Why the Titanic Had a Fake Chimney

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Did you know the Titanic had a fake chimney? It actually had three working chimneys, but the fourth one was just for show! This extra "dummy" chimney was added to make the ship look more powerful and balanced, giving passengers more confidence in its strength and speed. It also provided extra ventilation for the kitchen and engine rooms. It's one of those quirky design choices that make the Titanic's story even more fascinating!  #brightside   Animation is created by Bright Side.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/   Listen to Bright Side on:  Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/idhttps-podcasts-apple-com-podcast-bright-side/id1554898078 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/brightside/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official/ Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en Snapchat - https://www.snapchat.com/p/c6a1e38a-bff1-4a40-9731-2c8234ccb19f/1866144599336960  Stock materials (photos, footages and other):  https://www.depositphotos.com  https://www.shutterstock.com  https://www.eastnews.ru  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me

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00:00In the Titanic movie, you won't see any fumes above the fourth funnel of the legendary

00:05ocean liner.

00:06And it's not a mistake.

00:08Back in 1911, the year before the dream ship's departure, large ships would mostly sail with

00:13four chimneys.

00:14They needed those to draw heat and fumes from their massive boilers.

00:18The Titanic was a real engineering gem that only needed three chimneys to function.

00:23So the fourth was added for balance and more impressive looks.

00:27The White Star Line thought the public would've been disappointed to see only three pipes

00:32on the greatest ship of all time.

00:34The Titanic sister ships, the Olympic and the Britannic, also had one fake funnel each

00:39for the same reason.

00:40The dummy chimney wasn't completely useless and served for ventilation.

00:45It took out the fumes from the machined spaces in the lower decks and from one of the first-class

00:49general rooms.

00:51One big ventilation funnel instead of several small ones helped to declutter the upper decks

00:56and left more open space for passengers to enjoy their strolls.

01:02When Titanic went down, the funnels, each weighing 60 tons, went down with the rest

01:06of the ship.

01:07They were made extra tall to make sure the passengers weren't covered in the soot being

01:12ejected.

01:13Their height and weight let them stay in the upright position.

01:16The forward funnel, followed by the others, fell only when the ship went for the final

01:21dive.

01:22Those chimneys were much lighter than the bow, so they spread among other debris.

01:26The light material they were made of flattened once it hit the bottom, and the iron-eating

01:31bacteria living deep down took care of it later.

01:35The bow of Titanic remained intact when it hit the seabed, but the stern was completely

01:40mangled.

01:41When the famous ocean liner hit that iceberg, things got really messy.

01:45It took the future movie star a whole 2 hours and 40 minutes to submerge completely.

01:51The collision let water flood 6 out of 16 watertight compartments.

01:56As the water gushed into the starboard side, the ship started to tilt down in the front

02:00and a bit to the right.

02:02By midnight, the damaged compartments were spilling water into others, and it was chaos

02:07because these compartments were only watertight horizontally.

02:11Soon enough, water started flooding through the anchor chain holes, and by 2 AM, the bow

02:16was sinking, and the stern's propellers were lifted out of the water.

02:20The ship kept flooding until the moment the bow went underwater, and the stern shot up

02:25almost 45 degrees.

02:27The weight of those massive propellers stressed the ship's midsection.

02:31The steel just couldn't handle it and failed.

02:33Survivors described that moment as some loud noise, like breaking china or falling gear.

02:39That was the Titanic's upper structure giving in.

02:43By 12 past 2 AM, the bow and stern were only connected by the inner bottom structure.

02:49Minutes later, the bow, weighing almost 16,000 tons, broke loose from the stern.

02:55The stern rose sharply to an almost vertical position and started sinking slowly.

03:00By 2.20, it disappeared underwater.

03:03The bow was cruising down at about 13 miles per hour and had hit the ocean floor almost

03:08a half an hour before the stern.

03:10The two parts of the Titanic now lie 2,000 feet apart, pointing in different directions.

03:16The bow remained mostly intact, just covered in mud.

03:19The stern turned into a tangled wreck because of the implosions it went through during the

03:24descent.

03:25The air trapped within the structure just couldn't handle the increasing pressure of

03:29the water deep down.

03:31Signal rockets played a big part in the Titanic's tragedy.

