1. Filming the film "Titanic", directed by James Cameron, cost more than the construction of the ship at one time, taking into account inflation.
2. The movie "Game of Thrones" was filmed in the same hangar where the real ship "Titanic" was built.
3. Not a single person from among the creators of the Titanic left it during the disaster. They stayed on board until last moment and remained calm in order to reassure the other passengers.
4. The priest on board the Titanic twice refused a place on the boat, he remained on the ship in order to listen to repentance and give absolution to the people who remained on the ship.
5. In 1943, the Nazis also made a movie called Titanic. It was a film about the famous shipwrecks, in which anti-British propaganda could be traced.
6. April 15, 1912 (a day later) the captain of the German a noticed an iceberg and ordered to smear it with red paint, he did not yet know about the collapse of the Titanic.
7. In 1945, the Royal Air Force mistakenly attacked a ship whose passengers were mostly Jews. In 1942, this fact was used in the Nazi propaganda film Titanic. About 3 times more people drowned on this ship than on the Titanic.
8. Two years after the Titanic sank, the Empress sank in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and lost 68.5% of all passengers (which is 0.5% more than the Titanic). Newspapers were silent about this incident due to the outbreak of the First World War.
9. During the filming of the movie "Titanic" one of the disgruntled extras put the drug LSD in food, for this reason, James Cameron and 50 other people were hospitalized.
10. James Cameron's initial motivation for working on Titanic was the opportunity to dive to the shipwreck at the studio's expense, not because he wanted to make a movie.
11. The cost of a first class ticket on the Titanic was $4,375 in 1912 ($100,000 today).
12. A woman named Violetta Constance Jessop survived the death of the Titanic, she also survived the death of his double "", as well as the disaster of the Olympic (also a double of the Titanic).
13. The Australian has begun financing a project to build a cruise ship - the new Titanic, which will be launched as early as 2016; Pre-sale tickets will start soon.
14. The character in Titanic who drinks Jack and Rose from a flask while the ship is sinking is based on the memories of one of the passengers who survived due to the effects of alcohol.
15. The founders of Macy's died on the Titanic, in the film it was an elderly couple, they went to bed when the ship began to sink.
16. In 20 years, the Titanic, under the influence of a, will be completely destroyed.
17. There is a rumor that the Titanic did not sink. Instead, the Olympic sank, it was just an insurance scam.
18. For the scene of the movie "Titanic" when main character draws a nude heroine, drawings by James Cameron were used.
19. When Robert Ballard (professor of oceanography) announced that he was planning to organize an expedition aimed at finding the Titanic, it was actually a front for a covert operation to find lost nuclear submarines. Since they successfully completed the task, they had time left that they could devote to actually searching for the Titanic.
20. Lunch for first class on board the Titanic consisted of 13 courses - each with a different accompanying m and a duration of four to five hours.
21. On the Carpathia, the first ship to arrive at the site of the Titanic tragedy, they offered to send telegrams worth $ 1 per word, it is known that one of the rescued spent his last dollar on a telegram for his mother with the text: "Safety."
22. Millionaire Ben Guggenheim asked to convey the following message to his wife: I will not allow any woman to stay on board because of my cowardice.
23. The first Titanic movie was released a month after it went down, and was directed by one of the survivors.
24. Fifty years earlier, a ship was built, almost as big as the Titanic, but with a double hull. The same thing happened to him and he did not sink only thanks to the double hull. However, none of the passengers was notified of the incident.
25. In 1998, the sci-fi film Lost in Space was released, it was announced as the "appearance of the iceberg" because the film's release coincided with the end of the 15-week rental of Titanic.
26. Second mate Charles Lightoler, several years after the sinking of the Titanic, admitted that the binoculars were indeed on board, in closed box to which no one had a key.
27. One book told of an "unsinkable" 800-foot cruise ship that collided with an iceberg in North Atlantic on an April night, and that there were not enough lifeboats on the ship, which is why she died most of its passengers. The ship was called the Titan. The book was written in 1898, 14 years before the Titanic disaster.
28. The Naronic, a ship that belonged to the same company as the Titanic, disappeared without a trace while following the same route in 1893.
29. Of the 711 Titanic passengers rescued, only 58 were men.
30. Boats from the Titanic, with a capacity of 40 people, were filled with 12 people and launched into the water. Until late at night, they did not approach the crash site to try to rescue other passengers.
1. 3 million rivets were used to build the Titanic, most of which were handmade.
2. It took 23 tons of fat, locomotive oil and liquid soap- to lubricate the guide rails.
3. The designers considered the liner unsinkable. The double bottom and 16 watertight bulkheads were know-how for that time. However, the designers did not know how penetrating an iceberg could be.
4. On the Titanic there was no such simple thing as binoculars. The captain fired his second mate, Blair, who, in retaliation, stole the keys to the safe, which contained binoculars for lookouts.
