(Newswire.net — January 8, 2017) —The cause of the sinking of the ship “Titanic” wasn’t a block of ice, as previously thought. It was a fire that occurred near the boiler room before the ship has left the port. The fact that Titanic should never have been put to sea was kept as a secret according to the experts who examined recent evidence which was published in a documentary on the British Channel 4 – “Titanic: The New Evidence”.
An Irish journalist, Senan Molony, has spent over 30 years researching why the Titanic sank on its route to New York from Southampton in April 1912, when more than 1,500 passengers tragically lost their lives.
Senan Molony explained in the new documentary that the latest evidence suggests the main cause of the Titanic disaster may have been an unnoticed fire that which was smoldering as long as three weeks before the ship’s collision with an iceberg in the North Atlantic.
The journalist studied photographs taken by the ship’s chief electrical engineers before it had left Belfast shipyard. He identified 30-foot-long black marks along the front right-hand side of the hull, just behind the exact spot where the ship was torn apart by the iceberg.
Molony said that it is highly likely that there was a damage at the exact area of the boat where the iceberg had struck, long before the ship even left Belfast.
Experts confirmed the marks were “likely to have been caused by a fire started in a three-storey high fuel store behind one of the ship’s boiler rooms”. They also added that a team of 12 men attempted to put out the flames, but the fire had spread out, reaching temperatures as high as 1000 degrees Celsius. Metallurgy experts stated that steel loses up to 75% of its strength when exposed to such high temperatures. Subsequently, when the fatal collision took place, the steel hull was weak enough to allow the boat’s lining to be torn open.
But, Molony explained that officers on board were reportedly given strict instructions from the president of the company that built the Titanic, J Bruce Ismay, not to mention the fire.
Conclusively, the official investigation branded Titanic’s tragic fate was as “an act of God”, a simple story of the ship sinking as a consequence of a collision with an iceberg.
Senan Molony concluded the documentary with a saying that the sinking of the famous ship was “a perfect storm of extraordinary factors which came together: fire, ice and criminal negligence”.