03:35When a ship goes down, you're supposed to shoot up red flares to signal trouble.

03:39But someone decided to stock Titanic with white lights instead of the usual red ones.

03:44So when the ship smacked into that iceberg, the crew fired off white flares.

03:49The SS Californian was passing nearby, and his captain knew the Titanic was in a dangerous

03:54iceberg zone.

03:55The crew didn't spot the sinking Titanic, but they sure saw those white rockets.

04:01The radio between the ships was useless because the Californian's operator switched it off.

04:06The captain had a gut feeling something was off, so he flashed a Morse code light signal

04:11at Titanic.

04:12But he received no reply because the Titanic had already gone underwater.

04:18There was another ship, Samson, sailing alongside the Titanic.

04:22It had plenty of illegally hunted frozen seal meat from Canadian waters abroad.

04:26So it was sailing with lights off to remain unnoticed.

04:30When they saw the Titanic's white rockets, they thought it was the Coast Guard and zoomed

04:34away.

04:35Samson didn't have a radio, so they couldn't find out about the ongoing disaster.

04:40The crew got the news about Titanic only when they got to the coast of Iceland the

04:44following month.

04:46There have been many theories to explain the Titanic tragedy, and one of the recent ones

04:51says that there was a fire involved.

04:53An Irish journalist went full detective for decades, digging into the mystery, and stumbled

04:58upon a game-changer.

05:00He came across a photo album that had been hiding from the public for a century after

05:04the tragedy.

05:05In the pictures, taken at the Harlan & Wolfe Shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland, just

05:10over a week before the liner sailed, you can clearly see a massive 30-foot black spot on

05:16the ship's hull.

05:17Maloney researched the photos and eyewitness testimony from the time and claimed that a

05:22fire spontaneously broke out inside of one of Titanic's enormous coal bunkers.

05:27It was raging for a whole three weeks and messed with the metal, critically weakening

05:32a crucial segment of the ship's hull.

05:34Back then, most ships had just one hull, so it was the only skin the Titanic had.

05:40That's why the iceberg managed to punch a hole through the ship so easily.

05:44If it hadn't been for the fire, the Titanic might've shrugged off that iceberg collision.

05:49The company operating the liner knew about the fire, but they decided to conceal that

05:53fact.

05:54They didn't want any negative stories in the press as they faced some serious competition

05:59in transatlantic voyages.

06:01The Titanic was sold out, so they stocked up on coal and made its sail.

06:07The Moon might've also played a role in the sinking.

06:10Our satellite heavily affects tides on the Earth.

06:13The closer it is to our planet, the stronger the tides are because of the increasing gravity

06:17of the Moon.

06:19Back in 1912, the Moon was so close, it made several glaciers in Greenland break apart.

06:25Massive chunks of ice that broke off from the glaciers started floating south.

06:29The supermoon event came just 6 minutes after a spring tide.

06:33During new and full moons, the alignment of the Moon, the Earth, and the Sun makes their

06:38combined gravity reach its peak.

06:41And the day before, our planet had come the closest to the Sun that year, which made the

06:45gravity even stronger.

06:47This mixture of events created perfect conditions for one of the most powerful tides in history.

06:53It created the perfect conditions for the icebergs breaking off from Greenland's glaciers

06:58to move freely.

07:00Opponents of this theory say that the difference in tidal force wasn't actually that big,

07:04and it couldn't have been the main cause of the sinking.

07:08The iceberg tore down the side of the ship, leaving a huge opening in the hull.

07:12It wasn't a continuous rip, and damage was caused in several places.

07:17Some experts believe the ship would've survived the iceberg if it had hit head-on.

07:22The Titanic had watertight compartments designed to prevent flooding in case of a collision.

07:27Only the first 3 or 4 of these compartments would've been flooded.

07:31This could've helped save a lot of lives.

07:34Supporters of this theory put the blame for the disaster on First Officer William Murdoch.

07:39Huge fast-moving ships don't just turn in a matter of seconds like a speeding car.

07:44It takes minutes.

07:45When Murdoch realized the collision was inevitable, he tried dodging left to avoid a direct hit.

07:52But despite his efforts, the ship still collided with the iceberg.

07:56You know the rest.

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