5. The shipwreck happened on April 14, 1912. Events are recreated to the smallest detail. From the very morning, ten times the crews of other liners transmitted reports that icebergs were already nearby, but the Titanic ignored these warnings. Latest summary entered the Titanic 40 minutes before the collision. But the radio operator of the Titanic did not even listen to the message and cut off the connection.
6. Many celebrities of that time were on the liner. Among them, for example, was the millionaire and feminist Margaret Brown. She was famous for knowing five languages and swearing at them like a shoemaker. After the collision with the iceberg, Margaret helped to seat people on the boats, but she herself was in no hurry to leave the ship. Finally, someone pushed her into a boat by force and sent her out to sea. Having reached another ship, the Carpathia, Margaret immediately began looking for blankets and food for the victims, compiled lists of survivors, and collected money. By the time the Carpathia arrived at the port, she had raised $10,000 for the survivors.
7. Another famous Titanic passenger, businessman Benjamin Guggenheim, put his companion in a lifeboat. He assured her that they would see each other soon, although he knew that the situation was hopeless. Together with the valet, he returned to the cabin and changed into a tailcoat, and then sat down at a table in the central hall and began to drink whiskey. When someone suggested that they still try to escape, Guggenheim replied: "We are dressed in accordance with our position and are ready to die like gentlemen."
8. An outstanding ticket to the Titanic's launching ceremony went under the hammer at a London auction for $56,300. A menu from the ship with a list of 40 dishes was sold in New York for $31,300. Another similar menu in London sold for £76,000. The keys to the ship's quarters, which housed the lifeboat lanterns, also survived and were sold for £59,000.
9. The liner was sinking to the music. The orchestra to the last stood on the deck and played the church hymn "Nearer, Lord, to Thee."
10. Russian deep-sea submersibles "Mir" in 1991 and 1995 sank to the ship, which is now at a depth of 3.8 kilometers. Then the devices shot a video that was included in the notorious film by James Cameron. This year, in honor of the centenary of the sinking of the liner, our submariners again promised to dive to the Titanic.
11. UNESCO waited a hundred years to declare the wreckage of the Titanic a cultural heritage site. They have a special convention for such cases. Now UNESCO will ensure that items from the Titanic do not go to uncultured divers.
12. Released in honor of the centenary, Titanic 3D has already grossed an impressive $17.4 million in the US. "Titanic" by James Cameron in 1997 was a phenomenal success and fees for those times are huge: $ 1.8 billion. It was only 12 years later that the movie "Avatar" managed to break this record.
13. The ill-fated black iceberg, or rather, his photograph, was found 90 years after the death of the Titanic. A few days after the tragedy, a certain Stefan Regorek from Bohemia on another liner sailed past the crash site and photographed the iceberg. After a thorough examination, it was proved that the vessel could well have made dents on the iceberg. So the ice block also suffered.
14. Jack Dawson, the hero of the very film that brought fame and fortune to Cameron - real character. True, Cameron later assured that he took the name from the ceiling and that this was a coincidence. However, the real Jack Dawson was a collier on the Titanic. True, he was in love not with the green-eyed Kate Winslet (she had not yet been born then), but with the sister of his friend, who persuaded him to become a sailor. In the end, of course, everyone died.
15. Legends still tell about the Titanic. For example, lovers of mysticism point out that in 1898 the writer Morgan Robertson wrote the novel "Vanity" - about a huge transatlantic liner and its complacent passengers. A lot of things coincide in the story: the name of the ship is "Titan" and even a collision with an iceberg on a cold April night.
16. Another legend says that once every six years, radio operators catch the ghost signal SOS from the Titanic on the air. This was first announced by the crew of the battleship Theodore Roosevelt in 1972. The radio operator dug through the archives and found notes from his colleagues that they also received strange radio messages allegedly from the Titanic: in 1924, 1930, 1936 and 1942. In April 1996, the Canadian ship Quebec received an SOS signal from the Titanic.
17. Although the official version is that the Titanic sank an iceberg, not everyone believes it. For example, some have claimed that the Titanic was sunk by a German torpedo fired by employees of the company that built the liner in order to obtain insurance. However, this sounds unconvincing, given how many employees of the company died on April 14, 1912.
18. The Titanic was not the only major liner of the White Star Line. The ship "Olympic" began to be built simultaneously with the "Titanic". In 1911, when leaving for the 11th voyage, the Olympic collided with the British cruiser Hawk. At the same time, the latter miraculously remained afloat, while the Olympic escaped with minor damage.
