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[♪ ominous music playing]

[captain] ETA over the
wreck is approximately

ten minutes from now.

[crew] Roger that,
that's secure, here we go.

Survey, we are headed off.

-Juliet, survey.

Yeah, whenever you're
happy, I'm happy.

-Off we go.

[Narrator] In a remote
spot in the middle of the

Atlantic Ocean,

nearly 400 miles
from Newfoundland.

[crew] Clear to dive.
Clear to dive.

[Narrator] A remarkable
expedition is underway.

[captain] Roger that.
Juliet is clear to dive.

I've got a green board.

Pumps are now in.

Heading one eight zero.

[Narrator] It's destination...

[captain]
Surface LF wreck on Sonar.

[Narrator] ...the most
famous wreck site in history.

[captain]
Present depth,

three-eight-one-zero.
At bottom.

[Narrator] For over a century,
the tragic fate of Titanic has

been a global obsession.

[reporter] Scientists
have found wreckage of the

S.S. Titanic.

[Narrator] A story so compelling
that people risk their lives,

spending
millions of dollars

just to get a
glimpse of the wreck.

This investigation will
allow us to see Titanic in

a whole new way.

-The remarkable
new images of the Titanic,

as you've never seen it before.

-The largest underwater
scanning project in history.

It's incredible to
see it like this.

[Narrator] Over
700,000 scanned images,

16 terabytes of data,

and almost two years of
research and processing,

have produced a full-sized
digital replica of the ship,

a virtual twin of Titanic.

-Wow.

This is a view I've
never had before.

[Narrator] A replica
so detailed...

-See the numbers?

-It's incredible when
you see the full scale.

[Narrator] ...It will offer
new insights into the sinking.

-Looking at it in this scale,
you would think the ship had

been struck by some
enormous missile.

[Narrator] And new
evidence of the final moments

of those on board.

-They were trying to
launch one last lifeboat.

[♪ theme music playing]

[reporter] When she set
sail from Southampton,

England in the spring of 1912,

she was hailed as
the most luxurious steamship

in the world.

And on this her maiden voyage,

she was unsurpassed
and unsinkable.

Her name, of course,
the Titanic.

-On tenth of April 1912,

Titanic begins her maiden
voyage from Southampton

to New York.

She's billed as the greatest
most luxurious ship of her day.

[Narrator] It is the golden
age of the ocean liner.

Two companies,

White Star Line
and Cunard,

vie for supremacy on the
route across the Atlantic.

Cunard ships were
typically faster.

But White Star had the
edge when it came to luxury.

And the gigantic Titanic
was the jewel in their crown.

[Yasmin Khan] On board,
there are aristocrats.

There are business magnates,
but there's also immigrants who

are going to the Americas
to make a new life.

[Narrator] In just
seven days’ time,

Titanic should be steaming
triumphantly into New York.

The world's press,
waiting to greet her.

Instead, she'll be at the
bottom of the Atlantic,

and almost 1,500
people will be dead.

A century on, many
details about the sinking are

still debated.

[Yasmin Khan] Titanic's never
given up her secrets easily,

and for 70 years, nobody
even knew where she was.

And then in 1985,
Bob Ballard found the wreck.

[reporter] Today, the
French and the American men,

who found the
Titanic will celebrate.

[Narrator] Ballard had found
the greatest of all lost ships,

and scientists clamored to
study the wreck.

But 2.5 miles down,
under atmospheric pressure,

almost 400 times greater
than at sea level,

conditions make it hard to
see more than fragments of

the ship at a time.

[crew] We're still
searching for the stern.

We can't find it.

[Yasmin Khan] Many
expeditions have been down

to the wreck over
the past 40 years.

But it's pitch black down there.

So, it's not being possible
to see the whole ship.

Viewing it has been like shining
a flashlight in the dark,

until now.

[captain] Your depth is
eight-zero-five meters,

heading three-zero-zero.

[Narrator] After a 2-and-
a-half-hour descent to

the ocean floor,

two unmanned subs named,
Romeo and Juliet,

get to work.

While Romeo films
high-resolution footage

of the ship and sea floor.

[captain] The stronger
that laser line gets,

it starts to get more defined.

[crew] Roger that.
Moving to next position.

[Narrator] Equipped with
lasers recording millions of

measurements, Juliet captures
every inch of the wreck.

[captain] Oh, yeah,
that's looking nice right there.

You must be really close now.

-I have every expectation
that we're going to see the most

accurate portrayal of the wreck
site that's ever been offered.

[captain] Park's
at the ladder Tom,

are you ready?

[Narrator] World-renowned
expert, Parks Stevenson,

has been on multiple
dives to Titanic.

[captain] Thrusters, we are
beginning to pump them now.

[Narrator] He hopes the
scan will offer insights into

some of the questions
which still surround the wreck.

[captain] Hatch is secure.

[Parks Stephenson] I'm
intrigued by mysteries.

People thought that
the ship could not sink.

So how did she end up
like this on the ocean floor?

[captain] Coming up
on the wreck site.

[Parks Stephenson] What
actually happened that night?

I often view the shipwreck
as the last surviving witness

to the disaster.

