Were The Titanic And Olympic SWAPPED?

[@mrtom2854]

The short answer...they weren't The long answer...they were not

[@swaroop4una]

😂😂

[@jalapenojaco3849]

That's a good one😂

[@eddyb1596]

As the son of a Grammer elitist language teacher, I can't help but appreciate this one.

[@jonslg240]

"THEY SUNK THE EQUALLY EXPENSIVE SISTER SHIP PRETENDING IT WAS THE MAIN SHIP" -Conspiracy Theorists. Literally, how stupid does one have to be to believe that? lol Just imagine having 2 cars that are the same value.. then pretending that one got totalled instead of the other, even though it doesn't benefit you financially but could subjet you to extreme financial exposure if you were caught ..all for no reason? Conspiracy theorists - proving time and time again they're idiots. The same idiots that believe this believe the US took down the WTC despite all the proof otherwise.

[@denilla8034]

😂😂

[@notd0ll109]

When the ocean finally claims the last pieces of the titanic, “the titanic never existed” conspiracies will start.

[@pamelah6431]

Why wait til then? People started denying the holocaust and there are not only living survivors, but abundant evidence of every kind. If people want to be deluded, nothing can stop them, especially plain facts.

[@filmandfirearms]

I've heard a couple idiots saying that right now

[@Tachikawa_2006]

At least there were some artifacts retrieved from the wreck

[@hurricanefury439]

there are already a large number of people who think it was just made up for the 1997 movie humans never cease to disappoint me

[@MrAwesome457]

@@hurricanefury439I asked one of those people how they explain me seeing “A Night to Remember” in the 70’s, and they just said the memory was “implanted in my head by the government to make me easier to control”

[@thelandofnod123]

Titanic was horribly under insured, so if you wanted to commit insurance fraud this would be the dumbest way to do it.

[@tabithahallows6116]

​@The SNES Man And that's not even mentioning the harm having a ship sink on its madien voyage did to The White Star Lines reputation. No shipping company is gonna purposely sink their own ship like this knowing all the public and even legal scrutiny that's coming their way 😅 some ppl will really believe anything

[@thelandofnod123]

@@tabithahallows6116 White Star Lines also had to pay out $660000ish to victims in compensation.

[@iamhungey12345]

@@tabithahallows6116 Plus there's a post in a comments section of a Titanic video by Channel 5 claiming that there was a submarine waiting in case the ship missed the ice berg. Hard to tell if the user was trolling or that retarded. With that said, the said video was pretty inaccurate as it had pushed some notions that are misleading including binoculars could have helped spot the ice berg, fire caused the sinking...

[@EddyOfTheMaelstrom]

Straw man. Nobody claims it was about fraud. It was about killing powerful people who opposed a very serious shift in financial politics.

[@tfatalt176]

The point in the theory is that the Olympic was damaged and found at fault so insurance would not cover the loss. They swap the ships and sink the one that was "new". I think I read about how the closest ship had no passengers but conveniently a cargo hold full of blankets and sweaters. Total BS or not it's definitely not the dumbest way to do it if they did

[@anunentitledmotivatedmille7731]

Error 401 vessel not found.

[@anthonywlong]

Conspiracy!

[@forgotenfriend9151]

504 it time out

[@traveller23e]

Unauthorized (Government-issued security clearance needed?)

[@francescotravi6615]

No matter how similar two ships may be, they are built differently! Even if the designs and the shipyard that built her were the same, the second ship will have been built by solving the problems meet with the first. Furthermore, each ship has its own characteristics so it is really impossible that they had been exchanged

[@PRESIDENT_RAY]

@Super Nostalgia :)

[@ahalfsesameseedbun7472]

​@FlatBroke612 If they had switched they would have had to re-stamp the builders numbers on the parts that have them. As shown in the video, the builders number 401 is shown on the wreckage.

[@SATX_09]

​@@FlatBroke612 what The hell are you talking about..😕.. Did you not see the same video 🤔

[@iamhungey12345]

@@SATX_09 He is flat broke on knowledge.

[@TsaGo_1912]

​@@FlatBroke612 It is completely impossible. There are so many differences between the ships, the number 401 is everywhere on the wreck, so many employees should be part of this switch and the shipyard in Belfast wasn't hidden. So if they would switch the ship many people would recognise it.. It is impossible!

[@Yetaxa]

What I most find hard to believe is the idea that they could have intentionally sunk it in the first place. Icebergs were not monitored like they are now, so to find that specific huge iceberg, in the middle of the atlantic ocean, in the middle of a very dark night, and cause damage *just* enough to sink the ship takes a lot of skill

[@radbricks8298]

there's a podcast on it called "did titanic sick" even if you don't believe it, its a good listen

[@bradfordhouston8591]

They were actually warned about the iceberg pack ahead of time a chose to sail through it. This guy did a short on it.

