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New Forensic Discoveries
Citadel
March 2008
On Sale: March 1, 2008
320 pages
ISBN: 0806528958
EAN: 9780806528953
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Historical
On the starry night of April 14, 1912, at the dawn of a
century charged with human ingenuity and hope, the largest
and most advanced passenger ship in the world struck an
iceberg and sank to the bottom of the frigid North Atlantic.
In the decades that followed, despite numerous official
inquiries and the eventual discovery of the wreck itself,
key questions have gone unanswered: Why did the
double-bottomed, 46,000-ton RMS Titanic, built above and
beyond the most exacting specifications, sink in less than
three hours? Was the iceberg alone responsible for the
tragedy? Or did other factors contribute to the collision's
deadly toll? A conclusive explanation has not been
given--until now. With the same methodology used by forensic scientists in
crime-scene investigations, researchers Jennifer Hooper
McCarty and Tim Foecke applied new tools to the century-old
mystery. By analyzing step by step how the ship was designed
and constructed, what vulnerabilities were overlooked, and
how this marvel of modern engineering may have been a
disaster waiting to happen, they build a compelling new
scenario. We are vividly taken into a bygone era, when luxury ocean
travel and ruthless business competition fueled ever
mightier ship construction projects built by Belfast
shipyard workers, some mere children, laboring in unsafe,
exhausting conditions. With Britain, the shipbuilders, and
an entire industry caught up in a mad dash to build the
greatest vessel ever, shocking lapses went unnoticed. Using
modern microscopic techniques, the authors reveal those
failures and show how they doomed the lives of at least
1,500 of the Titanic's passengers and crew. Grippingly written, What Really Sank the Titanic is
illustrated with fascinating period photographs and modern
scientific evidence. It includes little-known Titanic facts
and lore, colorful portraits of the ship's designers,
builders, and crew, eyewitness accounts, and a dramatic
timeline of the ship's last hours. In an age when forensics
can catch killers, this book does what no other book has
before: fingers the culprit in one of the greatest tragedies
ever.
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