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""""""Gardiner further hypothesizes that the ship that was hit by the Titanic(olympic) was the one seen by the Californian firing distress rockets, and that this explains the perceived inaction of the Californian (which traditionally is seen as failing to come to the rescue of the Titanic(olympic) after sighting its distress rockets). Gardiner's hypothesis is that the Californian was not expecting rockets, but a rendezvous.""""""
Researchers Bruce Beveridge and Steve Hall took issue with many of Gardiner's claims in their book, Olympic and Titanic: The Truth Behind the Conspiracy. Author Mark Chirnside has also debunked the switch theory.
There is also evidence that Gardiner's theory is not true. When parts of the wreck were recovered, the construction number 401 was found on all of them. 401 was the Titanic's construction number, the number of the Olympic was 400.
and as far as the insurance
it cost 7.5 million to build titanic...but it was only insured for less than 5 million....so they would take a 2,5 million dollar loss...meanwhile the damage to Olypmic was estimated to be 100k -150k (IMM (parent of white lines) has a net profit in 1910 of only 4 million....do you really think they could afford to take a 2-3 milion dollars loss in 1912????
I wonder if I smoked lots of pot and stayed up until the wee hours of the morning watching youtube....if this thread would suddenly make a lot more sense.
I do have the answer and have already provided several. Your conduct in this entire thread demonstrates you need to do more research before you can sit at the big-boy table and discuss this topic.
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