1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:09,200 [♪ ominous music playing] 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:20,600 [captain] ETA over the wreck is approximately 5 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:22,160 ten minutes from now. 6 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,000 [crew] Roger that, that's secure, here we go. 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,480 Survey, we are headed off. 8 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:30,800 -Juliet, survey. 9 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,320 Yeah, whenever you're happy, I'm happy. 10 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:35,040 -Off we go. 11 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:38,400 [Narrator] In a remote spot in the middle of the 12 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:40,200 Atlantic Ocean, 13 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:42,360 nearly 400 miles from Newfoundland. 14 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:44,480 [crew] Clear to dive. Clear to dive. 15 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,120 [Narrator] A remarkable expedition is underway. 16 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:49,560 [captain] Roger that. Juliet is clear to dive. 17 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:50,600 I've got a green board. 18 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:52,400 Pumps are now in. 19 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,280 Heading one eight zero. 20 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:02,000 [Narrator] It's destination... 21 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:04,760 [captain] Surface LF wreck on Sonar. 22 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,160 [Narrator] ...the most famous wreck site in history. 23 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:09,200 [captain] Present depth, 24 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:13,640 three-eight-one-zero. At bottom. 25 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:25,080 [Narrator] For over a century, the tragic fate of Titanic has 26 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,240 been a global obsession. 27 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:29,080 [reporter] Scientists have found wreckage of the 28 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:30,800 S.S. Titanic. 29 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:34,360 [Narrator] A story so compelling that people risk their lives, 30 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:38,360 spending millions of dollars 31 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:40,760 just to get a glimpse of the wreck. 32 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,000 This investigation will allow us to see Titanic in 33 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:50,000 a whole new way. 34 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:52,600 -The remarkable new images of the Titanic, 35 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:54,440 as you've never seen it before. 36 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,640 -The largest underwater scanning project in history. 37 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,240 It's incredible to see it like this. 38 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:02,680 [Narrator] Over 700,000 scanned images, 39 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:04,440 16 terabytes of data, 40 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,600 and almost two years of research and processing, 41 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,920 have produced a full-sized digital replica of the ship, 42 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,200 a virtual twin of Titanic. 43 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:16,800 -Wow. 44 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:19,440 This is a view I've never had before. 45 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:25,200 [Narrator] A replica so detailed... 46 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:26,400 -See the numbers? 47 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:28,440 -It's incredible when you see the full scale. 48 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,000 [Narrator] ...It will offer new insights into the sinking. 49 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:34,600 -Looking at it in this scale, you would think the ship had 50 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,240 been struck by some enormous missile. 51 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,000 [Narrator] And new evidence of the final moments 52 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:42,360 of those on board. 53 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,200 -They were trying to launch one last lifeboat. 54 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:52,600 [♪ theme music playing] 55 00:02:57,760 --> 00:02:59,280 [reporter] When she set sail from Southampton, 56 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:01,200 England in the spring of 1912, 57 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:03,160 she was hailed as the most luxurious steamship 58 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:04,200 in the world. 59 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:05,480 And on this her maiden voyage, 60 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:07,800 she was unsurpassed and unsinkable. 61 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:11,040 Her name, of course, the Titanic. 62 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:20,720 -On tenth of April 1912, 63 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,600 Titanic begins her maiden voyage from Southampton 64 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:25,640 to New York. 65 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:29,480 She's billed as the greatest most luxurious ship of her day. 66 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,360 [Narrator] It is the golden age of the ocean liner. 67 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:36,400 Two companies, 68 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:38,600 White Star Line and Cunard, 69 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,920 vie for supremacy on the route across the Atlantic. 70 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:46,480 Cunard ships were typically faster. 71 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,080 But White Star had the edge when it came to luxury. 72 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:54,520 And the gigantic Titanic was the jewel in their crown. 73 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:57,960 [Yasmin Khan] On board, there are aristocrats. 74 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,520 There are business magnates, but there's also immigrants who 75 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:02,880 are going to the Americas to make a new life. 76 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,360 [Narrator] In just seven days’ time, 77 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:11,760 Titanic should be steaming triumphantly into New York. 78 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:14,760 The world's press, waiting to greet her. 79 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,440 Instead, she'll be at the bottom of the Atlantic, 80 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:23,160 and almost 1,500 people will be dead. 81 00:04:30,840 --> 00:04:33,640 A century on, many details about the sinking are 82 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:35,240 still debated. 83 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,600 [Yasmin Khan] Titanic's never given up her secrets easily, 84 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:44,560 and for 70 years, nobody even knew where she was. 85 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:48,480 And then in 1985, Bob Ballard found the wreck. 86 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,240 [reporter] Today, the French and the American men, 87 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,360 who found the Titanic will celebrate. 88 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,240 [Narrator] Ballard had found the greatest of all lost ships, 89 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,320 and scientists clamored to study the wreck. 90 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,600 But 2.5 miles down, under atmospheric pressure, 91 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,680 almost 400 times greater than at sea level, 92 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,600 conditions make it hard to see more than fragments of 93 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:15,280 the ship at a time. 94 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:18,560 [crew] We're still searching for the stern. 95 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:20,400 We can't find it. 96 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,000 [Yasmin Khan] Many expeditions have been down 97 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:25,760 to the wreck over the past 40 years. 98 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:30,360 But it's pitch black down there. 99 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:34,360 So, it's not being possible to see the whole ship. 100 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,880 Viewing it has been like shining a flashlight in the dark, 101 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:41,800 until now. 102 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,280 [captain] Your depth is eight-zero-five meters, 103 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,400 heading three-zero-zero. 104 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:50,720 [Narrator] After a 2-and- a-half-hour descent to 105 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,080 the ocean floor, 106 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,360 two unmanned subs named, Romeo and Juliet, 107 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:58,600 get to work. 108 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:03,440 While Romeo films high-resolution footage 109 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:05,280 of the ship and sea floor. 110 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:07,480 [captain] The stronger that laser line gets, 111 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,360 it starts to get more defined. 112 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:12,000 [crew] Roger that. Moving to next position. 113 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,000 [Narrator] Equipped with lasers recording millions of 114 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:19,160 measurements, Juliet captures every inch of the wreck. 115 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:22,120 [captain] Oh, yeah, that's looking nice right there. 116 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:23,800 You must be really close now. 117 00:06:25,840 --> 00:06:29,480 -I have every expectation that we're going to see the most 118 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:34,280 accurate portrayal of the wreck site that's ever been offered. 119 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:36,240 [captain] Park's at the ladder Tom, 120 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:37,480 are you ready? 121 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:39,560 [Narrator] World-renowned expert, Parks Stevenson, 122 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:42,120 has been on multiple dives to Titanic. 123 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:45,440 [captain] Thrusters, we are beginning to pump them now. 124 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:48,080 [Narrator] He hopes the scan will offer insights into 125 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:51,040 some of the questions which still surround the wreck. 126 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:52,640 [captain] Hatch is secure. 127 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:56,440 [Parks Stephenson] I'm intrigued by mysteries. 128 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:00,520 People thought that the ship could not sink. 129 00:07:01,840 --> 00:07:05,640 So how did she end up like this on the ocean floor? 130 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:08,160 [captain] Coming up on the wreck site. 131 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:10,920 [Parks Stephenson] What actually happened that night? 132 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:18,240 I often view the shipwreck as the last surviving witness 133 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:19,560 to the disaster. 134 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:23,440 The way she's torn apart, 135 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:27,840 the way the pieces of her are bent or torn, 136 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:32,160 these all tell a story, and so, 137 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:36,400 it's vital that we listen to the stories that the 138 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:37,960 wreck can tell. 139 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:41,600 [Narrator] Footage from the Romeo sub quickly offers 140 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:43,600 glimpses of these stories. 