After their celebrated discovery of the truth about a sunken Nazi U-boat off the coast of New Jersey, Shadow Divers John Chaterton and Richie Kohler now take on the investigation of the world's most notorious shipwreck : Titanic
For almost a century one vital question about the disaster has remained unanswered : Why did Titanic sink as quickly as it did ? If the ship had remained afloat for just two hours longer, more than thousand people would have survived in the freezing North Atlantic on that infamous night in 1912.
Chatterton and Kohler dove to the wrecks of both Titanic and its sister ship Britannic. They worked with a brillant marine forensic analyst. They gained information from archives no historian had ever seen. They tested their theories with skeptics.
In TITANIC'S LAST SECRETS, acclaimed writer Brad Matsen vividly re-creates the construction of the great ship, drawing upon the new evidence uncovered by Chatterton an Kohler and his own regorous research. We meet Titanic's shrewd builder, its arrogant owner, and the American tycoon for whom the gigantic ship was the key to victory in a duel for the dominance of the most profitable sea lanes on earth. For the first time, we learn of the compromises they mase in bilding Titanic and the dreadful consequences of their decisions : how they would doom most of the passengers and crew aboard the Ship of Dreams.
Atfer weaving their way through the labyrinth of clues and theories, the answer that chatterton, Kohler, and Matsen found is more shocking than anyone ever imagined : a cover-up that was passed off to the world as business as usual. This is a tragic historical tale of greed and hubris, and the inspiring modern story of a struggle to uncover the truth that will forever change the way the world think about Titanic.
