This is one Jack who's not going down with the ship!

A man was asked for an interview of what his experience was after the Titanic sank and they were left in the dark. He said something along the lines of 'don't remind me, the sounds of the people stranded in the water were terrible, actually the silence that followed was deafening'

When that ship went down, survivors in the lifeboats recalled hearing screams of terror and agony from the cold water. As time went on, the sounds grew quieter. After about half an hour after Titanic disappeared, all was quiet. Absolutely horrific.

"I can remember the colours, the sounds, everything... The worst thing I can remember are the screams. It seemed as if once everybody had gone, drowned, finished, the whole world was standing still. There was nothing, just this deathly, terrible silence in the dark night with the stars." - Eva Hart

I do want to give credit. The Carpathia, hearing the distress calls of the Titanic. Melted her engines going a huge 17 knots, something unheard of for her type of ship, through the same iceberg fields as the titanic to reach her. The captain said, "I want the devil himself to be afraid of the heat from our engines." She was too late to save many, but she saved more than what would've been if she hadn't have made it when she did.

A lot of people don’t realize that while the ship did take 2+ hours to sink, most of the sinking action that you know about took place during the last 15 minutes that the ship was afloat. As soon as the bow went under, the sinking sped up dramatically. That’s why most were at first hesitant to believe the ship was in any real danger, because the ship felt almost perfectly level for the first hour and a half.

That was Molly Brown you were sitting next to. She was a good woman, and tried to convince the captain of lifeboat 6 to go back to find survivors. She later used her affluence to raise money from the more wealthy survivors to help out the families of poor people who didn't survive. She was played by Kathy Bates in the movie.

What i find especially heartbreaking is imagining being one of those women on the lifeboat, knowing your husband and sons were still aboard, watching it sink and knowing they were doomed. Absolutely horrifying. And the clusterfuck that was filling those lifeboats just makes me so angry. Just all of it is so upsetting.

2:30 I love how he pretty much just describes iron lung

the only reason the lights stayed on for so long was becouse of the engineers who was below deck working and keeping things together.
may them rest in peace.

What makes this experience more somber is, at least I could, hear people screaming what sounded like it was way off in the distance. That could have actually been in the game or it could have been Sean's audio quieting everything else down around it. But think about how scared the people on the life boats were and amplify that. That's probably what the people who were still on board were feeling. It must have been absolutely terrifying to experience.

It took so long to find the Titanic in part because she mis-reported her position in her distress calls. The ship was in the process of changing clocks (GMT wasn't standardized yet) when they struck, and the error in timekeeping threw off their navigation calculations by nearly 40 miles. Samuel Halpern wrote an excellent paper on the subject, but you will find it a tedious read if you're not familiar with celestial navigation. She also sank in over 3,700 meters of water, and it took a while to develop technology that could even reach such depths, never mind operate at them.

What's truly sad is many more lives could have been saved only if the life boats were used as intended, unfortunately they weren't even filled to half capacity.

What chills me to this day is the story of a 13 month old who washed up on shore in Halifax, Nova Scotia due to the tragedy. The baby had no name but they gave him an unmarked grave. He was identified years later thanks to DNA testing. The baby's shoes are in a Titanic museum today

The fact you could hear the screaming, the sobbing, the heartbreak you can feel. The hope that maybe your loved one got off the ship and is in the water, and then being told you can't go get them. So devastating.

I'd never considered the immersion, of like... hearing different accents, and babies crying, and the lights going out. But watching Jack infodump is so happy! Seeing anyone go on about something they know a lot about is somehow really nice.

26:00 what people forget is the boat was still settling and breaking under them so there was loud rumbling, creaking and moaning directly under their boats and those floating.

This is was so emotional to watch. My family on my mom's side was supposed to come over to America on the Titanic but ended up having to wait longer because my great great grandma went into labor with my great grandpa almost a month early. They would have been in third class and definitely would have drowned with the ship. My mom still has their original boarding passes somewhere.

I remember going to the Titanic Museum in Orlando, Florida for the first time. You get issued a boarding card with the name of an actual passenger on the ship, along with some info about their lives, where they were travelling, who they were travelling with and which class they were travelling on. Then at the end of the tour through the museum you can find "your" name on a list with every passenger onboard and find out if "you" survived or not. It was really emotional.

I think the "Sandbox" mode is where you have free roam of the wreckage!  If you decide to play through that, I think it would be fun to watch.  Maybe refresh your mind about the event and walk us through some of it.  I'm a big Titanic nut and I was really happy to see someone else who really enjoys it introduce me to a game like this!  Hoping you'll do more!