19. Younger brother The Titanic, the Britannic, was supposed to be called the Gigantic, but after the crash of the first liner, the builders decided to moderate their ambitions. The Britannic was the most comfortable of the three ships, with two hairdressers, a children's playroom, and a second-class gymnasium. Unfortunately, passengers did not have time to appreciate the merits of the new liner. After the outbreak of the war, she was converted into a hospital ship and soon hit a mine near Greece. True, most of the people on board were saved.
20. The last passenger on the Titanic died in 2009 at the age of 97. At the time of the shipwreck, she was 2.5 months old.
To point 13.
To clarify: both the RMS Olympic and the subsequent ships of the Titanic and Britannic series - the transatlantic liners of the White Star Line company had a unique design for their time: they could stay afloat when any 2 of the 16 watertight compartments were flooded , any 3 of the first 5 compartments, or all 4 forward compartments in a row, starting from the forepeak.
Unfortunately, no one imagined that the water would immediately go to six bow compartments and as the trim grew on the bow, it would begin to overflow through the watertight bulkheads, because usually the aforementioned ones did not reach the mast clots and sequential flooding of the compartments would begin. It wasn't a warship...
To point 12.
And, for example: "Hans Hedtoft", January 7, 1959? SOS - January 7, 1959, around 0200: "Iceberg struck. Position 59.5 N - 43.0 W." 02 "Engine room flooded with water." 03 "Took a lot of water into the engine room." Approximately 05 "Sinking, need immediate help." That's all ... Rescued, bodies and debris were not found. 55 passengers and 39 crew members died.
For reference: "Hans Hedtoft": a Danish cargo-passenger ship with a displacement of 3000 tons, the second voyage on the line Greenland - continental ports. It was intended for navigation in ice (double the thickness of the sides in the ice belt, double bottom, 7 watertight compartments, special reinforcement of the bow and stern ends).
To point 9.
According to the data of the investigation, 37.5 seconds elapsed between the call of the lookout Frederick Fleet (Frederick Fleet: 10/15/1887 - 01/10/1965) and the moment the iceberg touched. During this time, the liner passed 1316 feet and deviated from the course by 23 degrees (109 feet / 33.22 meters to the left of the original trajectory).
By the way. Frederick Fleet was found hanged on January 10, 1965 in his garden on Normand Street. The coroner's report indicated that he had mental confusion, but acquaintances believed that the whole thing was in his depressive state, which began after the death of his wife, and was partly due to the fact that Fleet never got rid of his guilt for the death of passengers . He was buried without any honors in the grave of a "beggar" in Hollybrook Cemetery in Southampton. There was not even a tombstone on his grave, and only in 1993 did the Titanic Historical Society Inc. with the money of private donations, a commemorative plate with an engraving depicting the Titanic was installed. Another victim of the disaster, isn't it?
To point 8.
There was no "mirage". There was a "black" iceberg: when it turns over, its part that was previously in the water does not differ in color from the water. Especially on a moonless night. There was no rough sea at all, so there was no white strip of foam at the "waterline" of the iceberg either. And there were no binoculars from the lookouts - historical fact. They just didn't see him...
To point 3.
Incorrect photo. It should have been signed like this: "The boats of the Titanic. Thirteen of them were found in total. And here they are at the 13th berth in New York, where this magnificent liner was supposed to come"
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This is a bit of my hobby, in any case, a normal library has gathered on different languages and with documents official investigation sign. To begin with, I recommend: www.titanicinquiry.org - complete punctures of investigations in the States and Britain ( English language).
Therefore, let me make a value judgment that the Titanic was destroyed by the command "Stop the car - full back" (McMaster Murdoch's hand movement), which could not be executed.
Alas, it took more than 15 minutes to completely reverse the machines "from full forward to full reverse" (an investigative experiment at the Olympic and I will not describe the features of steam engines) - while the liner passed about 2 miles - about 3.7 km. In addition, it is necessary to take into account the features of the rudder propeller group. Three screws, one rudder blade. The right and left screws were driven by steam engines (reversible), the middle one - by a turbine (irreversible). After the command "stop "The liner actually lost control and instead of circulation (a circle with a diameter of 3850 feet), it began to move in a spiral with an increasing radius tending to infinity. At the same time, if the command "Full ahead, all steam to the front" was given, then on on a lapel course of 23 degrees, it would have been 8 seconds earlier and by the time "37.5" it would have gone 92.6 meters to the left. it's a completely different story...
Meanwhile. It is documented that closer to midnight on April 14, 1912, there were only two oilers at the control post of the Titanic machines (according to the table of ranks - the level of ordinary stokers, only those are trained to shovel with a shovel, and these with an oil can). It is not surprising - after all, the previous command from the bridge was received more than three days ago ...
Sorry, it's long, but I haven't said everything yet...