The way she's torn apart,

the way the pieces of
her are bent or torn,

these all tell a story, and so,

it's vital that we
listen to the stories that the

wreck can tell.

[Narrator] Footage from
the Romeo sub quickly offers

glimpses of these stories.

Snapshots of humanity among
the scattered wreckage.

Hundreds of wine bottles.

A dress.

A doll's head.

All are a stark reminder.

Titanic isn't just an
object of fascination.

She's a graveyard.

One which the scan
will allow us to study from

a respectful distance.

After three weeks at sea,
scanning 24 hours a day,

the work of the
expedition team is complete.

-Hi five. Yeah.

-Job done, sailing home.

[Narrator] But it will take
over a year to research and

piece together the enormous
amount of data gathered.

[Parks Stephenson] This
operation has a lot of promise.

Having a tool of a virtual
twin of the Titanic wreck,

that's huge.

[Narrator] Awaiting
access to the digital twin,

Parks has assembled a team to
help him examine it in detail.

[Parks Stephenson] This
will give you just basically the

context of the ship itself.

[Narrator] Master Mariner,
Captain Chris Hearn,

wants to study the twin
from a sailor's point of view.

[Chris Hearn] As
somebody who has crossed

the Atlantic and been in ice,

a ship is very much
about its crew.

What was their experience
when the ship was sinking?

If you had the
whole wreck site,

what could you do with that?

-We can totally
recreate that night.

[Narrator] Metallurgist,
Doctor Jennifer Hooper,

has spent years in the
lab studying small fragments

of the wreck.

[Jennifer Hooper] Going
from examining the materials

in a laboratory to feeling
like I'm on the sea floor,

staring at this wreck site
is something I never

thought I would
see in my lifetime.

-Hopefully, we're going
to get the answers

to some of these
questions that have been

bugging me for decades.

[Narrator] After almost
two years of research and

processing, over 700,000
scan images have been

painstakingly pieced together.

At a gigantic sound stage,
colossal LED panels will

project the image of the
twin at up to full scale,

bringing the investigators
face to face with the severed

wreckage of Titanic.

[♪ ominous music playing]

[underwater metal groaning]

[♪ ominous music playing]

[underwater metal groaning]

[Chris Hearn]
Well, look at that.

I can tell you, I'm in the
ship simulation business,

and I've never seen
anything like that.

[Parks Stephenson] I've actually
been here in a submersible,

but I only see just a
little bit out my viewport.

It's just so immense.

When you are in a submersible,

you can see maybe only a
few meters in front of you.

But with the digital twin, you
can see the entire wreck site.

Now, I have a better view
of Titanic than I ever did

at the Titanic.

-We're around 12,000 feet
at the bottom of the ocean.

Looking up at the Titanic.

-Studying this under
microscope doesn't really

prepare you for this.

Seeing the Titanic
wreck site in full scale,

I finally understood how
small I am in comparison to

everything that I'm looking at.

I was able to truly experience
the sense of destruction.

[Parks Stephenson] This is
where she ripped in two.

[Narrator] The digital
twin not only allows the team

to explore the ship itself,

but the destruction caused
by the crash that sank her.

[Chris Hearn] I wasn't really
prepared for the level of

damage that the
scan showed us.

It's catastrophic in its scale.

That really struck me.

[Narrator] We've known
since her discovery that the

ship lies in two parts.

But the wreck site
is so massive,

no one has ever seen it
all at once, until now.

The stern sits a third
of a mile from the bow.

[♪ ominous music playing]

[underwater metal groaning]

[Parks Stephenson] Okay, now,
this is something you don't

normally see because it's
very dangerous underneath the

overhanging stern here.

Trying to get in here
with a submersible,

it's not very often done.

[Narrator] The twin allows
the experts to study near

inaccessible parts of the ship.

[Parks Stephenson] Here's a
starboard propeller over here.

[Narrator] Taking in features
which are almost impossible to

see on a manned
mission to the site.

[Parks Stephenson] Ah,
you see that right there?

The numbers.

That's 401, that's
Titanic's hull number.

[Jennifer Hooper] Oh, wow.
It's in pristine condition.

[Parks Stephenson] The best.

[Narrator] From the tiniest
details to its colossal scale,

the scan offers an entirely
new perspective on Titanic.

And the experts have only
just begun to scratch the

surface of what the
twin can tell them.

[Parks Stephenson] I am really,

really excited to
see what the rest of this

is going to look like.

To have the wreck site
at my command to see what

happened to the ship.

Wow.

The possibilities are endless.

[♪ ominous music playing]

[metal groaning]

[Yasmin Khan] The disaster
of 14th, April 1912

happens on a cold,
clear, starry night,

four days into
Titanic's maiden voyage.

Jack Phillips, a
wireless operator,

receives a message
that there is pack ice and

icebergs up ahead.

In first class, Captain Smith
is with Bruce Ismay,

chairman of the
White Star Line.

While up on the bridge,

First Officer Murdoch
is keeping watch.

At 11:39 p.m.,
three bells ring out.

[bell ringing]

And that's the warning
of an obstacle up ahead.

First Officer Murdoch rams
the engine ship's

telegraph to stop,

sending a signal
to cut the power.

