My Titanic Experience

And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship, and they returned home again.
New Testament, KJV, Acts 21:6

At the time of this writing it is nearly the hour and one hundred years later from the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic. One of the greatest crimes of the twentieth century. The Oracle of Ottawa gets pretty upset when he even hears any show and or all the disrespectful gibberish that the vulgar media has running at the time of this somber anniversary. While lying on his sofa in his comfortable secure bunker, some where in Ottawa, the Oracle could only smile sardonically at the news and the constant saturation coverage of the select few that have paid the equivalent of a Kings ransom to be over the last known position of the ill fated Titanic, at the time of her one hundreth anniversary, of that fated night.

R.M.S. Titanic

The Oracle of Ottawa has been there and done that, more than once. As frequent readers of this humble blog know, the Oracle of Ottawa spent many years on Her Majesty's lower decks, as is now known once again as the Royal Canadian Navy. Every time a ship the Oracle was on, that was even in the area of the Titanic sink site, there was always a clever navigator or an astute X-O or Captain, usually all of them together, that would alter course, and make the pipe for any one interested to get up topside for a quiet moment of reflection. Well every time the upper decks would be attended by nearly everyone who wasn't on watch. Even the crustiest old Master Seaman would put down his beer and show.

And as the ship would enter into the ellipse of the last known position, the Officer the Watch would call it out on the ships broadcast. It is all pretty weird, but it is something that you never forget. The North Atlantic is a very harsh mistress, and seldom gives up the dead that she captures. This was all brought home to all East Coast Canadians with the frightful loss of the Ocean Ranger. There is a lot of similarities in the two separate events. You might want to look into it....

R.M.S. Titanic...

After the incredible discovery of the Wreck of the Titanic by Robert Ballard a lot of the unknown information was dug by scholars. It amazed the Oracle of Ottawa when the details of the debris field were first released. Especially how the ship came apart, with the rear sections seeming to have suffered total structural failure. One could only surmise that something weakened the structure of the whole ship.Then there was that story of the coal bunker fires to reconsider. And when you look upon the debris field map, it is all pretty obvious. There were no doubt fires in most or all of those coal bunkers. Turning that old iron and steel plate into a very brittle and dangerous shell of its former self. When the forward sections were torn open by the berg hit, it was not even barely felt by the passengers! Because they hardly hit that iceberg... And the shock as the first minor holes that opened forward dissipated aft, that is when the 200 plus foot single gash opened up...

The North Atlantic Ocean hasn't heard about global warming! Believe the Oracle of Ottawa, that water is always cold as hell is hot. Even if the Titanic foundered in August, there would have been roughly the same loss of life. Most of the bodies would have been locked in the position of the body as it hit the water. These grim details the Oracle of Ottawa knows first hand. But that is the subject of another posting, or not....

A clip supporting my most probable theory of what really caused the Titanic disaster....