Titanic’s Real Iceberg Impact – What the Wreck Reveals Did you know? 🧐 This video shows the actual area of hull damage where the RMS Titanic scraped against the iceberg on April 14, 1912. Modern dives reveal that the ship did not suffer one long, dramatic gash. Instead, the iceberg created a series of thin openings and bent steel plates along the starboard side—just enough to let seawater flood five compartments. These small fractures were only about 10–12 feet total when combined, but they wer