[@troodon1096]

@@radbricks8298 I refuse to encourage such people by giving them that much attention, even to just call them idiots afterwards.

[@radbricks8298]

@@troodon1096 sorry what?

[@HowlingWolf518]

There shouldn't even be a conspiracy - the whole "insurance scam switch" thing is from Unfastened Coins, which is spoofing a 9/11 truther video called Loose Change. Alas, TikTok users don't know how to Google.

[@poorNOOB]

Another fun fact: At the time of Titanic's sinking in 1912, Olympic didn't have Palor suites on board, in fact, her entire first class cabins on b deck didn't stretch all the way out to her superstructure outer shell and still featured a first class wrap around promenade, similar to her a deck, until her refit that happened in 1913(***NOPE, it was Cafe Parisian that got added onto Olympic that year, not the cabins extension, which happened in 1928, my apology) that replaced her wrap around promenade with stretched cabins all the way out a la Titanic style, but even with this refitted, White Star and Harland & Wolff didn't even alter her b deck's windows pattern one bit, which was also different from Titanic from the beginning. Edit1: correction to that It was Cafe Parisian that got added in 1913, not cabins extension, extended cabins arrived in 1928.

[@DerpyPossum]

The cabins actually weren't extended out until the later 1920s, and even then, not all of them did. Olympic retained the vast majority of its B deck promenade for a great amount of its career, furthering the conspiracy into the realm of nonsense ;)

[@poorNOOB]

@@DerpyPossum Ah yeah, my bad, it was Cafe Parisian that got added in 1913, while extended cabins arrived in 1928.

[@kirkhassett8726]

Correct. Ismay had noted the popularity of the new Cafe Parisian that was exclusive to the Titanic during its brief voyage, and had decided that Olympic should also have one added. This happened during Olympic’s refit to add the double hull plating and additional lifeboats after the 1912 season. This alone would have differentiated the two ships, along with many other elements. Olympic and Titanic were almost identical, but not entirely so.

[@CaptainColdyron222]

These conspiracy nuts conveniently ignore the fact that it would have taken months to switch the two ships. Not the few days that the ships were in the shipyard together after Olympic’s accident. Not to mention the hundreds of shipyard employees that would have had to be in on it and then stayed mum about the whole thing for decades after.

[@pc_buildyb0i935]

Not to mention the fact Titanic was under-insured by a third of the cost it took to build her. Doesn't make much sense to lose out on 2.5 million dollars haha, but the conspiracy nuts don't often concern themselves with facts

[@kayzeaza]

It’s like the conspiracy theorists who think the moon landings were fake. NASA had thousands of employees and they all just went along with the lie? And the Soviets went along with it? Shows how idiotic these people can be haha

[@lac8356]

Conspiracy nuts comb the internet to find something to get triggered about. It's a form of mental illness really 😮

[@ceasarwright7567]

Conspiracy nuts ..like the ones who said covid vaccines didnt stop the spread and caused side effects. Ohh yea... nuts ! LoL

[@glyndaley5844]

Another giveaway Titanics promanard was different enclosde up to the 1st funnal.

[@rct3LP]

Olympic and Titanic were only 40 days together in Dock. Due to Titanic and Olympic being structurally quite different, having the names and yard number of the ships on each fork, plate, rivet and beam, this would take way more than 40 days, even with thousands of workers. You would effectivly need to change the whole ship. Also while diving to the Titanic a lot of peaces were recovered which all have Titanics Yard Number 401 on them. Also also, many sailors on Titanic were already on Olympic before and remarked (since they knew Olympic quite well) how great many of the differences and changes were, that were made to Titanic. And titanic was extremely underinsured and White Star lost massive amounts of reputation and money due to this disaster

[@petemcintire4339]

I hope they come up with a tourist vehicle that can dive down to the wreckage and confirm come of these things. I'd pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to be on the first expedition!

[@99.9percent9]

also lost three wealthy influential men who opposed the creation of the federal reserve... Astor, Straus & Guggenheim!!! Funny as the Titanic (cough) was the jewel of ocean liners and certain people didn't take the voyage! It all must be true they made a movie about it.

