National Geographic - Titanic Collection (2012) Part 3 Seconds from Disaster Titanic

Commemorate a century of Titanic with this triple release from NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. It was mankind's largest and most magnificent machine - the Titanic, the gigantic ship that was supposed to transport people from Europe to the United States. Filled with dreams of the future and a strong belief that man could invent himself out of anything. Titanic was the ship that could not sink. Until the fateful night of April 15, 1912, when it hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank - leaving 1,495 people in the cold grave of the sea. On a mission funded by National Geographic, explorer-in-residence Dr. Robert Ballard researches the famed “unsinkable” Titanic. He reveals details of its discovery and provides answers to some its greatest mysteries in “Secrets of the Titanic” and “Titanic's Nuclear Secret”. This collector's set contains three fascinating documentaries and a short special featurette about the Titanic, the disaster and the amazing underwater operation that found the wreck at a depth of 3810 meters 73 years after the dramatic event.

Part 3 Seconds from Disaster Titanic

On 14 April, 1912 at 1140 PM, the Titanic grazes an iceberg, which causes the ship to sink, taking with it the lives of more than 1,500 people. Officials have struggled for decades to sift through the theories and conspiracy speculations to figure out what sank the massive ship. Using a groundbreaking experiment that mimics the conditions of the Titanic as it scraped the iceberg, experts find new evidence that enables them to finally conclude what brought the “unsinkable” ship down in the middle of the icy Atlantic. Titanic includes haunting commentary of eye-witness accounts, CGI and cutting-edge experiments that help bring the Titanic back to life to retrace its final moments. For a hundred years many have been perplexed by the details of what actually made the Titanic sink. Using a groundbreaking experiment that mimics the conditions of the Titanic as it scraped the iceberg, experts find new evidence that enables them to finally conclude what brought the “unsinkable” ship down in the middle of the icy Atlantic. Seconds from Disaster Titanic includes haunting commentary of eye-witness accounts, CGI and cutting-edge experiments that help bring the Titanic back to life to retrace its final moments.

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