The Titanic Never Sank

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• 0:01Speaker 00

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• 0:26AJ Gentile?

  April 1912. The Titanic hits an iceberg and sinks. 1,500 people die in the most famous shipwreck in history. Everyone knows the story. But under oath, the lookout said, he didn't see an iceberg. A crewman swore he saw another ship right where they hit, and then the ship left. Over time, more details didn't add up. Documents, witness statements, even photographs give clues that something very different happened that night. Today, the wreck is two and a half miles down. Photos of the bow show two letters under the rust, an M and a P. There's no M or P in Titanic, because the ship at the bottom of the Atlantic isn't the Titanic. And the disaster wasn't an accident.

• 1:23AJ Gentile?

  In September 1911, the biggest ship in the world was three months old. It was called the Olympic, and its captain was Edward Smith. Smith took it out of port, and the Navy cruiser HMS Hawke came up alongside. The Olympic moved so much water that the cruiser got sucked in. The Hawke had a concrete and steel ram in the front, and that ram tore open the Olympic's right side. This wasn't Smith's first accident. He ran one ship aground and had a fire on another. On the Olympic's very first trip, he trapped a tugboat under its back end. But this trip was the one that mattered.

• 1:55Speaker 02

  Every time this guy screws up, he gets a promotion. It's just like the politicians in California.

• 2:02AJ Gentile?

  The Olympic limped back to the Belfast shipyard that built it, and the news was bad. The keel was bent. From then on, the ship leaned a little bit to the left, and there was no way to fix that. The yard patched it well enough to work for a few more months, but a patch wasn't going to get that ship past the next government inspection. Then the Navy decided the collision was the Olympic's fault, so the insurance company refused to pay. The White Star line belonged to J.P. Morgan. Morgan was the most powerful banker in America, but he was losing a fortune on White Star. The Olympic was supposed to fix that. Instead, Morgan had a ship that cost millions and couldn't be insured or sold.

• 2:37Speaker 02

  Couldn't sell, it sure you can. For sale, ocean liner, like the ram.

• 2:43AJ Gentile?

  The keel was bent.

• 2:44Speaker 02

  Has character.

• 2:45AJ Gentile?

  It leaned to one side.

• 2:47Speaker 02

  Ocean views from every room on the left.

• 2:50AJ Gentile?

  Morgan also owned the ship sitting next to it, almost finished, the Titanic. The two were built side by side from the same plans. The only way to tell them apart was a number stamped on the parts. The Olympic was 400, and the Titanic was 401. Otherwise, they were identical. Identical. And that gave J.P. Morgan an idea.

• 3:15AJ Gentile?

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• 3:59AJ Gentile?

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• 4:33AJ Gentile?

  Nobody would insure the Olympic, but the Titanic was brand new, and it could be insured for every dollar. So if the damaged Olympic went to sea pretending to be the Titanic and sank, the company would get paid for a ship that was worthless. So Morgan's man at White Star, Bruce Ismay, sat down with Captain Smith. Ismay told Smith he'd wrecked the ship, and he owed the company. Then he told him how to pay the company back. Smith would take the ship into the ice and stop at a certain position on Sunday night. He'd let the ship touch the ice so there was a story to tell. Then the crew would open the seacocks.

• 5:07Speaker 02

  Yeah, I'm sorry, did they open the what?

• 5:10AJ Gentile?

  Seacocks, they're the valves in the hull that let the seawater in.

• 5:13Speaker 02

  So the seaman would open the seacocks. I got it.

• 5:18AJ Gentile?

  Grow up.

• 5:18Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 5:19AJ Gentile?

