The Unsinkable Titanic

[skeggysteve]

Just watched this on More4
It was a repeat, so has anyone watched it before?

And what did you think?

I thought it was very good, just don't know if any of it is true - and before any smart arse says it yes it did sink!

I mean the bits about the errors that where made, or they said where made.

The one that I found strange was the 'they should not have steered away from the 'berg, if they had hit it head on it would not have sunk' - what he hell! I think it would take a very, very brave man to not steer away from a 'berg.

And why do I/we find any programme about the Titanic such compeling viewing?

[skeggysteve]

GTO Scott said:

skeggysteve said:

The one that I found strange was the 'they should not have steered away from the 'berg, if they had hit it head on it would not have sunk' - what he hell! I think it would take a very, very brave man to not steer away from a 'berg.

Natural human instinct to try and clear a way around the danger. With such junior officers in charge at that time of night, their first reaction would have been to steer around. No doubt a slight fear of explaining to both master of the vessel E J Smith, and Chairman of the White Star Line J. Bruce Ismay, who was travelling on board, that they'd just rammed an iceberg in the brand new ship rather than try to steer round it also played a part. Of course, with the benefit of hindsight, we now know that if they had of done, the ship probably wouldn't have sunk.

skeggysteve said:

And why do I/we find any programme about the Titanic such compeling viewing?

Studying the Big T does seem to be a worldwide obsession - I have several books and I do watch most of the stuff that comes on the telly.

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Now, was it the Titanic that sunk, or was it the Olympic that got sunk intentionally in a big insurance scam?
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Yes, Scott, the with hindsight thing was sort of what I meant - the programme didn't mention that.
I think they were trying to say that if a senior officer had been on deck then they would/could have reacted differently?

Not heard about the Olympic stuff before - maybe I'm not as obsessed as I thought

Sorry it a bit late to pick the bits out and post correctly!