NOVA — S39E18 — Why Ships Sink
2012 · 55 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · DIR. Jonathan Challis
Overview
Twenty million passengers embark on cruises each year, vacationing in deluxe "floating cities" that offer everything from swimming pools to shopping malls to ice skating rinks. And the ships just keep getting bigger: The average cruise ship has doubled in size in just the last ten years. Some engineers fear that these towering behemoths are dangerously unstable, and the recent tragedy of the Costa Concordia has raised new questions about their safety. Now, NOVA brings together marine engineering and safety experts to reconstruct the events that led up to famous cruise disasters, including the ill-fated Concordia, the Sea Diamond, and the Oceans.
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00:00:05 NARRATOR: Disaster at sea...
00:03:05 like the most iconic sea disaster of all time,
00:05:16 Just the food, the sights, the sounds,
00:07:28 The men, women and children on board,
00:10:16 piercing so many watertight compartments
00:12:33 It's a little bit hard to tell,
00:14:22 They were known as the hard men of the shipyard.
00:16:55 We will never be able to design a ship, large or small,
00:19:01 Titanic, tragically, sank in the open ocean.
00:21:01 Carnival Legend took these shots as a 55 mile-per-hour wind
00:23:35 so that we've raised the center of gravity,
00:25:24 with no whitewater breaking,
00:27:30 of the half-billion dollar Costa Concordia
00:29:45 were being entertained by guitarist Moss Hills
00:32:05 NARRATOR: The failed valve was now letting water
00:34:15 NARRATOR: Arriving on deck, a navy rescuer brought bad news.
00:37:04 If you look at his actions
00:39:19 just waiting and waiting, you know, what we do from here?
00:41:13 Some simply could not grasp the reality of the situation...
00:43:18 Lowering the port-side lifeboats turned into a nightmare.
00:46:10 they could not find a usable lifeboat.
00:48:19 NARRATOR: The chaos of the Costa Concordi a sinking
00:50:29 and the maritime industry and simulation is...
00:52:30 and I've never had a problem again, and I still love it.
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NOVA, season 39, episode 18: Why Ships Sink.
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