He then demands that Titanic
turn harder starboard,

hoping to steer
the ship to safety.

And seconds later, the
Titanic hits the iceberg.

[thud]

Many on board felt nothing.

Even Frederick Fleet,
who sounded that alarm from

the crow's nest, said it
felt like a close shave.

[Narrator] And yet this
glancing blow sank a ship

thought to be unsinkable.

The experts were hoping
that the twin can show us how.

[Jennifer Hooper]
With the scan,

what is exciting is
that we actually do have our

first visible ice damage.

So, take a look up
here at this porthole.

This porthole was
smashed by the ice.

First-class passenger,
Margaret Swift,

saw the ice that had come
through that porthole.

That tells us that the
iceberg was at least 30 feet

above water line.

So, the scan is telling us
the size of the iceberg.

It's definitively giving us
information that will help us

understand more about
the collision that night.

[Narrator] It's tantalizing new
evidence of the iceberg strike,

but Titanic's fatal wound
appears hidden from view.

When she sank,

the ship's bow hit the
seabed with such force

that nearly half of
it was buried in mud.

Now the twin can
provide the experts with

a brand-new perspective.

[Parks Stephenson] Okay, I
have never seen this depicted

before, and certainly
not in this scale.

[Chris Hearn] What a
different view now.

[laughs]

[Parks Stephenson] You see
how much of the bow has dug

into the ocean bottom?

Can you imagine the force
needed to propel that much of

the ship into the ocean bottom?

[Jennifer Hooper] I mean, the
iceberg damage should be here,

but it's not.

We can't see it because
it's under the sea floor.

-No, it's at least 20-25 feet
below the mud line.

[Narrator] Although evidence
of the impact appears lost

to the ocean floor,

the experts think that the twin
could still provide answers.

To decode the clues
offered by the wreckage,

the investigation turns
to Titanic's birthplace.

[ships horn]

Taking over two years to build,

Titanic was designed
and constructed here...

...at Harland & Wolff in
Northern Ireland,

on the shores of Belfast Lough,

a company at the
forefront of shipbuilding,

even today.

Built in this dock, her
blueprints were drawn up by

skilled draftsmen next door.

[Yasmin Khan] Titanic was the
most technologically advanced

ship of the age.

These original blueprints
show she was divided into 16

watertight compartments.

These were designed to collect
floodwater in a small area.

What's more, Titanic
would stay afloat,

even if up to four
of these flooded.

This was what cemented
her reputation as

the unsinkable ship.

[Narrator] After the tragedy,

Harland & Wolff's
naval architect, Edward Wilding,

was called on
to explain how the

ship's fail-safes were so
catastrophically overwhelmed.

His starting point was that
more than four compartments

must have been damaged
by the iceberg,

the weight of the
floodwater pulling the ship

below the surface.

-Wilding set
about calculating the impact of

the iceberg and concluded
that there had been a series of

puncture holes along the hull on
an area of about 12 square feet.

Wilding based his findings on
the testimony of surviving crew

and passengers and on
his own detailed knowledge

of the ship's design.

But even after the
wreck was discovered,

testing his theory
was impossible.

The evidence buried
below the mud line.

[Narrator] But now, the
investigation has brought

together experts from around
the world to put Wilding's

findings to the test.

At University College London,

renowned naval architect
Professor Jeom-Kee Paik

is joined by fellow specialists,
Doctor Simon Benson,

and Doctor Stephen Payne,

designer of the cruise liner,
Queen Mary II.

[Dr. Stephen Payne] This is
the first time we can actually

use a computer simulation
to test Wilding's hypothesis.

[Narrator] Based on information
from Titanic's blueprints,

combined with their
estimated speed of 22 knots,

the team uses cutting-edge
technology to simulate the

iceberg strike.

-Wow, here it goes.

We can see the
ship glancing blow,

and it's actually
turning to starboard,

as it comes past.

Ah, yeah, interesting.

We can see the ice
actually splintering off.

We actually now find out
from these simulations that

the time it took for
the Titanic to collide

with the iceberg,

the glancing blow
was 6.3 seconds.

[Narrator] 6.3 seconds.
A mere moment.

Yet what could
have been a fleeting

scrape proved catastrophic.

And the simulation can now
reveal the full extent of the

damage for the very first time.

-Well, this for me
is where it gets really

interesting because here,

we really see the
power of the simulation.

So, here's the collision.

And it very quickly
spreads quite a thin line

of gash, isn't it?

But we can see the
ruptures occurring.

[Dr. Simon Benson]
Wilding predicted that the

total area of the holes
would be about 12 square feet.

We are, with this
new prediction,

looking at something
in the order of 18.

-The Wilding
estimation is incredible.

[Narrator] The figures
may differ slightly,

but Wilding was right.

The scale of the damage
was minimal compared to the

size of the ship overall.

But crucially, it wasn't
confined to one area.

[Chris Hearn] Wow.

[Parks Stephenson] So,
this is the damage.

-We're seeing a simulation
of the iceberg damage

for the very first time.

[Narrator] The digital
twin allows the experts to

see the impact pattern
precisely mapped out.

