The Truth About the Titanic Has Been Revealed!!

You may have heard the story a million times before, but scientists have just revealed the truth about what really happened on that fateful night of April 14th, 1912. At 11:40 p.m., the RMS Titanic suffered 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, taking more than 1500 lives with it as it sank to its watery grave. But hold onto your hats, because the cause of this horrible disaster leading to so many deaths was not an iceberg, as we've always been told. Scientists' most recent findings have debunked this theory, and in this video, we'll tell you the whole truth that has been buried for over 100 years.

Let's start with the ship itself. 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, and 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 weighing 60 tons and extending 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, which, if we take into account modern exchange rates and inflation in 2016, would be equivalent to paying 166 million dollars. Surprisingly, it would turn out cheaper than the production of the world-famous movie Titanic in 1997, which cost 200 million dollars.

But let's get to the heart of the matter. 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, and 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 The journalist got hold of an album of previously unpublished photographs that showed the construction of the ship and the preparations for her first and last journey.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.

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. 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.

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