There's a lot in this documentary that's great, but there's also a lot that's wrong with it.
The use of Titanic: Honor and Glory's models and animations is something very new. Most documentary makers wouldn't bother going out searching for people trying to make the most accurate model out there. I actually enjoyed seeing their work in this documentary. My complaints are more in the historic narrations and such.
They imply that the Titanic's steel was inferior, which is very false, but they do also claim at the same time that the steel was more brittle in the cold water, which is true. It's a weird mixed bag for that one.
They claim at one point that there was a smouldering fire in Titanic's coal bunker, but then within minutes say it was a blazing fire reaching extreme temperatures???? They said something like 1,800 degrees, which is not at all the case. They also claim the fire was bad enough to warp the bulkhead of the ship and cause a leak in the ship, which is very new information to me and sounds like they took something from the inquiries out of context for the sake of making the fire sound like it was so much worse than it actually was. Also, if the fire reached 1,800 degrees, smoke would have been billowing out of the coal bunker and suffocating the crew. The swimming bath was also directly above this location as well, and would have roasted passengers like lobsters had it actually been that hot. They also seem to miss the actual point of the fire, which is that it actually saved the ship from capsizing. Because of the displaced coal, the ship ended up listing a couple of degrees to port, which counterweighted the water in the sinking. Without that list, the ship would have capsized around the time the first lifeboats were being launched.
They also make a big deal out of the binoculars, which is something that is a non-issue. In fact, messing around with binoculars would have made it harder to spot the iceberg because you're limiting your vision to one spot and if you're scanning all around the ship looking for smaller ice, you're not gonna notice the giant one until even later.
At some point they also claim that the ship should've collided with the iceberg head on, but this is not something that would have worked. Titanic would've sank much faster if it rammed the iceberg head on. Some evidence for this comes from its sister ship Britannic, which struck a mine and couldn't close its water tight doors because the hull was too warped from the explosion. The same thing would have probably happened to Titanic with the iceberg.
They also say that the engines were reversed when the ship was trying to avoid the iceberg, which is not the case. The engines were set to stop, not reverse. This information is outdated.
I find it weird that they would present outdated information and information proven false in this documentary. This documentary was not made to bring anything new to the table, and is just a rehash of old information, some wrong and outdated, made to make it exciting and entertaining. While it was entertaining, the wrong and outdated information in a documentary is unforgivable.
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