Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron Page #3

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So, now you start looking

at a debris field map.

So, now you start looking

at a debris field map.

STEPHENSON". It's part

of that crime scene recreation

of seeing everything on this macro level.

We can get down to individual images

of each individual piece,

but you need the context of it,

to keep that forest in sight.

You have to have

that map of the wreck site

to do any meaningful forensics.

CAMERON:
Titanic's bow and stern are torn

in two and lie apart,

like a crime scene where the body and head

are on opposite sides of the room.

You can see it. You can see it on the

debris field map here.

It's a very interesting thing.

Bow points north,

and it's partly dug into the sediment.

Its open end is ragged,

it's not a clean break.

At first glance,

it appears the farthest object north,

but there's the number one cargo hatch,

and that's 8O meters forward of the bow.

And the hatch bolts are all severed.

So, what did that?

And how did the bow break from the stern?

What did this?

The stern points south,

facing the opposite direction of the bow.

Looks like a bomb hit it.

To the east of the stern lie five boilers

from Boiler Room 1,

the midsection of the ship.

I think the location of these boilers

is our first lead.

If you just draw a circle

around those five boilers,

and you take the center of that circle,

I think that's where the ship

broke up at the surface.

Right.

CAMERON". Okay, these five boilers

help us to find the hypocenter,

the ground zero for the disaster.

The hypocenter directly underneath

where the breakup took place

on the bottom

would be where the heaviest

and most uniform objects

would be clustered.

Now, with it,

we can extrapolate the journey

taken by each part of the ship,

from the surface to

where we find them today, on the bottom.

And then you have a kind of fallout pattern,

downwind, if you will, or down current,

for very light objects like teacups

and light debris and coal.

The coal being spread the farthest,

'cause it's the least heavy in water.

We can account for many objects

on our debris field map,

and explain how they traveled

from the breakup at the surface

to end their life four kilometers

down at the bottom.

But not every part can be

so easily explained.

Something that just occurred to me

for the first time in all these years is...

If that happened way up there,

isn't it interesting that we've got...

These would be your poop deck cranes,

and they're this close to

their original location.

The stern cranes sort of grouped together

and lying adjacent to the stern

was a little mystery that we had to solve.

And in solving that mystery,

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