Titanic

Mystery
By Lance Gabriel T. Reyes
 Titanic
Mysteries that
may never be
They solved
said it was
"unsinkable." So how
could the Titanic have
sunk to the bottom of the
Atlantic just five days
into its maiden voyage?
 Was it even the RMS
Titanic?
Everyone agrees that a luxury liner set sail on April 10, 1912, and sank five
days later, taking the lives of around 1,500 of the 2,223 aboard. But that’s
pretty much where the consensus ends. Some insist the ship that sank wasn’t
the RMS Titanic, but rather, the nearly identical R.M.S. Olympic. As the
story goes, the R.M.S Olympic had been damaged in an accident the year
before, but in order to score a bigger insurance payoff, the ships’ common
Did a fire actually seal the
ship’s fate?
A recent documentary offers credible evidence that the
RMS Titanic (let’s just call it that, for argument’s sake)
had been damaged by a coal fire, which had been
raging for three weeks before the ship even set sail.
The damage would have weakened the hull of the ship,
thus hastening the ship’s sinking when it collided with
an iceberg.
 Why Was the Captain
For decades, people believed that Captain
Speeding?
Smith was speeding through the iceberg-
heavy waters of the North Atlantic because
he wanted the RMS Titanic to cross the
Atlantic faster than her sister ship, the
R.M.S Olympic. But in 2004, the
Geological Society of America published an
academic paper by engineer Robert H.
Essenhigh with a different theory: It
claimed the real reason the RMS Titanic’s
captain was speeding was to burn coal as
 What caused the ship to break into
oceanographer Robert two
Ballard pieces?
On September 1, 1985,
discovered the wreckage 2.5 miles
below the ocean surface, along
with the surprising news that the
ship had broken in two before
sinking. Previously, everyone had
thought that the ship sank intact
after colliding with an iceberg
while speeding recklessly through
icy waters near the coast of
Newfoundland. Ballard’s
discovery led to a new theory: that
the ship’s splitting into two pieces,
which “may have been the
Did a torpedo sink the RMS
Titanic?
Most believe that the RMS Titanic sank after hitting
an iceberg on April 14 (regardless of other
contributing factors). But not everyone. Some think
that the RMS Titanic was torpedoed by a German U-
boat. This theory doesn’t seem all that far-fetched
considering that three years later in 1915, a German
U-boat did sink a passenger ship, the RMS Lusitania.
However, it’s possible that torpedo theorists are
confusing the RMS Titanic with the RMS Lusitania.
It’s also possible that they’re confusing the RMS
Titanic with the R.M.S Olympic, which had sustained
damage after colliding with a military vessel in 1911.
Still, the presence of several other ships in the
vicinity of the RMS Titanic’s sinking leaves the
 Did you know that the
RMS Titanic isn't the
biggest ship,
The real biggest ship is the
HMHS Britannic as known
as the sister of the RMS
Titanic and a hospital ship.
Thank You
for
listening!