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Titanic's Lost Sister
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Program Overview
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Titanic, the most famous of the three ships owned by the
White Star Line, was claimed to be "practically unsinkable." When
Titanic sank in 1912, construction on her sister ship,
Britannic, was interrupted so she could be overhauled to
comply with new, post-Titanic regulations. Yet in 1916
Britannic sank within less than an hour. No one knows why.
Some evidence suggests the ship was intentionally struck by a
torpedo, while other evidence shows it accidentally hit a mine. In
this program, explorer Robert Ballard seeks the point of impact that
triggered Britannic's demise. Using his "debris field
theory," which describes how the ocean current distributes sinking
debris in a specific pattern on the ocean floor, Ballard follows the
trail of wreckage predicted by his theory in search of answers.
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