  So the plan was, open the valves, and the ship would flood slowly over the whole night. A freighter would be waiting close by to take everyone off. There weren't enough lifeboats for everyone on board, but that didn't matter, because the lifeboats were just going to ferry people back and forth. They wouldn't signal by wireless, because every ship in range can hear a wireless message. When Smith was ready, he'd fire rockets, and they'd be red, white, and blue. The freighter would see them and come alongside. Nobody would get hurt, the company would collect the insurance, and the real Titanic would sail for years under the name Olympic. Smith said yes, and he brought a few of his officers in on it. The switch happened the first week of March. The Olympic had just thrown a propeller blade at sea, and it came back to Belfast for a repair that takes a few hours.

• 6:04AJ Gentile?

  It stayed a week. The job itself took 15 men one weekend. They did it for 100 pounds each, which was a year's pay. They changed the life belts and the nameplates on the lifeboats, and they were told that if they ever talked, they'd never work again. The name on the bow was the hard part, because White Star cut the names of the ships right into the steel. So an engraver made new letters and riveted them over the old ones. Years later, after he died, his wife admitted that he did this. But those men missed something: the portholes. In the photographs of Titanic's launch, one stretch of the bow has 14. The Olympic had 16, but these photographs from this day show 16.

• 6:45AJ Gentile?

  Other photographs show the Titanic with a patch of steel on the right side that's a different color from the rest. And that's right where the Hawke hit. J.P. Morgan was so confident this would work, he raised the insurance on the ship to 12.5 million dollars, just a week before the voyage. The day before sailing, one officer was taken off the ship with a key in his pocket. The key to the locker, where the lookouts kept their binoculars. There was no radar. Ships relied on men's eyes, and now those men would be blind. So on April 10, 1912, the Olympic, sailing as the Titanic, steamed into the Atlantic. The ship had 1,317 passengers on board, but there was supposed to be more.

• 7:26AJ Gentile?

  J.P. Morgan himself booked the best suite on the ship, and the newspapers said he'd be there. 30 minutes before sailing, he sent a telegram. He was sick and wasn't coming, though he was seen a few days later with his mistress in France and looked perfectly fine. 55 other first-class passengers canceled at the last minute, and most of them were friends and business partners of Morgan. But Ismay stayed on board. He believed the plan, so did Captain Smith. The freighter was the Californian, and Morgan owned that one too. It left five days ahead of the Titanic with no passengers but a cargo of 3,000 wool sweaters and 3,000 blankets.

• 8:04Speaker 02

  3,000 sweaters and blankets, huh? That's either a rescue or somebody's grandma has a serious problem.

• 8:11AJ Gentile?

  Its captain was Stanley Lord, and his orders were to wait in the ice and watch for the rockets. But Ismay and Smith weren't in on J.P. Morgan's real plan. There would be no rescue, because a rescue saves everybody. But there were three men on the ship that Morgan needed dead.

• 8:31AJ Gentile?

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• 9:12AJ Gentile?

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• 9:44AJ Gentile?

  Dozens of wealthy men canceled their trip, except three. John Jacob Astor was the richest man on the ship. Benjamin Guggenheim's family made its money in mining. Isidore Strauss owned Macy's. Together, they were worth $500 million. That's about 17 billion today. And all three were in Morgan's way. At the time, when the government needed money, it borrowed from the bankers, and that was mostly JP Morgan. The United States had no central bank.

• 10:10Speaker 02

  No Fed. Imagine what that was like. Dollar was a dollar. A man could buy a steak, a suit, and a senator and still get change back.

• 10:19AJ Gentile?

  Morgan wanted a central bank for the United States. A bank run by bankers. This would let him keep his power, but offload the risk. Astor, Strauss, and Guggenheim were against it, and they were the only men in the country rich enough to stop him. Morgan made sure they were on this ship. Each man got a personal invitation, and each was told that Morgan would be sailing too. The Californian wasn't the only ship Morgan sent. He sent another one out ahead of it, running dark. Its job was to make sure Smith never made it to the Californian. And just in case, Morgan had men on the Titanic to make sure that no matter what happened, those three men could never leave the ship. For the next three days, Smith had one job. He had to reach the ice before anyone on board figured out which ship this was.

• 11:03AJ Gentile?