[@rct3LP]

@@99.9percent9 is there any prove of this? Because as far as historical records go Astor and Guggenheim never took a stance and Straus openly supported the idea of the Federal Reserve even back in 1911

[@Luka2000_]

​@@petemcintire4339and because its visiting the titanic it should be named titan

[@Elliottblancher]

@@petemcintire4339 touring the wreck I think was banned and don't forget what happened to the titan sub

[@thestonedabbot9551]

Another point: That photo which looks like Titanics name has been crudely painted onto the hull, thats from when the photographer got a black pen and decided to draw over the letters on the photo negative to make them stand out

[@roach9799]

After you said that I looked back at it and I can totally see it now, where'd you hear that from?

[@juanleon3875]

@@roach9799 Bro everyone saw that but the fact of someone writing over it idk.

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

@@juanleon3875 To make the photo. easier to sell. Just as photographers still adjust their products to this day.

[@danr9584]

Good catch. I never noticed that. The dumbest thing about this whole theory, is that the Olympic wasn't even a year old yet. Why would it be more beneficial to sink one new ship instead of the other new ship?

[@99.9percent9]

@@danr9584 The keel was damaged from a collision with HMS Hawke on her 4th voyage. It was going to cost mega money to put right as the keel is the back bone of a ship. Both ships were in Ireland as the Titanic being finished up and Olympic being inspected. They altered decks and name plates to conceal the switch. Passengers were confused as the layout inside was not as expected. Portholes were also different and the other important factor was the boat listed slightly from the damage. J.P. Morgan ~ Whitestar insurance fraud!

[@generalgrievous38]

Titanic Animations has a great video on debunking the insurance swap theory, which pretty much says that some people claim that while Olympic was in for repairs after colliding with the Hawke for forty days, they stripped both ships down, while Titanic was still being fitted out, redesigned Olympic to be more like Titanic and vice versa, and reinstalled the fittings meant for Titanic on Olympic...when the fitting out period alone took more than one hundred days on one ship! The more details you look at about the claim, the more nonsensical it gets.

[@struedel25]

The whole point of it is outrageous! The Olympic was uninsurable, so they substituted a brand new ship, that now is uninsurable! To pull an insurance scam that didn't pay the value of the ship.

[@st0rmforce]

People just want things to be lies. If there is an "official story", there will be somebody saying it's not true. Doesn't matter what it is

[@zappababe8577]

​@@st0rmforce The sort of people who like to start every sentence with, "Well, actually..."

[@stephaniecalderon65]

Actually its a documented fact that the Titanic and Olympic where built to be near identical with but a few small differences.also the day before the titanics voyage they made a change and had carpets fitted over the ships flooring.

[@bennnoboyo5238]

@@stephaniecalderon65 but that’s only carpeting, yes? and while both ships were quite similar, there’s differences that would be a bit obvious if you looked very very carefully.

[@Indarow]

Not to mention the extremely lavish interior of Titanic that Olympic did not have. You can’t just “swap them out”

[@ilevel007]

Well, they had the exact same specs and proportions except one was supposedly slightly heavier. Most of their differences were minor. Olympic had a very elaborate elegant design. Even had a similar grand staircase as the Titanic. And if you're in the building stages of two things that look almost exactly alike, no one really knows which is which until you label and identify them. If you ride the same size Delta air plane every time you fly, the only difference in the planes you might notice are the crew changes. Someone can put the same tail number on two of them, you're not likely to notice that the plane numbered 11 is really supposed to be numbered as 13 unless it's brought to your attention.

[@thelandofnod123]

@@ilevel007 That’s a terrible example. Aircraft inside and out are built on assembly lines and when ordered as a fleet, any two adjacent aircraft are nearly always going to be exactly the same bar the registration and component serial numbers. Titanic and Olympic had significant differences, not minor ones, both inside and out, structurally and aesthetically.

[@ilevel007]

@@thelandofnod123 ok

[@experimentmagnet]

ILL informed comment

[@callumjohnston858]

Can't hide all that linoleum.

[@patrickstewart3446]

Enclosed Promenade. Titanic had it. Olympic didn’t. And it’s not something you could easily swap out or apparently even add because it was never added to the Olympic in her long service life. And that’s where this theory ends.

[@DerpyPossum]

Actually it would've been relatively easy to add, since it was simply a wall extension with windows. Titanic's was added in only a couple weeks, in fact. Olympic never had one because Olympic retained a good portion of its enclosed B deck promenade throughout its life; Titanic's A deck promenade was only partially enclosed to compensate for the removal of its B deck promenade. The theory is still garbage, though.

[@Tommy-tz7hm]

@@DerpyPossumwell Titanic wasn’t finished when they added it. Olympic was finished which would make it harder to do.

[@Guy82652]

@@DerpyPossumPretty sure one of the ships had a extended pantry for the A La Carte Restaurant. Nobody ever mentions that and it could easily disprove the theory too.

