Ten years after the first exploration of the Titanic wreck two and a half miles under the north Atlantic, and eighty-four years
after she sank, Robin Gardiner and Dan van der Vat present their reappraisal of a legendary maritime disaster...
Why did Captain Smith, with his long record of earlier
mishaps, accelerate when he knew unseasonably heavy and
southerly ice lay across his course? And why did his officer of
the watch ignore three ice warnings from the crow's nest?
How did the man who cautiously stopped for the night when he met the ice, become scapegoat for the disaster
without charge or trial?
Where did the official inquiries — American and British — go wrong?
'[A] well-written, well-illustrated and intellectually
satisfying study'
