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[strafer]

Cameron working on updating his movie as we speak. Nah.

Titanic: The New Evidence, which debuted Saturday on the Smithsonian Channel, focuses on the many possible contributing factors to the Titanic‘s demise — many of which have been speculated about for more than a century. Now, in this hour-long doc, Irish journalist Senan Molony — who’s spent 30 years researching the disaster — presents new evidence in the form of previously unseen photos of what was once the largest man-made object on Earth. This research casts doubt on long and commonly held beliefs about the sinking of the Titanic and answers questions, including: Why was the ship picking up speed if it they had been warned of icebergs ahead? And why, when it should’ve been able to stay afloat long enough for a nearby ship to reach it, did the Titanic suddenly plunge beneath the waves?

1. A mysterious mark on the side of the ship might be key to its tragic end
The recently discovered photos show a strange, diagonal black mark on the hull of the ship. A collaborator of Molony’s first believed the mark was just a reflection of the water, but an examination of the photos revealed the more than 30-feet long mark remained in place. Here’s where it gets weird: If you blow the image up to get a closer look, the mark follows the line of the hull plating and is in the exact area where the iceberg later struck the ship. The doc posits that the Titanic was damaged and weakened before it even left its dry dock in Belfast, Northern Ireland. But what does the mysterious mark mean?

More at: http://ew.com/tv/2017/01/22/titanic-new-evidence-documentary-claims/

 

[Ryuuroden]

What a titanic error in judgement if true.

 

[geomon]

The iceberg hit below the waterline though.

 

[Kurtofan]

loose ships sink lips

 

[EBE]

Talk about a cold case.
As in, freezing north Atlantic water cold.

 

[ponpo]

I'm writing a manga about how the Titantic was carrying an ancient mythical katana onboard in the cargo area that was accidentally jostled loose, and it was so sharp it cut the hull open from the inside and sunk the ship. The mythical blade remains buried in the deep....................

Numbers 1 and 8 on that list seem dumb. Anyway they should have rammed the iceberg straight on, the ship would have held.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

This is an old theory.

 

[mrkgoo]

kaiju

 

[HStallion]

I'm just waiting for the day James Cameron gets bored and spends his free time to raise the wreck of the Titanic back to the surface.

 

[Arthr2ShdsJcksn]

Did they figure out if you can fit two people on the debris? Because you can.

 

[strafer]

I'm just waiting for the day James Cameron gets bored and spends his free time to raise the wreck of the Titanic back to the surface.

The wreck is basically going to have evaporated by then...the water is eating more and more of that ship

 

[BreezyLimbo]

It was a vampire

 

[Raptor]

The Kraken sunk that ship.

 

[Herne]

I thought they sped up due to Bruce Ismay wanting the last boilers lit to surprise people by having the ship arrive in New York before schedule... I can't remember if that was just a detail in the film or if that was reported by survivors...

Also it sank despite being designed to stay afloat with four compartments flooded, but not five, which is what happened. No big mystery there. Her sister ship, Britannic, had an extra double hull and could survive with five compartments flooded but not six, but that didn't stop it from sinking.

 

[GTI Guy]

Sounds like alternative facts to me

 

[Kayo Police]

kaiju

This is the only plausible theory to me.

 

[nintendoman58]

Icebergs can't melt steel beams.

 

[TwoDurans]

So they're saying that the Titanic suffered from two nearly identical strikes?

 

[Loptous]

It was a vampire

You thought it was an iceberg, but it was me, Dio!

 

[HStallion]

The wreck is basically going to have evaporated by then...the water is eating more and more of that ship

Don't you doubt James Cameron. He'll bring it back to the surface, refurb it and have it sailing the seas once more with him at the helm.

 

[Strangelove77]

How do you spend 30 years on just this one thing? Its not like reading though old scripture or researching dinosaurs, cool old shit like that. It's a fucking boat that sank about 100 years ago.

Plus, it was probably reverse vampires that had to go home before dark.