From the Oct. 13, 2008, Time Magazine "The Titanic's Last Secret" by Jeneen Interlandi.
I recently came across this article I had filed away about one of the things in history that has always attracted me, the sinking of the Titanic. I'm also interested in the Alamo and Pearl Harbor. I just can't get enough of these topics.
A few months ago, I saw the special about this new secret on PBS here in Chicago.
Historian Steven Biel has said, "Only Jesus and the Civil War (something else I'm really into) have been written more about." Close to 200 books, documentaries and movies have been written and made about the event. And that includes the highest-grossing film of all time.
How the largest ship of the time which was referred to as "unsinkable" could sink in just two hours and forty minutes and cause 1,522 deaths has long been discussed since then.
Brad Marsen has a book out now called "Titanic's Last Secrets" and he says the questions were answered a long time ago in an investigation. It is now known that the ship broke into three sections and it went down faster and at much less of an angle than has been thought and depicted.
In addition, documents from Harland and Wolff, the builders of the ship in Belfast, Northern Ireland, reveal incompetence and poor construction and negligence as well in that the hull was too flimsy.
There's Got to Be a Morning After, Or Does There? --Cooter
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