I'm not claiming to have solved the puzzle of the Titanic. I'm just saying the preponderance of the evidence points toward that low-level break. And it's a big preponderance. |
It is not so much a matter of saying that this IS what happened but that this is the story that the pieces documented by The History Channel 2005 Expedition tell when put together with the body of knowledge accumulated previously. |
She was doomed, she was flooding and she was going down, but she had reached a point where there was an illusion that she would float a longer period. People were inside, not panicked, and suddenly the hull cracked. |
The breakup was not just something that happened as the ship made her final plunge, but the breakup began the final plunge. |