  But by Saturday, passengers started to notice something strange. The ship leaned to the left. It leaned that way from the day it left port, and it was the same lean the Olympic had after the Hawk. On Sunday morning, there was supposed to be a lifeboat drill. Smith canceled it. As far as he knew, nobody would need to find a lifeboat in a hurry, anyway. All day, other ships sent warnings about ice ahead, but Titanic didn't slow down. Smith steamed at full speed toward the meeting place, but he had no idea that there would be another ship in the way. The Californian was already in position. Captain Lord stopped his engines and kept the boilers hot.

• 11:48AJ Gentile?

  Lord sent three wireless messages that evening, and each one was addressed to Captain Smith personally. To anyone listening, they were ice reports, but each one gave the Californian's exact position. Then Lord lay down to wait with all his clothes on. As soon as he heard the rockets, he'd be dressed and ready to start the rescue. At 11:40, the Titanic was still 13 miles from the meeting place. Over the crow's nest, the lookouts had no binoculars. Down on the bridge, the first officer was one of the men who knew the plot, so he watched for the lights of the freighter. He never saw them. Then something came out of the dark that didn't have any lights. It was the ship Morgan sent. The lookout rang the bell. He said later it was a dark mass that came through the haze.

• 12:30AJ Gentile?

  The first officer turned hard to the left and threw the engines into reverse. The ship came around slowly, and its right side slid along the thing in the water. It wasn't much of a hit. One lookout called it a slight grinding noise, like something was rubbing alongside. Six men in the crew all had the same thought. They thought the ship lost a propeller again, because seven weeks earlier, it did. Passengers went out on deck to see the iceberg, but there was nothing there. Stewards told people the ship ran over a fishing boat.

• 12:58Speaker 02

  Oh, finally, some good news.

• 13:00AJ Gentile?

  Captain Smith came out and asked what they hit. The first officer told him it was an iceberg, and he believed it. With no moon, a ship with no lights is just a dark shape. He didn't know another ship was there. Morgan's ship was a small, black steamer with a yellow funnel. It had a steel edge fitted down to its side for exactly this job. That edge opened a cut in the Titanic's right side, four inches wide and 300 feet long. Smith thought he found the ice a few miles early and hit it harder than he meant to. No reason to open the valves now, the Titanic was already sinking. This was sooner than he expected, but all he had to do was get everyone off. And the rescue ship was right there. He saw lights in the darkness. Everything was going to plan.

• 13:42AJ Gentile?

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• 15:11AJ Gentile?

  Captain Smith saw lights in the darkness. He thought it was the Californian coming to the rescue. And for the next hour, he didn't act like a captain whose ship was sinking. He acted like a captain running a ferry. There was no general alarm, and no distress call went out for 35 minutes. And when one did, the position it gave was the meeting place 13 miles away. Smith ran the engines at half-speed ahead toward the lights. He had an officer signal the other ship to come at once. They were sinking. The ship didn't answer. The first lifeboat was built for 65 people, and it left with 27. The boats went out about half-empty, because they were supposed to come back. An officer told one woman they were only sending her out as a precaution, that she'd be back for breakfast.

• 15:54AJ Gentile?

  Smith told one boat to row to the lights, drop its passengers, and come back for more. The boats rowed for those lights, but the lights didn't get any closer.

• 16:02Speaker 03

  She was approaching us, and then I saw her side lights. I saw her green light and the red. She was end on to us. And then she turned round. She was turning very, very slowly, until at last I only saw her stern light.

• 16:20AJ Gentile?

  That ship was never the Californian. It was the black steamer with the yellow funnel. After it cut the hull open, it backed off and lit its lamps. It was supposed to be mistaken for the Californian. Captain Smith sent his passengers to the ship that sank him. Now the lights were gone, and his own ship was sinking a lot faster than anyone told him it would. Smith still had one thing left: rockets. Everyone that went up was white. But the plan called for red, white, and blue. Morgan's people loaded the ship with white rockets and nothing else. And at sea in 1912, a white rocket could mean almost anything. It could be a ship saying hello, it could be a party. It didn't mean danger. Smith sent up eight white rockets, and nobody responded.

