The Truth About the Titanic Has Been Revealed

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The builders of the Titanic got only two pounds a week when they were working on the ship. This was a very low wage back then, and it made it very hard to survive on. Hundreds of people died during the construction process, and 246 were injured. If it weren't for the fire that burned for weeks, the iceberg that sank Titanic might not have been able to cause so much damage.

about the Titanic on April 14th 1912 at

11:40 p.m. RMS Titanic had a terrible

accident that led to its ultimate demise

three hours later by 2:20 a.m. in the

early morning of April 15th

the biggest ship of its time had

completely disappeared under the

ice-cold surface of the Atlantic Ocean

the Titanic took more than 1500 lives

with it as it sank to its watery grave

that's more than two-thirds of all the

people on board the cause of this

horrible disaster leading to so many

deaths was an iceberg the ship crashed

into or so we've always been told but

scientists most recent findings have

debunked this theory in this video we'll

tell you the whole truth that has been

buried for over 100 years at 882 feet 9

inches long 92 feet wide 175 feet tall

and with a usable volume of 46,000 328

tons the Titanic seemed indestructible

people could walk for miles along her

myriad passages and decks even the

ship's officers needed over two weeks to

remember their way around this huge

construction the Titanic had four

massive smokestacks each of them weighed

60 tons and they extended 81.5 feet

above the deck such an impressive height

was necessary to avoid covering the

passengers in 100 tons of soot blown off

daily the smokestacks were placed at a

30-degree angle to look even more

astonishing and imposing no less

inspiring was the cost of the ship its

construction demanded 7.5 million

dollars if we take into account modern

exchange rates and inflation in 2016

they would be paying 166 million dollars

surprisingly it would turn out cheaper

than the production of the world-famous

movie Titanic in 1997

cost 200 million dollars Harland and

Wolff shipyard took on 3,000 men to

build the ship even with a huge labour

force working six days a week from 6:00

in the morning it still took 26 months

to complete the monumental task it was a

difficult and dangerous work imagine

doing something at the height of a

20-story building with no safety ropes

but these people needed money to support

their families

the builders got 2 pounds a week which

doesn't sound like much but it was a

competitive wage back then unfortunately

8 people died during the building

process and 246 were injured so it's

really hard to fathom that such a

complicated mechanism with all the work

effort and money spent on its creation

could just sank

because of one iceberg well new findings

give us reason to believe that the

original cause of the catastrophe was

not ice but fire

journalist Sonam Maloney has been

studying the fate of the Titanic for

more than 30 years it was he who

discovered a huge 30-foot long black

spot on the hull of the ship

he noticed it after examining a photo

taken before Titanic's departure the

journalist got hold of an album of

previously unpublished photographs that

showed the construction of the ship and

the preparations for her first and last

journey the fire had to have been

burning for three weeks at a very high

temperature before somebody noticed it

metallurgy experts are sure that such

conditions could have easily weakened

the metal reducing its strength by as

much as 75 percent that's why the

iceberg didn't have any problems tearing

a hole in the side of the ship if not

for the fire it would have been

impossible but the fact that the iceberg

hit exactly the spot with the

compromised metal is one of the

incredible links in the chain of the

Titanic's tragic what-ifs the management

of the project knew about the fire and

the fact that the ship shouldn't have

set off on that fateful voyage but it

would have meant bankruptcy for the

ship's owners the thing is that at the

time miners all over the country were on

strike so there was no coal to sustain

the Titanic but the tickets had already

been sold out and other ships had been

cancelled since everybody wanted to be

the first to sail on the largest ship

known to mankind that's why the owners

of the Titanic bought all the coal they

could find and even the call from other

ships cancelling the trip seemed out of

the question

so to conceal the truth the ship was

turned in such a way that the marks from

the fire faced away from the docks

toward the sea

therefore the passengers couldn't see

them

thus the journey began the interior of

the Titanic was based on that at the