Titanic - the ship that challenged higher powers. A marvel of shipbuilding and the most big ship of his time. The builders and owners of this giant passenger fleet arrogantly declared: "The Lord God himself will not be able to sink this ship." However, the launched ship went on its maiden voyage and did not return. It was one of the largest disasters, forever included in the history of navigation. In this topic, I will talk about the most key points related to the Titanic. The topic consists of two parts, the first part is the history of the Titanic before the tragedy, where I will talk about how the ship was built and went on its fatal voyage. In the second part, we will visit the bottom of the ocean, where the remains of the drowned giant lie.
First, I will briefly talk about the history of the construction of the Titanic. There are a lot of interesting photos of the ship, which captures the construction process, the mechanisms and units of the Titanic, and so on. And then the story will go about the tragic circumstances that were destined to happen on this fateful day for the Titanic. As always happens with major disasters, the tragedy of the Titanic was due to a series of errors that coincided on the same day. Each of these errors individually would not have entailed anything serious, but all together turned into death for the ship.
Titanic was laid down on March 31, 1909 at the shipyards of the Harland and Wolf shipbuilding company in Belfast, Northern Ireland, launched on May 31, 1911, passed sea trials on April 2, 1912. The unsinkability of the ship was ensured by 15 watertight bulkheads in the hold, creating 16 conditionally watertight compartments; the space between the bottom and the flooring of the second bottom was divided by transverse and longitudinal partitions into 46 watertight compartments. In the first photo - the slipway of the Titanic, construction is just beginning. 
The photo shows the laying of the keel of the Titanic
In this photo, the Titanic is on the slipway next to Olympic, the twin brother
And these are huge steam engines Titanic 
giant crankshaft 
This photo shows the turbine rotor of the Titanic. The huge dimensions of the rotor stand out against the background of working 
Titanic propeller shaft 
Solemn photo - the body of the Titanic is completely assembled 
The launching process begins. The Titanic is slowly sinking its hull into the water. 
The giant ship almost left the stocks 
Titanic launch successful 
And now the Titanic is ready, the morning before the first official launch in Belfast 
The Titanic was officially launched and transported to England. In the photo, a ship in the port of Southampton before her fateful voyage. Few people know, but 8 workers died during the construction of the Titanic. This information is available in a selection of interesting facts about the Titanic. 
And this last photo Titanic taken from the shore in Ireland 
The first days of the journey were successful for the ship, nothing foreshadowed trouble, the ocean was completely calm. On the night of April 14, the sea remained calm, but icebergs were visible in some places in the navigation area. They did not embarrass Captain Smith ... At 11:40 pm, a cry was suddenly heard from the observation post on the mast: "Directly on the course of the iceberg!" ... Everyone knows about the further events that took place on the ship. The “unsinkable” Titanic failed to resist the water element and went to the bottom. As already mentioned, many factors turned against the Titanic that day. It was a fatal bad luck that destroyed the giant ship and more than 1500 people. 
The official conclusion of the commission investigating the causes of the sinking of the Titanic read: the steel used to sheath the Titanic's hull was of poor quality, with a large admixture of sulfur, which made it very brittle at low temperatures. If the skin were made of high-quality, ductile steel with low content sulfur, it would greatly soften the force of impact. The metal sheets would have simply bent inward and the damage to the hull would not have been so serious. Perhaps then the Titanic would have been saved, or at least kept afloat for a long time. However, for those times this steel was considered the best, there was simply no other. This was only the final conclusion, in fact, there were a number of other factors that did not allow avoiding a collision with an iceberg 
In order, we list all the factors that influenced the death of the Titanic. The absence of any of these factors could have saved the ship...
First of all, it is worth noting the work of Titanic radio operators: the main task of telegraph operators was to serve especially wealthy passengers - it is known that in just 36 hours of work, radio operators transmitted more than 250 telegrams. Payment for telegraph services was made on the spot, in the radio room, and at that time it was not very small, and the tip flowed like a river. Radio operators were constantly busy sending telegrams, and although they received several reports of drifting ice, they were not paid attention to. 
Some criticize the lookout's lack of binoculars. The reason for this lies in the tiny key to the box with binoculars. A tiny key that opened the cabinet where the binoculars were stored could have saved the Titanic and the lives of 1,522 dead passengers. This should have happened if not for fatal mistake a David Blair. Blair, the key keeper, was transferred from his service on the "unsinkable" liner just a few days before the ill-fated voyage, but he forgot to hand over the key to the binoculars locker to the worker who replaced him. That is why the sailors on duty on the observation tower of the liner had to rely solely on their own eyes. They saw the iceberg too late. One of the crew members on duty that fateful night later said that if they had binoculars, they would have seen the ice block earlier (even if pitch darkness reigned) and the Titanic would have had time to change course.
