‘Painful’: Titanic museum visitors feel how cold water was on the tragic night, video goes viral

The viral video shows the visitors at the Titanic museum putting their hands in a bucket chilled to -2 degree Celsius.

New Delhi | Updated: September 15, 2024 03:56 PM IST

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The Titanic Museum has over 400 artifacts directly from the ship and its passengers (Image source: @Rainmaker1973/Instagram)

The Titanic Museum in Tennessee, USA, which is a replica of the gigantic ship, but half its size, is making headlines for letting visitors touch and feel how the icy water in the Atlantic Ocean must have felt on the fateful night the ship crashed and sank.

In a viral video, visitors are seen dipping their hands into a basin chilled to -2°C (30°F), the same temperature as the Atlantic Ocean on the night of April 15, 1912. Several visitors tested their endurance, but most could only withstand the freezing temperature for a few seconds.

Sharing the video, an X user wrote, “At the Titanic Museum you can find this basin filled with water, set to the exact temperature that the people in the surrounding waters would have had to swim in after the ship sank. The ocean temperature was about 30°F.”

Watch the viral video here:

With over two million views, the video amassed numerous reactions. A user commented, “They were around icebergs. I’m guessing it would have been freezing.” Another user wrote, “Wow ,I feel really bad for those people what they had to suffer before they died or were rescued.”

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“At the Titanic Museum, you can actually feel how cold the water was that night—30°F, just like the survivors faced. It’s an eerie, hands-on way to experience a piece of Titanic history,” a third user reacted.

According to the official website of the Titanic Museum, it has over 400 artifacts directly from the ship and its passengers.

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