its been a while coming, but here is The Mystery of the Missing Boilers no 100% conclusion has been drawn, it is only a theory which relies on the structural lay out of the RMS Titanic accompanied with the physical dimensions of debris in the debris field. I call on the reader to make their own conclusions to the story. The Mystery of the Missing Boilers April 10, 1912. The RMS Titanic sets sail on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic. The 2nd of 3 sisters in the Olympic Class, Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time. At 882 feet 9 inches long, and 92 feet 6 inches wide with a gross tonnage of nearly 63,000tn Titanic was a true modern marvel. Complete with a Turkish bath, swimming pool and two grand staircases, Titanic was the pinnacle of luxury. April 14, 1912. 11:39pm look out Fredrick Fleet spot a massive iceberg directly in the pass of the Titanic. Ringing the crows nest bell three times, and phoning the bridge iceberg right ahead! Fleet stands breathless as 37 seconds later Titanic hits the berg creating six small breaks in her iron plate seems reaching from the bow to the coal bunker of boiler room 5. April 15, 1912. 2:20am, 2 hours and 40 minutes later Titanic has broken in two and sank below the North Atlantic. Of the 2223 people on board, 1517 die in the accident. Only 706 people survive the Titanic, and go on to try and tell their story with experts who dispute them. After the sinking of the Titanic, many mysteries were left unanswered. 1966, the Sollis Project led by Douglas J.F. Woolley mounts an expedition to find the Titanic. By 1978 the Sollis Project, in works with the Royal Navy and the HMS Hectic, has taken the first known sonar images of the wreck site. It is this lesser known expedition which helps to aid Bob Ballard and his French\American team in the known discovery of the Titanic in 1985. Ballard is reported in an interview as calling Woolley a “Mystic when asked about the use of his project almost a decade before. While Ballards expedition is able to take the first true photos of the wreck, many mysteries remain. How did Titanic break apart? What is missing from the breaking point? How much debris is scattered in the wreck site? Yet, one questions never asked is how many boilers fell from the ship? September 1, 1985 the first piece of wreckage to come into view for Ballard and his team is one of Titanics 15 foot single sided boilers. After 1000s of trips to the wreck, only the five single sided boilers of boiler room 1 have ever been found. Many experts to conclude that the boilers visible in the bow section of the wreck must be that of boiler room 2. 2005, while filming a History Channel special Titanics Final Moments: Missing Pieces, wreck divers Richie Kohler and John Chatterton find and photograph two large sections of complete double bottom. The two sections link the break in the bow, to the break in the stern. However, if you attempt to fit the two pieces to the ship, you will find the measurements do not match with the physical dimensions of the ship. The size and shape of these two pieces differ, depending on how you research, the pieces range in size anywhere from 60-90 feet long. Which may sound like a big difference, but in the case of the Titanic a difference of 30 feet is roughly 3.33% of the ships total length. It is in fact such a small percentage of space, that it would be considered unimportant if it werent for one thing, the structural layout of the Titanics compartments. If one measures from the break in the stern, just forward of the larger three story engines. To the break in the bow, that is said to be boiler room 2. It has been found the said missing space of Titanics double bottom would only equal around 40 feet, only about half of the two pieces discovered in 2005. So the mystery remains, what does the remaining double bottom cover? How much of Titanic is still missing? Did we miss something? This is what my company, Titanic truths LLC intends to solve in this article. After weeks of research and doing the math, working from structural blueprints, and then rechecking the math. This is our final conclusion of the mystery of Titanics missing boilers. We will explore the wreck, explain the math and show all of our work during the study of this previously unknown mystery. If one measures at least the average of 75 feet in either direction. Either from the break in the bow stern to bow, or bow to stern. No matter how you figure the distance, it will always consume more of the ship than what is believed to be missing. 75 feet aft from the bow break places you under the massive three story engines, meaning at least 1/3 of them would be missing. However, no engines have ever been found lose in the wreck. Meanwhile if you measure 75 feet forward of the stern break, you will find yourself facing the forward coal bunker of boiler room 2, near the bulkhead between boiler rooms 2 & 3. Experts have always concluded that while we can clearly see the complete three story engines in the stern, the boiler in the bow must be that of boiler room 2. Because no double ended boilers were ever found in the debris field, it has been presumed that only boiler room 1s single sided boilers broke free. Yet if you account for the dimensions of the known structure, and the two missing bottoms, the math creates a very different picture. The single sided boilers measure 15 in across and about 12 long. While the double ended boiler were 15 across and 20 long. Titanic carried around 6000tn of coal between 11 different coal bunkers. That would make it that each bunker had around 550tn inside. Using about 500tn a day, or about 45tn a day out of each bunker. By the time Titanic sank there would have had about 3575tn on board the ship. Had Titanic broke the way we believe, there should have been about 650tn of coal. However, the large amount of coal appears to have come from one fully loaded 1100tn bulkhead bunker. If we go ahead and add together two bulkheads of coal from the math of the used bunkers, you would get around 1300tn of coal. About the same as what is seen in the wreck. This however, would mean that the bulkheads on both sides of boiler room 2 gave way, and as such so did boiler room 2. However, NO double boilers have ever been found in the debris field, leaving one asking are there boilers missing, or did we miscalculate the structure of Titanic? If we misjudged the size of Titanics boiler rooms, and it is boiler room 2 we see, then why is there such a large section