Despite warnings about icebergs, the captain of the Titanic did not slow down or change the route, so confident was he in the unsinkability of the ship. Too high speed of the steamer, due to which the impact of the iceberg on the hull was maximum strength. If the captain had ordered in advance, when entering the iceberg belt, to reduce the speed of the ship, then the force of impact on the iceberg would not have been enough to break through the hull of the Titanic. The captain also did not make sure that all the boats were filled with people. As a result, a much smaller number of people were saved. 
The iceberg belonged to a rare type of so-called. "black icebergs" (turned over so that their dark underwater part hits the surface), because of which it was noticed too late. The night was windless and moonless, otherwise lookouts would have noticed the lambs around the iceberg. Pictured is the same iceberg that caused the sinking of the Titanic. 
The ship did not have red rescue rockets signaling distress. Confidence in the power of the ship was so high that it never occurred to anyone to supply the Titanic with these missiles. And everything could have worked out differently. Less than half an hour after meeting with the iceberg, the assistant captain shouted:
Lights to port, sir! The ship is five or six miles from us! Boxhall saw clearly through his binoculars that it was a single-tube steamer. He tried to contact him with a signal lamp, but the unknown vessel did not answer. “Apparently, there is no radiotelegraph on the ship, they could not see us,” Captain Smith decided, and ordered the helmsman Rowe to signal with emergency rockets. When the signalman opened the box of rockets, both Boxhall and Roe were dumbfounded: the box contained ordinary white rockets, not emergency red ones. “Sir,” Boxhall exclaimed in disbelief, “there are only white rockets here!” - Can't be! said Captain Smith in astonishment. But, making sure that Boxhall was right, he ordered: - Shoot the whites. Maybe they'll guess we're in trouble. But no one guessed, everyone thought it was fireworks on the Titanic 
The California cargo-and-passenger steamer, on a London-Boston flight, missed the Titanic on the evening of April 14, and after a little over an hour it was covered with ice and lost its course. His radio operator Evans contacted the Titanic at about 11 p.m. and wanted to warn about the difficult ice conditions and that they were covered with ice, but the Titanic's radio operator Philippe, who had just barely established contact with Cape Race, rudely cut him off: - Leave me alone! I'm busy working with Cape Reis! And Evans "lagged behind": there was no second radio operator on the "California", the day was difficult and Evans officially closed the radio watch at 23:30, having previously reported this to the captain. As a result, all the blame for the biased investigation into the sinking of the Titanic fell on the captain of the California, Stanley Lord, who until his death proved his innocence. He was acquitted only posthumously, after Hendrik Ness, the captain of the ship Samson, testified ... 
On the map is the place where the Titanic sank
So, the night of April 14-15, 1912. Atlantic. Board of the fishing vessel "Samson". "Samson" returns from a successful fishing trip, having avoided encounters with US ships. On board are several hundred slaughtered seals. The tired crew rested. The watch was carried by the captain himself and his first assistant. Captain Ness was in good standing with his masters. The voyages of his steamer were always successful and brought a good profit. Hendrik Ness was known as an experienced and risky captain, not too scrupulous in violating territorial waters or in exceeding the number of prey animals. The Samson often found itself in alien or forbidden waters, and was well known to the ships of the US Coast Guard, with which he successfully avoided close acquaintance. In a word, Hendrik Ness was an excellent navigator and a gambling, successful businessman. Here are the words of Nessus, from which the whole picture of what is happening becomes clear:
“The night was amazing, starry, clear, the ocean is calm and gentle,” said Ness. - My assistant and I chatted, smoked, sometimes I went out of the cabin to the bridge, but I didn’t stay there for a long time - the air was right chilling. Suddenly, accidentally turning around, I saw in the southern part of the horizon two unusually bright stars. They surprised me with their brilliance and size. Shouting to the officer on duty to give a spyglass, I pointed it at these stars and immediately realized that these were the top lights of a large vessel. "Captain, I think it's a Coast Guard ship," the aide said. But I have thought about it myself. There was no time to estimate on the map, but we both decided that we had climbed into the territorial waters of the United States. Meeting with their ships did not bode well for us. A few minutes later, a white rocket took off over the horizon, and we realized that we had been discovered and were required to stop. I still hoped that everything would work out and we could escape. But soon another rocket took off, after some time a third ... Things turned out badly: if we had been searched, I would have lost not only all the booty, but also, possibly, lost the ship, and we would all have ended up in prison. I decided to leave.
He ordered to turn off all the lights and give full speed. For some reason they didn't follow us. After some time, the border ship disappeared altogether. (That is why the Titanic witnesses claimed to have clearly seen a large steamer in the distance that had left them. The ill-fated California was at that time jammed with ice and was not visible from the Titanic at all.) I ordered to change course to the north, we walked full swing and only in the morning they slowed down. On the twenty-fifth of April we anchored off Reykjavik in Iceland, and only then, from the newspapers delivered by the Norwegian consul, did we learn of the tragedy of the Titanic.