[Jennifer Hooper] The
damage begins, the front,

and it crosses over
the compartments,

all the way to boiler
room number six.

And then it crosses into
boiler room number five.

You have one small section
in boiler room number five,

and another very small section
of damage in the forepeak.

[Parks Stephenson] How small?

-That last bit is only the
size of two pieces of paper.

That's six compartments
along the starboard side and

the ship was only designed
for four compartments to flood.

So you've got small
margins on one end or the

other that sank this ship.

[Chris Hearn] So,
two small holes?

-That's what the
simulation shows us.

[Narrator] The areas that made
all the difference are tiny.

Small holes either side of the
four badly damaged compartments.

Without them,
Titanic might not have sunk.

-We all imagine that
it was a giant hole--

-Yeah.

-That sank such
a massive ship.

In reality, it was a very
small amount of damage over

a long distance and fractions
of a second that ended up

sinking the ship.

[Parks Stephenson] So, if true,

it suggests an irony that in
turning to avoid the iceberg,

the crew had created an
area of damage lengthy enough

to open up too many
compartments to the sea

and sink the ship.

[Narrator] The irony
doesn't stop there.

At the British inquiry
into the sinking, Wilding,

one of the men who
knew Titanic best,

predicted that had the
crew not turned the ship

to try and avoid the iceberg,

instead, hitting it head-on,

she would have
stayed afloat.

The simulation will now
put that theory to the test.

-Because this has
never been done before.

[Dr. Stephen Payne]
No, absolutely not.

Let's see it go.

Oh, wow.

Look at this crumpling
of that deck.

All the energy of
the Titanic is now going

into that collision.

Okay, so, can we
have the close-up?

So we're really gonna see
the crumple zone as that wow.

All that steel
mashing into the ice.

[Dr. Simon Benson]
Just imagine the noise that

there would have been.

[Dr. Stephen Payne]
Wilding predicted that

with this collision,
Titanic would survive.

We look at the blueprint.

We see, well, where
are we going to?

We've lost the peak tank,
cargo tanks, and we've ended.

-So it's just
forwarded the bridge.

-Just forwarded the bridge.

So we've actually only lost
what, 4 compartments?

-4 compartments.
-So.

-She would have stayed afloat.

-It would have.

[Jennifer Hooper] So,
based on the simulation,

it would not have sunk.

[Chris Hearn] Yeah.

[Narrator] The front-on
simulation gives us a fleeting

glimpse of a different
outcome for the tragic ship.

What it doesn't provide
is a sailor's perspective.

-Think about the crew.

You don't steer directly
into an iceberg.

I doubt very highly
anybody would have done it.

A lot of the crew had
their bunks forward.

And so, if Murdoch making
that kind of an action to

take the iceberg
right on the bow,

he would have likely
killed everybody that was

in those forward spaces

But the officer's
maneuver to try and

turn away from the iceberg,

as hard as it is to say,

essentially seal
the Titanic's fate.

[Narrator] With the
ship now taking on water,

the lives of over 2000
people hang in the balance.

The decisions made
by Titanic's crew,

are about to become
more crucial by the minute.

[♪ ominous music playing]

[rushing water]

[Narrator] Within 20 minutes
of the iceberg strike,

Captain Smith has had
multiple reports of flooding in

the ship's boiler rooms.

-Fireman, Fred Barrett,
was a witness to what happened.

He was working in
boiler room six.

When he gave his testimony
to the inquiry, he said,

"The bell rang.

He called out
"Shut all doors."

Then a large volume of
water came through the side

of the ship.

He ran from that section,

just as the watertight
doors came down.

The man responsible for
keeping the ship's boilers

alight was Chief Engineer
Joseph Bell.

He was in charge of 200
men who powered Titanic

24 hours a day.

[Narrator] The boiler
rooms ran over half the

length of the ship.

40 minutes after the collision,

number six was already lost,

and number five
had a small,

paper-sized breach.

[Yasmin Khan] Titanic
was taking on water fast.

Wilding estimated that
16,000 tons of it had now

entered the ship.

[Narrator] The damaged
compartments fill up.

The ship tilts forward,

water spilling from one
compartment to the next.

-Suddenly...

[rushing water]

...the water bursts into
boiler room five.

And Bell was heard to say,
"My God, we are lost."

[Narrator] Bell and his
men were forced back to

boiler room two,

the only one still capable
of providing power to the ship.

[Yasmin Khan] One hour, 40
after the iceberg strike,

Chief Bell sent his stokers
up on deck to save themselves.

And all 35 engineering officers
stayed with him below deck.

[Chris Hearn] Ultimately, it
came down to a skeleton crew

in boiler room number two,

essentially of the
engineers themselves.

Everybody else
has been released.

[Narrator] It's clear to
Bell that Titanic is doomed.

He now had to pivot from
saving the ship to saving lives.

[Yasmin Khan] They were in
the middle of the Atlantic,

and it was pitch black.

If the power went off, they
would be in total darkness,

making it incredibly difficult
for people to get to the deck

and into lifeboats.

And if the Titanic's
wireless room went down,

the nearby ships couldn't be
alerted to stranded survivors.

[Narrator] In short,
without power,

the chances of those on
board surviving were slim.

