{"id":1231,"date":"2005-12-06T22:00:04","date_gmt":"2005-12-07T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2005-12-06T22:00:53","modified_gmt":"2005-12-07T04:00:53","slug":"theory-of-titanic-sinking-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"Theory of Titanic Sinking Challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"

The story of the most famous of maritime tragedies, the sinking of the Titanic on its maiden voyage, may be forced to undergo a rewrite because of a recent discovery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Undersea explorers said Monday that the discovery of more wreckage from the Titanic suggests that the luxury liner broke into three sections — not two, as commonly thought — and thus sank faster than previously believed.<\/p>\n

”The breakup and sinking of the Titanic has never been accurately depicted,” Parks Stephenson, a Titanic historian, said at a conference.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Undersea explorer Robert Ballard located the bulk of the wreck in 1985, at a depth of 13,000 feet. He declared that the ship had broken into two major sections, and that is the way the sinking was portrayed in the 1997 movie.<\/p>\n

However, the latest expedition, sponsored by the History Channel, found two hull pieces lying about a third of a mile from the rest of the wreck. The explorers said the location of the wreckage indicates that the bottom came off the ship intact — constituting a third major piece — and later broke in two.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ballard responded to the challenge to his twenty-year-old theory with the cool sense of objectivity that would make any historian or explorer proud.<\/p>\n

”They found a fragment, big deal,” Ballard said. ”Am I surprised? No. When you go down there, there’s stuff all over the place. It hit an iceberg and it sank. Get over it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps, if this new theory holds water (sorry ’bout that, y’all), we can get a re-edit of James Cameron’s Titanic<\/a>. This should certainly cut off a healthy chunk of the bloated 194 minutes of run time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The story of the most famous of maritime tragedies, the sinking of the Titanic on its maiden voyage, may be forced to undergo a rewrite because of a recent discovery. Undersea explorers said Monday that the discovery of more wreckage from the Titanic suggests that the luxury liner broke into three sections — not two, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}