During a conversation with the consul, it was as if they hit me on the head: I thought - weren't we then at the crash site? As soon as the consul left our board, I immediately rushed into the cabin and, looking through the newspapers and my notes, realized that the dying people did not see the California, but us. So, it was us who called for help with rockets. But they were white, not red, emergency. Who would have thought that people were dying right next to us, and we were leaving them at full speed on our reliable and large "Samson", which had both boats and boats on board! And the sea was like a pond, quiet, calm… We could have saved them all! Everyone! Hundreds of people died there, and we saved the smelly seal skins! But who could know about it? We didn't have a radiotelegraph. On the way to Norway, I explained to the crew what had happened to us, and warned that all of us had only one thing to do - keep quiet! If they find out the truth, we will become worse than lepers: everyone will shy away from us, we will be kicked out of the fleet, no one will want to serve with us on the same ship, no one will give us a hand or a crust of bread. And none of the team took any oath.
Hendrik Ness spoke about the incident only 50 years later, before his death. Nevertheless, no one can be directly blamed for the sinking of the Titanic. If the rockets were red, he would certainly rush to the rescue. In the end, no one was able to help. Only the steamer "Carpathia", developing an unprecedented speed for her of 17 knots, rushed to the aid of dying people. Captain Arthur X. Roston ordered the preparation of beds, spare clothing, food, accommodation for the rescued. At 2 hours 45 minutes of the Carpathia, icebergs and their fragments, large ice fields began to meet. Despite the danger of collision, the Carpathia did not slow down. At 3:50 a.m. on the Carpathia they saw the first lifeboat from the Titanic, at 4:10 a.m. they began to rescue people, and by 8:30 a.m. the last living person was picked up. In total, "Carpathia" saved 705 people. And the Carpathia delivered all the rescued to New York. Pictured is a boat from the Titanic
Now let's move on to the second part of the story. Here you will see the Titanic at the bottom of the ocean in the form in which it remained after the tragedy. For seventy-three years the ship lay in its deep underwater grave as one of the countless testimonies of human carelessness. The word "Titanic" has become synonymous with doomed adventures, heroism, cowardice, upheaval and adventure. Societies and associations of surviving passengers were formed. Entrepreneurs involved in the recovery of sunken ships dreamed of lifting a superliner with all its countless riches. In 1985, a team of divers led by American oceanographer Dr. Robert Ballard found it, and the world learned that under the enormous pressure of the water column, the giant ship broke into three parts. The wreckage of the Titanic was scattered over an area with a radius of 1600 meters. Ballard found the bow of the ship, deeply embedded in the ground under its own weight. Eight hundred meters from her lay the stern. Nearby were the ruins of the middle part of the building. Among the wreckage of the ship, a variety of objects lay all over the bottom. material culture of that distant time: a set of kitchen utensils made of copper, wine bottles with stoppers coffee cups with the emblem of the shipping line "White Star", toiletries, door handles, candelabra, cookers and ceramic doll heads that little children played with... One of the most stunning underwater images that Dr. Ballard's movie camera captured was a broken sloop-beam hanging limply from the side of the ship - a silent witness tragic night, which will forever remain in the list of world catastrophes. The photo shows the wreck of the Titanic, the picture was taken by the Mir submersible 
Over the past 19 years, the hull of the Titanic has undergone serious destruction, the reason for which was not at all sea water, and souvenir hunters, who gradually plunder the remains of the liner. So, for example, the ship's bell or mast lighthouse disappeared from the ship. In addition to direct looting, damage to the ship is caused by time and the action of bacteria, leaving behind only rusty ruins.
In this photo we see the propeller of the Titanic 
Huge ship anchor 
One of the Titanic's piston engines 
Preserved under water cup from the Titanic 
Here is the same hole formed after the meeting with the iceberg. Perhaps, in addition to weak steel, the rivets between the sheets of metal could not stand it, and water poured into the 4 compartments of the Titanic, leaving no chance of salvation. There was no point in pumping water, it was equivalent to pumping water from ocean to ocean. The Titanic sank to the bottom, where it rests to this day. There is talk of bringing the Titanic to the surface to make it a museum, while various souvenir enthusiasts continue to tear the ship apart. How many more secrets does the Titanic hold? It is unlikely that anyone will give an answer to this question in the near future .. 
ABOUT terrible death luxury liner Titanic in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean everyone knows. Hundreds of people distraught with fear, heart-rending female cries and children's crying. 3rd class passengers buried alive at the bottom of the ocean are on the lower deck and millionaires choosing best places in half-empty lifeboats - on the upper, prestigious deck of the ship. But only a select few knew that the sinking of the Titanic was planned, and the death of hundreds of women and children was another fact in a cynical political game.
