Breaking Titanic

At 11.40 p.m. on 14 April 1912, RMS Titanic struck an iceberg. She sank less than three hours later, taking around 1,500 people down with her. Devastated survivors provided conflicting information about her final hours - did she slip gracefully below the waves in one piece, or did she violently break apart? The answer would not be confirmed for seventy-three years. Breaking Titanic is the first comprehensive study of the break-up of Titanic's hull. Using eyewitness accounts, underwater archaeology reports and data from computer simulations, Eugene Nesmeyanov presents a critical analysis of the most significant theories and models of the break-up, drawing his own conclusions based on the available body of evidence.

EUGENE NESMEYANOV inherited an interest in Titanic from his father, who was Commander of the Soviet Navy (Baltic fleet). Eugene studied Philosophy at St. Petersburg State University and worked in the State Hermitage Museum. In 2013 he published his first book on Titanic, which he worked on for more than ten years, and which became the largest written work about Titanic available in Russian (in two editions). He has published articles on Titanic across Russian and English language media and has lectured widely. He lives near St Petersburg.

- Title - Copyright - Contents - Foreword by Robert F. Roddy - Introduction - Acknowledgements - Prologue - The Loss of SS Pacific (1875) - 1 The Break-Up of Titanic in the Evidence of the American Inquiry - 2 The Break-Up of Titanic in the Evidence of the British Inquiry - 3 A Look at the Break-Up of Titanic After the Completion of Official Inquiries and up to the Early 1980s - 4 Titanic Expeditions with the Participation of Robert Ballard and his View of the Break-Up in 1985- - 5 The Break-Up as Described in Titanic: An Illustrated History by Lynch and Marschall (1992) - 6 The Break-Up of Titanic According to W. Garzke et al. (1996), 'The Titanic and Lusitania: A Final Forensic Analysis' - 7 'The Sinking of S.S. Titanic: Investigated by Modern Techniques' by Hackett and Bedford (1996) - 8 The Break-Up of Titanic According to W. Garzke et al. (1997), 'Titanic, The Anatomy of a Disaster' - 9 Roy Mengot's Bottom-Up Break Theory - 10 The Break-Up in James Cameron's Titanic (1997) - 11 The Break-Up of Titanic According to Mengot and Woytowich (2009) - 12 The 2010 Expedition to Titanic: A New Look at the Break-Up and the Debris Field - 13 'Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron.' The Break-Up According to Stettler and Thomas (2012) - 14 The Break-Up of Titanic According to W. Lange, Drain the Titanic (2015) - 15 The Break-Up of Titanic According to R. Roddy and SNAME (2021) - 16 'She's broken.' Evidence of the Break-Up of Titanic from the Press, Literature and Personal Sources - 17 New Paradigm of the Break-Up of Titanic (2022) - Conclusion - Instead of an Epilogue - Appendix I: The Full Narrative of Thomas Patrick Dillon - Appendix II: A Summary of the Titanic Expeditions (Primarily Scientific) from 1985 to 2023 - Notes - List of Main Sources