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  1. The Titanic was never dubbed unsinkable in the most literal sense, much less had anything like “Even God can’t sink this ship” written on her sides, or really any text for that matter, as coal dust would basically render it unreadable within a few months at best. Besides, that quote originated in the films. Yes, films, plural. And James Cameron made it worse by deliberately including the clichés despite knowing them to be false because it would sell, including the “extent” to which the Titanic was praised, or rather, how much it wasn’t.

    Yes, the press did refer to her as “unsinkable,” but usually after using such words as “practically.” The press in 1912 were smarter than the press of today in that they all knew that the other news stations didn’t mean it literally. Furthermore, the Titanic wasn’t a big deal, as she was basically just a slightly more massive version of the Olympic, and was only bigger than her by a technicality. And they weren’t nearly that much larger than even the Lusitania and Mauretania, which were also deemed “unsinkable,” and the extent of their larger size wasn’t nearly as drastic as that of the SS Great Eastern, which was so much larger than every other ship that she wasn’t able to turn a profit when she made the transatlantic runs.

    Which brings up my next point: The Titanic was not a cruise ship. She was an ocean liner, designed to carry passengers and cargo across the world’s oceans to get them to their destinations while also acting as symbols of national pride. Cruise ships, which barely existed in 1912, are commercial endeavors that almost never represent more than a good vacation, and almost always return to the same port at the end of a voyage. How can someone correctly say that cruise ships don’t go anywhere yet still get the type of ship that the Titanic was wrong? Do these people think that their ancestors teleported between continents for 300 years?

    And there will almost certainly never be a Titanic II; all those reports were nothing more than publicity stunts, and this video sums up why it would be a bad idea anyway: People have a terrible understanding of ships and think that they can use films and documentaries (Which now just contain conspiracy theories) interchangeably.

    I don’t even know why I looked up this video. I knew it was bad and demonstrates a lack of understanding about recent history. I knew I would get angry at it. But I did, because if this comment and so many others already here can reach someone who can correctly teach actual history, then it would have all have worth it.

    Now if you future viewers will excuse me, I now have to delete this video from my history.

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