Breaking Titanic

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.

‘Very few people are as informed about Titanic as Eugene Nesmeyanov. In this book, he offers his detailed assessment of just how Titanic transitioned from a floating ship to a shipwreck scattered on the ocean floor. I found it compelling and fascinating and recommend it as one who has with submersibles and robots explored that scattered wreckage.’

• TitleCopyrightContentsForeword by Robert F. RoddyIntroductionAcknowledgementsPrologue – The Loss of SS Pacific (1875)1 The Break-Up of Titanic in the Evidence of the American Inquiry2 The Break-Up of Titanic in the Evidence of the British Inquiry3 A Look at the Break-Up of Titanic After the Completion of Official Inquiries and up to the Early 1980s4 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 Theory10 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 Field13 ‘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 Sources17 New Paradigm of the Break-Up of Titanic (2022)ConclusionInstead of an EpilogueAppendix I: The Full Narrative of Thomas Patrick DillonAppendix II: A Summary of the Titanic Expeditions (Primarily Scientific) from 1985 to 2023NotesList of Main Sources