[@lander77477]

In a book somewhere that has that first photo in this video, it said the name Titanic was added in by the photographer at a later time and was not actually visible when the photo was taken

[@saulwalker7058]

In a book somewhere it said that you are merely a pig raised by humans as an experiment. In case you're unable to get what I am getting at, claiming something is not the same as it being true.

[@ericremotesteam]

This conspiracy theory is so absurd on its face I don't even know where to begin asking questions. Lmao I love your videos!

[@ivywt]

exactly lol. the theory has been debunked for years, people who still believe this theory haven’t done their research

[@pc_buildyb0i935]

​@@ivywtIt was even debunked decades and decades ago, and very easily. Why conspiracy nuts gravitate to easily-disproven claims that have been proven false decades ago is beyond me

[@jonjon9047]

You’re all saying ‘debunked’ yet offer no evidence to support it. I love how if someone you disagree with says something you all cry ‘evidence’ but fail every time to support your own beliefs. You are all so sure of the establishment and the narrative you are told to believe that you have no room for alternative arguments. You’re all sheep - lambs to the slaughter.

[@pc_buildyb0i935]

@@jonjon9047 Actually, it *has* been debunked, decades ago, and the evidence already has been supplied NUMEROUS times, and is not only described by Mike in MULTIPLE VIDEOS (as well as multiple other vids here on KZbin) but readily available from a 5-second Google search you could have used little effort to conduct. You're just not listening to it because you want to point fingers and call everybody sheep, because feeling like you know better than everybody else and possessing some "secret knowledge" makes you part of an in-crowd and you seek validation for it. Allow me to outline the FACTS. Here is the data that tears the conspiracy theory apart; 1 - there is no nameplate on the hull - the name is stenciled into the steel and painted 2 - the Titanic's B-deck windows at the forward end of the superstructure were modified prior to her fitting just after her launch and were made to be irregularly-sized and unevenly-spaced, which you can see on the wreck today. The Olympic's B-deck forward windows were all identical in size and evenly-spaced 3 - The Olympic featured a completely open A Deck, with windows spanning from foreward to aft. On the Titanic, the A Deck only had the windows reaching from aft forward and stopping about halfway, the rest of the deck being enclosed. You can still see this on the wreck, and photos of the Olympic after 1912. 4 - both vessels were built with 15 portholes on the forecastle deck, and the Olympic was modified with more after 1912, which you can see in photos. You can still see 15 on the wreck today 5 - The Olympic's hull number was 400. The Tiranic's was 401, which was bevelled into the steel. You can still see this on the wreck today 6 - The Olympic was only in Harland and Wolff's shipyard for repairs for a total of two weeks which would be NOWHERE near enough time to complete the modifications conspiracy theorists will insist occured 7 - The Titanic was underinsured by over 2.5 million dollars (in 1912) and so cost White Star a LOSS rather than net gain following the sinking. Assuming both ships had been switched and the White Star Line wanted to keep that a secret, they'd have increased the insurance coverage on the "Titanic" so they could get paid out when it sank - they did not do this 8 - White Star had no way to know the Titanic would sink - when the ship received several ice warnings from other ships in the area, Captain Smith diverted the Titanic to a course further South that would avoid all the icebergs from the warnings received by other ships. It was an unforseen (and very unlikely chance) that the iceberg in question happened to drift as far South as it did that year, but an unusually warm patch of ocean in the area would ensure the Labrador current carried it where it ended up 9 - The White Star Line would anticipate a massively damaged reputation for unsafe ships, which would cost them their net revenue and eventual bankruptcy. None of the shareholders were able to pull out unscathed. Certainly, choosing to swap ships to have one sunk would provide some kind of monetary gain? 10 - Contrary to conspiracies online, Strauss actually supported the fed reserve and neither Guggenheim nor Astor took an official position on it - it would also be far easier and more effective to send a single assassin to kill two men then try to organize the ship to sink by putting it on a path with no known icebergs The switch theory came out decades and decades ago and has been torn apart EVERY time it is brought up. Why conspiracy nutbags will grip onto the most easily-disproven and most dubious claims with no backing evidence, I have no idea

[@tabithahallows6116]

​@Jon Jon I've seen countless people online giving evidence debunking the switch theory from comment sections to full length video essays 😂 Alot of the time it's not worth arguing with people who believe such things

[@zacharygriffin2041]

This is the most easily debunked myth with the simple fact that 15000 working class Irishmen worked on these ships and none of them ever came forward to say that this happened

[@Blaaggarding]

I just said the same didn't see your comment 😅

[@timothy098-b4f]

All this conspiracy theory proves is that some people are dumb enough to believe anything. Hell, there are millions of flat earthers fercryinoutloud.