April 10, 1912 Port of Southampton, England. Thousands of people in the port of Southampton gathered to see the liner Titanic, on board of which 2000 lucky people went on a romantic trip across the Atlantic. The cream of society gathered on the passenger deck - mining magnate Benjamin Guggenheim, millionaire John Astor, actress Dorothy Gibson. Not everyone could afford to buy a first class ticket for $3,300 at the prices of that time, or $60,000 at the prices of today. Passengers of the 3rd class paid only 35 dollars (650 dollars in terms of our money), therefore they lived on the third deck, not having the right to go upstairs, where the millionaires were accommodated.
Tragedy Titanic still remains the largest peacetime maritime disaster. The circumstances of the death of 1,500 people are still shrouded in mystery.
The archives of the British Navy confirm that for some reason there were half as many boats on the Titanic as needed, and the captain knew even before the collision that there would not be enough seats for all the passengers.
The crew of the ship ordered first to rescue passengers of the 1st class. Bruce Ismay was one of the first people to board a lifeboat. CEO company " White Star Line", which belonged Titanic. The boat in which Ismay sat was designed for 40 people, but she left the side with only twelve.
The lower deck, where there were 1,500 people, was ordered to be locked so that third-class passengers would not burst upstairs to the boats. Panic broke out below. People saw how water began to flow into the cabins, but the captain had an order to save rich passengers. The order - only women and children, was made much later, and according to experts, the sailors were primarily interested in this, since in this case they became rowers on boats and they had a chance of salvation.
Many passengers of the second and third classes, without waiting for the boats, threw themselves overboard in life jackets. In a panic, few understood - in ice water almost impossible to survive.
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In the list of passengers of the third class, which only recently became public, the name of Winni Goutts (Winnie Couts), a modest Englishwoman with two sons, appears. In New York, the woman was waiting for her husband, who a few months earlier got a job in America. It will seem incredible, but 88 years later, on February 3, 1990, Icelandic fishermen picked up a woman with that name on the shore. Wet, frozen in tattered clothes, she cried and screamed that she was a passenger Titanic and her name is Winnie Couts. The woman was taken to a psychiatric hospital and for a long time was mistaken for a crazy woman, until one of the journalists found her name in the handwritten lists of passengers on the Titanic. She described the chronology of events in detail and never got confused. The mystics immediately put forward their version - they fell into the so-called space-time trap.
After the declassification of the archives Investigation into the death of 1,500 passengers on the Titanic» On July 20, 2008, the Senate Commission of Inquiry learned that on the night of the disaster, almost 200 passengers managed to board boats and sail away from the sinking ship. Some of them describe a strange phenomenon. At about one in the morning, passengers saw a large luminous object near the liner. The men thought that these were the lights of another ship. R.M.S. Carpathia", which can save them. About 10 boats sailed to this light, but after half an hour the lights went out. It turned out that there was no ship nearby, and the liner " R.M.S. Carpathia Came only after 1 hour. Many eyewitnesses described strange lights observed near the site. wreck of the titanic. These testimonies were classified.
Anomalous events around sinking of the Titanic have been carefully hidden for a long time. It is known that no one could officially confirm the identity of Winnie Couts.
In the ranking of the largest maritime disasters of the XX century published by the popular Internet publication Titanic occupies by no means the last place. However, in the column "Cause of death - a collision with an iceberg", it appears in this list only once. The first and last case in the history of navigation when a ship sank due to a collision with an iceberg. Moreover, the consequences of the collision are comparable to the results of a major military operation. What is this?
The official version of the disaster says that Titanic collided with a black iceberg that had recently capsized in the water and was therefore invisible against the night sky. No one has ever wondered why the iceberg was black. The lookout on duty Frederick Fleet, a few seconds before the collision, saw some huge dark mass and heard a strange, very loud rattle coming from under the water, not like the sound of contact with an iceberg.
After 80 years, Russian researchers descended to the Titanic for the first time and confirmed that the ship's hull had indeed been cut. Why did the lookouts not notice anything in advance. This is surprising, but they did not have binoculars, that is, formally they were in the safe, but the key to it mysteriously disappeared. And one more strange detail - Titanic the most perfect of the beginning of the 20th century was not equipped with searchlights. Such carelessness looks, at least, strange, because on Titanic telegrams came in all day warning of icebergs plying in the area.
After weighing all the events and facts, it seems that the Titanic disaster was prepared on purpose, but who benefited from the death Titanic and why hundreds of innocent people were drowned. It was clear to the people behind the largest catastrophe of the century that not everyone would believe in a collision with an iceberg. Until now, we are offered many versions to choose from, whoever likes what.
