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The Titanic: April 15, 1912

The Titanic: April 15, 1912

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The unsinkable ship that sank on her maiden voyage. Belfast to Southampton to New York. The Astors, the Guggenheims, the third-class Irish emigrants. Iceberg warnings ignored. The impact at 11:40 PM on April 14. Lifeboats launched half-full. The band that kept playing. The Californian ten miles away with radio silence. The Carpathia's rescue. Fifteen hundred dead. The 1985 discovery on the seafloor. The wreck being consumed today. History's most famous shipwreck. — a daily series with new episodes every day.© 2026 YesOui.ai 世界 社会科学
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  • The Calculation: Two Hours, 1,500 Dead, and Every Decision That Led There

    The Calculation: Two Hours, 1,500 Dead, and Every Decision That Led There
    2026/08/31
    (00:00:00) The Calculation: Two Hours, 1,500 Dead, and Every Decision That Led There
    (00:00:35) Built to Be Unsinkable
    (00:01:43) Belfast to Southampton to the Open Atlantic
    (00:03:00) Ice on the Wire
    (00:04:58) Eleven Forty PM
    (00:06:03) The Lifeboats
    (00:07:43) The Californian and the Rockets
    (00:09:00) Two Hours and Forty Minutes
    (00:10:01) Carpathia
    (00:10:56) What Came After
    (00:12:03) What It Settles

    At 11:40 PM on April 14, 1912, lookout Frederick Fleet spotted an iceberg off the starboard bow. The Titanic had roughly two hours left. But the story of why 1,500 people died that night begins long before the impact — in the design philosophy that deemed lifeboats unnecessary, in the ice warnings received and ignored, and in the locked gates that separated third-class passengers from the decks above.

    This episode traces the full arc: the White Star Line's confidence in watertight compartments that could withstand four flooded sections but not five; Captain Edward Smith maintaining full speed through a documented ice field on a moonless, glassy sea — the worst possible conditions for spotting a berg; wireless operator Jack Phillips cutting off the Californian's final ice warning to clear his queue of passenger telegrams; and the Californian's radio operator shutting down his set and going to sleep, leaving the one nearby ship effectively deaf.

    Aboard the Titanic, the social order that built her played out to the end. First-class suites with fireplaces. Third-class berths below the waterline. Irish emigrants from Queenstown carrying everything they owned toward a new life in America, separated from the boat deck by locked gates. The Astors and the Guggenheims in one world; steerage passengers in another.

    Naval architect Thomas Andrews did the mathematics quickly after the collision. Five compartments breached. Two hours, perhaps less. He was almost exactly right. This episode is the complete account of how certainty, class, commercial pressure, and compounding failure produced the night the Titanic went down.

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    13 分
  • Watertight Lies: The Design Flaw That Doomed 1,500 Lives

    Watertight Lies: The Design Flaw That Doomed 1,500 Lives
    2026/08/30
    (00:00:00) Watertight Lies: The Design Flaw That Doomed 1,500 Lives
    (00:00:44) The Ship That Could Not Sink
    (00:02:07) The Passengers and the World They Carried
    (00:03:41) Iceberg Warnings and a Captain Who Didn't Stop
    (00:05:04) Eleven Forty PM
    (00:06:14) The Lifeboats That Left Half Empty
    (00:07:50) The Band, the Guggenheims, and the Astors
    (00:09:29) Two Twenty AM
    (00:10:40) The Californian and the Carpathia
    (00:11:36) What the Wreck Confirmed

    On the night of April 14, 1912, the Titanic carried more than two thousand souls across a calm, ice-filled Atlantic — and the men responsible for her believed, genuinely, that the ship itself was the safeguard. That belief is the story.

    This episode traces the full arc of April 14 from the dining rooms of first class to the locked gates of steerage. John Jacob Astor ordered dinner as ice warnings stacked up in the Marconi room. Benjamin Guggenheim dressed in white tie. The Murphy sisters from Cobh slept in the lower decks, closer to the waterline, further from the lifeboats. Meanwhile, Captain Edward Smith received at least five separate ice warnings and did not reduce speed. Wireless operator Jack Phillips cut off the Californian's final warning and returned to sending passenger telegrams. At 10:30 PM, the Californian's radio went silent — ten miles away.

    At 11:40 PM, lookout Frederick Fleet rang the bell. The Titanic struck the iceberg along her starboard side in roughly ten seconds of contact. Five watertight compartments were breached. The design allowed for four. That single extra compartment made the outcome mathematically certain within minutes of impact.

    This episode examines the engineering confidence that replaced caution, the outdated maritime law that left 1,500 people without lifeboat space, and the structural geography of a ship where class determined survival. The Titanic didn't just sink. She sank exactly as the logic of her era made inevitable.

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    13 分
  • Fifteen Hundred Dead: The Night Certainty Sank the Titanic

    Fifteen Hundred Dead: The Night Certainty Sank the Titanic
    2026/08/28
    (00:00:00) Fifteen Hundred Dead: The Night Certainty Sank the Titanic
    (00:00:43) Belfast to Southampton
    (00:01:58) The Passengers
    (00:03:07) The Warnings That Were Ignored
    (00:04:30) Eleven Forty PM
    (00:05:24) The Lifeboats
    (00:06:42) The Band and the Millionaires
    (00:07:49) Two Twenty AM
    (00:08:43) The Carpathia
    (00:10:06) The Wreck and What Remains
    (00:11:03) What the Titanic Tells Us

    On the night of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic — the ship Edwardian engineering had declared effectively unsinkable — struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank in under three hours, killing fifteen hundred people. This episode tells the complete story, from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast to the seafloor two miles below the surface.

    The Titanic carried lifeboats for roughly half the people aboard, and the men who built her weren't alarmed by that. The ship's design — a double hull, sixteen watertight compartments — had produced a new kind of certainty: the belief that the old questions no longer needed asking. That certainty is at the centre of this story.

    We follow the social world reproduced almost perfectly on the ship's decks: John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim in first class, teachers and tradespeople in second, and Irish emigrants in third — quartered at the bottom of the ship, a detail that would matter enormously on the night of the sinking. We trace the iceberg warnings that arrived and were ignored on April 14, Captain Edward Smith's decision to maintain full speed, the wireless operator who told the nearby Californian to stand down, and Thomas Andrews' quiet assessment an hour after impact: the ship had between one and two hours.

    Then the lifeboats — launched half-full, without a drill, without a clear plan — the band that kept playing, the Carpathia racing fifty-eight miles through ice, and the fifteen hundred who didn't survive to see the rescue. And finally, the wreck discovered by Robert Ballard in 1985, still two miles down, and still slowly disappearing.

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    12 分
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