[@mrcoiganable2988]

Not sure they like to be called irish, protestants is better.

[@Blaaggarding]

@@mrcoiganable2988 Its 2023 Nearly every generation on this Island are educated people the people who didn't get a formal education have the wisdom of years very few people here have any faith in Catholic or Prodastant beliefs of the past its well clear that the church commited horrible acts to people here .people may have there own god but very few really believe there fighting a religious fight it's gone beyond that .

[@stephaniecalderon65]

Yup the Irish did indeed work on the ships but as most of them where still referred to as Fenians and where apparently silenced in to talking about there work surrounding the Olympic or Titanic.

[@EnglishOak001]

It was actually painted by hand. A 19yr apprentice called Jack.D.D. painted it 6 months before it's maiden & only journey.

[@thesausage351]

Prior to being painted, it was outlined on the steel hull and stamped in with a hammer and chisel, making it both etched into the hull and painted. There is an account from someone who worked at H&W detailing its procedure. It’s outline is first written in chalk in the area the plans call for, with a hammer and punch, it’s pin punched in to form an outline with dots, then another person comes with a hammer and chisel and chisels the outline to the required depth, giving a complete outline chiseled into the hull, and then it’s painted

[@MarkJMonaghan]

Prior to being painted it was etched into the steelwork hence why you can see the etching of T.I.T still on the wreck

[@L33tSkE3t]

This is one of many reasons as to why I hate conspiracy theories. They take a nugget of truth and expand upon it without any verifiable evidence or common sense…

[@Mattstudios-sm9hk]

Suddenly the Titanic is the teleportation ship for the NWO on their endeavors of banning chocolate.

[@davinp]

The weekend when both Olympic and Titanic were docked would not be enough time to switch the ships because there would be a lot of items to be moved. Also, both ships were not 100% identical. It was a made up story about ships being switched

[@rcajavus8141]

can you name some of those items? the theory states that everything was standard issue white star line, ships name was only in its documents in captains room as in bridge.

[@rigelrogers5264]

@@rcajavus8141 u mean like the clearly different height of bulk heads part numbers there is actually a length difference dinning room layout also even now ships of that size r not easy to move and would have had alot of whitenesses due to noise and disruption in a already tight remodelled dock yard

[@rcajavus8141]

@@rigelrogers5264 no, i mean you sad there were many items needed to switch from one ship to another. Can you name some of many? All those differences would be unnoticable once you are on a ship especially as ship is yet to be put into service. You think any of waiters had plans for ships to compare the lenght of dining room in couple of feet? In a debate if you claim something you are supposed to argument it and not move to next evidence if asked to explain. Ship switch is common practice in history so before you start debunking conspiracy ifiots at least try and not use their tactics. Many smart people wrote on subject, if rather listen to their exipirienced oppinion than someone that cant follow a simple conversation. Titanic Olympic switch was a possible thing and wuite common in history.

[@rigelrogers5264]

@@rcajavus8141 it wasn't me that said furniture etc was switched but without being seen or heard in a narrow area it would have been next to impossible how like said in video it's got titanic riveted under the main skin

[@XmalD73]

@@rcajavus8141 Two big ones - bridge cabs on Titanic extended over sides of hull, they were flush on Olympic. And the entire B Deck plan on Titanic was completely different than Olympic. The switch theory is ludicrous and has been disproved by Titanic scholars like Mike Brady.

[@Swissswoosher]

Easiest theory of them all to debunk. Titanic and Olympic had different numbers on their propeller (and Titanic’s correct one can still be seen on the wreck”, not to mention slightly different designs (cosmetic and even porthole arrangements).

[@garethwest9069]

Proves nothing as the propeller could've been swapped. One doesn't debunk something like this so flippantly in 60 secs.

[@Swissswoosher]

@@garethwest9069 I hope you aren’t serious. Cause one can, and it has been debunked easily several times.

[@filmandfirearms]

@@garethwest9069 You do realize that the propellers on those ships are fucking massive, right? You can't just swap them out like hub caps

[@garethwest9069]

@@filmandfirearms Tedious but not impossible. I think we'll be surprised at many things come Judgement Day.

[@olympiad013]

@@garethwest9069 I think you need to take your meds

[@mikeborgmann]

This is a theory that can only be seriously considered by people who have NEVER been on a shipyard!

[@thelandofnod123]

Or ever had an independent thought in their miserable lives.

[@zombiedoggie2732]

add into the fact Titanic was advertising things Olympic didn't have. Wouldn't the rich spoke up about this? "Where was the café parsianne? It was advertised, and there was none!"