Ritz Hotel in London the grand staircase

went down seven out of the ten decks on

the ship it was decorated with paintings

bronze cherubs and oak panelling the

facilities for the first-class

passengers

included a swimming pool with heated

water a Turkish bath a gym a squash

court and a beauty salon

ladies could even order a stylist to

help them get ready for dinner they had

an onboard newspaper called the Atlantic

daily bulletin there was even a special

place for first-class passengers dogs

the pets were fed taken for walks and

could even be trained during the voyage

the meals for the first class included

13 courses each with its own wine they

were a big occasion lasting about five

hours there were one and a half thousand

bottles of wine 20,000 bottles of beer

and 8,000 cigars yet there were no

binoculars why is this fact worth

mentioning because having binoculars

could have saved the Titanic here is

another tragic coincidence in the chain

of unfortunate events there were no

sonar systems in those times so to

detect threats ahead of a liner special

people kept watch using binoculars but

the binoculars on the Titanic had been

locked away in a special compartment the

only person with the key to the locker

second officer David Blair was replaced

at the last minute he was in such a

hurry to leave the ship that he forgot

to hand the key over to his replacement

this fateful forgetfulness was

discovered only three days later when

the ship was already at sea if the crew

had gotten the binoculars they would

have noticed the iceberg earlier and

would have just enough time to avoid the

crash

perhaps the crash could also been

avoided if the ship hadn't been breaking

the speed limit they were falling behind

schedule and this was unacceptable as it

could ruin the Titanic's reputation

that's why the ship was moving at a

speed much higher than the

was designed for another criminal

negligence was connected with the

lifeboats in order to contain all the

people on board the Titanic needed about

sixty lifeboats the chief designer

Alexander Carlyle planned to equip the

ship with only 48 boats but eventually

the number was reduced even more to 20

this was done purely for cosmetic

reasons since the deck looked too

cluttered with 48 these 20 boats could

seat only 1/3 of all the people on the

ship surprisingly such a hugely

insufficient amount of lifeboats was

technically legal according to the laws

of that time the number of boats

depended not on the number of passengers

but on the tonnage of a ship what's more

at the time of the Titanic's

construction lifeboat drills were

standard practice on ocean liners this

way the crew could prepare passengers

for an emergency should it occur but

this type of drill never took place on

the Titanic Captain Edward John Smith

cancelled the drill scheduled on the

morning of the day the Titanic sank

nobody knows the reasons for his

decision especially considering the fact

that other ships had been passing on

warnings about ice in the water in that

vicinity perhaps this is why it took the

crew over a half an hour to launch the

lifeboats instead of the standard 10

minutes some people also blame captain

Smith for allowing the first batch of

lifeboats to leave half empty the first

boat with 65 seats contained just 27

passengers why weren't they packed full

in the beginning people were reluctant

to leave the ship and didn't realise

that they were in grave danger in 2012

researchers found out that Captain Smith

had failed his first exam in navigation

eventually he passed but who knows maybe

this too played its own role in the

disaster

as the Titanic was sinking the crew sent

several distress signals however a ship

sailing nearby the California ignored

the emergency flare shot in the sky the

captain of the Californian later lost

his job after this fact came out but

modern researchers have managed to prove

his innocence well better late than

never

the reason nobody noticed the signals

from the Titanic could be due to the

phenomenon of light refraction when

layers of cold air are positioned below

layers of warmer air it causes thermal

inversion thermal inversion in turn

leads to the light refracting abnormally

in short all this creates mirages and

such mirages had been recorded by

several other ships sailing in that area

historian Tim Moulton is also convinced

that light refraction that night could

be the reason why the lookouts missed

the iceberg completely criminal

negligence tragic and unfortunate chain

of coincidences fire or ice whatever it

was it took the lives of hundreds of

people and still keeps the minds of

scientists busy to this day what theory

about the catastrophe do you believe

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