Practically unsinkable was the phrase used to sell Titanic. ibid.
Lander and his seasoned crew of Nova Scotians must find who are still missing and presumed dead. Titanic: The Aftermath, Discovery 2012
Only one third of the passengers made it into lifeboats. ibid.
Marconi’s technology will be central to the unfolding drama. ibid.
Bodies and debris from Titanic are drifting up to fourteen miles a day. ibid.
Olympic is about to set sail without enough lifeboats. ibid.
Why after a hundred years in the spotlight is Titanic still cloaked in myths and conspiracies? Titanic Conspiracies with Bernard Hill, 2012
Was Titanic constructed from inferior steel? Was it damage the size of a small window that really sank her? ibid.
In 50 years the Titanic will be gone for ever. ibid.
Why wasn’t the iceberg seen earlier? ibid.
Collins believes it wasn’t haze but a stretch of pack ice four miles away. ibid.
A weather front with near freezing winds pushed a giant ice field towards the ship. ibid.
It was over in just 160 minutes. ibid.
Edward Wilding suggested that Titanic sank not because the iceberg created a large gash but because it made a series of relatively tiny slits. ibid.
Titanic was a product of her times. ibid.
There are those who believe that Titanic was the biggest act of maritime fraud ever perpetrated ... The Olympic, with Smith as captain, sustained damage when it was inadvertently rammed by a British naval vessel HMS Hawk. ibid.
Needing to swap positions in the docks, it’s suggested that the ships switched identity ... The Olympic had become the Titanic. ibid.
Were five-pound rivets really the undoing of Titanic? ibid.
How and why did the Titanic break up in smooth seas? ibid.
The models support eye-witness testimony that Titanic did in fact break apart on the surface. ibid.
As suspected, the steel is full of large manganese sulphide inclusions. ibid.
At the time Titanic was built no-one would have suspected that these chemical impurities could make steel so fragile under extreme conditions. ibid.
The edges are bent and not cracked indicates that it was slowly pulled apart. ibid.
As it turns out Titanic’s steel is surprisingly strong ... Titanic’s steel was not flawed. ibid.
Wilding’s theory is correct: Titanic flooded and sank because of tiny slits. ibid.
Nature simply yawned, and Titanic was gone for ever. ibid.
Mr Bruce Ismay [White Star Line] Sends Home a Defence of His Action. Daily Sketch front page
Titanic: Built to be unsinkable ... and yet the greatest maritime disaster in history. Tim Maltin, Titanic: Case Closed, 2012; viz novel Tim Maltin
Engines generating nearly sixty thousand horsepower. ibid.
There was a fairly serious coal-bunker fire raging in Titanic that began at Belfast. ibid.
One of the best documented disasters in history. ibid.
How extreme the drop in temperature was ...They crossed the sharp border from the warm to freezing currents. ibid.
What the survivors noticed is how clear and bright the stars were. ibid.
Perfect conditions for miraging. ibid.
Tim has finally shown the decisive link between cold water mirages, commonly seen in the right conditions, and the evidence from the night of the tragedy. ibid.
Captain Lord could easily have mistaken Titanic for another very different vessel. ibid.
The lookouts couldn’t understand why they hadn’t seen the iceberg earlier. But what they are describing was evidence that Titanic was heading directly towards a cold water mirage. ibid.
Titanic sank within a killing zone of Nature. ibid.
Scintillation – which scrambled Titanic’s Morse lamps’ signals. ibid.
A simple trick of the light ... in the end – lethal. ibid.
The search for the Titanic was really part of a covert Cold War mission. The real story behind the Titanic is one of intrigue, espionage, nuclear weapons and a clash between superpowers. Titanic: The Final Secret, National Geographic 2014
A pair of tragedies that shook the nation deeply in the 1960s: the loss of two top-secret nuclear submarines – both were attack subs ... The Thresher sank in 1963 ... The Scorpion disappeared in 1968 with the loss of 99. ibid.
Robert Ballard became the US Navy’s newest undercover agent whose brief was the ocean floor. ibid.
The Thresher seemed to have been blown apart. ibid.
If the reactor had leaked, the radiation could have poisoned the sea. ibid.
Plenty of evidence to refute the torpedo theory. ibid.
The Titanic sank about 2:20 a.m. April 15, 1912, according to the records. I saw it slide down into the ocean to its horrible finish. The moment it sank left a memory of something that haunts me till this day. It was the eerie sound of the people groaning and screaming frantically for help, as they were hurtled into the icy water. Almost all died from the cold water. The sounds lasted for about 45 minutes and then faded away. Louis Garrett, Titanic survivor, cited Awake! magazine October 1981
Nearly a hundred years ago the great RMS Titanic came to rest at the bottom of the north Atlantic. More than 1,500 men, women and children were killed when the ship went down. To this day much of her destruction remains mysterious but there are clues hidden in the cold and dark. Titanic: Answers from the Abyss I II, Discovery 1999
Hidden near the mud is a tiny opening in Titanic’s side. And it’s right where Frederick Barrett said it would be … a separation of steel plates. ibid.
More than three million rivets were used to construct Titanic. ibid.
Massive sections of the ship stand like giant monoliths. ibid.
If the boilers didn’t blow Titanic apart, what could have caused her to blow into pieces? ibid.
Titanic’s steel is surprisingly strong. ibid.
Somewhere in the first 500 feet the hull bottom finally gave way. Here the bow and stern began their separate but very different journeys. ibid.
No human eyes have seen this since 1912. The state of preservation is uncanny. Last Mysteries of the Titanic, 2005
Two and a half miles down at the bottom of the Atlantic lies what’s left of the World’s most famous ship. Since it was discovered twenty years ago the Titanic’s hull has been giving up its secrets. ibid.
Cameron also hopes to answer questions about a fire that raged in the Titanic’s boiler room during most of the voyage which may have weakened the ship’s water-tight bulkheads and made it sink faster. ibid.
She was the largest ship ever built. And yet her maiden voyage would be her last. After RMS Titanic struck an iceberg, 1,500 men, women and children drowned sending shockwaves around the globe starting a debate that still rages today. Why did she steam at full speed into an ice-field? Why did a supposedly unsinkable ship sink so suddenly? Secret History: Titanic: The New Evidence, More4 2017
‘I spotted what I thought was a very strange mark on Titanic’s hull and it’s just there [points to photograph] … The next photograph following on from there shows the same diagonal black mark …’ ibid.
The mysterious mark over thirty feet long … ‘We appear to have a weakness or damage to the hull.’ ibid.
The ship suffered a fire: the first took hold in a coalbunker in boiler room six, and the room is directly behind the place where the dark mark begins. The fire was mentioned in the official enquiry in 1912. ibid.
The bulkhead had been severely damaged by the fire. A warped bulkhead should have raised serious concerns. ibid.
The red-head bulkhead had caused the fire to spread. ibid.
The men on this Scottish steamer would play a heroic and until now untold part in this tragedy. Clydebuilt: The Ships that Made the Commonwealth II: CS Mackay-Bennett, BBC 2019
The Mackay-Bennett was one of three idle ships in port, but crucially the only boat with a hull big enough to carry the estimated numbers of dead, and a crew tough enough and experienced enough to stomach the terrible task of recovering them. ibid.