[@Spazy912]

Well if it wasn’t there if they survived and went on to the Olympic in 1913 they would have got it since it was put in there

[@zombiedoggie2732]

@@Spazy912 Olympic had the Cafe added after the Titanic sunk because it was popular.

[@PeterOldschool]

Bob Ballard himself told me he saw T on his first dive under the rusticles.

[@pellymods4773]

I love how informative you are on little details about this magnificent ship! Thank you for these detail oriented videos!!

[@asnaghall]

"Golden yellow" sounds like the color orange is trying to upsell their grindr profile.

[@diegosilang4823]

Swapping the B-Deck configuration alone is going to cost a lot of time and money. RMS Titanic's B deck windows size and distance varies while Olympic B-Deck windows are equally the same size and mostly evenly spaced. This not like GM car you can easily swap emblems, bumpers and tail light and call the day.

[@tjfSIM]

I must admit when the Gardener book was first published in the 90s I was quite intrigued by the theory, and the idea that such a huge cover up could have taken place. Over time there's just been so much overwhelming evidence to disprove the theory, that I'm surprised so many people still buy into it.

[@kylewalker5770]

Perhaps those people just like yourself have not seen that evidence yet? Why are you so quick to judge others when you yourself were one of them?

[@lucasfragoso7634]

​@@kylewalker5770because unlike others they realized how braindead the theory was.

[@nedcassley5169]

My daughter wasn't interested in my research into our genealogy until I found cousins who are descendants of a couple, returning to Minneapolis from a three-month European honeymoon, who survived the sinking of the Titanic. I later found a Galway ancestor who survived but lost her fiance in the disaster.

[@chasecreamer727]

The fact that some people think the 2 ships were switched around the time of Titanic’s maiden voyage is ludicrous. Besides the name plate, Titanic’s A-deck/Promenade was more enclosed (besides the windows) than the Olympic, which had a fully open Promenade deck.

[@JeremyVr]

"But they can swap the steel plates with olympic🤓☝️"

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

I love how completely different Olympic and Titanic look and yet people still say things like that.

[@matthiasfuglsang-damgaard5218]

That is also my biggest puzzle about this conspiracy theory. look af the wrag it does not look like Olympic at all.

[@ferretneck]

Would love to see a full video on this Mike if you had the time! Fascinating debunking the conspiracy theories

[@barbarastanwyck4288]

agreed!

[@SinfulxBeautyxX]

Same here!!

[@josynaemikohler6572]

Not to mention, Titanic and and Olympic have different bridge structures, and Titanic has an enclosed promenade, which would be pretty difficult to just change. Also, there were passengers and crews, that traveled on both. Who would probably recognized it at the interior.

[@gordonchard6243]

Never understood the insurance fraud conspiracy because it basically broke white star line both reputationaly and financially.

[@fordsquared537]

Right? Anyone scamming insurance knows you do it with something at the end of its service life. Maybe if it had been one of the last voyages for titanic before being scrapped, it’d be believable. But the maiden voyage? They could’ve just not built it and white star line would’ve been better off

[@gordonchard6243]

@@fordsquared537 exactly

[@ThermalSmoke22]

It wasn’t about insurance fraud It was about the fed reserve and knocking off the one guy who stood in the way. Do some reading….

[@Don-mp6pq]

​@@ThermalSmoke22these comments section makes me lose hope, people really know 0

[@iamhungey12345]

@@ThermalSmoke22 Nice try bud.

[@MrBlue092]

Nice one mike needs mor views😊

[@the_rover1]

"Ey yo, connor! We kept bingin way too much last night. Fook mey good." "Why's that, cillian?" "I swear when we left last night from our shift in harland dock yard, that ole buggah olympic was in dock A, now there's titanic. And olympic is in dock B where titanic was. Do I see goblins work here or what mate??" "Yeh, you're right. These ships swapped. I see it now." These conspiracy tale tellers want us believe that thousands of dock workers didn't notice lmao

[@mrtom2854]

Yes, but the conspiracy nuts also expect us to believe that Connor and Cillian were in on the conspiracy too.

[@thelandofnod123]

@@mrtom2854 But we know for a fact Ronan wasn’t, he also did not say anything before his death in a spaceship accident in 2618 BCE. Apparently the polonium he was carrying became unstable and melted the steel of his tower before a separate part of the ship was hit by a missile. The Egyptian’s tried to cover up this by changing all the build numbers of the spaceship and hiding them in pyramids. The Myan’s tried to stop them by sitting on a grassy knoll but were wiped out when their calendar ended. References are “Book of Ronan” and “The Prophecies of Polonum”.

