Ozyorsk Secondary School VERSION OF ITS TITANIC. VERSION OF ITS WRECK RESEARH PROJECT Make by Esayan Vladimir Make by Esayan Vladimir Teacher: E.Yuldasheva Ozyorsk. 2016

INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION Hypothesis: There are 8 versions of wreck Titanic’s. Only one of them is true. The aim: To consider all versions of the Titanic wreck and find out why they were rejected? The aim: To consider all versions of the Titanic wreck and find out why they were rejected? Objective: To explore all versions of wreck and to conclude - what the most verisimilar? Objective: To explore all versions of wreck and to conclude - what the most verisimilar? Actuality: There are many versions of wreck of the Titanic, which nobody knows. Actuality: There are many versions of wreck of the Titanic, which nobody knows.

BACKGROUND The name of Titanic was derived from Greek mythology and meant gigantic. Built in Belfast, Ireland, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (as it then was), the RMS Titanic was the second of the three Olympic-class ocean liners—the first was the RMS Olympic and the third was the HMHS Britannic. They were by far the largest vessels of the British shipping company White Star Line's fleet, which comprised 29 steamers and tenders in 1912.

RMS TITANIC ALTERNATIVE THEORIES RMS TITANIC ALTERNATIVE THEORIES Many alternative stories to the sinking of the ocean liner Titanic have been put forward. The accepted reason for the sinking, which resulted in the death of 1,517 passengers and crew, is that the ship struck an iceberg at 11.40pm on 14 April 1912, buckling the hull plates allowing water to enter the ship's first five watertight compartments (one more than the Titanic was designed to survive), which resulted in her sinking two hours and 40 minutes later.

PACK ICE PACK ICE In 2003, Captain L. M. Collins, a former member of the Ice Pilotage Service, published The Sinking of the Titanic: The Mystery Solved proposing, based upon his own experience of ice navigation and witness statements given at the two post-disaster enquiries, that what the Titanic hit was not an iceberg but low- lying pack ice. He based his conclusion upon three main pieces of evidence.

COAL FIRE COAL FIRE Ohio State University engineer Robert Essen high released a theory in November 2004 that claims a coal fire led indirectly to the iceberg collision. He claims a pile of stored coal had started to smoulder, to get control over that situation, more coal was put into the furnaces, leading to unsafe speeds in the iceberg-laden waters.

GARDINER'S SHIP THAT NEVER SANK One of the most controversial and complex theories was put forward by Robin Gardiner in his book, Titanic: The Ship That Never Sank? In it, Gardiner draws on several events and coincidences that occurred in the months, days, and hours leading up to the sinking of the Titanic, and concludes that the ship that sank was in fact Titanic '​s sister ship Olympic, disguised as Titanic, as an insurance scam by her owners, the International Mercantile Marine Group, controlled by American financier J.P. Morgan that had acquired the White Star line in 1902.

FEDERAL RESERVE Several of Titanic's passengers including John Jacob Astor, Benjamin Guggenheim, Isador Strauss, and George Dunton Widener were among the richest men in America. Some conspiracy theorists claim that these wealthy individuals were opposed to the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank and that financier J.P. Morgan saw the opportunity to eliminate them by convincing them to sail with him on the maiden voyage of the new Titanic which was really the badly damaged Olympic that he planned to sink in an insurance scam.

MUMMY The Titanic '​s mummy curse is an urban legend, possibly based on a Priestess of Ammon-Ra who lived in 1050 B.C. According to legend, after the 1890s discovery of her mummy in Egypt, the purchaser of the mummy ran into serious misfortune. The mummy was then reportedly donated to the British Museum where it continued to cause mysterious problems for visitors and staff.

CLOSED WATERTIGHT DOORS Another theory involves Titanic '​s watertight doors. This theory suggests that if these doors had been opened, the Titanic would have settled on an even keel and therefore, perhaps, remained afloat long enough for rescue ships to arrive. However, this theory appears to be far from reality for two reasons: first, there were no watertight doors between any of the first four compartments,[clarification needed] thus it was impossible to lower the concentration of water in the bow significantly.

EXPANSION JOINTS THEORY Titanic researchers continue to debate the causes and mechanics of Titanic '​s breakup. In his 1955 book A Night to Remember, Walter Lord described Titanic as assuming an "absolutely perpendicular" position before its final plunge. This view remained largely unchallenged even after the wreck discovery in 1985 confirmed that the ship had broken in two pieces at or near the surface; paintings by noted marine artist Ken Marschall as well as James Cameron's 1997 film Titanic depicted the ship attaining a steep angle prior to the breakup.

NORWEGIAN SUBMARINE Some extreme Titanic theorists claim that the Titanic was destroyed by a Norwegian (or Austrian) submarine, which fired a Thomas Torpedo. They say this was done to collect on the insurance policy. The U-boat commander, who had agreed to take part in the plot, was reportedly related to one of the Titanic '​s owners. But this theory is not backed by any solid evidence. Both the passengers and the crew would have noticed a torpedo striking the ship. Furthermore, World War I, in which both Britain and Germany took part, would only begin two years later, in 1914.

CONCLUSION We reviewed the wreck of the Titanic eight versions. Each of them of their interesting and attractive, but one drawback of the lack of evidence. So I, as many people, remain on the wreck of the Titanic version in a collision with an iceberg.

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