We all know the story of the Titanic, the largest passenger ship, setting sail across the Atlantic in April 1912 from England to New York.
They were just cruising along when BAM! Hit an iceberg.
The ship broke in half and started to sink, there werent enough lifeboats, women and children went first, lower tiers were stranded, Rose let Jack drown even though there was clearly enough room on that piece of wood but her heart went on…
Only now one expert is claiming that the iceberg isnt what really ruined the Titanic.
Senan Molony, an Irish journalist who has spent more than 30 years studying the Titanic, claims the demise of the ship was due to a fire started long before the iceberg came into play.
He is suggesting that there was a fire in the ships hull that had been burning for three weeks without anyone noticing, which seems kind of odd, but I wasn’t there so I can’t judge.
Hesaid that the fire started near the ships boiler rooms, which damaged its hull creating irreparable damage that made the ship susceptible to the iceberg.
Basically, the fire made that part of the ship weak, so when it hit the iceberg, it immediately fell apart.
Molony devised this idea by researching photos of the ship when it was docked before leaving for America, and he believes he sees really long black marks on the ship right about where the iceberg hit.
And he even has his own conspiracy theory that people knew about the fire, but chose to do nothing about it.
Its a perfect storm of extraordinary factors coming together: fire, ice, and criminal negligence,” he said. “The fire was known about, but it was played down. She should never have been put to sea.
David Hill, a former honorary secretary of the British Titanic Society, who has been studying the cause of the sinking since the 1950s, doesn’t agree.
He argued that, while the damage caused by the fire to the steel walls protecting the hull may have hastened the disaster, the blaze was not the decisive factor.
“When the Titanic hit the iceberg close to midnight on April 14, 1912, it created a 300-foot-long line of damage on the starboard section of the hull, including punctures and gashes, that opened up too many compartments to the sea, so that the weight of the water dragged the bow down so low that the ship eventually sank, he said. A fire may have accelerated this. But in my view, the Titanic would have sunk anyways.
While we’ll probably never know exactly what went down with the ship, we do know one thing:
Jack totally could have fit on that piece of wood with Rose.
A one-hour Smithsonian Channel documentary, Titanic: The New Evidence, will premiere Saturday, January 21 at 8 p.m.
Via: NY Times
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