Titanic:The Ship That Never Sank

The Titanic and Olympic were “switched” in an insurance-fraud scheme

It seems that these days you just can’t have a good disaster without a conspiracy theory of one sort or another about how and/or why it happened springing up.  (One wonders how long before the “Costa Concordia Conspiracy” will rear its ugly head?)  Well, the Titanic disaster is no exception: in the late 1990′s, at the height of the wave of “Titanic-mania” that followed James Cameron’s rather soggy cinematic epic, a book appeared, Titanic: The Ship That Never Sank?, authored by one Robin Gardiner, with the premise that the ship which sank in the North Atlantic on April 15, 1912, wasn’t the Titanic after all, but rather her sister ship, the Olympic.  As Gardiner tells the tale, the two ships had their identities switched in an elaborate (and apparently successful) insurance fraud.

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