"Do you trust me?" "I trust you." "Okay, open your eyes." "Oh, I'm flying, Jack!" This is a classic line from the movie Titanic. As soon as the film was released in 1997, it has been dominating the charts of major film theaters, and eventually achieved a box office of 1.84 billion US dollars, breaking the global box office record in film history. At the same time, the film won several awards at the 70th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and its director James Cameron also won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film.
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Designed by the British White Star Shipping Company and built by the Haaland and Wolf Shipyard, the ship was the world's largest luxury passenger ship at the time, known as "the wonder of the world's industrial history" and known as "unsinkable". At about 23:40 on April 14, 1912, the Titanic discovered an iceberg in front of the course during its journey, but because the ship was too fast and too close to the iceberg to adjust the direction of the voyage, it collided with the iceberg, breaking the ship's starboard bow to the middle, causing five watertight cabins to enter the water. About two and a half hours after the collision, the Titanic cocked its bow and broke with the ship's body, splitting the ship in two and sinking to the bottom of the sea. The sinking of the Titanic became the largest shipwreck in peacetime, and its wreck was not rediscovered until 70 years later. But is the real reason for the sinking of the Titanic really what is played in the movie? Years later, this truth gradually surfaced.
In an interview with a British television station, Robin Gardeno and Andrew Newton told reporters a shocking secret: after so many years, people have been looking for the secret of the sinking of the Titanic, but after so many years of searching for information, they found that the shipwreck was not the Titanic but another ship, the Olympic. And the 1523 dead caused by the shipwreck were also killed in a huge conspiracy of the White Star Cruise Ship, not at all a natural disaster above, but a naked man-made disaster. What's going on here?
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It turned out that in September 1911, another luxury cruise ship of the White Star Cruises, the Olympic, collided with a British Navy cruiser during the sea trial in Southampton, causing the Olympic to be so badly damaged that it barely sailed back to the harbor and docked at the Port of Belfast.
When White Star Cruises applied to the insurance company for compensation, the insurance company refused. The reason is that after their investigation and evidence collection, they found that the main reason for the accident was the improper operation of the Olympic Ship itself, and the insurance company did not pay the claim at that time. But such a luxurious cruise ship, if repaired, is bound to cost a lot. Just in time for the White Star Cruises Company's capital chain was very tight, and it could not come up with so much money to repair this luxury cruise ship. But it cost a lot of money to build this cruise ship, and it couldn't be smashed in its own hands, so White Star Cruises came up with a huge loss to recover its loss: let the Olympic sail instead of the Titanic, and then hit the iceberg and cheat the insurance. Of course, they could not ignore the more than two thousand lives on board, and White Star Cruises also arranged a cruise ship to run parallel to the so-called Titanic at that time, but it may be the weather or other reasons at that time, after the Titanic loaded the iceberg to send a distress signal, the cruise ship did not arrive on time, the result is known to everyone: 2224 passengers and crew, only 710 people were rescued, 1523 people were killed, and even in the end only 333 bodies of victims were recovered.
Jack and Ruth
For more than a hundred years, exactly what caused the sinking of the Titanic is different from all walks of life. Is it really artificial? Or is it a natural disaster? But the result has become a foregone conclusion.