The courage of Titanic's
engineers is a story that's

endured for over a century.

But now, the digital twin
allows the experts to actually

examine the place where
Bell and his men battled

on clearly visible,
where the ship tore apart.

[Jennifer Hooper] Okay, so
we're in Boiler room number two.

This is essentially the
last place where they kept

the fires going.

[Parks Stephenson]
This is what's left of the

heart of Titanic.

The steam that's being
generated in these boilers is

providing the power and
the light to the ship.

These engineers down here,

they couldn't see
what was going on outside.

[Jennifer Hooper] The conditions
must have been terrible.

Brutally hot.

The steam.

-Real tests of leadership
often come under the

worst of circumstances.

I reflect on Bell's
efforts that night.

He was going to do everything
he could so that other people

may have a chance to live.

[Narrator] The digital twin
shows us not only the location

of Bell's last stand,

it also offers new evidence
of how he kept the power on,

even as the ship
began to sink.

Nearly 2,300 feet
across the wreck site,

the experts have
spotted a clue.

[Parks Stephenson] Okay,
we're coming up on the

port side of the
stern back here.

There's the mainmast
that's collapsed and lying

over the edge.

So, let's rotate
this thing around.

And take a look at this.

I found this very interesting.

It's a steam valve.

It didn't come from here.

It landed on the wreck
after the stern had settled.

And the flap is seen in
the open position right now.

[Jennifer Hooper]
Why is that important?

[Chris Hearn] Well, this
is a line that was taking

the remaining steam
from the boiler rooms to

the emergency dynamos.

[Parks Stephenson] They
provided life to the ship,

the lighting, the heating,
running the pumps.

[Narrator] Titanic's
emergency dynamo was over

40 feet higher than
the main generator,

so it would take
longer to flood.

It was connected to
boiler room two through

an emergency pipe,

and the valve had to
be opened manually.

[Chris Hearn] You can see this
steam valve is clearly open,

which means steam was
continuously flowing through

to the emergency dynamos,

and this action to
keep this open saved

hundreds of lives.

[Narrator] Survivors
testified that over two hours

after striking the iceberg,

the ship's lights
were still on.

[Jennifer Hooper] So this
is proof that the survivors

who saw lights to
the very end, it's true.

-Yeah.

[Narrator] This steam valve
is frozen in its final act.

Responding to
Bell's orders.

Keeping the power
on and hope alive.

While Bell and his men
fight on, above them,

panic is starting to spread.

At the lifeboats,

the crew struggle
to keep order,

and senior officers
are faced with

life and death choices.

[Narrator] Until 11:39 P.M.

passengers had enjoyed a
peaceful evening and luxurious

surroundings and
were looking forward to

arriving in New York.

But nearly two hours
after Titanic hit the iceberg,

the situation for those on
board is deteriorating fast.

As water begins to
flood the corridors,

the passengers start
rushing to the boat deck.

[Yasmin Khan] By law in 1912,

ocean liners were only
required to have 16 lifeboats.

And in an emergency
would have been expected to

stay afloat long enough to
ferry people to a rescue ship.

So, Titanic only had enough
lifeboat spaces for about half

of those onboard.

[Narrator] The order is
to start loading women and

children into the boats.

In the chaos, most
of the lifeboats aren't

even launched full.

A tension quickly
turns to panic.

On the boat deck,

there are scenes of
both heroism and heartbreak.

[Yasmin Khan] Ida Strauss,
for instance,

wouldn't board a lifeboat
if she couldn't go with her

husband and said,

"We have lived together,
and we'll die together."

Rhoda Abbott, who was traveling
with her two teenage sons,

reached a lifeboat
being boarded.

But realizing that her
boys were considered too old

to go in a lifeboat,

stepped back and
remained with her children.

[Narrator] 17-year-old
first-class passenger

Jack Thayer, noted
who joined the boat after

Rhoda Abbott retreated.

-He recorded.

"There was some disturbance
in loading the last two

forward starboard boats.

A large crowd of
men was pressing to get

to the lifeboats.

No women were around
as far as I could see.

I saw Ismay,

who had been assisting in
the loading of the last boat,

push his way into it.

It was really every
man for himself."

Bruce Ismay was the chairman
of the White Star Line.

He went on to survive,

but his reputation
never recovered.

[Narrator] As passengers
become increasingly desperate,

the crew struggle
to keep order.

[Yasmin Khan]
Michel Navratil said,

"Honest people didn't
stand a chance as passengers

descended to deviance
in order to survive."

[Narrator] With the
sinking of Titanic making

headlines around the world,

the press was hungry
for heroes and villains.

But these were some of
the most chaotic moments

of the whole tragedy,

and conflicting versions
of events quickly emerged.

-The first officer,
William Murdoch,

was in charge of the
lifeboats on the starboard side

of the ship, and
he was desperately trying

to lower them as the water
was gushing up to meet them.

Afterwards, as these
newspaper reports show,

he was accused of
having shot himself on the

bridge and
abandoning his post.

It says here "he was seen
whipping a gleaming bit of

metal from his pocket,

deliberately placing
it to his temple,

and pulling the trigger."

[distant gunshot]

[Narrator] The story
was headline news.

