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The Second Sinking of the TITANIC

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More than one hundred years have passed since the tragic sinking of the TITANIC on April 15, 1912. But the famous ship finds no peace. Many questions are still unanswered. Who really found the wreck of the TITANIC? What is the story behind the open letter to Robert Ballard? What will happen to the recovered artifacts of the TITANIC? This book tries to find answers to these questions and also takes a look into the future.

Norbert Zimmermann is an German author and historian and has been researching the history of the TITANIC for almost three decades and has earned a very good reputation as a Titanic historian and has been invited to several Titanic events in English-speaking countries as an author and historian.mehr
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KlappentextMore than one hundred years have passed since the tragic sinking of the TITANIC on April 15, 1912. But the famous ship finds no peace. Many questions are still unanswered. Who really found the wreck of the TITANIC? What is the story behind the open letter to Robert Ballard? What will happen to the recovered artifacts of the TITANIC? This book tries to find answers to these questions and also takes a look into the future.

Norbert Zimmermann is an German author and historian and has been researching the history of the TITANIC for almost three decades and has earned a very good reputation as a Titanic historian and has been invited to several Titanic events in English-speaking countries as an author and historian.
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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9783756863693
ProduktartE-Book
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FormatEPUB
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Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum31.08.2022
Auflage1. Auflage
Seiten114 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Artikel-Nr.9838562
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Genre9200

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Leseprobe

The Posse around Robert Ballard, or Who Found the Wreck?
So much has been reported and written about the sinking of the TITANIC in the 100 years since her tragic end in the icy North Atlantic. So much has been reported and written about the sinking of the TITANIC that the impression has been created that everything on this subject has already been said. But this is not the case...

For example, the so-called "Discovery of the wreck of the TITANIC" by Robert Ballard and Jean Louis Michel, whose participation in the expedition is often dropped under the table; most laymen only know the name Ballard. Nobody really knows Michel, who had the same share in the "discovery" of the wreck (this is very controversial in TITANIC circles).

In historiography, Sunday, 1st September 1985 is the day on which Dr. Robert Ballard (and Jean Louis Michel) discovered the wreck of the TITANIC at a depth of 3800 meters. Since then, Ballard has been celebrated as the "Discoverer of the wreck of the TITANIC."


Side note: Even the video footage of the "discovery" of the TITANIC is not real. Since Robert Ballard was asleep in his cabin when the wreck was "found," it was decided without further ado to recreate the discovery of the TITANIC wreck for posterity, this time with Robert Ballard. So, the famous chants of the crew of the research ship: "A boiler, this is a boiler!" with a celebrating Robert Ballard are just an illusion for posterity. So much for authenticity...


But were they really the first to find the wreck of the TITANIC back then?

There was a major earthquake in the TITANIC world in 2005 when Paul-Henri Nargeolet, who was co-leader of five expeditions to the wreck of the TITANIC, dropped the bombshell in an open letter to Ballard:

The wreck of the TITANIC was not discovered by Ballard, but eight years earlier by the British Navy!

HMS Hecate, a hydrographic ship of the British Royal Navy, was mapping the "paths of nuclear submarines" in the North Atlantic and discovered a "large shipwreck in two parts."

The big problem with the finding of the wreck of the TITANIC by HMS Hecate, however, is that it was supposed to have been a top-secret mission, and therefore, it was not allowed to become known that the British were in the area at all. So, the discovery of the wreck probably remained "top secret"!


To make one thing clear: Of course, Ballard and Michel tracked down the TITANIC on Sunday, 1 September 1985, and were the first to take pictures of the wreck for posterity, but whether they were really the first to find the wreck, or parts of the wreck, is still very controversial.


Source: public domain/Wikimedia commons

But why is it that since 1985, it has been firmly asserted that Robert Ballard "found" the wreck and any attempt to claim otherwise is almost treated as blasphemy?

The truth is as simple as it is banal: There is a lot of money at stake in this matter, because if the truth about some aspects of the wreck finding were to become public, many would have to dress very warmly.

And what happens when someone swims against the tide, a certain Jack Grimm had to experience first-hand.


For a better understanding: In 1981, during the second of his three expeditions financed by himself to search for the wreck of the TITANIC, the eccentric Texan oil millionaire Jack Grimm (also called Cadillac Jack by his friends) found a propeller blade of the luxury liner that broke off when the ship collided with the iceberg. But to this day, it is strictly denied that he really found it...


