The hidden cause of the Titanic disaster. In this blog post Tim Maltin and Professor Andrew T. Young reveal the real cause of this tragedy, 104 years after the event – abnormal refraction.
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The hidden cause of the Titanic disaster. In this blog post Tim Maltin and Professor Andrew T. Young reveal the real cause of this tragedy, 104 years after the event – abnormal refraction.
Continue readingFALSE. Although Californian was only about 10 miles away, she would not have begun to move until after Titanic’s rockets
Continue readingDeceiving night caused Captain Lord to conclude that Titanic was a nearby cargo ship with no wireless and a slack crew who would not reply to his Morse lamp
Continue readingAs Carpathia collects survivors, there is still huge confusion caused by the atmospheric conditions about whether the circumstances of the Titanic
Continue readingIt is possible that Titanic appeared to the Californian to be steaming away rather than sinking, according to testimony from Stone and Gibson
Continue readingStooping rockets from the Titanic caused by the atmospheric conditions meant that they did not appear correctly to the crew of the Californian
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