[@gilliankingston8259]

If, after the "Titanic" sank they managed to silence survivors (both crew and passengers) do you really think dockyard workers who were desperate for jobs prior to them being hired to build Titanic would be any kind of challenge to them OF COURSE NOT!!!

[@iamhungey12345]

@@gilliankingston8259 That wouldn't change the issue with the enclosed Promenade deck which Titanic had while Olympic didn't. You can't switch that easily.

[@darthhull85]

You can also make out a lot of the stern text. I know they cleaned off the bow name ages ago but I don’t believe the stern was ever cleaned.

[@williamkirk1156]

Ok, we need a video with Flat Earth people arguing with Hollow Earth people.

[@NASCARCHAT24]

Finally. Someone who actually thinks this is fake. Still to this day, I still see people commenting, even making videos that the Olympic and the titanic swapped. That literally makes me furious to see millions of people actually believe in this “theory”. Literally makes my brain melt. Thank you for actually telling the truth.

[@SliverRogue2012]

When RMS Suevic ran aground, White Star Line dynamited the ship in half, and then built and attached a new half to get her sailing again. Bring that up to anyone who brings up the “switch theory”

[@troopergames8173]

That’s pretty epic. How’d they get her good half back to a I assume dry dock?

[@ukaszwalczak1154]

@@troopergames8173 They just sealed up the bow, put the engines into reverse, and had 3 or 4 tugboats act as the rudder.

[@troopergames8173]

@@ukaszwalczak1154 interesting, thanks for the history!

[@SliverRogue2012]

@@troopergames8173 she sailed backwards under her own power.

[@Wolf_Dominic]

I genuinely can’t fathom how some people genuinely believe they were swapped. If they were swapped, the numbers would be different. And ultimately, to properly swap the ships completely, it would be more expensive than how much it cost to build them to begin with.

[@2nd-place]

And 401 is how we got the website error code “401: Not Found” today.

[@twistedaxles9126]

I love how White Star had the idea to just stamp number codes on every single piece of the Titanic like it was a Lego set

[@DerpyPossum]

It's not quite a White Star Line thing, though. That's just how shipyards generally worked.

[@Inactive123f]

They truly believed the titanic was unsinkable and massively underinsured it

[@RCKodak]

To be honest, if a person truly believes the two ships were swapped, in secret, in just a few hours, without it leaking to the press at the time, while both ships were clearly and prominently on display, with thousands of workers at the shipyard… that person is a bit lost down the conspiracy rabbit hole, and probably needs to get some help or support to get back out.

[@experimentmagnet]

This was not the information age. They didn't even have radio yet. People were trusting, those in the know, threatened along with their families. No government welfare programs meant they could easily devastate generations if somebody talked.

[@atzuras]

Or we can seal the rabbit hole and let them inside. Patience is for those who try to get better, not worse

[@brick6347]

Sadly I don't think this myth will ever die, they never do. I still encounter plenty of people telling me the earth is flat.

[@nospoon4799]

The purpose of the flat Earth psyop is to conflate other ideas with it to reduce their credibility. Such as free energy etc. Nice of you to conform to that for us....

[@pamelah6431]

And that evolution is true.

[@jazzysoggy12]

@@pamelah6431 Troll or just stupid?

[@purplefood1]

@@pamelah6431 Because it is you deuluded zealot

[@AaronDanieltenni]

It’s more annoying enough that I met a theorists who claimed Andrews and Smith committed suicide because they were afraid of prison time.

[@chendaforest]

😂

[@Tachikawa_2006]

Yeh said by the same dudes who said the Earth is flat

[@FD_and_B]

Hey man, just wanted to say I really admire your work ethic. This channel is constantly uploading and never compromises quality. Not sure how ya do it but damn. Love from New York

[@lac8356]

I enjoy your videos very much. I spent many years at sea, many dry docks and of course, many stories.

[@SalMinella]

My Aunt Denise committed insurance fraud by leaving her car parked at Home Depot and having her friend come by and key it so she could get a new paint job and sell it for more money so I know a little bit about this.

[@bramvermaat1453]

Man, that's bad. Just can't get my head around people doing things like that. And openly saying this on KZbin with your aunts name is even worse. 😅

[@WarningSign1000]

Your family wasn’t the first in line when they were giving IQ away were they

[@SilverSonic1992]

I think he's joking... Right?

[@bramvermaat1453]

@Silver Sonic 1992 I'm a little autistic, and was wondering this myself. I personally don't get the joke here. 😜

[@SalMinella]

@@SilverSonic1992 I was joking I don’t even have an Aunt Denise. It was really my uncle Denephew that did this.