The TITANIC historian Andreas Pfeffer has primarily examined the testimony of the Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller before the British Board of Inquiry and has come to a remarkable conclusion that has been consistently ignored by experts:

According to Charles Herbert Lightoller's testimony, the TITANIC lost a propeller blade in the collision with the iceberg, and this said propeller blade was found by Jack Grimm during his expedition in 1981!

Before the committee, Lightoller responded to Chairman Lord Mersey's question on 20th May 1912, as to whether he had felt the collision of the ship with the iceberg:

It is best described as a jar and a grinding sound. There was a slight jar followed by this grinding sound. It struck me we had struck something, and then thinking it over, it was a feeling as if she may have hit something with her propellers. And on second thought, I thought perhaps she had struck some obstruction with her propeller and stripped the blades off. There was a slight jar followed by the grinding - a slight bumping.

Lord Mersey reeled in astonishment here and asked him:

I understand you to say you thought it was the propellers?

Lightoller's answer to this question was short and concise, but unequivocal: "Yes."

When Lord Mersey asked Lightoller if he knew where this noise came from, he replied:

No, my Lord. Naturally I thought it was from forward.

"But you suspected the ship was losing a propeller blade? What did you do after you heard the noise?" Mersey continued.

"I went to see what was going on."

As the questioning continued, Officer Lightoller then became more specific. He stated that he overheard a conversation between the captain and one of the officers about the lost blade.

Lord Mersey then asked which propeller Lightoller thought had been affected.

"The starboard propeller, sir."

Mersey followed up and asked how Lightoller had noticed it. Lightoller replied to the presiding judge that the ship had subsequently "run out of round."

"Do you have any experience in this? I mean, has this ever happened to you so far in your career?"

Yes sir. I have experienced this twice in my career on other ships, so I know how it feels. The propeller then runs out of round."

This is remarkable because a propeller blade is missing from the wreck of the TITANIC. As more and more questions arose as to why a propeller blade seemed to have gone missing there, more and more different explanations were given by the salvage company RMS Titanic Inc.

First, it was completely denied that the propeller blade was missing. It was claimed that it was buried in the mud and was therefore no longer visible.

In 1991, another expedition to the wreck of the TITANIC took place for the IMAX film "TITANICA." In this phenomenal film with breathtakingly clear shots, the propellers at the stern of the ship were seen for the first time. And look: It was clearly visible that a propeller blade was missing on the starboard side...

What to do now? The salvage company then claimed that this propeller blade broke off at the moment when the stern hit the seabed with full force before it finally came to rest.

However, this "explanation" is not valid insofar as the blades on the port side hit the seabed in the same way. But there, of course, no propeller blade is missing...

You can twist and turn it however you want, but one thing seems to be quite certain: The TITANIC lost a propeller blade in the collision with the iceberg!

The latest version of the story is that Jack Grimm found a propeller blade, but it was too small to be from the TITANIC. It's really interesting what else is claimed to cover up the truth...

All this charade just to avoid confirming that Jack Grimm found the propeller blade?

It looks like it, because in case this became fact, Grimm would have been the rightful discoverer of the TITANIC since he found parts of the ship, and RMS Titanic, Inc., would have no rights to the wreck of the TITANIC. If you then take a look at the original video footage of Grimm's expedition, you can't help thinking that he actually found the propeller blade. A "washed rock," as it is repeatedly claimed, does not seem to be visible there. Rather, it is indeed a propeller blade!

Regarding the discovery of HMS Hecate, some "experts" have developed their own view of things, claiming that HMS Hecate found a wreck, but that it was "a joke of the crew" that this wreck was the TITANIC.

Aha, a joke of the crew? So loosely based on the motto: Ah look! A shipwreck! It must be the TITANIC, ha-ha-ha!"

All you can really say to this is: Oh, my goodness. How stupid do they think people are? The worst thing about it is that many people in the so-called TITANIC community adopt these explanations one-to-one and don't even begin to question them.


Curiosity as a sidenote: More and more "former crew members" of HMS Hecate are now appearing, either shifting the year of discovery forwards or backwards, or denying altogether that the TITANIC was found. With the large number of "crew members", one inevitably wonders whether they were really on-board HMS Hecate or whether they just want to make themselves important.


Both the story of Jack Grimm and the story of HMS Hecate have one thing in common:

The nature of the story's almost bizarre denials!

For comparison

Jack Grimm:
It was only "a washed rock" that Jack Grimm found.
The TITANIC is not missing a propeller blade at all (only when it could no longer be denied was a missing propeller blade admitted).
There is a propeller blade after all, but it is too small to have come from the TITANIC.

HMS Hecate:
It was another shipwreck that was found, and it just happened to be broken in...
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