Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron Page #4

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it would shed some light

on what actually happened to the stern

when it hit the bottom of the ocean.

Why were those cranes there?

Where did they come from?

Odd, isn't it?

Then the question is,

what held the cranes with all this,

as opposed to them just scattering?

I don't know. I'm inclined to think

these came apart at a higher altitude.

I think that it's just coincidence

that they happened to wind up...

- CAMERON:
Ooh...

- Coincidence? There is no coincidence.

There's no such thing as coincidence.

- I agree.

- No. (CHUCKLES)

There was a tendency

on the part of the group,

I think, to reject the idea of coincidence,

which, I think, is always good

in this kind of analysis.

Jim will let you disagree with him

as long as

you have a reasonable argument,

and your facts are all in a row,

and they're doing a chorus dance

behind you.

I'm gonna jump to the crazy part of this.

- Yeah.

- All right?

Which is these two double bottom sections

and this big chunk.

There are three pieces of the wreck

whose placement on the debris field map

don't make sense.

They're outliers.

They're enigmas because

they're strangely out to the east

of the hypocenter.

We know from a past expedition

that these two, out of the three,

are pieces of Titanic's double bottom.

We know these parts are

from the same section of keel

because their ragged ends align

like two pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

How did these two chunks of keel

detach from the bottom of the ship,

and end up to the east of the hypocenter?

And what about the third outlier?

Now, I'm just trying to account

for something that I don't understand,

which is this thing.

- This is just a big pile of junk.

- STEPHENSON:
It's a big, ugly pile.

Big, dirty pile of junk.

Nobody'd ever seen it before.

It's way off to the east.

It's beyond these double bottom pieces.

Okay, so the mystery piece,

the enigma piece is this.

STEPHENSON:
Is this. Yes.

You know, about the upper

couple of decks of that.

It's even bigger and larger

and heavier than the boilers,

yet, it ended up way far out there.

CAMERON:
How did this chunk,

from beneath the third frontal deckhouse,

end up way out there?

All right. Well, why don't

we stick to what we think we know,

and fill in the rest of the picture?

To fill in the rest of the picture

and visualize Titanic's final moments,

we need to go underwater

and take a closer look at the damage.

I see the wreck.

I see it.

Mir ll, Mir ll, this is Mir I.

Depth is 3,353 meters.

I love this stuff.

Exploration.

Real, honest-to-God,

deep-ocean exploration.

To me,

it's an alternative to making movies,

which is as technically challenging,

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