Murdoch was painted
as cowardly,

his reputation in tatters.

But even at the time,
his actions were disputed.

[Yasmin Khan]
Second Officer Lightoller,

the most senior officer
who survived the sinking,

refuted the
accusation of suicide,

writing that he'd seen
Murdoch swept overboard and

that he had died
a hero's death.

[Narrator] Now, Parkes
believes that the twin can

offer clues about
Murdoch's final moments.

[Parks Stephenson] Well, this is
the number one lifeboat station,

the forward davit.

[Chris Hearn] That was
Murdoch station, right?

[Parks Stephenson] Yes, it was.

And you'll notice here that
that davit is in the upright

or retracted position.

[Narrator] Davits are
cranes used to winch lifeboats

down to the water.

Before being wound back
to launch the next.

[Parks Stephenson] This
davit is in the up position,

meaning its crew is basically
trying to get a lifeboat

ready to be launched.

[Narrator] In an attempt to
save as many lives as possible,

Murdoch, unlike some officers,

had allowed men
to join the women and children

aboard his lifeboats.

[Parks Stephenson] Murdoch
has been watching the water

rise this whole time.

He knows he's out of time,

and he's working against
the rising water to try and

get one more boat
into the water.

And this coincides with
Second Officer Lightoller's

description, who was
standing on top of the

deckhouse back here.

[Narrator] At 2:15 a.m.,

minutes before the
ship went down,

Lightoller witnessed
Murdoch trying to launch

one final boat.

Suddenly, Titanic
dipped and the lifeboat

was washed overboard.

While survivors scrambled
onto it from the freezing water,

Murdoch was swept away.

[Parks Stephenson]
Historians have disputed that,

but this davit right here
stands in mute testimony that

supports Lightoller's
version of events.

Because, being in the
up position is exactly

what Lightoller described.

[Narrator] History has
not been kind to Murdoch.

And while we may never
know exactly how he died,

the twin does suggest
that the accusation of

cowardice of abandoning
his ship may not be fair.

[Parks Stephenson] I think
it really shows that he was

struggling to save as many
lives as possible right up to

the very end.

They were trying to
launch one last lifeboat.

He never gave up on his duty.

[Narrator] For
survivors like Lightoller,

the scenes at the lifeboats
were some of the most

distressing of the
whole disaster.

But for those left on board,
the worst was still to come.

[distant screams]

[Narrator] Two hours
after Titanic hit the iceberg,

the ship is partially submerged,

but remarkably, thanks
to Bell and his engineers,

she still has power.

[Yasmin Khan] In Titanic's
wireless room, two operators,

Jack Phillips and Harold Bride,
are still at their post,

and desperately
sending out messages.

[Narrator] Shortly
after 2:00 a.m.,

Captain Smith told the men
they had done their duty and

were relieved from their posts.

Bride prepared to leave,
but Phillips worked on.

[Yasmin Khan] Bride
who survived the wreck,

recalled his
colleague Jack Phillips'

selfless conduct, saying,

"He was a brave man.

I learned to love
him that night.

And I suddenly felt a great
reverence to see him standing

there sticking to
his work while everybody

was raging about.

I will never live to
forget the work of Phillips

for the last awful 15 minutes."

[Narrator] But soon
after 2:00 a.m.,

The messages abruptly stop.

Titanic is about to go under.

[♪ eerie music playing]

After the sinking,

two official
inquiries concluded that the

ship gently slipped
below the waves.

But even at the time,

many survivors
contradicted that,

testifying Titanic broke
apart before she sank.

Something confirmed
when the wreck was

discovered in 1985.

And the twin now
allows us to see in

unprecedented detail,
where the pieces came to rest,

a third of a mile
apart on the ocean floor.

But exactly how this
great ship broke in two,

is something Parks has been
investigating for decades.

[Parks Stephenson]
There's a lot of mysteries

in the Titanic disaster.

But the one that I've been
most focused on throughout

my career in Titanic research,
is the breakup.

And I think we've got the
evidence that's going to answer

those questions, right here.

[Narrator] The severed
ship is too badly damaged

to reveal exactly
what happened.

But Parks believes that the
scan can still provide answers.

Not by studying the
wounded wreck itself,

but the seabed around it.

[Parks Stephenson] There's
an entire debris field of

artifacts, of steel sections,

that you need
to take a look at.

[Jennifer Hooper] Wow.

[Parks Stephenson]
We're flying away.

[Chris Hearn] Wait a minute.

Oh it's the stern.
We're looking down.

[Parks Stephenson] We're
going to get a God's eye view

of the debris field.

[Narrator] Covering around
15 square miles countless

sheds of Titanic are scattered
across the ocean floor.

Among them, key pieces,

which Parks believes
may be clues.

[Parks Stephenson] You
can see how immense it is.

I mean, it looks chaotic,

but there is a pattern to this.

And I bet we can find
the evidence that we're

looking for to reconstruct
the breakup here.

[Narrator] The twin allows
the experts to study Titanic's

shattered fragments in
more detail than ever before.

If they can piece together
this twisted metal jigsaw,

the experts may be able
to find out how Titanic

broke in two and what it
meant for those on board.