141 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:48,400 Snapshots of humanity among the scattered wreckage. 142 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:53,360 Hundreds of wine bottles. 143 00:07:57,240 --> 00:07:58,680 A dress. 144 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:03,360 A doll's head. 145 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:07,680 All are a stark reminder. 146 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:12,080 Titanic isn't just an object of fascination. 147 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,000 She's a graveyard. 148 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,240 One which the scan will allow us to study from 149 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:23,120 a respectful distance. 150 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:33,920 After three weeks at sea, scanning 24 hours a day, 151 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:38,440 the work of the expedition team is complete. 152 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:41,520 -Hi five. Yeah. 153 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,000 -Job done, sailing home. 154 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:48,000 [Narrator] But it will take over a year to research and 155 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,240 piece together the enormous amount of data gathered. 156 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,200 [Parks Stephenson] This operation has a lot of promise. 157 00:08:54,920 --> 00:09:01,520 Having a tool of a virtual twin of the Titanic wreck, 158 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:03,760 that's huge. 159 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,400 [Narrator] Awaiting access to the digital twin, 160 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:16,280 Parks has assembled a team to help him examine it in detail. 161 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:20,280 [Parks Stephenson] This will give you just basically the 162 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:22,560 context of the ship itself. 163 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:25,960 [Narrator] Master Mariner, Captain Chris Hearn, 164 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,960 wants to study the twin from a sailor's point of view. 165 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:34,160 [Chris Hearn] As somebody who has crossed 166 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:35,640 the Atlantic and been in ice, 167 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:38,080 a ship is very much about its crew. 168 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:43,280 What was their experience when the ship was sinking? 169 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,120 If you had the whole wreck site, 170 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:48,360 what could you do with that? 171 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:50,480 -We can totally recreate that night. 172 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:53,400 [Narrator] Metallurgist, Doctor Jennifer Hooper, 173 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,160 has spent years in the lab studying small fragments 174 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:57,320 of the wreck. 175 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:01,720 [Jennifer Hooper] Going from examining the materials 176 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:06,520 in a laboratory to feeling like I'm on the sea floor, 177 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:09,520 staring at this wreck site is something I never 178 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:11,240 thought I would see in my lifetime. 179 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:15,160 -Hopefully, we're going to get the answers 180 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:16,600 to some of these questions that have been 181 00:10:16,680 --> 00:10:18,560 bugging me for decades. 182 00:10:20,680 --> 00:10:22,600 [Narrator] After almost two years of research and 183 00:10:22,680 --> 00:10:26,320 processing, over 700,000 scan images have been 184 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:28,320 painstakingly pieced together. 185 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:36,480 At a gigantic sound stage, colossal LED panels will 186 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:39,960 project the image of the twin at up to full scale, 187 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:44,000 bringing the investigators face to face with the severed 188 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:46,240 wreckage of Titanic. 189 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:55,040 [♪ ominous music playing] 190 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:03,080 [underwater metal groaning] 191 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:11,600 [♪ ominous music playing] 192 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:18,200 [underwater metal groaning] 193 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:35,840 [Chris Hearn] Well, look at that. 194 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:41,200 I can tell you, I'm in the ship simulation business, 195 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:42,960 and I've never seen anything like that. 196 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:45,040 [Parks Stephenson] I've actually been here in a submersible, 197 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:48,440 but I only see just a little bit out my viewport. 198 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:50,160 It's just so immense. 199 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:56,760 When you are in a submersible, 200 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,920 you can see maybe only a few meters in front of you. 201 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,240 But with the digital twin, you can see the entire wreck site. 202 00:12:06,680 --> 00:12:10,840 Now, I have a better view of Titanic than I ever did 203 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:13,160 at the Titanic. 204 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:20,480 -We're around 12,000 feet at the bottom of the ocean. 205 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:23,280 Looking up at the Titanic. 206 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:27,680 -Studying this under microscope doesn't really 207 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:29,600 prepare you for this. 208 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:42,240 Seeing the Titanic wreck site in full scale, 209 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:46,720 I finally understood how small I am in comparison to 210 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,120 everything that I'm looking at. 211 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:55,320 I was able to truly experience the sense of destruction. 212 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:07,040 [Parks Stephenson] This is where she ripped in two. 213 00:13:09,560 --> 00:13:11,600 [Narrator] The digital twin not only allows the team 214 00:13:11,680 --> 00:13:13,720 to explore the ship itself, 215 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:17,520 but the destruction caused by the crash that sank her. 216 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:22,080 [Chris Hearn] I wasn't really prepared for the level of 217 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:24,120 damage that the scan showed us. 218 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:27,080 It's catastrophic in its scale. 219 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,320 That really struck me. 220 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:37,000 [Narrator] We've known since her discovery that the 221 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:38,800 ship lies in two parts. 222 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:41,760 But the wreck site is so massive, 223 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:45,280 no one has ever seen it all at once, until now. 224 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:50,240 The stern sits a third of a mile from the bow. 225 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:55,240 [♪ ominous music playing] 226 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:59,120 [underwater metal groaning] 227 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:09,560 [Parks Stephenson] Okay, now, this is something you don't 228 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:14,160 normally see because it's very dangerous underneath the 229 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:16,160 overhanging stern here. 230 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:19,520 Trying to get in here with a submersible, 231 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:21,520 it's not very often done. 232 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,000 [Narrator] The twin allows the experts to study near 233 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:30,240 inaccessible parts of the ship. 234 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:34,280 [Parks Stephenson] Here's a starboard propeller over here. 235 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:37,400 [Narrator] Taking in features which are almost impossible to 236 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:40,040 see on a manned mission to the site. 237 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:42,680 [Parks Stephenson] Ah, you see that right there? 238 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:44,520 The numbers. 239 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,960 That's 401, that's Titanic's hull number. 240 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:51,920 [Jennifer Hooper] Oh, wow. It's in pristine condition. 241 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:53,680 [Parks Stephenson] The best. 242 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:57,560 [Narrator] From the tiniest details to its colossal scale, 243 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,640 the scan offers an entirely new perspective on Titanic. 244 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:04,560 And the experts have only just begun to scratch the 245 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:07,120 surface of what the twin can tell them. 246 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:11,480 [Parks Stephenson] I am really, 247 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,600 really excited to see what the rest of this 248 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:16,600 is going to look like. 249 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:23,000 To have the wreck site at my command to see what 250 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:24,560 happened to the ship. 251 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:26,160 Wow. 252 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:28,480 The possibilities are endless. 253 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:30,760 [♪ ominous music playing] 254 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,120 [metal groaning] 255 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:43,320 [Yasmin Khan] The disaster of 14th, April 1912 256 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:47,000 happens on a cold, clear, starry night, 257 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:50,400 four days into Titanic's maiden voyage. 258 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:56,840 Jack Phillips, a wireless operator, 259 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,080 receives a message that there is pack ice and 260 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:00,800 icebergs up ahead. 261 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:11,000 In first class, Captain Smith is with Bruce Ismay, 262 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:13,800 chairman of the White Star Line. 263 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:15,200 While up on the bridge, 264 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:17,720 First Officer Murdoch is keeping watch. 265 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:21,760 At 11:39 p.m., three bells ring out. 266 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:23,560 [bell ringing] 267 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,640 And that's the warning of an obstacle up ahead. 268 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,360 First Officer Murdoch rams the engine ship's 269 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:33,160 telegraph to stop, 270 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:35,320 sending a signal to cut the power. 271 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:39,320 He then demands that Titanic turn harder starboard, 272 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:41,200 hoping to steer the ship to safety. 273 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:45,320 And seconds later, the Titanic hits the iceberg. 