{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Titanic - Part 3: Collision and chaos","description":"It was eleven forty p.m. on April fourteenth, nineteen twelve. The lookout’s warning rang through the night, and the bridge’s frantic orders came a breath too late. Titanic struck the iceberg—no explosion, just a deep, grinding shudder that ran through steel and bone alike.\r\n\r\nFor most aboard, it was barely a jolt. But below the waterline, the ship’s fate was already sealed. The iceberg had not punched a single hole, but had sliced open the hull across multiple forward compartments. Titanic’s much-praised watertight doors and bulkheads could handle a breach, but not this—a wound too long, too deep, and spread across too many sections. The ship had been designed to survive the disasters of yesterday, not the one unfolding in the pitch-black Atlantic.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thedisasterarchive.com/disaster/titanic","author_name":"The Archive Network"}