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IIRC, there were two ships- the one that sank, and one that was ahead of it. The ship that sank made a terrible move by trying to sail through a fucking hurricane in order to catch up to the other ship.

I believe the thing that led to the catastrophic failure of the integrity of the entire ship was a pump that malfunctioned, flooded, and then they crashed into a wave. It's mind-boggling to see the recreation of a ship that big going down the way it did... like a huge invisible fist closed around it from below and dragged it under.

Many of the crew knew they were going to die and were questioning their captain. A woman wrote home to her parents, saying "We're probably going to die- it's the morning and the sky is red in the direction we are headed." There's an old phrase: "Red skies in morning, sailors- take warning. Red skies at night, sailor's delight!"

What happened here was an example of what happens when a moron captain makes a decision that goes against thousands of years of nautical knowledge and wisdom. Men were making the voyage from Europe to the Americas for CENTURIES, on ships that are far inferior to what we have now, without all of the fancy communication/navigation/prediction we have access to. There's no reason that shit like this should still be happening.

Keel, not spine. Typically cargo freighters aren't built like a ship of war, so they can't be literally blown in half and keep floating around.

Well sure, nobody likes freezing water.