Titanic Survivor’s Shocking Claim That Ship Split in Two Ignored for Decades—What She Revealed Changes Everything
The Debate About The Sinking Of The Titanic
In 1982, Becker spoke at a Titanic Historical Society convention and described how the ship broke in two before it went under. According to the caption of the TikTok video, an officer of the society took the microphone from her and told the audience she had been mistaken, though there is no video footage of this incident.
However, other survivors had certainly been dismissed over the decades after claiming that the Titanic split in two.
The conventional view was that the Titanic sank in one piece. This was largely due to the testimony of Second Officer Charles Lightoller, which was believed over the word of other survivors. Lightoller was the most senior officer to survive the disaster, and passengers had given conflicting reports due to the chaos and darkness of the night.
NOAA/Institute for Exploration/University of Rhode IslandThe bow of the Titanic sits more than 2,000 feet from the ship’s stern on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.
Then, in September 1985, oceanographer Robert Ballard located the Titanic on the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean. When his crew found the wreckage, it was in fact in two pieces, just as survivors had described.
While Becker couldn’t receive an apology for an incident that isn’t credibly documented, she did live to see her testimony vindicated. She died on July 6, 1990, at age 90. Her ashes were scattered at sea over the spot where the Titanic shipwreck lies.
After reading about Ruth Becker and her testimony about the Titanic, go inside the stories of 12 other survivors of the disaster. Then, read about the iceberg that sank the ship
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