274 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:47,520 [thud] 275 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:54,080 Many on board felt nothing. 276 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:56,360 Even Frederick Fleet, who sounded that alarm from 277 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:59,640 the crow's nest, said it felt like a close shave. 278 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:04,200 [Narrator] And yet this glancing blow sank a ship 279 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:06,200 thought to be unsinkable. 280 00:17:09,120 --> 00:17:12,120 The experts were hoping that the twin can show us how. 281 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:18,040 [Jennifer Hooper] With the scan, 282 00:17:18,120 --> 00:17:21,120 what is exciting is that we actually do have our 283 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,080 first visible ice damage. 284 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:27,040 So, take a look up here at this porthole. 285 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,120 This porthole was smashed by the ice. 286 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:39,560 First-class passenger, Margaret Swift, 287 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:43,000 saw the ice that had come through that porthole. 288 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:47,040 That tells us that the iceberg was at least 30 feet 289 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:48,720 above water line. 290 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:53,880 So, the scan is telling us the size of the iceberg. 291 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:57,320 It's definitively giving us information that will help us 292 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:00,240 understand more about the collision that night. 293 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,440 [Narrator] It's tantalizing new evidence of the iceberg strike, 294 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:14,680 but Titanic's fatal wound appears hidden from view. 295 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:18,640 When she sank, 296 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:21,560 the ship's bow hit the seabed with such force 297 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:24,640 that nearly half of it was buried in mud. 298 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:32,480 Now the twin can provide the experts with 299 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:34,520 a brand-new perspective. 300 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:38,440 [Parks Stephenson] Okay, I have never seen this depicted 301 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:40,880 before, and certainly not in this scale. 302 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:42,720 [Chris Hearn] What a different view now. 303 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:43,760 [laughs] 304 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:45,680 [Parks Stephenson] You see how much of the bow has dug 305 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:46,880 into the ocean bottom? 306 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:51,000 Can you imagine the force needed to propel that much of 307 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:53,480 the ship into the ocean bottom? 308 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:58,040 [Jennifer Hooper] I mean, the iceberg damage should be here, 309 00:18:58,120 --> 00:18:59,480 but it's not. 310 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:02,360 We can't see it because it's under the sea floor. 311 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:07,120 -No, it's at least 20-25 feet below the mud line. 312 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:11,400 [Narrator] Although evidence of the impact appears lost 313 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:13,040 to the ocean floor, 314 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:18,560 the experts think that the twin could still provide answers. 315 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:22,720 To decode the clues offered by the wreckage, 316 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,840 the investigation turns to Titanic's birthplace. 317 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:31,760 [ships horn] 318 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:34,800 Taking over two years to build, 319 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,400 Titanic was designed and constructed here... 320 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:41,440 ...at Harland & Wolff in Northern Ireland, 321 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:44,280 on the shores of Belfast Lough, 322 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:47,640 a company at the forefront of shipbuilding, 323 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:49,800 even today. 324 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:56,600 Built in this dock, her blueprints were drawn up by 325 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:58,800 skilled draftsmen next door. 326 00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:10,800 [Yasmin Khan] Titanic was the most technologically advanced 327 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:12,400 ship of the age. 328 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:17,800 These original blueprints show she was divided into 16 329 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:19,840 watertight compartments. 330 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,520 These were designed to collect floodwater in a small area. 331 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:28,680 What's more, Titanic would stay afloat, 332 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:31,240 even if up to four of these flooded. 333 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:36,280 This was what cemented her reputation as 334 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:38,480 the unsinkable ship. 335 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:47,160 [Narrator] After the tragedy, 336 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:50,240 Harland & Wolff's naval architect, Edward Wilding, 337 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,040 was called on to explain how the 338 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:55,520 ship's fail-safes were so catastrophically overwhelmed. 339 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:00,160 His starting point was that more than four compartments 340 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,040 must have been damaged by the iceberg, 341 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:05,160 the weight of the floodwater pulling the ship 342 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,080 below the surface. 343 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,640 -Wilding set about calculating the impact of 344 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:14,400 the iceberg and concluded that there had been a series of 345 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:18,520 puncture holes along the hull on an area of about 12 square feet. 346 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:23,400 Wilding based his findings on the testimony of surviving crew 347 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:25,520 and passengers and on his own detailed knowledge 348 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:27,400 of the ship's design. 349 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,160 But even after the wreck was discovered, 350 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:33,400 testing his theory was impossible. 351 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:36,360 The evidence buried below the mud line. 352 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:44,240 [Narrator] But now, the investigation has brought 353 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:47,480 together experts from around the world to put Wilding's 354 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:49,360 findings to the test. 355 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,080 At University College London, 356 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:56,120 renowned naval architect Professor Jeom-Kee Paik 357 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,880 is joined by fellow specialists, Doctor Simon Benson, 358 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,400 and Doctor Stephen Payne, 359 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:07,080 designer of the cruise liner, Queen Mary II. 360 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:09,720 [Dr. Stephen Payne] This is the first time we can actually 361 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:13,400 use a computer simulation to test Wilding's hypothesis. 362 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:17,120 [Narrator] Based on information from Titanic's blueprints, 363 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,440 combined with their estimated speed of 22 knots, 364 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:24,000 the team uses cutting-edge technology to simulate the 365 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:25,440 iceberg strike. 366 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,120 -Wow, here it goes. 367 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:31,560 We can see the ship glancing blow, 368 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:33,640 and it's actually turning to starboard, 369 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:34,800 as it comes past. 370 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:35,800 Ah, yeah, interesting. 371 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,480 We can see the ice actually splintering off. 372 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:43,600 We actually now find out from these simulations that 373 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,280 the time it took for the Titanic to collide 374 00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:47,440 with the iceberg, 375 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:50,520 the glancing blow was 6.3 seconds. 376 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,840 [Narrator] 6.3 seconds. A mere moment. 377 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:57,520 Yet what could have been a fleeting 378 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,120 scrape proved catastrophic. 379 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,040 And the simulation can now reveal the full extent of the 380 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:06,760 damage for the very first time. 381 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:09,600 -Well, this for me is where it gets really 382 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:11,440 interesting because here, 383 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,880 we really see the power of the simulation. 384 00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:17,520 So, here's the collision. 385 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:22,600 And it very quickly spreads quite a thin line 386 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:24,200 of gash, isn't it? 387 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,480 But we can see the ruptures occurring. 388 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,160 [Dr. Simon Benson] Wilding predicted that the 389 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,520 total area of the holes would be about 12 square feet. 390 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:36,680 We are, with this new prediction, 391 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,640 looking at something in the order of 18. 392 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,160 -The Wilding estimation is incredible. 393 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,160 [Narrator] The figures may differ slightly, 394 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:47,520 but Wilding was right. 395 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,400 The scale of the damage was minimal compared to the 396 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,520 size of the ship overall. 397 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,640 But crucially, it wasn't confined to one area. 398 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,000 [Chris Hearn] Wow. 399 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:09,720 [Parks Stephenson] So, this is the damage. 400 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,760 -We're seeing a simulation of the iceberg damage 401 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:15,800 for the very first time. 402 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,240 [Narrator] The digital twin allows the experts to 403 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,680 see the impact pattern precisely mapped out. 404 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,040 [Jennifer Hooper] The damage begins, the front, 405 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,160 and it crosses over the compartments, 406 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:31,600 all the way to boiler room number six. 407 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:36,840 And then it crosses into boiler room number five. 408 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,800 You have one small section in boiler room number five, 409 00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:48,600 and another very small section of damage in the forepeak. 