Brief introduction to the background of the mystery of Titanic sinking

Designed by British White Star Shipping Company and built at Harlan and Wolff Shipyards in Belfast, Ireland, Titanic is the second giant luxury passenger ship of Olympic class cruise ship, which is known as the "miracle in the world industrial history". In April 2002, it carried passengers 19 14, 8965438+. Titanic was called "the largest unsinkable ship in the world" at that time.

On the evening of Sunday, April 19 14, 2002, Titanic sailed at a speed of 22 knots. Captain Smith ordered the lookout to observe carefully after receiving ice reports from many ships nearby. Although gold-plated stair handrails and Indian hand-woven carpets were customized for the first class, White Star Company did not equip the lookout with binoculars. 1 1: 40, the lookout Frederic fleet (who survived later) found a shadow "the size of two tables" in the distance, which grew rapidly. He knocked the alarm bell on the bridge three times and grabbed the phone: "There is an iceberg directly ahead!" " ".Six Moody officials who answered the phone informed the first mate Murdoch next to them. Murdoch ordered to slow down, left full rudder, stop the ship and reverse the car. It turns out that this is the stupidest decision. At that time, the best choice was to speed up, leave enough rudder and take some risks; Or slow down and hit an iceberg with a solid bow.

Titanic collided with an iceberg. The iceberg hit the hull, causing the rivet of the hull to be damaged. At first, considering that the material of rivet is brittle, slag was added in the process of rivet manufacturing, but the slag was too dense, which made the rivet brittle when it could not bear the impact. After the nail broke, seawater flooded into the watertight compartment, but at that time, the maximum bearing limit of the Titanic watertight compartment was 4, and the intake part was 5, which exceeded the bearing limit. At that time, some passengers and crew on board thought that they had encountered a big wave, some thought that they had hit the rocks, and some thought that the propeller had failed. But the passengers in the cabin below felt much stronger vibration. Some passengers saw milky white icebergs passing by outside the porthole. Some scraped ice fell into the cabin. The immigrant passengers on the first deck found that the sea water was overflowing the hatch. The ship stopped soon. After checking all watertight compartments, chief designer Andrews told Captain Smith that the ship was hopeless.

Not long ago, several scientists from the State Bureau of Technical Supervision of the United States used a microscope and an image analyzer to study the wreckage, but found that the steel used to make rivets was extremely impure, and the slag content was twice that of standard steel. According to metallurgical theory, this excessive impurity makes the rivet easy to break when it is violently hit.

If the Titanic uses steel rivets, then the ship can hold out until rescuers arrive. In this regard, the British Harland Wolff Shipyard, which made the Titanic, firmly denied that the builders of the Titanic had absolutely no mistakes or misconduct in materials. To tell the truth, today, people have been unable to investigate who cut corners on shipbuilding and planted the curse of disaster.

In fact, as early as 199 1, researchers found that the quality of the hull steel plate was problematic when they studied the first batch of metal fragments salvaged from the wreck of the Titanic. At that time, shipbuilding engineers only considered increasing the strength of steel, but did not think of increasing its toughness. When comparing the metal fragments of the wreckage with the current shipbuilding steel, the researchers found that in the water temperature of the sinking site of the Titanic, the current shipbuilding steel can bend into a V-shape when it is hit, and the steel on the wreckage will break quickly because of insufficient toughness.

If it is really because of quality problems that hidden dangers have been laid for Titanic, who should bear the responsibility? Robert Strang, an American columnist, said in his new book that Churchill, then the British Trade Secretary, did not play his due supervisory role during the cruise ship construction, which led to the Titanic not meeting the construction requirements.

Strong studied the data of British and American National Archives 100 years ago for three years, and thought that Churchill, who later became British Prime Minister, was the most responsible person for the Titanic tragedy. He said that although the capacity of the lifeboat on the Titanic was in line with the regulations of Britain at that time when it sank, only one third of the people were able to escape. Strand said: "Churchill was warned by some people more than once that the management regulations on lifeboats could not keep up with the trend of getting bigger, but Churchill did not take any action. His inaction caused many innocent people to die at the bottom of the sea. " He also said that when the Titanic was built and launched, Churchill had been promoted to the position of home secretary, thus escaping the public's responsibility for its sinking. [5] Shortly after the sinking of the Titanic, two government investigation teams concluded that there was nothing wrong with the hull itself, mainly due to the improper command of the captain edward smith. But recently, the British "Sun" said that an unexposed letter showed that Smith might have been drunk when the cruise ship hit an iceberg.

The newspaper revealed that emily rickards, a survivor of the Titanic and a British second-class passenger, wrote a letter to her family on the lifeboat two days after the shipwreck, saying that "Captain Smith has been drinking in the social room and handed over the helmsman to his men. All this is the captain's fault. As far as we know, poor Smith ... has unfortunately drowned. " Her letter confirmed some records in history books: 62-year-old Smith attended a first-class dinner a few hours before the Titanic hit an iceberg, and then returned to his sleeping cabin. He was awakened before midnight, directed the passengers to evacuate and escape, and finally made a heroic decision to sink into the sea with the ship. 1912 On April 10, the Titanic made its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, and planned to sail for new york, USA. However, in the middle of the night in April of 14, this "world's largest unsinkable ship" unfortunately hit an iceberg floating in the North Atlantic and sank. Of the 2208 passengers on board, only 705 survived. Become one of the biggest shipwrecks in human history.

