The Titanic sank, as is well known, due to resistance from an iceberg. The captain did not notice the large iceberg in time, and the luxury liner sank to the depths, taking 1,517 passengers with it to the bottom of the sea.
The story of the luxury liner has been written, dramatized, and filmed over and over again, and the moment the ship collided with the iceberg is considered one of the greatest maritime myths.
But now a new study has been published that the luxurious ship sank for a completely different reason. The study, published in an article by Nissan Tsur from NRG, claims to have identified evidence that the luxury ship sank following a huge fire that broke out on board.
Other researchers who examined the claims of Senan Maloney, a journalist behind the study, also confirmed that the sinking likely occurred following a fire that broke out on the ship, and not as a result of a collision with an iceberg, as they had previously believed.
The journalist, whose investigation, incidentally, lasted 30 years, was assisted by experts who examined the photos taken before the luxury liner left the shipyard, and they also confirmed his claims that the black marks appearing on the ship's side were likely caused by a fire that broke out in a fuel depot, behind one of the ship's boiler rooms – about three weeks before the famous collision.
According to Maloney, 12 of the ship's employees tried to put out the fire, but it spread and damaged the ship's hull, weakening it too much to remain intact when it hit the iceberg three weeks later.
The president of the White Star Line company that built the Titanic, according to the study, chose to hide information about the fire from the 2,200 passengers who signed up for the maiden voyage.
""The official investigation into the sinking of the Titanic labeled the crash an act of force majeure," Maloney says today, but he emphasizes, "This is not a simple story of an iceberg collision and sinking. This is a perfect storm of extraordinary factors that happened together – fire, ice, and criminal negligence. No one had investigated the signs of the fire before. It completely changes the narrative.".
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