410 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:51,920 [Parks Stephenson] How small? 411 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,000 -That last bit is only the size of two pieces of paper. 412 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:01,000 That's six compartments along the starboard side and 413 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:06,200 the ship was only designed for four compartments to flood. 414 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:11,200 So you've got small margins on one end or the 415 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,040 other that sank this ship. 416 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,600 [Chris Hearn] So, two small holes? 417 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,080 -That's what the simulation shows us. 418 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:25,040 [Narrator] The areas that made all the difference are tiny. 419 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,440 Small holes either side of the four badly damaged compartments. 420 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,160 Without them, Titanic might not have sunk. 421 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:41,160 -We all imagine that it was a giant hole-- 422 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:42,200 -Yeah. 423 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:43,680 -That sank such a massive ship. 424 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,080 In reality, it was a very small amount of damage over 425 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:52,640 a long distance and fractions of a second that ended up 426 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,360 sinking the ship. 427 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:00,800 [Parks Stephenson] So, if true, 428 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,760 it suggests an irony that in turning to avoid the iceberg, 429 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:09,080 the crew had created an area of damage lengthy enough 430 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,520 to open up too many compartments to the sea 431 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:13,000 and sink the ship. 432 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:18,840 [Narrator] The irony doesn't stop there. 433 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,720 At the British inquiry into the sinking, Wilding, 434 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,280 one of the men who knew Titanic best, 435 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,560 predicted that had the crew not turned the ship 436 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,520 to try and avoid the iceberg, 437 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,200 instead, hitting it head-on, 438 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,280 she would have stayed afloat. 439 00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:44,760 The simulation will now put that theory to the test. 440 00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:47,200 -Because this has never been done before. 441 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:48,840 [Dr. Stephen Payne] No, absolutely not. 442 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:50,400 Let's see it go. 443 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:57,080 Oh, wow. 444 00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,560 Look at this crumpling of that deck. 445 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,800 All the energy of the Titanic is now going 446 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,280 into that collision. 447 00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:08,600 Okay, so, can we have the close-up? 448 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:13,480 So we're really gonna see the crumple zone as that wow. 449 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,080 All that steel mashing into the ice. 450 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:19,760 [Dr. Simon Benson] Just imagine the noise that 451 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:21,400 there would have been. 452 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:30,960 [Dr. Stephen Payne] Wilding predicted that 453 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,560 with this collision, Titanic would survive. 454 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,360 We look at the blueprint. 455 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,280 We see, well, where are we going to? 456 00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:43,360 We've lost the peak tank, cargo tanks, and we've ended. 457 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:44,600 -So it's just forwarded the bridge. 458 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:45,680 -Just forwarded the bridge. 459 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:47,520 So we've actually only lost what, 4 compartments? 460 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:48,720 -4 compartments. -So. 461 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:50,080 -She would have stayed afloat. 462 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:51,640 -It would have. 463 00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,520 [Jennifer Hooper] So, based on the simulation, 464 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:02,400 it would not have sunk. 465 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:06,640 [Chris Hearn] Yeah. 466 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,120 [Narrator] The front-on simulation gives us a fleeting 467 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,360 glimpse of a different outcome for the tragic ship. 468 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,720 What it doesn't provide is a sailor's perspective. 469 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:22,680 -Think about the crew. 470 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,120 You don't steer directly into an iceberg. 471 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,600 I doubt very highly anybody would have done it. 472 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,400 A lot of the crew had their bunks forward. 473 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,760 And so, if Murdoch making that kind of an action to 474 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,160 take the iceberg right on the bow, 475 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,400 he would have likely killed everybody that was 476 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,160 in those forward spaces 477 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:50,480 But the officer's maneuver to try and 478 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:52,800 turn away from the iceberg, 479 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,480 as hard as it is to say, 480 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,560 essentially seal the Titanic's fate. 481 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,400 [Narrator] With the ship now taking on water, 482 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,760 the lives of over 2000 people hang in the balance. 483 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,400 The decisions made by Titanic's crew, 484 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,280 are about to become more crucial by the minute. 485 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,080 [♪ ominous music playing] 486 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:17,480 [rushing water] 487 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,920 [Narrator] Within 20 minutes of the iceberg strike, 488 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,720 Captain Smith has had multiple reports of flooding in 489 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:29,440 the ship's boiler rooms. 490 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:35,400 -Fireman, Fred Barrett, was a witness to what happened. 491 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,040 He was working in boiler room six. 492 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:43,160 When he gave his testimony to the inquiry, he said, 493 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,320 "The bell rang. 494 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,920 He called out "Shut all doors." 495 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,080 Then a large volume of water came through the side 496 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:52,520 of the ship. 497 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,320 He ran from that section, 498 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:06,600 just as the watertight doors came down. 499 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:17,400 The man responsible for keeping the ship's boilers 500 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,000 alight was Chief Engineer Joseph Bell. 501 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,440 He was in charge of 200 men who powered Titanic 502 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,000 24 hours a day. 503 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:34,600 [Narrator] The boiler rooms ran over half the 504 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,440 length of the ship. 505 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,680 40 minutes after the collision, 506 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,080 number six was already lost, 507 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:44,480 and number five had a small, 508 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,520 paper-sized breach. 509 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,160 [Yasmin Khan] Titanic was taking on water fast. 510 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:56,560 Wilding estimated that 16,000 tons of it had now 511 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:57,880 entered the ship. 512 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,040 [Narrator] The damaged compartments fill up. 513 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,240 The ship tilts forward, 514 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,600 water spilling from one compartment to the next. 515 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,240 -Suddenly... 516 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,040 [rushing water] 517 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,720 ...the water bursts into boiler room five. 518 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,920 And Bell was heard to say, "My God, we are lost." 519 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,200 [Narrator] Bell and his men were forced back to 520 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,000 boiler room two, 521 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:38,040 the only one still capable of providing power to the ship. 522 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,720 [Yasmin Khan] One hour, 40 after the iceberg strike, 523 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:49,560 Chief Bell sent his stokers up on deck to save themselves. 524 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:59,320 And all 35 engineering officers stayed with him below deck. 525 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:03,880 [Chris Hearn] Ultimately, it came down to a skeleton crew 526 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,040 in boiler room number two, 527 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:07,720 essentially of the engineers themselves. 528 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,320 Everybody else has been released. 529 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,760 [Narrator] It's clear to Bell that Titanic is doomed. 530 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,800 He now had to pivot from saving the ship to saving lives. 531 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,080 [Yasmin Khan] They were in the middle of the Atlantic, 532 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:29,720 and it was pitch black. 533 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,960 If the power went off, they would be in total darkness, 534 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,120 making it incredibly difficult for people to get to the deck 535 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:38,560 and into lifeboats. 536 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,560 And if the Titanic's wireless room went down, 537 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,560 the nearby ships couldn't be alerted to stranded survivors. 538 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,400 [Narrator] In short, without power, 539 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:54,160 the chances of those on board surviving were slim. 540 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,440 The courage of Titanic's engineers is a story that's 541 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,560 endured for over a century. 