[distant screams]

[Narrator] When Titanic
broke in two at 2:17 a.m.,

on April 15th,
almost 1,500 people were

still on board the ship.

Those in the lifeboats
watched on in horror.

[Yasmin Khan] Jack Thayer,

who was a 17-year-old
first-class passenger,

recorded in his memoirs
what he saw.

"Suddenly, the whole
superstructure of the ship

appeared to split.

Her stern was gradually
rising into the air."

"We could see groups of
people still aboard clinging

in clusters or bunches
like swarming bees,

only to fall in masses,

pairs or singly as the
great after part of the ship,

250 feet of it,
rose into the sky."

"Gradually, she turned
her deck away from us,

as though to hide
from our sight,

the awful spectacle."

[Narrator] Based on
historical accounts like these,

many have assumed that the
ship snapped cleanly in two.

But the investigation suggests
the truth may be more complex.

To find out what
really happened,

the experts have used the
unique level of detail provided

by the scan to comb
through the debris field,

identifying shattered
sections of the hull,

and painstakingly piecing
them back together.

[♪ upbeat music playing]

[Chris Hearn] Wow.
Look at the size of that area.

[Jennifer Hooper] So we're
looking at the side of the ship,

and we're seeing some
of the pieces of the hull

found in the debris field.

They're massive.

We're talking like 100 feet or
more up the side of the ship.

The big piece at the top,

I've studied rivets
from that big piece under

the microscope, steel rivets,

and how that piece was
actually held onto the ship.

-So, you have a personal
connection to this piece.

[Chris Hearn]
Wow, that's amazing.

I'm speechless, like, the
size of these pieces is huge.

[Narrator] By allowing us
to see the hull reassembled,

the digital twin shows
that far from snapping neatly,

a huge section of the ship
was completely destroyed.

-It was a giant
catastrophic fracture.

As the stresses
are building up,

you've got tension across
the top, compression,

and buckling on the bottom
of the ship, and slowly,

it turns into a domino effect.

It's stressed on
the next component and

the next component.

It's like a chain reaction.

[Narrator] Almost all of a
ship's strength is in a shell.

With that compromised,

her exposed
interior was obliterated.

[Chris Hearn] I thought it
was more of a clean break,

and it certainly was not.

You would think the
ship had been struck by

some enormous missile.

It's that catastrophic.

[Jennifer Hooper] 20% of the
ship just completely destroyed

in probably a matter of seconds.

So many people lost their lives.

[Narrator] Titanic shattered
in multiple places.

[Parks Stephenson] This
was a cataclysmic moment.

70, 80 feet of it
broke at the same time with

human beings in there.

It's unimaginable.

[Narrator] As
Titanic broke in two,

the fate of everyone in that
part of the ship was sealed.

The twin can offer a
glimpse into the final moments

of those on board.

Including two of
America's richest men.

[Narrator]
When Titanic goes down,

80% of the men are lost.

-Although some male
passengers did survive,

Edwardian ideals of stoicism,
and chivalry,

meant that the vast
majority of men would stay

behind on the ship.

Alfred Rush, a 17-year-old,

he'd only been presented
with his first pair

of long trousers
the night before,

refused to enter
the lifeboat, saying,

"I will stay with the men."

[Narrator] Another famous
tale of self-sacrifice,

was that of multi-millionaire
Benjamin Guggenheim.

-We have the
testimony of James Etches,

a steward, who said,

"I gave a life
belt to Guggenheim,

and he gave me a message.

It said, 'If anything
should happen to me,

tell my wife in New York
that I've done my best in

doing my duty.

We've dressed up in our
best and are prepared to

go down like gentlemen."

Another steward reported
hearing him say,

"No woman shall be left on
this ship because Ben Guggenheim

was a coward."

The popular narrative is
that he escorted his mistress,

and her servant,
to the lifeboats,

and then went back to
the first-class cabins.

[Narrator] The image of
Guggenheim waiting bravely

for the waters to meet
him is a romantic one.

But if he did
remain in his room,

his death would have
been far from peaceful.

The digital twin makes clear
the violence that those in this

section of the ship experienced
in their final moments.

[Yasmin Khan] Guggenheim’s
suite was right at the

epicenter of where
the ship broke up.

[Narrator] Near
Guggenheim's room,

was that of another of
America's richest men,

J.J. Astor.

Titanic had over
300 first class cabins,

and Astor was reported
to have paid over $30,000

in today's money for a
pair of these premium suites.

What's left of them
is visible on the twin.

Blown apart as the
ship went down.

Astor's body was recovered
a week after the sinking.

[Parks Stephenson] It
seems to have been important

at the time that the noblemen,

like the J.J. Astors,

or the
Benjamin Guggenheims,

died a very noble,
rather peaceful death.

But, in Titanic,

it didn't matter
what your status was.

You would all
meet the same fate.

[Narrator] On
that night in 1912,

death did not discriminate.

Over 60 feet below
Astor's suite,

Joseph Bell and his
engineers had remained tending

to the fires as
the ship went down.

Made visible
by its position,

right at the
ship's fracture,

is what's left of
boiler room two.

