The Great Titanic Conspiracy

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Long also suspected that Titanic 's breakup may have begun with the premature failure of the ship's aft expansion joint, and ultimately exacerbated the loss of life by causing Titanic to sink faster than anticipated. His allegedly last-minute cancellation has fuelled speculation among conspiracy theorists that he knew of the ship's fate. The conspiracy theory claims that some person or people found the Olympic too severely damaged to be profitable, and so at some point switched it with the Titanic to purposefully ditch the damaged ship, reap the insurance money and, it seems, kill a bunch of people in the process.

People seem to love a good insurance fraud story, so maybe it’s unsurprising that this conspiracy theory is one of the Titanic’s most popular. With assistance from naval architect Roger Long, the team analysed the wreckage and developed a new break-up scenario [20] which was publicised in the television documentary Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces in 2006.This theory resurfaced recently in connection with QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory detailing a supposed secret plot by an alleged "deep state" against U. Conspiracy theorist Stew Peters has advanced an antisemitic version of the theory, alleging the Rothschilds were behind both the Federal Reserve and the Titanic’s sinking. Huge fire ripped through Titanic before it struck an iceberg, fresh evidence suggests – The Telegraph. Some conspiracy theorists believe that the Titanic was sunk on purpose to eliminate opposition to the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank. An optical phenomenon that is well known to ice navigators" where the flat sea and extreme cold distort the appearance of objects near the waterline, making them appear to be the height of the ship's lights, about 60ft (18m) above the surface near the bow, and 100ft (30m) high alongside the superstructure explains what probably happened by the witnesses' descriptions.

Closely examined, none of the Olympic/Titanic claims can hold up to the phenomenal effort that was needed for the switch: the two ships were not exactly identical. So, the company made a switch: its newly built second ship would take on the name Olympic, while its damaged older ship would be re-purposed to be the Titanic. One myth posits that Catholic employees of Harland and Wolff, the Belfast company that built the Titanic, were distressed that the ship’s number, 3909 04, seemed to say “NO POPE” when viewed in a mirror. Despite this reality, Paul Burns, of the Titanic Museum Attractions in Missouri and Tennessee, says that visitors still occasionally ask about this myth.There is a theory on the internet that Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in Titanic and his character in The Great Gatsby are the same person. But as Paul Burns, vice president and curator for the Titanic Museum Attractions in Missouri and Tennessee, points out, “it just doesn’t make any sense.

Also, it has been alternatively suggested that the coal bunker fire actually helped Titanic to last longer during the sinking and prevented the ship from rolling over to starboard after the impact, due to the subtle port list created by the moving of coal inside the ship prior to the encounter with the iceberg.Because this one is about fictional characters in film, it isn’t something we can prove or disprove. Morgan, who had attended the Titanic 's launching in 1911, had booked a personal suite aboard the ship with his own private promenade deck and a bath equipped with specially designed cigar holders. To further explore Long's theory, the History Channel commissioned a new computer simulation by JMS Engineering. More recently, the Associated Press reports Titanic wreckage has been recovered with the ship’s unique construction identification number (CIN); the 401 being irrefutable evidence that it wasn’t an ill-fated cover up.