Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "National Geographic" channel.

  1. Eye witness accounts.
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  2. Odd that no survivors reported, or even suggested, anything remotely similiar to this? Perhaps they simply lacked your vivid imagination.
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  3. Then you are reading the wrong books.
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  4.  @henrybradford3648  The tragic possibility is that he might actually believe that.
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  5. Actually, a number did report the break. Oceanographers at Wood's Hole have recently suggested the the compact spread of the debris field suggests a breakup at a lower lever. Surely, this is a detail of the sinking? What actually are the circumstances leading to up to the sinking.
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  6. Titanic carried more lifeboats than Board of Trade regulations required. I suspect you don't understand what the purpose of lifeboats was perceived to be at the time.
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  7. 'In past pictures you can see the dark markings.' Actually, you can't.
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  8. You could apply exactly the same comment to aircraft, trains, cars, and, indeed, any form of transport. With a similar lack of credibility.
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  9. I doubt it, as she was scrapped 90 years ago.
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  10. Yes dear. Of course it is.
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  11. Indeed. Cameron should have shown a little more respect.
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  12. OOOH! A switcher! How amusing.
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  13. Like you obviously haven't done?
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  14. Then you were wrongly informed.
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  15. Really? Whose submarine launched it, why, and how did the submarine get to Newfoundland?
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  16.  @dylanclay2741  1). What did many survivors see? a mass hallucination? 2). What did the ships in the area which transmitted iceberg warnings see? Large lumps of expanded polystyrene? 3). What did passengers aboard Carpathia photograph as they approached Titanic's position? 4). What has the International Ice Patrol been monitoring for over 100 years? 5). What has the recent sinking of Titan to do with anything?
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  17. Brilliant! Pay £1.5 million to build a ship, sink it to recover £1 million from Lloyds' and lose your reputation for safety at the same time. Who do you think came up with that gem?
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  18. No such technology existed in 1912.
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  19. You obviously aren't aware that both of the Olympic class liners were at sea, on Atlantic crossings, when Titanic sank. I will therefore leave you to the comforting warmth of your own ignorance.
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  20.  @dylanclay2741  Whereas those of us who actually look at the wealth of evidence available know that the switch theory, invented in the mid 1990s, is balderdash.
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  21. The 'unsinkable' tag appears to have originated in a small Engineering magazine from the time. It is not a comment a shipowner, shipbuilder, or still less a mariner, would make.
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  22. I don't think that the Inquiry concerned itself much with the details of the sinking, only with the events that brought it about.
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  23. I doubt anyone knows what you mean. Including you.
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  24. Which, of course, is why no one in authority actually did.
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  25.  @mikeb.5039  The same applied to HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow. Oil was leaking into the Flow, until most of it was removed by around 2010.
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  26.  @billysummers1616  Unfair. Probably nearer single figures.
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  27. Morgan didn't invite anyone aboard Titanic, the financiers who died had never expressed opposition to the Fed., (indeed, one had previously spoken in support), and Morgan never planned to be aboard, as he already had a previous engagement in Venice. Congratulations! Three wrong 'facts' in one sentence.
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  28.  @joedirt6073  This may shock, you but there are such things as archives and records. There is, for example newspaper reports of Straus' speech in support of the Federal Reserve from October, 1911, just as there is of Morgan's intention to be in Venice, from a report in a March, 1912 newspaper. Would you demand that all history since about 1950 be abandoned on grounds of non-attendance?
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  29.  @joedirt6073  Perhaps you feel a sense of inferiority at communicating with someone who knows more actual answers about Titanic than you can think of questions? Or perhaps you are regretting posting facile comments after viewing a conspiracist video or two without checking the allegations contained therein for accuracy?
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  30. Neither remark was never actually made, of course.
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  31. So, the survivors who reported an iceberg were suffering from mass hallucinations, then?
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  32. Which means that 600+ didn't.
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  33. But others said she didn't.
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  34. You believe the myth invented in the mid 1990s? The one without any evidence to support it? How charmingly naive.
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  35. It doesn't sink.
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  36.  @jacobkleinsasser5658  That is because it is simply a simulation.
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  37. No, he didn't. Wherever do you people get this idea from?
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  38. Except the myth of the opposition to the Fed. was created in 1995. There is precisely no contemporary evidence to suggest that either Astor or Guggenheim opposed the Fed., whilst there is definite evidence that Straus supported it. As to ther idea of a 'bomb.' I assume you have supporting evidence?
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  39. Perhaps that explains why no one ever did?
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  40.  @SamOfTheSmokies76  You really think that God is so vindictive. Not to say so badly misinformed?
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  41. Berk! The wreck of the Hospital Ship Britannic is in the Aegean.
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  42. You would be better looking at facts rather than fantasies if you are interested.
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  43. Harland & Wolff were paid £3 million for the first two Olympics.
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  44. There was no explosion.
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  45. Only stupid people would believe that the title was intended to be taken literally.
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  46. Yes dear, of course it was. Now sit down and take your medication.
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  47. No. Talk about nonsense. The Olympics were designed to carry additional lifeboats in the vent of Board of Trade Regulations being changed, but they actually carried more than the current regulations required.
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  48. I suspect that you are not an accountant?
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  49. Of course it did. Presumably launched from a black ops group of Wright Flyers, led by J. P. Morgan? Yes. Listen to the survivors, and their accounts of the iceberg collision.
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  50. 'Then there are also numerous eye witness accounts from passengers that were in the lifeboats and watching as the ship foundered that confirmed that the ship broke up at the surface.' Does this mean that you choose to disregard the evidence of other witnesses, who did not believe that the ship broke up on the surface?
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