It was way back in 1912 when the famous RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. It was said in various stories, and was even seen in its 1997 film adaptation, that the ship was sank by an iceberg, yet recent reports claim that a coal fire sank the ship and this will be seen on "Titanic: The New Evidence."
According to Entertainment Weekly, a new documentary which will be shown in Smithsonian Channel will reveal new found evidences on how the famous ship sank. It can be remembered in the "Titanic" movie that the ship ran to an iceberg and got hit drastically, which led to a huge hole that sank it. However, the documentary suggests that it was not totally the iceberg that primarily caused the chaos. In fact, the same report noted that the documentary cited that a coal fire may have been the triggering reason of the ship's demise.
The same publication also cited several factors on why the ship sank. It was said that cost-cutting is one of the reasons why the Titanic sank, because substandard materials were used. The same publication did also note that the "Titanic: The New Evidence" documentary will reveal that the owners of the ship knew about the fire incident, but have kept their mouth closed to avoid a more expensive consequence.
On the other note, reports suggest that the upcoming "Titanic: The New Evidence" documentary was made possible by the research of the Titanic expert Senan Malony. The source said that Malony spent more than 3 decades just to uncover the truth behind the disaster that resulted to the death of over 1,500 individuals.
Malony said on an interview that they have looked into the area of the ship that got hit by the iceberg. He added that the area seemed to be damaged even before the iceberg cracked that area open, Telegraph UK has learned.
"Titanic: The New Evidence" will premiere on Jan. 21 on Smithsonian Channel.
