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Sinking Simulator (2013)

Duration: 25:20

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Just something I've been working on for a while in my spare time. I wanted to do something to pay tribute to the 111th Anniversary of the Titanic's sinking, and to keep in memory those 1,500 souls who perished that night. It may not be much, especially compared to other tributes out there, but Titanic is a subject that's pretty near and dear to me, so I wanted to do something, and Sinking Simulator seems to be the best vehicle for me to make such a tribute.

This is an accelerated timeline of the Titanic's sinking, so unfortunately, a lot of the details I wanted to put in there had to be trimmed out. But I did try to keep a lot of the core details in place that I felt still portrayed the general series of events that transpired as she sank.

Now, some of you who've played Sinking Simulator know this, but those who haven't, I will say that that because of how the physics in Sinking Simulator works, no one sinking behaves the same, and this is no exception. As such, there are some unavoidable aspects of the video that doesn't exactly line up to how she really sank. However, the overall similarities are still there. For example: while her stern in this video did not break up in the same way that the real one did, it does decently portray the fact that the stern does collapse in on itself and crumple up while the bow remains relatively intact.

I hope you enjoy.

Chapters:
0:00 - Iceberg Alert and Collision
2:46 - Titanic Sends Distress Calls
4:12 - Distress Rockets Begin Firing
9:00 - Titanic Takes a Sharp Dip Down
9:47 - Titanic Begins Her Final Plunge
11:22 - First Funnel Collapses
12:43 - Grand Staircase Floods
13:13 - Titanic Splits
14:21 - Stern Sinks
18:52 - Bow Hits the Ocean Floor
19:58 - Stern Breaks up and Hits the Ocean Floor

Historical Context:
The RMS Titanic was an ocean liner built in 1912 by the White Star Line. She was the largest, grandest, most luxurious ocean liner in the entire world. She featured restaurants & cafes, a library, a gym, swimming pool, turkish baths, steam room, tanning beds (known as "electric baths"), smoking room, a private massage room, a squash court, and a barber shop. She also featured a working mailroom and spacious cargo holds, which could carry items as large as automobiles. She also sported top-of-the-line technology for her time, including wireless telegraph, water pumps, water distiller, eight electric cranes, automated clocks, telephones for some 1st class cabins, four electric elevators, a central A/C, and her famous innovative watertight bulkheads.
On April 14, 1912, on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic, Titanic came up upon and grazed the side of an Iceberg, popping seams along her bow and opening five compartments to the sea. Though her watertight doors functioned as designed, the weight of five consecutively flooded compartments pulled the Titanic down and she sank at 2:20am on April 15, with only 706 of her 2223 passengers surviving.

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