Secret History

Episode 1

Titanic: The New Evidence

Sat, Jan 21, 201748 mins

Detailed examination of recently-found vintage photographs of Titanic's doomed maiden voyage reveals a disturbing secret: the Titanic's exterior hull shows damage from a little-known coal bunker fire in Boiler Room 6, in the exact same area where she was struck by the iceberg. The fire had already started by the time the Titanic set sail, yet knowledge of it was kept from the passengers. Experts believe that the heat weakened the steel in the hull and in an adjoining watertight bulkhead, causing the bulkhead to ultimately fail and allowing water to quickly enter the rest of the ship.