542 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:12,080 But now, the digital twin allows the experts to actually 543 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:14,680 examine the place where Bell and his men battled 544 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:19,720 on clearly visible, where the ship tore apart. 545 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:27,960 [Jennifer Hooper] Okay, so we're in Boiler room number two. 546 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:34,920 This is essentially the last place where they kept 547 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,880 the fires going. 548 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,560 [Parks Stephenson] This is what's left of the 549 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,360 heart of Titanic. 550 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:51,160 The steam that's being generated in these boilers is 551 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,160 providing the power and the light to the ship. 552 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,600 These engineers down here, 553 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,200 they couldn't see what was going on outside. 554 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:07,400 [Jennifer Hooper] The conditions must have been terrible. 555 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,480 Brutally hot. 556 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:12,400 The steam. 557 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,680 -Real tests of leadership often come under the 558 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,520 worst of circumstances. 559 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,000 I reflect on Bell's efforts that night. 560 00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:30,760 He was going to do everything he could so that other people 561 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,080 may have a chance to live. 562 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,280 [Narrator] The digital twin shows us not only the location 563 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,160 of Bell's last stand, 564 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,040 it also offers new evidence of how he kept the power on, 565 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,000 even as the ship began to sink. 566 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,640 Nearly 2,300 feet across the wreck site, 567 00:35:01,240 --> 00:35:03,280 the experts have spotted a clue. 568 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:06,600 [Parks Stephenson] Okay, we're coming up on the 569 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:08,440 port side of the stern back here. 570 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,160 There's the mainmast that's collapsed and lying 571 00:35:11,240 --> 00:35:13,040 over the edge. 572 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:17,760 So, let's rotate this thing around. 573 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:19,760 And take a look at this. 574 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,200 I found this very interesting. 575 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:27,440 It's a steam valve. 576 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:28,560 It didn't come from here. 577 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:32,240 It landed on the wreck after the stern had settled. 578 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:37,400 And the flap is seen in the open position right now. 579 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,160 [Jennifer Hooper] Why is that important? 580 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,600 [Chris Hearn] Well, this is a line that was taking 581 00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:48,360 the remaining steam from the boiler rooms to 582 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,240 the emergency dynamos. 583 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,720 [Parks Stephenson] They provided life to the ship, 584 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:58,080 the lighting, the heating, running the pumps. 585 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,400 [Narrator] Titanic's emergency dynamo was over 586 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,560 40 feet higher than the main generator, 587 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,240 so it would take longer to flood. 588 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,760 It was connected to boiler room two through 589 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:11,280 an emergency pipe, 590 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,760 and the valve had to be opened manually. 591 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,480 [Chris Hearn] You can see this steam valve is clearly open, 592 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,600 which means steam was continuously flowing through 593 00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:26,000 to the emergency dynamos, 594 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,160 and this action to keep this open saved 595 00:36:28,240 --> 00:36:30,040 hundreds of lives. 596 00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:41,400 [Narrator] Survivors testified that over two hours 597 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,600 after striking the iceberg, 598 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,000 the ship's lights were still on. 599 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,600 [Jennifer Hooper] So this is proof that the survivors 600 00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:58,080 who saw lights to the very end, it's true. 601 00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:00,520 -Yeah. 602 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,240 [Narrator] This steam valve is frozen in its final act. 603 00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:09,640 Responding to Bell's orders. 604 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:16,080 Keeping the power on and hope alive. 605 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:29,040 While Bell and his men fight on, above them, 606 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,280 panic is starting to spread. 607 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,000 At the lifeboats, 608 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,760 the crew struggle to keep order, 609 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,520 and senior officers are faced with 610 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,000 life and death choices. 611 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,720 [Narrator] Until 11:39 P.M. 612 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,360 passengers had enjoyed a peaceful evening and luxurious 613 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,600 surroundings and were looking forward to 614 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:00,520 arriving in New York. 615 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,080 But nearly two hours after Titanic hit the iceberg, 616 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:15,360 the situation for those on board is deteriorating fast. 617 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:24,880 As water begins to flood the corridors, 618 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,400 the passengers start rushing to the boat deck. 619 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,040 [Yasmin Khan] By law in 1912, 620 00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:36,680 ocean liners were only required to have 16 lifeboats. 621 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:39,560 And in an emergency would have been expected to 622 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,880 stay afloat long enough to ferry people to a rescue ship. 623 00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:47,360 So, Titanic only had enough lifeboat spaces for about half 624 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:49,240 of those onboard. 625 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:52,360 [Narrator] The order is to start loading women and 626 00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,600 children into the boats. 627 00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,200 In the chaos, most of the lifeboats aren't 628 00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,160 even launched full. 629 00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:02,120 A tension quickly turns to panic. 630 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:13,200 On the boat deck, 631 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,320 there are scenes of both heroism and heartbreak. 632 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,280 [Yasmin Khan] Ida Strauss, for instance, 633 00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:30,040 wouldn't board a lifeboat if she couldn't go with her 634 00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:31,760 husband and said, 635 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,360 "We have lived together, and we'll die together." 636 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,520 Rhoda Abbott, who was traveling with her two teenage sons, 637 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,760 reached a lifeboat being boarded. 638 00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,520 But realizing that her boys were considered too old 639 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:50,160 to go in a lifeboat, 640 00:39:50,240 --> 00:39:53,160 stepped back and remained with her children. 641 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:56,360 [Narrator] 17-year-old first-class passenger 642 00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:58,760 Jack Thayer, noted who joined the boat after 643 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:00,520 Rhoda Abbott retreated. 644 00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:04,600 -He recorded. 645 00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:06,560 "There was some disturbance in loading the last two 646 00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:08,920 forward starboard boats. 647 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,040 A large crowd of men was pressing to get 648 00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:12,720 to the lifeboats. 649 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,400 No women were around as far as I could see. 650 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:17,560 I saw Ismay, 651 00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:20,160 who had been assisting in the loading of the last boat, 652 00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:21,760 push his way into it. 653 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:25,080 It was really every man for himself." 654 00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,720 Bruce Ismay was the chairman of the White Star Line. 655 00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:31,440 He went on to survive, 656 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,000 but his reputation never recovered. 657 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,880 [Narrator] As passengers become increasingly desperate, 658 00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,120 the crew struggle to keep order. 659 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:46,560 [Yasmin Khan] Michel Navratil said, 660 00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:49,280 "Honest people didn't stand a chance as passengers 661 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:52,080 descended to deviance in order to survive." 662 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:03,560 [Narrator] With the sinking of Titanic making 663 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:05,040 headlines around the world, 664 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,960 the press was hungry for heroes and villains. 665 00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:12,600 But these were some of the most chaotic moments 666 00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:14,520 of the whole tragedy, 667 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:18,320 and conflicting versions of events quickly emerged. 668 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:23,600 -The first officer, William Murdoch, 669 00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:25,640 was in charge of the lifeboats on the starboard side 670 00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:27,600 of the ship, and he was desperately trying 671 00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,400 to lower them as the water was gushing up to meet them. 672 00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:35,440 Afterwards, as these newspaper reports show, 673 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,200 he was accused of having shot himself on the 674 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,720 bridge and abandoning his post. 675 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,400 It says here "he was seen whipping a gleaming bit of 676 00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:45,040 metal from his pocket, 677 00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:46,760 deliberately placing it to his temple, 678 00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,760 and pulling the trigger." 