[Parks Stephenson] If you
look at this boiler here,

you see the shadow up
in the upper quadrant?

It's concaved inward.

And that's an indication
of an implosive event,

which means that these boilers
had to have been operating at

the time the ship breaks,
and the bow starts to go under.

[Chris Hearn] They stayed here.

They steel themselves
to their task because

they were professionals,
and they knew their duty.

And their duty was to
give people a chance up on

the top deck.

And for me, this is a
really powerful place.

[Narrator] All 35 engineers
would go down with the ship.

[Chris Hearn] We're
standing right at the point

where their lives ended.

So, this scan gives us an
opportunity to observe a

memorial to the bravery
and the dedication

of those engineers.

[Narrator] Bell's
body was never found.

Two hours and 40 minutes
after the ship hit the iceberg,

about 700 people are huddled
together in lifeboats.

The rest are either fighting
for their lives in the freezing

water or dead.

But over a century on,

the scan can still
shine a light on the lives lost

to the ocean floor.

[Yasmin Khan] After
the ship broke up,

the bow quickly disappeared,

but the stern stayed
afloat for a few more minutes.

And up there on the poop deck,

was Assistant Purser
Frank Prentice,

who saw exactly
what was happening.

He recalled that Titanic rose
suddenly and described hearing

everything that wasn't secured
crashing through the ship.

Then she began to plummet.

Frank Prentice climbed
over the railing,

and he dropped down 100
feet into the water below.

[Narrator] The bow sinks first,

shedding its contents
the whole way down.

It hits the mud with such
force that it jackknifes.

[♪ dramatic music playing]

The stern follows,
flattening out into a spiral.

Her freight and
furnishings are strewn

across the ocean floor.

Thousands of items
are buried in the mud.

Some are about to be
seen for the first time in

over 100 years.

[Jennifer Hooper] When
I saw the debris field,

my first instinct was
thinking about putting

the ship back together,

thinking
about the materials.

But, part of me
understands that...

...there are
personal possessions.

There's cups.
There's suitcases.

There's bits of leather,
there's people's things that

may last a lot longer
than the metal.

[Narrator] The debris field
has already yielded answers

about the ship itself.

But it can also offer a unique
insight into life on board.

An ornate bench,

which lies 715 feet
from the stern,

once adorned one
of the upper decks.

And 416 feet away,

the centerpiece of
a glass ceiling dome,

which once capped one
of the grandest staircases

on the ship.

Footage captured during
the scan has been subject

to months of research,

using records and
insurance claims to try and

identify the owners of
items glimpsed on the seabed.

One of the suitcases
matches the claim of

first-class passenger,
Charlotte Cardeza,

who survived the wreck.

[Yasmin Khan] She was well
known for her Louis Vuitton

luggage and her extensive
collection of shoes.

Charlotte Cardeza's maid
recalled being impressed by her

mistress's bravery.

Reporting that she remained
entirely calm in spite

of the danger.

[Narrator] This array of
shoes and opera glasses,

may have belonged to
theater owner Henry B. Harris,

who perished in the sinking.

One of the most
intriguing personal items

lies nearly 500 feet
from the stern,

a pigs tusk bangle
next to a shark's tooth.

[Yasmin Khan] This shark's
tooth is a lucky charm,

and it would have been
attached to this pocket watch

which bears an
Advance Australia crest.

We've tracked down
that belonged to a

Scottish businessman,
Colonel John Weir.

After his death,
a family secret was revealed.

His Scottish wife had a nasty
surprise when she made her

claim to the estate
because it turned out he

had an Australian
family who were making

exactly the same claim.

[Narrator] These remarkable
findings bring humanity

to the dark and
desolate wreck site.

But there are still countless
items on the sea floor,

whose owners are unknown.

A pair of men's shoes, lying
together on the promenade deck,

suggests they mark the
final resting place of

a third-class passenger,

whose remains
are long gone.

And this ornate doll's head,

which may have
belonged to any of some

60 children who did
not survive the tragedy.

For prolific Titanic explorer,
Parks Stephenson,

the digital twin enables
investigation and study of the

site without disturbing or
further damaging the wreck.

[Parks Stephenson] Every time
I think I've seen everything

I need to see out of this,
I see something new.

This digital twin has opened
up a whole new thought process.

And where that takes me,

I don't know if I
see the end of it.

This is the most impactful
thing that has happened since

the wreck was first
found in 1985.

[Jennifer Hooper] Look at
the rusticles all over the ship.

[Chris Hearn] It's like the
by-product of bacteria, right?

[Jennifer Hooper] Yeah,
it's actually corrosion on

the sea floor.

It's bacteria that eats
the iron and produces rust.

So, it's slowly
eating the wreck.

It's eating the ship,

and the ship will
eventually degrade and

just fall in on itself.

This is a unique site.

It's its own ecosystem, now.

It's living and breathing
and changing constantly.

[Narrator] Titanic
won't be here forever.

But the digital twin is now
frozen the evidence in time,

allowing research to
continue long after the

wreck's inevitable decay.

It has already offered
remarkable insights into

what happened to
the ship that night,

and the response
of those on board.

Now, thanks to the twin,

the search for
answers can continue.

[♪ dramatic music playing]