It must be said that these theories are just that; theories. Nonetheless, it sure would be very interesting to talk about it.

The Titanic was a British passenger liner that set sail on April 10, 1912, owned by American tycoon JP Morgan Chase. It departed from Southampton and was scheduled to arrive in New York City. It is estimated that there were about 2,224 passengers on board.

On April 15, 1912, tragedy struck. At 11:40 p.m. on the night of the 14th, Frederick Fleet, the ship's lookout, spotted an iceberg ahead, blocking Titanic's course. After alerting the bridge, First Officer William Murdoch ordered the ship to turn, hoping to reverse the engines. However, the call came too late and the ship collided with the iceberg. Below the waterline, Titanic was impaled by a series of holes. The iceberg itself did not actually pierce the hull; instead, it dented the ship. Due to the pressure of the dent and the inflow of water, the seams of the hull bent and separated.

It soon became clear that the ship was doomed, as the water had destroyed five of the ship's watertight compartments. Any more than four compartments flooded would have been disastrous, so the ship began to sink first. As Titanic's angle in the water became steeper, water overflowed from one compartment to another.

Titanic itself was actually poorly prepared for such an emergency, regardless of the ship's structural integrity. There was an extreme shortage of lifeboats, and if the ship had been fully loaded with 3,339 passengers and crew, only one-third of them would have been able to fit in the lifeboats. Moreover, the crew had received no training, and the officers had no idea how many people could safely board the lifeboats, so many were only half launched. Third-class passengers were left to fend for themselves below decks, and many male passengers and crew were left on board, as the "women and children first" protocol was largely observed.

More than two hours after the Titanic struck the iceberg, its rate of sinking began to increase exponentially and dramatically. The ship essentially broke in half between the second and third funnels as the unsupported stern rose out of the water. All remaining passengers and crew were submerged in freezing cold water of approximately -2 degrees Celsius. This sudden immersion can lead to cardiac arrest and a near inability to breathe. It also causes something called cold incapacitation, which is not hypothermia, but the body's reaction to hypothermia and ceases all control over body functions. The leading cause of death is cardiac arrest within fifteen to thirty minutes. Of all the people trapped in the water, only five were rescued in the lifeboats. As a whole, the lifeboats could accommodate more than 500 people.

Distress signals were sent by wireless, lights and even flares, but no ship was close enough to reach the scene of the disaster before the Titanic sank completely. At around 4 a.m., RMS Carpathia arrived on the scene. 710 people survived and at least 1,500 were killed. The Carpathia's captain described the area as an "ice field", and the passengers described it as "the middle of a vast white ice field, covered with icebergs." Coincidentally, the site of the wreckage is now known as Iceberg Alley.

So what does this have to do with JP Morgan? There are two theories that stand out and they link together. The first is that JP Morgan had a sinister plan to kill all of his rivals, and the second is that the Titanic was actually another ship; the Olympics, intentionally sunk to claim compensation.

The latter began with the fact that the Olympics were vandalized in September 1911 while sailing from Southampton to New York. This was exactly the same route that the Titanic sailed a year later. As a result of these damages, the Olympic Games had to be returned to a shipyard in Belfast. Harland and Wolff, the company that owned the shipyard, managed to repair the Olympic and it sailed to New York and back. It returned to Belfast for more repairs in March 1912, just weeks before Titanic set sail.

The reason people think the sunken ship is not the real Titanic dates back to September 20, 1911, when the Olympic collided with HMS Hawke off the coast of the Isle of Wight. The ship was having a lot of problems with its owner, White Star Line, of which JP Morgan Chase was a board member. Olympic had to be taken out of service while repairs were carried out, which subsequently led to the postponement of Titanic's maiden voyage. At the time, White Star Line simply could not afford it due to looming legal fees and the high cost of Repairing the Olympic. As a result, White Star Line had to devise a plan to recover not only the money they had lost in the collision, but also the loss of revenue due to the shutdown of the Olympic.

Their plan was to replace the damaged Olympics with a new Titanic, sink it and demand compensation. There are allegations that the floor of the Olympics was covered with carpeting to look brand new, parts such as B deck were replaced with the promenade of the Olympics, and there were even incidents of suspected passengers reporting technical problems with the ship before the iceberg hit.

Knowing how much the Olympics had been marred, JP Morgan went a step further and made sure that all of his competitors were involved, namely Jacob Astor, Isidore Strauss and Benjamin Guggenheim. Morgan himself was scheduled to travel on the Titanic, but canceled a day early. He had said he was ill, but two days earlier he had been found in France looking well. Not only that, but he had removed several valuable bronze statues from the ship before setting sail.

In addition, an odious allegation can be traced back to the shipyards that built the Titanic and repaired the Olympic. Harland and Wolff of Belfast. In later years they publicly stated that the two ships were actually exchanged, but were threatened that if they said anything "it would be their last job."

Another unusual piece of information is that when the so-called Olympic was decommissioned in 1935, its wood-paneled sections, along with other parts such as the Aft first class staircase, were taken and used at the White Swan Hotel in Alnwick, England. The paneling used depicts the number 401, however, this number was registered when Titanic was built and Olympic was given the number 400. if that ship was Olympic it would have been typed with the number 400.

In addition, virtually all of the advertisements prior to the Titanic's voyage illustrated the Olympics. Every time a picture was used, it was in reference to the Olympics. It has been speculated that this was all part of a White Star Line cover-up and conversion to convince passengers that it was actually a newer model.

Of course, these theories are just speculation, and believe it or not, what happened on April 15, 1912 was truly tragic. Those lost in the wreckage have been remembered and celebrated many times over the years, and this excellent 1997 movie pays tribute to the horrors and hardships faced by the passengers. The two sister ships of the Titanic and Olympic are unrecognizable except for a few minute details, so it's hard to say whether this theory will be debunked or confirmed, but it's still fun to speculate.

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