• 17:02AJ Gentile?

  At the meeting place, the Californian's second officer was watching his steamer's lights in the distance. Rockets went up over it low on the horizon. He counted eight, and he called down to Captain Lord.

• 17:13Speaker 03

  He asked me, "Are they company signals?" I said, "I do not know, but they appear to me to be white rockets." He again asked me if I was certain there were no colors in those lights whatsoever. I again assured him that they were all white, just white rockets.

• 17:32AJ Gentile?

  So Lord stayed where he was. He had his orders, and white rockets weren't the signal. On the sinking Titanic, Smith finally realized that nobody was coming. The lifeboat stopped, leaving half-empty. But with the crew, there were still 2,200 people on board, and the boats had room for half that. Over 1,000 people were going to go down, and Morgan's men were on board to make sure the three of them were Astor, Guggenheim, and Strauss. So look, something quiet happened this week that most people missed. A former CFTC chair, the guy who used to regulate derivatives, went on record. And what he said should stop you cold. Congress banned a central bank digital currency.

• 18:16AJ Gentile?

  The Fed swore it wasn't building one. This guy said, quote, "That does not mean we're not looking at how to create one." Project Agora, look it up. Meaning, soon every account you own becomes a switch somebody else controls. And they've been telling you why they're going to want to flip it. National debt just crossed $40 trillion. Interest alone, over a trillion a year. Bigger than Medicare and Medicaid combined. There's one way out of that math, and you already know what it is. China's central bank has bought gold 21 months in a row. JP Morgan is telling clients, gold hits $6,000 by year end. This isn't a prediction anymore, it's already happening. That's why I trust Golden Crest Metals. Physical gold and silver you hold in your hand.

• 18:59AJ Gentile?

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• 19:35Speaker 04

  Mrs. Astor was put in the boat, and her husband helped her. I heard Mr. Astor ask the second officer whether he would not be allowed to go aboard this boat to protect his wife. He said, "No, sir. No man is allowed on this boat or any of the boats until the ladies are off." Mr. Astor then said, "Well, tell me what is the number of this boat, so I may find her afterwards."

• 19:58AJ Gentile?

  That was the rule on that boat. But other boats left that night with men in them, and Astor didn't get into any of those either. He never found his wife. His body was picked up days later. His face was so badly beaten that they identified him by what was in his pockets. Isidore Strauss was turned away from the boats, too, and his wife wouldn't leave without him. Benjamin Guggenheim didn't get a seat either. Instead, he changed into his evening clothes and said he was ready to go down like a gentleman. A Bruce Ismay stepped onto one of the last boats. The ship went under at 2:20 in the morning, and Captain Smith went with it. He never knew what he hit. 1,500 people died in the water, and all the Californian did was watch.

• 20:52AJ Gentile?

  At dawn, Captain Lord woke up his wireless operator and told him to find out what happened in the night. A few minutes later, Lord knew. By the time he got there, another ship, the Carpathia, was already pulling survivors out of lifeboats. And off in the distance, Lord saw a steamer on its way out. It had a yellow funnel. He was asked later what ship this was, and he said he didn't have the faintest idea. And that was the truth. Nobody ever told Lord about a second ship. The real Titanic was at sea that week, too, sailing as the Olympic. It radioed and offered to take the survivors onboard. The answer is in the wireless log. On Mr. Ismay's orders, the Olympic was not to be seen by anyone on the Carpathia. Those 700 people just spent four days on that ship's

• 21:35AJ Gentile?

