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Incredible New Animation Reveals How Titanic Hit, Floundered and Landed on Ocean Floor

If you thought the computer-graphics animation in the 1999 blockbuster on the sinking of the unsinkable RMS Titanic was good, the director of that film, James Cameron, and National Geographic have released an even better CGI of the tragic event that lost 1,500 souls.

The animation shows Titanic hitting the iceberg; the flooding that followed; its floundering and the path it took as it sank; and how exactly it landed on the ocean floor. Watch how analysts think it all went down:

Here’s a play-by-play in images:

New CGI From Titanic Hitting Iceberg, Sinking and Landing on Ocean Floor

Titanic sideswipes the iceberg.

New CGI From Titanic Hitting Iceberg, Sinking and Landing on Ocean Floor

Ship is flooded.

New CGI From Titanic Hitting Iceberg, Sinking and Landing on Ocean Floor

Stern of the ship beings to go up.

New CGI From Titanic Hitting Iceberg, Sinking and Landing on Ocean Floor

Ship cracks in half under peak pressure.

New CGI From Titanic Hitting Iceberg, Sinking and Landing on Ocean Floor

Bow of the ship goes straight down "like a torpedo."

New CGI From Titanic Hitting Iceberg, Sinking and Landing on Ocean Floor

Stern follows breaking apart and spiraling as it falls.

New CGI From Titanic Hitting Iceberg, Sinking and Landing on Ocean Floor

Bow hits floor "breaking its back" and there is a hydraulic outburst from the downblast effect. The stern falls further away like at scene of an airplane crash.

This effort by NatGeo are one of many it has been rolling out to honor the 100th anniversary of the ship’s tragic sinking. Here are a few other features NatGeo has on the ship right now:

  • Become a virtual passenger on the ship here.
  • Go inside the Titanic with an artist’s cross sections of the ship here.
  • Check out the stunningly haunting images that new technology has allowed experts to capture of the ship here.

The National Geographic channel premiers its special series on the RMS Titanic this Sunday.

[H/T io9]

Comments (68)

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  • READRIGHTHERE
    Posted on April 7, 2012 at 10:06am

    New OWS Slogan to commemorate the representative evil of the wealthy 1 percent:

    WE ARE STEERAGE!

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    • grudgywoof
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 6:56am

      Wow! Very nice Mr. Carmeron. This guy is the real deal and it’s nice to see a great piece of historic forensics like this.

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  • DVDJR
    Posted on April 7, 2012 at 10:02am

    Amazing!

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  • REDwhiteBLUEcommrade
    Posted on April 7, 2012 at 9:59am

    Eh, nothing I didn’t already know.

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  • Zasifras
    Posted on April 7, 2012 at 9:05am

    Neat and well done

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  • Papa Joe
    Posted on April 7, 2012 at 8:32am

    It‘s all George Bush’s fault!

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  • Papa Joe
    Posted on April 7, 2012 at 8:29am

    Didn’t obama blame George Bush for the sinking,

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  • felix
    Posted on April 7, 2012 at 8:26am

    pie in the sky theory ——- or water

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on April 7, 2012 at 8:14am

    Heck, the Italians don’t even need an iceberg to sink a cruise ship.

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    • Copo
      Posted on April 7, 2012 at 10:21am

      They said it was unsinkable, so I put that to the test
      -Francesco Shettino

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    • idarusskie
      Posted on April 8, 2012 at 2:49am

      at lest they beached it after they ran it aground.

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  • wbaranowski
    Posted on April 7, 2012 at 2:45am

    How much of this is pure crap?

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    • Jack of Hearts
      Posted on April 7, 2012 at 4:53am

      If you mean the Blaze, 90% of the stories and 80% of the responses – but hey, it’s still fun.

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    • HLG
      Posted on April 7, 2012 at 5:24am

      The last stack was suppose to be a dummy. Notice smoke coming from all of them.

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    • brickmoon
      Posted on April 7, 2012 at 5:47am

      It‘s a ’spiracy, I tell ya. Doesn‘t everybody know it’s impossible for water to break steel?

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on April 7, 2012 at 7:22am

      The Build-A-Burger people sunk it….. it nerve hit a iceberg. Rick Perry was in on it

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    • Cornhuskeress
      Posted on April 7, 2012 at 6:03pm

      The fourth funnel was a “dummy” – it was placed for esthetic purposes to give the image of a “safe” ship. The original plans for the ship only had three funnels. The fourth funnel provided air ventilation for the galleys as well as a chimney flue for the First Class smoking room. Smoke and/or steam would emit
      from the funnel, though it would be a lesser amount than what would arise from the first three.

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  • COFemale
    Posted on April 7, 2012 at 1:45am

    This is totally fascinating to me as I had a distant ancestor, I believe he would be considered a cousin so many times removed who perished; I haven’t finished plugging in all my relatives to my database yet to know exactly. He was a famous short story science fiction and mystery writer in his day. His name was Jacques Futrelle. His wife was saved.

    “Returning from Europe aboard the RMS Titanic, Futrelle, a first-cabin passenger, refused to board a lifeboat insisting his wife board instead until the point of forcing her in. His wife remembered the last she saw of him, he was smoking a cigarette with John J. Astor. He perished in the Atlantic. Futrelle’s last work, “My Lady’s Garter”, was published posthumously later in 1912. His wife inscribed in the book, “To the heroes of the Titanic, I dedicate this my husband’s book” under a photo of her late husband. On 29 July 1912 his mother, Linnie Futrelle, died in her Georgia home; her death was attributed to grief over her son’s death.”

