Everyone knows the story of the TITANIC; how the largest moving object ever fashioned by the hand of man hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank in the middle of the North Atlantic, and 1,500 lives were lost. The tragedy has been well documented in books and on films. No matter how often the story is told, it never fails to capture the imagination.
It is a story that has left many questions unanswered, and this documentary provides an intriguing hypothesis that the ship that plummeted two miles to the bottom of the sea was not the TITANIC but its sister ship the OLYMPIC.
This DVD is based on the research of Andrew Newton and includes the evidence of the British and American inquiries, the eye-witness reports of survivors, newspapers of the day, photographs, video, film and radio broadcasts.
It may be the ultimate conspiracy theory - or could it be the truth? The viewers are left to reach their own conclusions but here are some further interesting revelations - click here.
Of course, there is nothing new about maritime fraud of which the Salem case was the biggest ever. During my years in shipping and ship chartering (formation of Pacific Forum Line in Western Samoa; consultant to the Penang Port Commission in Malaysia; ship owner/charterer and commodity dealer in Saudi Arabia), one of my most entertaining textbooks was Ellen & Campbell's International Maritime Fraud. It beats Father Brown hands down!