  twin, and Ismay didn't want any of them to get a look at it. The company had trouble keeping the name straight. Later, under oath, the director of the White Star Line called the lost ship the Olympic. Not once. He did it 12 times. And the British government wanted this quiet, too. Morgan had to deal with the Brits. If war broke out, the Royal Navy could use his ships. And World War I was imminent. Britain needed those ships. So official inspectors declared the Titanic safe. They didn't mention the lack of lifeboats. When the crew landed in England, they were held on the dock for a day and read the Official Secrets Act. If any of them repeated the rumors about a switch or about insurance, it was 20 years in prison. That left Captain Lord of the Californian. When reporters got

• 22:19AJ Gentile?

  to him, Lord said he wasn't allowed to give out state secrets. The British inquiry was run by the same office that said the ship was safe. The survivors kept describing a ship that sat a few miles off and did nothing. And the judge needed that ship to be the Californian. Then Lord took the stand and said the ship his officers watched wasn't the Titanic, but he couldn't prove it. And the pages of his log for that night were torn out. So the inquiry blamed Captain Lord and nobody else. He wasn't charged with a crime, but he was fired. And for the rest of his life, he asked for a hearing to clear his name, and he never got one. Nobody bothered to call JP Morgan to testify. But Lloyds of London called him with the good news. They paid the insurance in five days, $12.5

• 23:02AJ Gentile?

  million. The Titanic stayed on the bottom for 73 years. Then in 1985, cameras went down to the bow. The name was there, but it was made of metal letters riveted onto the steel. And White Star always cuts its name in. Two of those letters had fallen off. And underneath them, cut into the hull, were the letters that were there first, an M and a P from the middle of the word Olympic. The Titanic never sank. It carried passengers across the Atlantic for another 23 years with the name Olympic on its bow. And in 1935, it was sold for scrap. JP Morgan died before seeing his central bank created, but he did succeed. With Astor, Strauss, and Guggenheim gone, nobody was left to stop

• 23:43AJ Gentile?

  it. The Federal Reserve was created on December 23, 1913. It only cost one ship and 1,500 lives.

• 23:51Speaker 02

  All is dead.

• 23:52AJ Gentile?

  Amen, brother. A banker swaps a damaged ship for its twin and sinks it for the insurance. And then he double-crosses his own captain. Three rich men drown, and he gets his central bank. Great story. But is it true?

• 24:16Speaker 02

  Yes. Great episode, everybody. Good night.

• 24:18AJ Gentile?

  Well, hang on. First, they have to come clean. That wasn't one conspiracy theory. It was actually two. The switch comes from Robin Gardner, a British writer in the 1990s. In his version, it's insurance fraud, and nobody's supposed to die. The Morgan murder plot showed up in the early 2000s, and there's no switch at all. People do tell them together online, I added the double-cross just to make them fit. So what's real? Well, more than you think.

• 24:42Speaker 02

  Jack and Rose?

• 24:43AJ Gentile?

  No.

• 24:44Speaker 02

  Jack?

• 24:45AJ Gentile?

  No.

• 24:46Speaker 02

  Rose?

• 24:47AJ Gentile?

  No.

• 24:48Speaker 02

  The necklace?

• 24:49AJ Gentile?

  No.

• 24:50Speaker 02

  The door?

• 24:51AJ Gentile?

  Yes.

• 24:52Speaker 02

  I knew it. Now my heart can go on.

• 24:54AJ Gentile?

  The Hawk did ram the Olympic with Smith as a captain. Morgan owned both ships, and he booked a suite on the Titanic and didn't sail. The Californian's crew did watch eight white rockets go up, and their captain did ask what color they were. It's sworn testimony. But the ship on the bottom is the Titanic. The shipyard marked its parts with a number. The Olympic was 400, and the Titanic was 401. Nothing marked 400 has ever come up. So what about the M and the P? Well, that picture comes from a documentary. It's fake. Cameras have read the name on that bow. It says Titanic. The two extra portholes, well, that's real. But the yard added them to the Titanic just before it sailed. And the money doesn't work either. The Titanic cost $7.5 million, and it was insured for

• 25:37AJ Gentile?

  five. Nobody raised the insurance. So sinking that ship lost the company $2.5 million, even if they paid. Then there's the three men Morgan needed dead. Well, Isner Strauss was for the central bank. He said so in the New York Times six months before he sailed. And there's no record that Astor or Guggenheim opposed it. And when the Federal Reserve passed, 85 members of Congress voted no. So there were people who tried to stop it. It's just they lost.