679 00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:52,600 [distant gunshot] 680 00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:57,680 [Narrator] The story was headline news. 681 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:01,480 Murdoch was painted as cowardly, 682 00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:03,520 his reputation in tatters. 683 00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,880 But even at the time, his actions were disputed. 684 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,160 [Yasmin Khan] Second Officer Lightoller, 685 00:42:12,240 --> 00:42:14,520 the most senior officer who survived the sinking, 686 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,480 refuted the accusation of suicide, 687 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,600 writing that he'd seen Murdoch swept overboard and 688 00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,000 that he had died a hero's death. 689 00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:27,160 [Narrator] Now, Parkes believes that the twin can 690 00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:30,200 offer clues about Murdoch's final moments. 691 00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,920 [Parks Stephenson] Well, this is the number one lifeboat station, 692 00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,200 the forward davit. 693 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:46,840 [Chris Hearn] That was Murdoch station, right? 694 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:48,720 [Parks Stephenson] Yes, it was. 695 00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:53,160 And you'll notice here that that davit is in the upright 696 00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:54,760 or retracted position. 697 00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:00,720 [Narrator] Davits are cranes used to winch lifeboats 698 00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,000 down to the water. 699 00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:06,120 Before being wound back to launch the next. 700 00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:10,440 [Parks Stephenson] This davit is in the up position, 701 00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,360 meaning its crew is basically trying to get a lifeboat 702 00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:14,800 ready to be launched. 703 00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,760 [Narrator] In an attempt to save as many lives as possible, 704 00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:22,280 Murdoch, unlike some officers, 705 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:24,440 had allowed men to join the women and children 706 00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:26,560 aboard his lifeboats. 707 00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:29,320 [Parks Stephenson] Murdoch has been watching the water 708 00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:30,440 rise this whole time. 709 00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:31,960 He knows he's out of time, 710 00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:35,440 and he's working against the rising water to try and 711 00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:37,120 get one more boat into the water. 712 00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:42,560 And this coincides with Second Officer Lightoller's 713 00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,280 description, who was standing on top of the 714 00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,520 deckhouse back here. 715 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,200 [Narrator] At 2:15 a.m., 716 00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:51,200 minutes before the ship went down, 717 00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:53,600 Lightoller witnessed Murdoch trying to launch 718 00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:55,400 one final boat. 719 00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,160 Suddenly, Titanic dipped and the lifeboat 720 00:44:00,240 --> 00:44:02,360 was washed overboard. 721 00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:05,720 While survivors scrambled onto it from the freezing water, 722 00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,520 Murdoch was swept away. 723 00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,320 [Parks Stephenson] Historians have disputed that, 724 00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:23,520 but this davit right here stands in mute testimony that 725 00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,120 supports Lightoller's version of events. 726 00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:31,680 Because, being in the up position is exactly 727 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:33,400 what Lightoller described. 728 00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:38,160 [Narrator] History has not been kind to Murdoch. 729 00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:41,280 And while we may never know exactly how he died, 730 00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:44,120 the twin does suggest that the accusation of 731 00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:48,560 cowardice of abandoning his ship may not be fair. 732 00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:54,600 [Parks Stephenson] I think it really shows that he was 733 00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:58,160 struggling to save as many lives as possible right up to 734 00:44:58,240 --> 00:44:59,840 the very end. 735 00:44:59,920 --> 00:45:03,280 They were trying to launch one last lifeboat. 736 00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:06,720 He never gave up on his duty. 737 00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:12,800 [Narrator] For survivors like Lightoller, 738 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:14,560 the scenes at the lifeboats were some of the most 739 00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,160 distressing of the whole disaster. 740 00:45:20,720 --> 00:45:24,520 But for those left on board, the worst was still to come. 741 00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,200 [distant screams] 742 00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:36,920 [Narrator] Two hours after Titanic hit the iceberg, 743 00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:42,520 the ship is partially submerged, 744 00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,760 but remarkably, thanks to Bell and his engineers, 745 00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:47,560 she still has power. 746 00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:52,040 [Yasmin Khan] In Titanic's wireless room, two operators, 747 00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:55,320 Jack Phillips and Harold Bride, are still at their post, 748 00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,120 and desperately sending out messages. 749 00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:18,040 [Narrator] Shortly after 2:00 a.m., 750 00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:21,160 Captain Smith told the men they had done their duty and 751 00:46:21,240 --> 00:46:23,000 were relieved from their posts. 752 00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:27,560 Bride prepared to leave, but Phillips worked on. 753 00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:31,480 [Yasmin Khan] Bride who survived the wreck, 754 00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:34,040 recalled his colleague Jack Phillips' 755 00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:37,400 selfless conduct, saying, 756 00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,160 "He was a brave man. 757 00:46:39,240 --> 00:46:41,640 I learned to love him that night. 758 00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,960 And I suddenly felt a great reverence to see him standing 759 00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:47,960 there sticking to his work while everybody 760 00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:49,680 was raging about. 761 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,520 I will never live to forget the work of Phillips 762 00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:56,520 for the last awful 15 minutes." 763 00:47:09,720 --> 00:47:11,280 [Narrator] But soon after 2:00 a.m., 764 00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:16,240 The messages abruptly stop. 765 00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:23,400 Titanic is about to go under. 766 00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:36,120 [♪ eerie music playing] 767 00:47:41,720 --> 00:47:43,120 After the sinking, 768 00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:44,960 two official inquiries concluded that the 769 00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:48,080 ship gently slipped below the waves. 770 00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:51,720 But even at the time, 771 00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,160 many survivors contradicted that, 772 00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:57,200 testifying Titanic broke apart before she sank. 773 00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:02,560 Something confirmed when the wreck was 774 00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:05,000 discovered in 1985. 775 00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:08,160 And the twin now allows us to see in 776 00:48:08,240 --> 00:48:12,040 unprecedented detail, where the pieces came to rest, 777 00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:16,680 a third of a mile apart on the ocean floor. 778 00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:22,760 But exactly how this great ship broke in two, 779 00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:26,040 is something Parks has been investigating for decades. 780 00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:31,440 [Parks Stephenson] There's a lot of mysteries 781 00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:33,360 in the Titanic disaster. 782 00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,120 But the one that I've been most focused on throughout 783 00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:44,080 my career in Titanic research, is the breakup. 784 00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:48,760 And I think we've got the evidence that's going to answer 785 00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:51,600 those questions, right here. 786 00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,160 [Narrator] The severed ship is too badly damaged 787 00:48:55,240 --> 00:48:57,200 to reveal exactly what happened. 788 00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:01,560 But Parks believes that the scan can still provide answers. 789 00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:05,400 Not by studying the wounded wreck itself, 790 00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:07,520 but the seabed around it. 791 00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:10,440 [Parks Stephenson] There's an entire debris field of 792 00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:13,040 artifacts, of steel sections, 793 00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:15,120 that you need to take a look at. 794 00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:21,080 [Jennifer Hooper] Wow. 795 00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,280 [Parks Stephenson] We're flying away. 796 00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:26,320 [Chris Hearn] Wait a minute. 797 00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:28,200 Oh it's the stern. We're looking down. 798 00:49:29,240 --> 00:49:31,240 [Parks Stephenson] We're going to get a God's eye view 799 00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:33,320 of the debris field. 800 00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:37,000 [Narrator] Covering around 15 square miles countless 801 00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:40,320 sheds of Titanic are scattered across the ocean floor. 802 00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:43,560 Among them, key pieces, 803 00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,080 which Parks believes may be clues. 804 00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:51,640 [Parks Stephenson] You can see how immense it is. 805 00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:53,600 I mean, it looks chaotic, 806 00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:55,720 but there is a pattern to this. 807 00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:57,520 And I bet we can find the evidence that we're 808 00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:00,240 looking for to reconstruct the breakup here. 809 00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:03,960 [Narrator] The twin allows the experts to study Titanic's 810 00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:07,800 shattered fragments in more detail than ever before. 