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There is a book that accidentally predicted almost the entire story of the Titanic several years before the Titanic was built.
In Morgan Robertson's book Futility, A ship called the Titan, deemed to be unsinkable, runs into an iceberg in the North Atlantic. It didn't have enough lifeboats for everyone- almost everyone dies- and the main character saves a little girl and is basically arrested for kidnapping.
From my understanding, there are theories that he was clairvoyant, or someone used his book as inspiration.
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Saw a convincing documentary that theorised that the likely cause of Titanic's demise was that a cold weather mirage obscured the iceberg from being seen by the lookouts until they were nearly on top of it. The crew thought they would see a large object like that much further away and thus have plenty of time to turn. The documentary also said that the binoculars wouldn't have made a difference, since binoculars were usually used for examining objects not spotting them.
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The planning and design of the Titanic took place on 17 September 1908.
In 1898 a book was written by Morgan Robertson "The Wreck Of The Titan".
The book describes a huge passenger ship named Titan:
Both collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic due to excessive speed and both ships had too few lifeboats.
Both were launched in April and their disasters happened in the same month.
Both were the largest ship afloat. The Titan was described as one of manâs greatest works. The Titanic was deemed unsinkable and a wonder of its era.
Both had a displacement of 45,000 tons.
Both had three propellers and two masts.
Another ship named Titanian in 1935 also had an encounter with an iceberg.
You can believe in weird coincidences or prophesies... or something happened on purpose.
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Correction. The Olympic actually was said to be at fault for the accident, so that's the reason they couldn't get a payment. I actually think the theory is plausible. Even if the insurance payouts were different amounts, they'd probably rather have a smaller payout than lose all the money by not having a sailable ship. Also, just because you see a group of people work on things doesn't mean you really care about what they are doing. You just assume they are working.
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Britannic's original name was Gigantic, and was larger then Titanic and Olympic, but after Titanic sank, the white star line decided that it would change the name out of respect and to keep passengers coming. Britannic sank during world war one as a hospital ship in the Mediterranean sea, never having seen a single paying passenger. She most likely hit a mine, as the custom at the time was to not torpedo hospital ships, as they were designated such by giant red crosses on their side and a distinct white paint job
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I find it interesting how other ship wrecks where people didn't make it nobody bats an eyelash at divers disturbing the area but nobody wants anyone to bring up anything including the ship under the claim it's a burial ground. I always thought it was odd. But I'm willing to bet it's to keep her secrets safe down there on what exactly happened.
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Don't we have hours of underwater footage of the sunken Titanic, courtesy of an obsessed James Cameron? We also have primary source documents filled with survivor accounts. I mean, I fully believe that it could have been done on purpose, but there was definitely a boat and it definitely sank.
The theory that the English being cursed by all the artifacts they stole from foreign cultures would be awesome if it were true.
The truth is probably boring. Poor communication, poor planning, people sucking at their jobs.
We may want to revisit the notion of getting all the richest people onto one ship during iceberg season.
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@JohnEBoy66
2 years ago
It's not anti-Semitic to criticise the Rothschilds.
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