Why the Soviet Titanic Went Down in Minutes

In 1986 the Soviet liner Admiral Nakhimov sank about seven minutes after a grain ship rammed her off Novorossiysk, so why did she go down so fast when the Titanic lasted hours? She began life in 1925 as the German liner Berlin, mined in the war and rebuilt. That night, two bridges each trusted the other ship to keep clear. Then the freighter Pyotr Vasev hit her in about the worst place possible. You come away knowing what decided she would sink, what decided how fast, and what the trial in Odessa found. PHOTOS - SergBuilo — CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Admiral_Nahimov_1986_01.jpg - SergBuilo — CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Admiral_Nahimov_1986_02.jpg - Leo Medvedev/Лев Леонидович Медведев — CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SSAdmiralNakhimov-1975-1.jpg - Pouazity — CC BY 2.0 — https://www.flickr.com/photos/192017723@N07/52529691094 CHAPTERS 0:00 Seven Minutes in Tsemes Bay 1:30 A German Hull Reborn 3:47 The Freighter Closes In 4:49 Two Bridges, Two Assumptions 6:10 The Collision and the Hole 8:31 Rescue and Silence 10:03 Was Age the Real Cause? 11:23 Trial and Aftermath 12:44 The Answer and the Memorial SOURCES - The Christian Science Monitor, Moscow releases details of ship disaster (8 Sep 1986): https://www.csmonitor.com/1986/0908/isea2-f.html - U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, The Maritime World in 1986 (May 1987): https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1987/may/maritime-world-1986 - Pravo.ru, The investigation and trial in the case of the Soviet Titanic (2013, Russian): https://pravo.ru/process/view/33262/ - NEWSru.co.il, Admiral Nakhimov disaster, 20 years on (31 Aug 2006, Russian): https://www.newsru.co.il/world/31aug2006/nahimov.html - Russia Beyond, How the Soviet Titanic tragically sank: https://www.rbth.com/history/330845-how-soviet-titanic-perished - Vokrug Sveta, Fifty metres to the Nakhimov (2007, Russian): https://www.vokrugsveta.ru/vs/polsotni-metrov-do-nakhimova-id578707/ - Wikipedia, SS Admiral Nakhimov: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Admiral_Nakhimov MUSIC Music licensed from Epidemic Sound. KEYWORDS admiral nakhimov, admiral nakhimov sinking, pyotr vasev, soviet titanic, why the soviet titanic sank, admiral nakhimov 1986, novorossiysk ship disaster, tsemes bay shipwreck, liner berlin 1925, soviet shipwreck, ship collision, maritime disaster, black sea disaster, watertight doors, shipwreck documentary, ussr disasters, once upon an engine, failed machines, machines that failed, engineering disasters, engineering history, forgotten machines, airship history