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    • djs45
      Posted on April 7, 2012 at 8:01am

      Very good post, and informative. I too am into genealogy and I love to read or hear good genealogy related stories from other people. Good luck with your research.

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  • Cat
    Posted on April 7, 2012 at 12:57am

    April 7, 2012

    The President of the United States of America
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
    Washington, DC 20500

    Attention: Mr. Barry Soetoro

    Reference: Your career

    Dear Barry;

    Many authoritative individuals confirmed the Titanic ocean vessel unsinkable.

    Respectfully submitted,

    Cat

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on April 7, 2012 at 1:25am

      That right there is what is happening to America right now. Romney will not save it as he is backed by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Chase and all the rest that were pulled out of (crisis?) with the stimulous package (The Iceburg). We are sinking fast and everyone is looking to the MSM; MSNBC, CNN, Fox, AP, Rassmussen, The Networks, New York Times,etc…. We will not make it past the next four years, whether Obama is re-elected or Romney is elected. Neither are going to do what is necessary to stop the coming insurrection. Paul is not going to be able to stop the insurrection from happening. We are too far into it to stop it’s forward progress. I just want a man as POTUS that I can count on to stand up to the IMF and U.N. to say NO! We will not take part in the One World Economic Order. We will stand on our own and put us back to Constitutional principles, instead of giving in to the World Bank and become their slaves.

      I do not think that Romney or Santorum would do the same thing. I can see either of them going on Fox and declaring it is the only hope of saving the country. Do not think that this could not happen. We are very close now.

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    • Zoe
      Posted on April 7, 2012 at 9:25pm

      The Sinking

      Staring BoRock as Captain

      America as the ship

      The off course Iceberg as the Democratic Party

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    • Cat
      Posted on April 8, 2012 at 12:54am

      WCP & ZOE

      Tell everyone you know to de-fund the US government.
      There’s no other option …

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  • vtxphantom
    Posted on April 6, 2012 at 10:05pm

    Right after the ship hits the iceberg the ice that is knocked off the berg sinks. Should it not move to the surface?

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    • black9897
      Posted on April 6, 2012 at 11:39pm

      See, just goes to show you shouldn’t text and try to steer a ship.

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  • Sniper48
    Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:42pm

    Isn’t the word “foundered”, not “floundered”?

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    • Doug
      Posted on April 7, 2012 at 1:16am

      Sniper48,

      LOL, it is indeed.

      I think the Liz was floundering in the phalanx of phonesthemic phonetics and finally floundered. :)

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    • Doug
      Posted on April 7, 2012 at 1:23am

      Ack..

      Last word should have been ‘foundered.

      *chuckle*

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on April 6, 2012 at 9:01pm

    Oh yeah, the sinking of the Titanic won’t compare to the asteroids hitting earth of which I have made the command.

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on April 7, 2012 at 1:26am

      Tim, That is funny.

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    • Onowicit
      Posted on April 8, 2012 at 3:34pm

      @Itsjusttim

      You are a freak dude! BUT you are growing on me, like an interesting mole that I can’t stop looking at.

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  • macpappy
    Posted on April 6, 2012 at 8:57pm

    Animation, if you want to impress me with animations, you can start with some good ole 1950 era Anti-Communism New Reel style. Ahhhh, but that would be too much to the right wouldn’t it. Too much like real news.
    Fast becoming part of the Lame Stream Media

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on April 7, 2012 at 1:28am

      MacPappy, Good idea, why don’t you make it yourself and try to cash in before it is too late? About four years is what you have.

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  • babylonvi
    Posted on April 6, 2012 at 8:51pm

    Can you guys do a simulation of the rest of the economy imploding?

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  • TSUNAMI-22
    Posted on April 6, 2012 at 8:48pm

    “Floundered”????? – I think they meant “foundered”.

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    • Heb4Seven
      Posted on April 7, 2012 at 12:24am

      Could be both. Flounder means to ‘move clumsily’ – Founder is’ to cave, sink below’…How about, – The ship ‘floundered’ as it ‘foundered’. :)

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  • babylonvi
    Posted on April 6, 2012 at 8:47pm

    After seeing this, President Obama states “If I had a Presidential Yacht, it would look like that” and immediately dispatched Eric Holder to go find out which White person did this.

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  • TJexcite
    Posted on April 6, 2012 at 8:39pm

    The same thing would have happened to the Costa Concordia if someone did not send it into the rocks. It would have drifted to deep water and the whole thing would have sank will all the lives with it.

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    • mharry860
      Posted on April 7, 2012 at 1:33am

      Yeah, that was the only thing he did right. Arrogant dumb ass at the controls, kind of like our country.

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  • YellowFin
    Posted on April 6, 2012 at 8:35pm

    What is it about a sunken ship?
    Why do we find it so irresistible and so fascinating?

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  • piper60
    Posted on April 6, 2012 at 7:48pm

    pretty amazing.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on April 6, 2012 at 7:47pm

    Here’s an idea, lets do a slow mo animation of the Affordable Healthcare bill, cruising along, hitting an iceberg, and breaking open, so we can find out what’s in it.

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  • NewLife56
    Posted on April 6, 2012 at 7:46pm

    Was Obama the Captian of that wreck too?

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  • randy
    Posted on April 6, 2012 at 7:41pm

    Wish he’d do an animation of Obama being booted out of office in November :)

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on April 6, 2012 at 7:39pm

    At least they are in time for the Titanic Centenial and the destruction of America via Kaiser Obama.

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