The Titanic Disaster: an "insider's" take on how it happened | Curiosityu

April 15, 1912.

It’s been 113 years since the doomed RMS Titanic met its terrible fate (and 27 years since James Cameron’s blockbuster film won 11 Academy Awards at the 1998 Oscars).

Yet, the famous ship’s tragic legacy “goes on and on.”

Naval Architect - and designer of the Queen Mary 2 - Stephen Payne, gives his professional account of how the collision happened in this excerpt from his class "The Titanic: Conception, Construction, Catastrophe and Contradiction."

***Includes some little-or-never-seen photographs!!

To watch the entire presentation, go to: https://curiosity.tv/krkbpcm