It’s been 100 years since the giant ship sunk, but still nobody can tell exactly what the cause of the incident was. This is a mysterious and one of the most discussed accident in history.
Here are a few fact regarding Titanic
Nearly five Titanics could be built with the money James Cameron’s Titanic movie has made worldwide
The Titanic would cost about $400 million to build today. James Cameron’s Academy Award-winning film Titanic has earned over $1.84 billion worldwide since its release in 1997âenough to construct about 4.6 complete replicas of the ship. That’s not counting money earned from the 3D re-release of the film in spring 2012.
A full moon may have caused the fatal iceberg to cross paths with the ship
Scientists recently arrived at a new theory that the full moon months before could be to blame for the collision, which killed about 1,500 people. According to the scientists, “That full moon, on January 4, 1912, may have created unusually strong tides that sent a flotilla of icebergs southward just in time for Titanic’s maiden voyage.”
This wasn’t a normal full moon, though: “It was the closest lunar approach, in fact, since A.D. 796, and Earth won’t see its like again until 2257.”
New research says an optical illusion prevented the ship from receiving help
British historian Tim Maltin believes that the atmosphere on the night of the sinking created conditions that made it difficult for the crew to spot icebergs and for other ships to spot the Titanic. Atmospheric conditions in the area that night were ripe for super refraction.
A novel written more than a decade ago had the plot similar to the accident
The plot of Morgan Robertson’s Futility bears an uncanny resemblance to the events surrounding the sinking of the Titanic, published 14 years before the voyage.
The book tells the story of the Titan: “The largest ship ever built, billed as ‘unsinkable’ by its British owners and the press, strikes an iceberg one April and goes down. Due to a lack of lifeboats, more than half the passengers perish in the North Atlantic. Futility has since been renamed The Wreck of the Titan, and it’s available for free on Google Books.
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