Hey, podcast series that's exploring Twin Mysteries, the first,

Did Titanic Sink, the second,

has my friend Carlo Ritchie, who thinks it didn't,

lost his mind.

To his credit, Carlo's introduced a lot of compelling evidence so far, and he's talked me through

the motive and the means for how this titanic conspiracy theory works, but now I want to drill into the

opportunity.

In the last episode, Carlo introduced this huge fire that was apparently raging in the coal bunker of Titanic for three weeks.

And he believes it was lit on purpose.

According to Carlo, this was the plan.

Light a big fire and then slowly and safely sink the Titanic

to the bottom of the ocean and claim your insurance payout.

Except the thing that got in the way was the big iceberg.

Now, if this is the case, I don't know how you're supposed to get 2,200 people off a burning passenger ship safely, but Carlo did mention this.

I don't think they intended to kill all these people.

They wanted their ship to sink slowly, with plenty of time for nearby ships to come to the rescue.

In fact I believe there were some ships that were actually waiting for this event to

happen in order to rescue the passengers. Are you ready to go back to Titanic? Hope so because I'm Tim, he's Carlo and this is did

Titanic sink.

Hey Carlo.

Hello Tim, that was a very nice intro.

Oh thanks, I forgot you were here.

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