck when he got there all he could see was a little ice on the surface not the Towering iceberg that Jack and Rose saw but as we all know by now the

real damage happened below the waterline where the iceberg had a jagged spur that slashed a 300t gash in Titanic's Hull once the crew realized how severe the damage was they immediately began sending distress calls to nearby ships asking for help at some point in the movie The Radio operator goes to the captain and says there is only one ship nearby the RMS Carpathia which later ends up rescuing many passengers but in real life there were more ships around it's believed that the SS californi was only about 20 3 m away this ship might have actually

seen the Titanic sinking or at the very least seen its Rockets exploding high in the sky yet for reasons we will never fully understand they didn't try to help let's get back to the story now people need to get off the ship at 12:45 Lifeboat number 7 was the first to be lower just like in the movie Women and Children were told to go first but in reality some some women were hesitant and even refused to get into the lifeboats Mr Apprentice said this happened mainly for two reasons first these lifeboats were high and passengers

were terrified of the 70t drop from the deck to the ocean below and second most women didn't believe the Titanic would actually sink it was called Unsinkable after all so the idea of getting into a Lifeboat seemed pointless at the time this mindset probably explains why Eloise Smith a first class passenger recalled that there was no Panic or chaos at first other survivors backed this up saying that no women or kids were crying but one thing that was indeed concerning at least for the crew was the possibility that the lifeboats might Buckle under too much

weight this is one of the theories why the first few lifeboats left carrying only a fraction of their full capacity like Lifeboat number 7even which only carried 20 7 people in it even though it could hold up to 65 in total Titanic had 20 lifeboats which could carry about half of the 2,200 people on board that night but that didn't happen and now we know the passengers had no idea there weren't enough for everyone as women were calmly getting into the first lifeboats musicians headed up to the deck their only goal was to play and

keep the passengers calm that's a pretty well-known fact but the real story is that some survivors said they never saw or heard the band no violinists whatsoever it's not like Hollywood misled you though the musicians did play for over 2 hours after the ship had hit the iceberg so maybe these passengers were just too panicked to notice the songs or the musicians started playing later than we think now it's time to talk about the terrible treatment that third class pass ERS received the movie portrayed the crew as cruel locking the less fortunate below deck like

animals giving them no chance to reach the lifeboats and save their lives but the official inquiry into the disaster suggested that wasn't true I mean yes fewer third class passengers survived compared to those in first and second class but there were other factors at play many third class passengers were reluctant to leave the ship clinging to their belongings and had a harder time making their way up from the cabins which were at extreme ends of the ship some survivors confirmed that they were not locked up in fact it was quite the opposite Mrs George wobby

a Lebanese woman traveling in third class said that when chaos had erupted some Brave crew members and well-dressed first class passengers had actually helped her get up to the first class deck and eventually onto a Lifeboat at first the Titanic was sinking slowly bit by bit passengers reported seeing the Water Rising and hearing pops and cracks then there was a loud boom some said there had been just one explosion While others described it as a series of smaller explosions which they thought had been the bulkheads giving way and there's also a group of people who

said they had only heard a rumbling sound so not everyone agreed on the sound they had heard but one thing is a fact by 2:18 in the morning the lights on Titanic went out and the ship plunged into complete darkness as the bow continued sinking the stern rose out of the water putting immense pressure on the middle of the ship this caused the Titanic to break in two in James Cameron's movie This Moment is pretty dramatic with the ship sinking almost straight down into the water but in reality the break probably happened at a much

lower angle likely just below the water line even so it tilted enough that people couldn't stay on their feet and started sliding into the water one interesting thing is that it wasn't until the wreckage was found in 1985 that it was finally confirmed the Titanic had broken apart up until then survivors had given conflicting stories at least eight survivors claimed they had seen the ship split Emily Ryerson a first class passenger described Des cried it as if the Titanic had been sliced in half with a knife but there was also a small number of witnesses

that insisted Titanic had gone down intact at the time this theory was more accepted because most people still didn't believe that the supposedly indestructible ship could break in half so why the conflicting reports okay so what you don't see in the movies for obvious reasons is how incredibly dark it was when the tragedy happened it was like being in a room with no light where you can only make out shapes and shadows that's what it was like on the lifeboats this means passengers couldn't really see what was happening and most of those who were close

to the ship either lost their lives or were too focused on trying to survive to pay attention to the details of the wreck although James Cameron's film didn't fully capture how terrifyingly dark the disaster truly was the 2012 TV series Titanic did a better job of showing the pitch black horror of that night even then the reality was much darker and more terrifying than either of these two Productions could portray that's it for today so hey if you pass ified your curiosity then give the video a like and share it with your friends or if

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