For example, in order to receive an insurance payment, they flooded not Titanic, and the same type of passenger ship Olympic, which was in operation for a long time and by 1912 was pretty dilapidated. But in 1995, Russian scientists refuted this assumption with the help of remote-controlled modules introduced inside the sunken ship. It has been proven that it is not the Olympic that lies at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
Then a version was thrown into print that Titanic sank in pursuit of the prestigious Blue Ribbon of the Atlantic award. Allegedly, the captain wanted to arrive at the port of New York a day ahead of schedule in order to receive the prize. Because of this, the ship was moving in a dangerous area at maximum speed. The authors of this version completely overlooked the fact that Titanic just technically could not reach the speed of 26 knots, at which the previous record was set.
They also talked about the error of the helmsman, who misunderstood the order of the captain, and being in stressful situation put the steering wheel in the wrong direction.
Maybe Titanic was hit by a torpedo from a German submarine and this disaster actually became the first episode of the First World War. Numerous underwater studies subsequently did not find even indirect signs of a possible torpedo hit, so the very plausible version Titanic died as a result was a fire.
On the eve of departure, a fire broke out in the hold of the liner, where coal was stored. They tried to put it out, but not successfully. Already gathered at the pier the richest people of that time, movie stars, the press, an orchestra played. The flight could not be cancelled. The owner of the ship, Bruce Ismay, decided to go to New York and try to put out the fire along the way. That is why the captain drove at full speed, fearing with all his might that the ship was about to explode and ignored the message about icebergs.
Another oddity is the owner of the company " White Star Line", which belonged Titanic multimillionaire John Pierpont Morgan, Jr., canceled his ticket 24 hours before departure and removed the famous collection of paintings from the flight, which he was going to take to New York. In addition to Morgan, another 55 first-class passengers refused to travel on the Titanic in just one day, mostly partners and acquaintances of the millionaire - John Rockefeller, Henry Frick, US Ambassador to France Alfred Vandelfield. Previously, this fact was not given almost any importance, but only recently scientists compared certain facts and came to the conclusion that the Titanic was the first major disaster aimed at establishing world domination.
Billionaires rule the world, whose goal is unlimited power. accident on Chernobyl nuclear power plant, collapse Soviet Union, attack on the Twin Towers of the World shopping center- links of one chain. The sinking of the Titanic not the first and not the last planned disaster. But why world government decided to flood Titanic. The answer is to be found in the events of the early 20th century. It was during these years that the sharp growth of industry began - the gasoline engine, the incredible development of aviation, industrialization, the use of electricity in all industries, the experiments of Nikola Tesla, and so on. World financial leaders understood scientific and technical progress, may soon blow up the world order on planet Earth. John Rockefeller, John Pierpont Morgan, Karl Mayer Rothschild, Henry Ford, who are the world government, understood that following the rapid growth of industry, countries would begin to develop, which in their world concept were assigned the role of only raw material appendages, and then the redistribution of property on the planet would begin, and control over the processes taking place in the world will be lost.
Every year the socialists declared themselves more and more, trade unions gained strength, crowds of protesters demanded freedom and independence. And then it was decided to remind humanity who is the boss in the world.
In the mid-90s, Russian scientists dived to the Titanic and took samples of the metal, which was then analyzed by specialists from the American Institute. The results were truly stunning - by the sulfur content, it was found that it was an ordinary metal. And later studies showed that the metal was not just the same as on other ships, it was much the worst quality, and in ice water generally turned into a very fragile material. In the autumn of 1993, an event occurred that put an end to the study of the causes of death Titanic. At the New York conference American specialists in the field of shipbuilding, the results of an independent analysis of the causes of the disaster were announced. Experts say they don't understand why such poor quality steel was used for the hull of the world's most expensive ship. IN cold water the hull of the Titanic cracked at the first impact on an insignificant obstacle, while high-quality steel is only deformed.
Experts believed that in this way the owners of the shipbuilding company were trying to save money, but it never occurred to anyone to ask why the billionaire owners of the ship cut costs, endangering their own safety. And everything is quite logical, it was a real diversion. Fragile metal, cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean and a dangerous route. It only remained to wait for the SOS signal from the crashed Titanic. During the investigation of the circumstances of the disaster, the US Judicial Commission proved that the northern route that the Titanic was on was chosen by order of Bruce Ismay. He was on board the ship, but was one of the first to be evacuated and safely waited for the arrival. R.M.S. Carpathia", which also belonged to the company" White Star Line” and was specially located nearby to save wealthy passengers. But " R.M.S. Carpathia"an order was given, is not too close, because the disaster was supposed to be a frightening action for the whole world.
Now we can say with certainty sinking of the titanic it was an elaborate propaganda move. Millions of people around the world were shocked by the fate of third-class passengers buried alive, they remained immured in their cabins.
In the eyes of the world government, third-class passengers are you and me - Russia, China, Ukraine and the Middle East, and in December 2012 they are preparing a new act of intimidation for us, but which one. It remains only to wait, and not for long.
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