The British "Daily Mail" recently reported that the British historian Tim Martin said that the fatal collision between the Titanic and the iceberg was caused by the weather conditions at that time, and it was too late for the crew to turn the bow when they found the huge iceberg.

Martin carefully studied the weather map of 100 years ago, and he also read the logbooks of other ships sailing in the North Atlantic when the Titanic sank. He found that at the time and place where the Titanic passed, the arctic frozen seawater surrounded by the Labrador cold current met the warm current brought by the Gulf Stream, which led to the abnormal refraction of sea light. This refraction made the iceberg on the horizon completely invisible and became the ultimate killer of Titanic. Martin said that under normal weather conditions, the lookout on board should be able to see the iceberg.

After years of research on the sinking of Titanic, Martin once wrote 10 1 things that you thought you knew about Titanic, but you didn't! "A book. He said that the logbooks of several German and British ships recorded a sharp drop in the temperature of the sea near the shipwreck, which proved that the weather conditions at that time could create an illusion and make the iceberg "disappear".

Martin's "illusion theory" not only saved the lookout from the crime of missing the search, but also explained why the cruise ship "California" not far from the Titanic did not lend a helping hand, because the illusion made the crew of "California" mistakenly think that the ship calling for help was not the Titanic. Stanley Lord, the captain of the California, once said that he did see a ship that night, but judging from the size of the ship, he never believed it was Titanic. People always think that he is making excuses to avoid bankruptcy, but now Martin says, "I know what he said is true." Westerners have always had an inexplicable fear of the full moon. Literary works like to put the images of "werewolf" and "vampire" in this full moon world. The police complained that the crime rate would rise during the full moon, and the nurses said that the number of babies born that day would increase, which would keep them busy. But these are just legends, and none of them can stand scrutiny. But now, some scientists at Texas State University believe that the "full moon phenomenon" is one of the many factors that led to the sinking of the Titanic.

Astronomers explained that the distance between the moon and the earth was the shortest three months before the Titanic accident, namely1912 65438+1October 4. The shortest distance between the moon and the earth is within six minutes after the formation of the full moon; In addition, just before 1 day, the distance between the earth and the sun was the closest that year. These three astronomical phenomena happen at the same time, which is a once-in-a-lifetime thing.

Donald Olson, a physicist at Texas State University, pointed out that the huge tidal force caused by this extremely abnormal phenomenon was enough to throw a large number of Arctic icebergs into the ocean, so that they just floated on the shipping route of Titanic in April.

Olson said that edward smith, the captain of the Titanic, certainly didn't expect that there would be so many icebergs in the channel. Because people at that time didn't know much about the influence of the full moon on the tides, and they didn't think that the astronomical phenomenon three months ago would have much to do with themselves. But nature is like this, and it is often dangerous if you are not careful. 1985, marine surveyors finally found the Titanic, which had been sleeping for 73 years, at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. When they were investigating the wreckage, they found a big round hole with a diameter of exactly 90 cm in the front lower part of the starboard side. It is puzzling that the edge of this big round hole is very smooth and regular, as if it were formed by machining with a compasses-shaped tool. After a comprehensive study of underwater photography and measurement of the mysterious circular hole under the starboard side of the Titanic with the international expert group, the Royal Navy ship expert Sezhuang Geer confirmed that the Titanic was killed after being penetrated by a strong laser beam, and the bottom cabin was flooded. It should be that there is an irregular hole mark on the nose of the ball or around the hull, or the hull steel plate is irregularly cracked, but this is not the case.

However, this statement is not true. A 90 cm round hole can't pose any threat to the Titanic at all. As we all know, titanium has 16 watertight compartments, and any two of them will not sink into the water. It is impossible to sink a boat with a 90 cm hole filled with an umbrella.

A top secret document obtained by a reporter from the San Francisco Documentary newspaper in the United States said: "According to the surviving crew of the Titanic, when the shipwreck occurred, they stood on the deck of the Titanic and observed some strange' ghost fires' moving in the sea. These confusing' ghost fires' seem to have escaped from a' ghost ship' of unknown origin. "

The ship commanded by Lord, the captain of the California, was in the nearby waters. He was accused by historians as "from destruction". He insisted until his death that he could clearly see the "ghost fire" of another ship of unknown origin from the ship at that time. This mysterious ghost ship is located in the waters between Titanic and California.

According to the investigation plan of the sinking of Titanic, scientists found eight magical luminous bodies of unknown origin in six underwater photos of the hull. At first, researchers thought it might be some kind of deep-sea fish. However, when the researchers analyzed these underwater photos in more detail with the help of computers, they found that there were indeed some artificial luminous bodies of unknown origin cruising around the Titanic. Oceanographers have confirmed that nothing like these magical luminous bodies can be found in the ocean. They are similar to those UFOs flying in the air, but they are different. They are not typical flying saucers, but energy condensates similar to those seen by many witnesses around the world.

Scientists have come to a shocking conclusion: Titanic was accidentally hit by a laser beam from an unknown diving object and sank into the water. When the Titanic sank, the "ghost ship" flew away from here or dived into the depths of the sea. Dr. Crane, a famous American UFO expert, confirmed that there is no doubt that these unidentified diving flying objects in the sea seem to come from outside the earth, and such monsters have never appeared on our earth. It is said that after the mystery of jack-o'-lantern, the mystery of mummy is more appropriate. On the Titanic, there was a very old mummy, which was mysterious when it was not put on the ship. As long as the human related to this mummy is not seriously ill or dead, scientists can't explain the problem clearly. Soon, a mysterious person bought it at a high price and prepared to ship it away on the Titanic.