Final Plunge: Titanic's HORRIFYING Last 5 Minutes

I go in to this weird rabbit hole ever so often again and again about the Titanic. It’s fascinating yet so heartbreaking.

What’s really unsettling is the fact that all this happened in near complete darkness. It was near pitch black once her lights failed.

The engineers who gave their lives to keep the lights burning to the last possible second are the true heroes in this very tragic tale.

The emptiness of the ocean at night always freaked me out. I always found it so eerie. To know your going in the water whether you like it or not, in the middle of nowhere, in the vast emptiness of the sea is a horror I have trouble wrapping my head around. To know you’re not going to make it and your body wouldn’t been seen again is such a terrifying idea.

There's a famous story about a Titanic survivor who lived near a major league ballpark. He never went to a game because the noise of the crowd reminded him of that night. Imagine, the sound of a ballpark screaming... then silence.

During the sinking of Titanic, Father Thomas Byles reportedly gave up his seat twice on two different lifeboats, saying he would rather stay on the ship and listen to peoples' confessions and give them absolution. He was lost in the sinking. RIP Thomas Byles.

The musicians playing with all the chaos happening around them has to be the most incredibly beautiful and courageous thing. I wouldn’t be able to do that.

That moment in the movie Titanic when the ice crashes down on the deck...we're taken from a warm, comfortable sense of life aboard ship to the immediate and jarring awareness of what we all collectively know will be their fate. That scene really sticks in my mind.

The final plunge may have been only 5 minutes but for those onboard or in the lifeboats it was probably the longest and haunting 5 minutes of their lives. 😢

The fact that Titanic stayed afloat for over 2 hours when Thomas Andrews said she had 1 hour or less is just a testament to how well built she was!

Everything about The Titanic is compelling and riveting. No matter how many times I hear watch reenactments I’m still in awe of its stories. Chilling to try and comprehend what those poor souls suffered through. Being sucked deep down in the depths of the freezing cold ocean in the dark of the night is utterly terrifying. May god rest their souls. And as for the stunning Ocean Liner itself, it will forever be the most elegant ship ever built.

The screaming in the water must've sounded like hell. Hundreds of people screaming for their lives in freezing cold, pitch black water, slowly growing numb and then, finally, falling into a deadly stupor. The scene in James Cameron's 1997 Titanic where a lone lifeboat searches for survivors, rowing through a field of frozen, floating corpses still haunts me to this day, especially the mother holding her baby in her arms. Titanic held up quite well for a while despite mortal damage. Had she sunk sooner, the death toll would've been much, much higher, perhaps only a hundred or so surviving, many more being trapped inside.

What strikes me the most whenever I see real time animations of Titanic's sinking IS how 'peaceful' those first 2 hours seem. To hear that people on board actually got a false sense of security from this peacefulness is quite haunting.

It’s amazing how different things looked after just 20 minutes. at 2:00 Am, she looked like she could have still potentially remained afloat for another hour and a half, but in less than half an hour, she was gone, along with 2/3 of those onboard.

The anxiety just I experienced watching something that I already knew exactly how it ends… so well done.

I usually do not like ads, but loved the energetic cruise line ad that came on for me in the middle of this tragic story.

Hearing screams is terrifying, but hearing them disappear is worse.

I've been an enthusiast of this ship for nearly 40yrs and two things particularly strike me about that night. One: the band never ran - how could they not? They did their best as only musicians and entertainers could. They died with respect, I hope, from all those who remembered them. Two: Carpathia was good for 14.5 knots IIRC. That night she hit 17. A feat that the ship never repeated by all accounts. Many other noble and respectful episodes happened that night in the face of abject terror but these two stick in my mind particularly...

It's so easy to forget the human element of this . We hear the stories of course, but putting ourselves, our lives there on that ship... it's as impossible to imagine what is essentially your home, or a hotel disappearing out from underneath you as you cling to life. With no safety or safe place to "go" in sight. This video truly brings the human element into the mythos of the story.

Regarding being unsinkable, one of the most emotional moments in the 1997 film for me is, when Bruce Ismay says "This ship cannot sink!" And chief designer Thomas Andrews answers "She was made from iron, I assure you she can... and she will!" (Translated back from German, sorry if I did not hit the exact quotes). Maybe it is because since then I have become a master of engineering myself and can imagine how horrible it must be for an engineer to confess his masterpiece is doomed to be destroyed.