- The only Japanese passenger on the Titanic, Masbumi Hosono, (pictured above) survived the tragedy. Once upon returning home he was condemned a coward not only by the Japanese public, but also the government, for saving himself rather than going down with the ship. Until his death in 1939, he never spoke of the tragedy in public. It was until 1980 when a proposal was made to find the wreck of the Titanic, that his family showed a letter he wrote to his wife that went into great detail of the events that unfolded on April 14/15th, 1912. Still though, it really wasn't until James Cameron's blockbuster film, Titanic, that his family felt relieved and that honor had been restored to the Hosono family.
Couldn't find a picture from the 1911 version, so I chose my personal favorite adaption as a placeholder.
-This has been proven as True by Snopes.com, so I'm going by the bases that it is true. The very moment the Titanic struck an iceberg, The Poseidon Adventure was playing. For those who are unaware, The Poseidon Adventure is a movie that tells the tale of passengers struggling to escape a sinking ship. These films were shown on Kinetoscope. A bonus fact is that another film was being shown on board the Titanic and that was the 1911 film, The Lighthouse Keeper, another nautical tale.
-Back on the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster, Robert Ballard, the man who discovered the Titanic wreck, revealed his plans to keep the ship from deteriorating any more. His plans are to paint the whole Titanic bow section with this anti-corrosion paint that they use on all hulls ocean liners. This paint is suppose to protect the hull of any ship for approximately 100 years. Ballard has gone on record to say that when he discovered the Titanic, he was astounded to find the paint on Titanic's hull in near perfect condition. How's he going to paint a ship that is two miles below the surface? Robots. A lot of people are baffled by this idea, but when Ballard tells kids about it, their first question is, "What color paint?"
-The iceberg didn't sink the Titanic. The moon did - says astronomers. According to late oceanographer, Fergus Wood, the moon was unusually closer to the Earth in January of 1912. Due to that the moon determines the tide, this caused far more icebergs to break off from Greenland and floated into common shipping lanes.
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-When White Star Line chartered ships to find the bodies of the lost from the disaster, they went to the coordinates where the Titanic sank. When the approached this particular iceberg, they found red paint on it. The Titanic's hull was painted red. This is commonly believed to be the iceberg that sank the Titanic.
-The final moments of a sea captain - Nobody is certain what happened to Titanic's captain, Edward J. Smith. Eyewitnesses have stated that they saw him swim to a lifeboat, with child in hand, in the last moments of the sinking. Others have said they saw him go into the wheelhouse and presumed he died there when it was engulfed by the water. Due to more eyewitnesses claiming they saw Smith going to the wheelhouse, this is the more common theory of what happened to him. Friends of Smith claim that he always told them that if one of his ships go down, he's going down with it. No matter where he was in his final moments, he kept his word.
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