The Titanic sinking was one of the craziest things that has happened in modern human history. The “unsinkable” ship tragically didn’t even last one voyage.
James Cameron’s Titanic was pretty close to a masterpiece and I truly feel like he did a great job at showing the scale of the massive ship, and the horror and urgency the passengers must have gone through, but did he capture the moment of sinking correctly?
Not really.
No, seriously. Even James Cameron admits they got it, “only half right.”
What I think a lot of people don’t truly understand, is just how DARK it is in the middle of the ocean. There are no street lights (obvs.), there are no lights from other boats, no lights in the safety rafts, no cell phones, and no ambient light from buildings. We’re talking PITCH BLACK.
Now, X user Science Girl has created a simulation of what it actually probably looked like for the passengers on the fated Titanic. The video first shows what we probably think it looked like, and then shows what it probably looked like.
And it’s absolutely freaking terrifying.
How Titanic sinking really looked pic.twitter.com/5jgU7AWyUm
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) February 15, 2024
Like, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
First of all, I can’t even imagine what it would be like to witness and go through something like that, but now that I’m seeing this my brain is going into anxiety mode. Think about it… it’s pitch black, you’re freezing, you’re in the middle of the ocean with no help on the horizon, you’re hearing sharks circle you and eat passengers unlucky enough to not get into a lifeboat, and you just watching hundreds or thousands of people die right in front of you.
But it’s that darkness that gets me. Just complete and utter terror.