811 00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:13,040 If they can piece together this twisted metal jigsaw, 812 00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,280 the experts may be able to find out how Titanic 813 00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:20,080 broke in two and what it meant for those on board. 814 00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:34,240 [distant screams] 815 00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:37,040 [Narrator] When Titanic broke in two at 2:17 a.m., 816 00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:40,640 on April 15th, almost 1,500 people were 817 00:50:40,720 --> 00:50:42,480 still on board the ship. 818 00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:48,560 Those in the lifeboats watched on in horror. 819 00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:56,560 [Yasmin Khan] Jack Thayer, 820 00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:59,160 who was a 17-year-old first-class passenger, 821 00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:01,640 recorded in his memoirs what he saw. 822 00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:04,600 "Suddenly, the whole superstructure of the ship 823 00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:06,240 appeared to split. 824 00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:09,600 Her stern was gradually rising into the air." 825 00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:19,400 "We could see groups of people still aboard clinging 826 00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:22,200 in clusters or bunches like swarming bees, 827 00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:24,560 only to fall in masses, 828 00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:28,360 pairs or singly as the great after part of the ship, 829 00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,760 250 feet of it, rose into the sky." 830 00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:40,960 "Gradually, she turned her deck away from us, 831 00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:42,880 as though to hide from our sight, 832 00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:45,360 the awful spectacle." 833 00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:49,000 [Narrator] Based on historical accounts like these, 834 00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:52,360 many have assumed that the ship snapped cleanly in two. 835 00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:59,600 But the investigation suggests the truth may be more complex. 836 00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:02,280 To find out what really happened, 837 00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:04,960 the experts have used the unique level of detail provided 838 00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:08,080 by the scan to comb through the debris field, 839 00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,720 identifying shattered sections of the hull, 840 00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:16,680 and painstakingly piecing them back together. 841 00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:27,320 [♪ upbeat music playing] 842 00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:40,720 [Chris Hearn] Wow. Look at the size of that area. 843 00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:45,480 [Jennifer Hooper] So we're looking at the side of the ship, 844 00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:50,640 and we're seeing some of the pieces of the hull 845 00:52:50,720 --> 00:52:52,600 found in the debris field. 846 00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:55,160 They're massive. 847 00:52:55,240 --> 00:52:59,080 We're talking like 100 feet or more up the side of the ship. 848 00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:05,720 The big piece at the top, 849 00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,120 I've studied rivets from that big piece under 850 00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:10,320 the microscope, steel rivets, 851 00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:13,360 and how that piece was actually held onto the ship. 852 00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:15,400 -So, you have a personal connection to this piece. 853 00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:17,240 [Chris Hearn] Wow, that's amazing. 854 00:53:19,240 --> 00:53:21,680 I'm speechless, like, the size of these pieces is huge. 855 00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:27,040 [Narrator] By allowing us to see the hull reassembled, 856 00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:30,400 the digital twin shows that far from snapping neatly, 857 00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:34,080 a huge section of the ship was completely destroyed. 858 00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:39,600 -It was a giant catastrophic fracture. 859 00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:43,320 As the stresses are building up, 860 00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:46,400 you've got tension across the top, compression, 861 00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:49,640 and buckling on the bottom of the ship, and slowly, 862 00:53:49,720 --> 00:53:52,240 it turns into a domino effect. 863 00:53:52,720 --> 00:53:54,600 It's stressed on the next component and 864 00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:55,720 the next component. 865 00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:57,600 It's like a chain reaction. 866 00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:01,560 [Narrator] Almost all of a ship's strength is in a shell. 867 00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:03,520 With that compromised, 868 00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:06,080 her exposed interior was obliterated. 869 00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:11,720 [Chris Hearn] I thought it was more of a clean break, 870 00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:13,680 and it certainly was not. 871 00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:16,600 You would think the ship had been struck by 872 00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:19,240 some enormous missile. 873 00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:23,080 It's that catastrophic. 874 00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:28,040 [Jennifer Hooper] 20% of the ship just completely destroyed 875 00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:30,200 in probably a matter of seconds. 876 00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:36,600 So many people lost their lives. 877 00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,000 [Narrator] Titanic shattered in multiple places. 878 00:54:41,720 --> 00:54:43,760 [Parks Stephenson] This was a cataclysmic moment. 879 00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:48,560 70, 80 feet of it broke at the same time with 880 00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:50,840 human beings in there. 881 00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:55,640 It's unimaginable. 882 00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:02,520 [Narrator] As Titanic broke in two, 883 00:55:03,240 --> 00:55:06,320 the fate of everyone in that part of the ship was sealed. 884 00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:11,680 The twin can offer a glimpse into the final moments 885 00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:13,680 of those on board. 886 00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:20,160 Including two of America's richest men. 887 00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,680 [Narrator] When Titanic goes down, 888 00:55:36,240 --> 00:55:38,560 80% of the men are lost. 889 00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:45,640 -Although some male passengers did survive, 890 00:55:45,720 --> 00:55:48,880 Edwardian ideals of stoicism, and chivalry, 891 00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:51,320 meant that the vast majority of men would stay 892 00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:53,160 behind on the ship. 893 00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:00,600 Alfred Rush, a 17-year-old, 894 00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:02,680 he'd only been presented with his first pair 895 00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:04,520 of long trousers the night before, 896 00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:07,200 refused to enter the lifeboat, saying, 897 00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:09,240 "I will stay with the men." 898 00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:15,640 [Narrator] Another famous tale of self-sacrifice, 899 00:56:15,720 --> 00:56:18,920 was that of multi-millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim. 900 00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:23,320 -We have the testimony of James Etches, 901 00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:25,800 a steward, who said, 902 00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:28,280 "I gave a life belt to Guggenheim, 903 00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:30,160 and he gave me a message. 904 00:56:30,240 --> 00:56:32,400 It said, 'If anything should happen to me, 905 00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:34,720 tell my wife in New York that I've done my best in 906 00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:36,360 doing my duty. 907 00:56:36,720 --> 00:56:38,600 We've dressed up in our best and are prepared to 908 00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:40,480 go down like gentlemen." 909 00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:44,960 Another steward reported hearing him say, 910 00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:48,280 "No woman shall be left on this ship because Ben Guggenheim 911 00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:50,240 was a coward." 912 00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:53,720 The popular narrative is that he escorted his mistress, 913 00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:55,600 and her servant, to the lifeboats, 914 00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:58,080 and then went back to the first-class cabins. 915 00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:02,280 [Narrator] The image of Guggenheim waiting bravely 916 00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:05,080 for the waters to meet him is a romantic one. 917 00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,240 But if he did remain in his room, 918 00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:10,840 his death would have been far from peaceful. 919 00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:16,560 The digital twin makes clear the violence that those in this 920 00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:20,160 section of the ship experienced in their final moments. 921 00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:27,160 [Yasmin Khan] Guggenheim’s suite was right at the 922 00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:29,240 epicenter of where the ship broke up. 923 00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:33,400 [Narrator] Near Guggenheim's room, 924 00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:35,880 was that of another of America's richest men, 925 00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:38,520 J.J. Astor. 926 00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:43,400 Titanic had over 300 first class cabins, 927 00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:46,200 and Astor was reported to have paid over $30,000 928 00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:50,000 in today's money for a pair of these premium suites. 929 00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:54,520 What's left of them is visible on the twin. 930 00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:00,680 Blown apart as the ship went down. 931 00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:11,400 Astor's body was recovered a week after the sinking. 932 00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:17,120 [Parks Stephenson] It seems to have been important 933 00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:20,160 at the time that the noblemen, 934 00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:21,400 like the J.J. Astors, 935 00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:23,440 or the Benjamin Guggenheims, 936 00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:28,120 died a very noble, rather peaceful death. 937 00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,600 But, in Titanic, 938 00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:35,760 it didn't matter what your status was. 939 00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:37,880 You would all meet the same fate. 940 00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:43,400 [Narrator] On that night in 1912, 941 00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:45,400 death did not discriminate. 