• 26:02Speaker 02

  85 heroes.

• 26:04AJ Gentile?

  So no, JP Morgan didn't sink the Titanic. Well, why would he? Look at how he actually worked. In 1907, the banks were failing. Morgan locked the bankers of New York in his library and kept the key in his pocket until they signed. Three years later, his partner helped write the plan for a central bank, in secret, on an island off Georgia. Now look at 2008. The banks are failing again. The Treasury Secretary called the nine biggest bankers in the country into one room and told them they were taking $125 billion, whether they wanted it or not. That guy used to run Goldman Sachs. Same meeting, 101 years apart. The only difference is whose money it was. In 1907,

• 26:46AJ Gentile?

  it was the bankers. In 2008, it was yours. Thank you so much for hanging out today. My name is AJ. Here's Hacklefish.

• 26:56Speaker 02

  Hey, if you're going on a ship anytime soon, may your semen be strong, and may your seacock be fed.

• 27:02AJ Gentile?

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• 27:46AJ Gentile?

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  Grab a Hacklefish t-shirt. Oh, fist look lovely. Might as well stick your fist in there, you seacocker there, whatever you want to do. If you want to put your semen in there. Oh, grab a hoodie. Oh, somebody face on there. Get one of these squishy adorable looking. A squishy animal. Hacklefish baltor.

• 29:03AJ Gentile?

  But if you're gonna buy merch, make sure you become a member on YouTube. It's only three bucks, and YouTube members get 10% off everything at the Why Files store forever. So if you're gonna spend 40 bucks over there, become a member, pays for itself, and then just cancel. I don't keep that money anyway. I give it to the team. That code is there to save you money, not make me money.

• 29:21Speaker 02

  Yeah, keep that secret under your arse, seacocker.

• 29:23AJ Gentile?

  Those are the plugs, and that's gonna do it. Until next time, be safe, be kind, and know that you are appreciated.

• 29:46Speaker 05

  I played for Libya in Area 51. A secret code inside the Bible said I was. I loved my UFOs and paranormal fun as well as music. So I'm singing like I should. But then another conspiracy theory becomes the truth, my friends. And it never ends, no it never ends.

• 30:24Speaker 05

  I fear the crackhead and got stuck inside Mel's home with them K-11 trucks. I'm being only too aware. Did Stanley Kubrick fake the moon landing alone on a film set? Would the shadows be pulled there? The Roswell aliens just fought the smiling man, I'm told. And his name was Cold. And I can't believe I'm dancing with the fish. Head to fish on Thursday nights with AJG. And the wild boar's love me all through the night. All I ever wanted was to hear the truth.

• 31:08Speaker 05

  And the wild boar's love me all through the night.

• 31:30Speaker 05

  The Mothman sightings and the solar storms still come to have got the secret city underground. Mysterious number stations, planets circle to Project Stargate and what the Dark Watchers found. In a simulation, don't you worry though. The Black Knight said a lot of tone is so. I can't believe I'm dancing with the fish. Head to fish on Thursday nights with AJ2. And one more summer beat all through the night. All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth.

• 32:14Speaker 05

  So one more summer beat all through the night. Head to fish on Thursday nights with AJ2. And one more summer beat all through the night. All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth. So one more summer beat all through the night. Girlie loves to dance. Girlie loves to dance. Girlie loves to dance on the dance floor.

• 32:56Speaker 05

  Because she is a camel and camels love to dance when the feeling is right on wasting time. Girlie loves to dance. Girlie loves to dance.

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