Jed:You mean the heat magically jumped 70 feet, and then spread past two
bunkers which were not on fire.
What I recall - there were several fires in the bunkers on and off at
different times; so a lot of heat damage.
Jed:No marine architect, sailor or White Star Line official believed it
was unsinkable.
Are you sure about that? As you point out -
Jed: A few people said that to the press, and some of the passengers may
have believed it
There was big publicity telling the public that it was unsinkable; the
publicity could easily have started to fool those more professional.
Those employees- being around the public and continually telling them it
was unsinkable - could easily start believing the lie themselves. (When
I was in sales it was pointed out that the best salesman is the one
believing the lies that they tell the customers. It would have been the
same with the Titanic employees - tell the lie to the customers and
believe the lie yourself --> because if you don't believe the lie you
are telling them then most people can spot liars.) The reasoning for why
it was deemed unsinkable was - it had hull compartments; and it would
take (I think the number was ) 4 hull compartments to be breached for
Titanic to sink, and that was deemed impossible that 4 would be
breached- hence unsinkable.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Jed Rothwell" <jedrothw...@gmail.com>
To: "Vortex" <vortex-l@eskimo.com>
Sent: Thursday, 23 Jun, 22 At 01:10
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Bearden dead and cheniere.org gone
ROGER ANDERTON <r.j.ander...@btinternet.com
<mailto:r.j.ander...@btinternet.com> > wrote:
I take it that the photo is not the best so doesn't show everything; and
heat was so bad at one time that it spread a long way.
You mean the heat magically jumped 70 feet, and then spread past two
bunkers which were not on fire. That is physically impossible.
Well you can say that from hindsight, it would bewilder me from my
perspective in the NOW. But at the time they would have been told the
ship was unsinkable and whereas in other ships it might be worrying,
there was nothing to worry about in this ship because - unsinkable
unlike other ships.
No marine architect, sailor or White Star Line official believed it was
unsinkable. A few people said that to the press, and some of the
passengers may have believed it, but no one who knew about ships would
ever say such a thing. This was made clear in both the British and U.S.
investigations. Senators and others asked about this.