942 00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:49,560 Over 60 feet below Astor's suite, 943 00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:52,680 Joseph Bell and his engineers had remained tending 944 00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:55,600 to the fires as the ship went down. 945 00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:00,520 Made visible by its position, 946 00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:02,240 right at the ship's fracture, 947 00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:04,360 is what's left of boiler room two. 948 00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:10,800 [Parks Stephenson] If you look at this boiler here, 949 00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:13,440 you see the shadow up in the upper quadrant? 950 00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:16,640 It's concaved inward. 951 00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:19,760 And that's an indication of an implosive event, 952 00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:23,760 which means that these boilers had to have been operating at 953 00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:28,200 the time the ship breaks, and the bow starts to go under. 954 00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:37,320 [Chris Hearn] They stayed here. 955 00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:40,040 They steel themselves to their task because 956 00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:42,800 they were professionals, and they knew their duty. 957 00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:45,480 And their duty was to give people a chance up on 958 00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:47,040 the top deck. 959 00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:51,200 And for me, this is a really powerful place. 960 00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:58,280 [Narrator] All 35 engineers would go down with the ship. 961 01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:07,080 [Chris Hearn] We're standing right at the point 962 01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:10,280 where their lives ended. 963 01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:20,440 So, this scan gives us an opportunity to observe a 964 01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:25,000 memorial to the bravery and the dedication 965 01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:26,320 of those engineers. 966 01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:39,200 [Narrator] Bell's body was never found. 967 01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:48,080 Two hours and 40 minutes after the ship hit the iceberg, 968 01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:51,840 about 700 people are huddled together in lifeboats. 969 01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:54,760 The rest are either fighting for their lives in the freezing 970 01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:57,120 water or dead. 971 01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:02,600 But over a century on, 972 01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:05,560 the scan can still shine a light on the lives lost 973 01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:07,240 to the ocean floor. 974 01:01:16,240 --> 01:01:18,160 [Yasmin Khan] After the ship broke up, 975 01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:20,320 the bow quickly disappeared, 976 01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:23,040 but the stern stayed afloat for a few more minutes. 977 01:01:23,520 --> 01:01:25,560 And up there on the poop deck, 978 01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:27,760 was Assistant Purser Frank Prentice, 979 01:01:28,160 --> 01:01:30,600 who saw exactly what was happening. 980 01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:35,760 He recalled that Titanic rose suddenly and described hearing 981 01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:39,040 everything that wasn't secured crashing through the ship. 982 01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:43,040 Then she began to plummet. 983 01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:45,960 Frank Prentice climbed over the railing, 984 01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:49,080 and he dropped down 100 feet into the water below. 985 01:02:01,320 --> 01:02:02,800 [Narrator] The bow sinks first, 986 01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:05,120 shedding its contents the whole way down. 987 01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:15,000 It hits the mud with such force that it jackknifes. 988 01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:25,160 [♪ dramatic music playing] 989 01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:33,120 The stern follows, flattening out into a spiral. 990 01:02:37,440 --> 01:02:39,200 Her freight and furnishings are strewn 991 01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:42,320 across the ocean floor. 992 01:02:48,200 --> 01:02:50,480 Thousands of items are buried in the mud. 993 01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:54,360 Some are about to be seen for the first time in 994 01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:56,200 over 100 years. 995 01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:04,080 [Jennifer Hooper] When I saw the debris field, 996 01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:07,120 my first instinct was thinking about putting 997 01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:08,400 the ship back together, 998 01:03:08,480 --> 01:03:10,240 thinking about the materials. 999 01:03:10,920 --> 01:03:13,880 But, part of me understands that... 1000 01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:18,680 ...there are personal possessions. 1001 01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:22,160 There's cups. There's suitcases. 1002 01:03:22,240 --> 01:03:26,240 There's bits of leather, there's people's things that 1003 01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:29,680 may last a lot longer than the metal. 1004 01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:35,560 [Narrator] The debris field has already yielded answers 1005 01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:37,120 about the ship itself. 1006 01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:42,200 But it can also offer a unique insight into life on board. 1007 01:03:57,240 --> 01:03:58,600 An ornate bench, 1008 01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:02,000 which lies 715 feet from the stern, 1009 01:04:02,720 --> 01:04:04,840 once adorned one of the upper decks. 1010 01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:10,120 And 416 feet away, 1011 01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:12,400 the centerpiece of a glass ceiling dome, 1012 01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:14,560 which once capped one of the grandest staircases 1013 01:04:14,640 --> 01:04:16,360 on the ship. 1014 01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:23,000 Footage captured during the scan has been subject 1015 01:04:23,080 --> 01:04:24,560 to months of research, 1016 01:04:25,040 --> 01:04:27,560 using records and insurance claims to try and 1017 01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:31,120 identify the owners of items glimpsed on the seabed. 1018 01:04:33,120 --> 01:04:35,120 One of the suitcases matches the claim of 1019 01:04:35,200 --> 01:04:38,080 first-class passenger, Charlotte Cardeza, 1020 01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:40,000 who survived the wreck. 1021 01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:42,160 [Yasmin Khan] She was well known for her Louis Vuitton 1022 01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:46,400 luggage and her extensive collection of shoes. 1023 01:04:49,640 --> 01:04:52,240 Charlotte Cardeza's maid recalled being impressed by her 1024 01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:53,640 mistress's bravery. 1025 01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:57,520 Reporting that she remained entirely calm in spite 1026 01:04:57,600 --> 01:04:59,400 of the danger. 1027 01:05:03,480 --> 01:05:06,280 [Narrator] This array of shoes and opera glasses, 1028 01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:09,040 may have belonged to theater owner Henry B. Harris, 1029 01:05:09,720 --> 01:05:11,480 who perished in the sinking. 1030 01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:19,640 One of the most intriguing personal items 1031 01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:22,000 lies nearly 500 feet from the stern, 1032 01:05:23,640 --> 01:05:27,000 a pigs tusk bangle next to a shark's tooth. 1033 01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:32,080 [Yasmin Khan] This shark's tooth is a lucky charm, 1034 01:05:32,160 --> 01:05:34,120 and it would have been attached to this pocket watch 1035 01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:36,880 which bears an Advance Australia crest. 1036 01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:39,560 We've tracked down that belonged to a 1037 01:05:39,640 --> 01:05:42,680 Scottish businessman, Colonel John Weir. 1038 01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:46,480 After his death, a family secret was revealed. 1039 01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:49,640 His Scottish wife had a nasty surprise when she made her 1040 01:05:49,720 --> 01:05:51,760 claim to the estate because it turned out he 1041 01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:53,960 had an Australian family who were making 1042 01:05:54,040 --> 01:05:56,160 exactly the same claim. 1043 01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:02,560 [Narrator] These remarkable findings bring humanity 1044 01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:04,920 to the dark and desolate wreck site. 1045 01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:10,000 But there are still countless items on the sea floor, 1046 01:06:10,640 --> 01:06:12,640 whose owners are unknown. 1047 01:06:15,080 --> 01:06:19,040 A pair of men's shoes, lying together on the promenade deck, 1048 01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:21,760 suggests they mark the final resting place of 1049 01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:23,560 a third-class passenger, 1050 01:06:23,880 --> 01:06:26,200 whose remains are long gone. 1051 01:06:29,720 --> 01:06:32,160 And this ornate doll's head, 1052 01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:33,560 which may have belonged to any of some 1053 01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:37,080 60 children who did not survive the tragedy. 1054 01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:52,520 For prolific Titanic explorer, Parks Stephenson, 1055 01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:55,680 the digital twin enables investigation and study of the 1056 01:06:55,760 --> 01:07:00,080 site without disturbing or further damaging the wreck. 1057 01:07:01,080 --> 01:07:03,200 [Parks Stephenson] Every time I think I've seen everything 1058 01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:05,760 I need to see out of this, I see something new. 1059 01:07:06,480 --> 01:07:11,640 This digital twin has opened up a whole new thought process. 1060 01:07:12,360 --> 01:07:14,040 And where that takes me, 1061 01:07:14,120 --> 01:07:16,040 I don't know if I see the end of it. 1062 01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:25,280 This is the most impactful thing that has happened since 1063 01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:27,680 the wreck was first found in 1985. 1064 01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:34,480 [Jennifer Hooper] Look at the rusticles all over the ship. 1065 01:07:37,080 --> 01:07:39,600 [Chris Hearn] It's like the by-product of bacteria, right? 1066 01:07:40,200 --> 01:07:42,160 [Jennifer Hooper] Yeah, it's actually corrosion on 1067 01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:43,600 the sea floor. 1068 01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:51,000 It's bacteria that eats the iron and produces rust. 1069 01:07:51,640 --> 01:07:55,200 So, it's slowly eating the wreck. 1070 01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:56,600 It's eating the ship, 1071 01:07:56,680 --> 01:07:59,240 and the ship will eventually degrade and 1072 01:07:59,320 --> 01:08:01,400 just fall in on itself. 1073 01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:05,480 This is a unique site. 1074 01:08:05,560 --> 01:08:07,560 It's its own ecosystem, now. 1075 01:08:07,640 --> 01:08:10,560 It's living and breathing and changing constantly. 1076 01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:20,000 [Narrator] Titanic won't be here forever. 1077 01:08:21,440 --> 01:08:25,040 But the digital twin is now frozen the evidence in time, 1078 01:08:27,240 --> 01:08:29,360 allowing research to continue long after the 1079 01:08:29,440 --> 01:08:31,480 wreck's inevitable decay. 1080 01:08:39,560 --> 01:08:42,120 It has already offered remarkable insights into 1081 01:08:42,200 --> 01:08:44,040 what happened to the ship that night, 1082 01:08:45,200 --> 01:08:47,480 and the response of those on board. 1083 01:08:51,200 --> 01:08:53,360 Now, thanks to the twin, 1084 01:08:53,440 --> 01:08:56,240 the search for answers can continue. 1085 01:08:58,840 --> 01:09:00,760 [♪ dramatic music playing]