missing even though it is Titanics smallest boiler room missing. However, the more appropriate question would have to be did we miss something? If in fact boiler room 2 did break away the same as boiler room 1 during the breakup of the Titanic, then the biggest question we have to ask is where are the missing boilers? If we consider that the single ended boilers are about half the size and weight of the double boilers, then we have to begin to think maybe they sank faster, and on a more direct vertical line than the single sided boilers. If we look through the debris field of the Titanic, we find the single boilers are clustered fairly close together and slightly off to the side of the stern section. Which tell us the weight of the boiler was just enough to allow them to drift of course a small amount. However, if we take the five boilers and roughly double the weight, then they would not be as likely to drift during their decent to the bottom. This would imply that the boilers would have to be much closer to the stern then the single ended boilers are. However, in the 1000s of dives to the stern, no double boilers have ever been seen lying in the area. With the large amount of destruction that the stern has gone through, it may be possible that the boilers are lying under the shredded debris. However, again no boilers have ever been seen on ROV cams, this continues to make one wonder how can five 15x20 boilers simply vanish, considering how much wreck has been documented? After studying the wreck for nearly 20 years, working with models and watch 1000s of hours of documentaries and dive footage; I have spent the last month putting together my final conclusion of what may have happened to the Titanic and her missing midsection during the break up. To some this may not be what they have come to believe, it may even upset some die hard Titanic fans. However, as seen on Titanic documentaries like missing pieces or Achilles heel, the evidence is there, and this is backed up by experts who worked on these specials. The events featured here are also backed up by eye witness testimony from survivors like John Jack B. Thayer Jr. THE SINKING OF THE RMS TITANIC 11:39pm Look out Fred Fleet spots iceberg 11:40pm Titanic strikes iceberg 12:05am Capt. Smith orders Chief Officer Wilde to uncover lifeboats 12:10am Capt. Smith orders distress signal CQD sent 12:15am Orchestra ordered to play to calm passengers 12:25am Lifeboats begin to be filled 12:45am Lifeboat 7 is the first boat launched with 19 of 65 on board 12:55am First distress rocket fired 1:15am Water reaches Titanics name plate on bow 1:30am Signs of panic begin to set in 1:50am Lifeboat 4 is lowered to A deck for easier loading 2:00am Ismay steps into collapsible C 2:05am Capt. Smith relieves wireless operators of their duties 2:17am Wireless operators leave post as water rushes over bridge Titanic propellers break the surface of the water Aft expansion joint opens to relieve stress in the hull Titanics hull jerks violently 2:18am Titanics interior decks A-D begin to collapse causing explosion sounds The hull begins to split down the side through the plate seems 2:19am Titanics stern begins to fall back Water pours into the break Midsection floods pulling Titanics midsection together Sides of hull close and begin to compress Upper decks compress Double bottom begins to split 2:20am Titanics stern falls back Double bottom snaps Stern rolls onto port side Titanics bow pulls the stern down Titanic sinks Titanics bow and stern split apart Boilers begin to fall out of Titanic 2:21am Titanics bow begins decent to the bottom Stern begins decent to bottom 2:22am Titanics bow begins fall & stall pattern Titanics stern begins corkscrew pattern 2:25am Titanics bow plows through the water Titanics stern begins to fall apart 2:30am Titanics stern implodes causing survivors in the water to feel the shockwave, many believe Titanic has hit the bottom 2:50am Titanic hits the bottom. Single ended boilers drift slightly off to the side of Titanics stern Double sided boilers (if they did break free, and being of nearly double the weight) fall in a more direct vertical line with the stern 3:00am Majority of Titanics debris has settle on the bottom Lighter material like coal continues to drift 3:30am Survivors first spot the Carpathia 4:10am Lifeboat 2 is the first loaded onto Carpathia 8:30am Lifeboat 12 is the final boat to load Carpathia Thursday, April 18 Carpathia reaches New York around 9:00pm So the summery of the article is this, as Titanic begins to break apart her interior deck which float free of the hull to allow for flexing on open seas lose their structural support. Being the largest open deck on board, D decks dining room does not provide the needed support to C deck above. As C deck collapses, support is intern lost on the deck above. B deck falls followed by A deck, the weight of the three decks cause D deck to finally fall to E deck where it cannot fall due to the bulkheads. As the decks fall in order of C-B-A-D, they create the four explosion sounds reported by several of the survivors has she sank. With the middle of the Titanic now about half the size of the whole ship, the upper decks are able to compress much easier as Titanic begins what some refer to as the V-split. When Titanics bow and stern finally pull apart, boilers begin to break free and fall to the bottom. The single ended boiler are the only known boilers to fall from Titanics bowels, yet the size of the two sections of missing double bottom does not fit only the small boiler room 1. With no double boilers or three story engines found in the wreck, one has to wonder what else sat on the missing double bottom pieces. After months of research, a new theory is being put forth that in fact the double sided boilers of boiler room 2 did break free during the sinking. Being nearly twice the size and weight of the single sided boilers, the double boilers would have sank in more direct vertical line with Titanic and might possibly be lying under the stern of the Titanic out of the few of divers and their ROVs. This of course would mean the boilers seen at back of the bow wreck would be that of boiler room 2. However, most Titanic deck plans place this boiler room too far forward in the ship to fit the wreck. This leaves one to wonder if the Titanic prints we know today are not an exact layout of the real Titanic, and maybe we have miscalculated the dimensions of the ship herself.
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