[@volpixrossi3589]

When you look at the theory, even just hearing it sounds stupid and impossible.

[@Blaaggarding]

What a stupid conspiracy there was 15000 people working and living near the docks in Belfast when being built .Entire family's made there income from building the ship how would it be possible that many of these people wouldn't have noticed them switching ships its just laughable those people knew more about taht ship than anyone.

[@iamhungey12345]

They probably assumed that because the workers are Irish, they must have been too drunk to notice. I wouldn't put it past the Titanic conspiracy theorists to actually think that.

[@Blaaggarding]

@@iamhungey12345 I'm an Irishman I can tell you we do drink alot but we work even harder and we're an intelligent bunch of people if there was no such thing as an Irishman the world would be at a huge loss .

[@shocko77]

Its also funny beacue the titanic was actually longer

[@mided2119]

Didn’t know you could still see the name on the wreck.

[@cheapeatsasia]

Great video! Also, the recent 3D scan of the wreck showed a number on the propeller, not sure what is was, but that also counters any conspiracies

[@lesliemccormick6527]

Conspiracy theories are all stupid, but this one was top 10 level.

[@iamhungey12345]

Tbf there are legit ones but stupid ones such as this tends to drag them down.

[@lesliemccormick6527]

@@iamhungey12345 No, there are no legit conspiracy theories that you would have or ever will hear of.

[@iamhungey12345]

@@lesliemccormick6527 Good point since the ones that gets proven would no longer be theories.

[@lesliemccormick6527]

@@iamhungey12345 For a conspiracy to exist successfully, it operates in secret. If you have heard of it, it is false. There are people who work in the intelligence sector who laugh at the outlandish conspiracies that circulate.

[@alexello1189]

People will claim the titanic was fake but then refuse to acknowledge the sinking of the USS maine as self inflicted…..

[@pretzelbomb6105]

There's a good chance it was. Of course, self-inflicted and on purpose are two different things.

[@Tommy-tz7hm]

@@pretzelbomb6105it’s been proven that’s it’s self inflicted

[@purplefood1]

@@Tommy-tz7hm Yeah but self-inflicted and on purpose are different things.

[@ctg6734]

I saw a hilariously bad video claiming to show the nameplate being bolted on. It was such a poor CGI rendering as to be obviously fake. It amazes me that they tried to pass it off as genuine.

[@iamhungey12345]

That's probably where the claims that Olympic's name on the wreck came from.

[@Tommy-tz7hm]

@@iamhungey12345there was also a book in the 90’s saying this theory.

[@iamhungey12345]

@@Tommy-tz7hm Yeah and the author admits he was surprised that people believed it.

[@avres13]

Poseidon didn’t scratch it on with his trident?

[@nikmason6873]

Propeller blade number on Titanics stern is the smoking gun

[@experimentmagnet]

The props were swapped when the Olympic was run over an obstacle and the prop was damaged. The Titanic was still being built in Drydock. This got the Olympic back up and running. Proving the opposite of what you suggest. Watch the full documentary... don't base your opinion on a 15 sec short.

[@Farmboyspence]

How would switching the ships make any difference? A massive boat sinks either way

[@somethinglikethat2176]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. They would have nothing to gain apart from the possibility of voiding their insurance for fraud. I don't think the conspiracy flocks understand the concept of a sister ship.

[@Joesolo13]

Exactly. Its the dumbest conspiracy theory. At least the flat earthers have insane Bullshit about the government. This is just "hey this tragedy actually had a minor difference"

[@iamhungey12345]

Plus they're both underinsured, the WSL still lose money no matter which one sinks. Then there's the reputational damage.

[@lucasfragoso7634]

As well as a massive loss in reputation. Which for a passenger line is a very big deal

[@matthiasfuglsang-damgaard5218]

I think the theory is that Olympic was already outdated compared with Titanic. Because they made alot of improvements to Titanic. But that does not answer your question. If you want to sink Olympic on purpose why not just let Olympic go down???

[@TitanicHorseRacingLover]

Folks, this has been debunked. Olympic's "A" Deck is Open and Titanic's "A" Deck is partially closed. The Bridgewing of the Titanic hangs over the hull and the Olympic's Bridgewing is flush with the side of the hull. You all can see the beginning of "T I T.." on the hull in the video. This is just ridiculous.

[@iam_sherlocked8421]

Why would White Star Line want to lose extra money (since Titanic wasn't fully insured) AND let their reputation sink with the ship?

[@emusaurus]

And how would you get the captain to go along with committing mass murder and suicide?

[@Spazy912]

@@emusaurusI mean the captain wasn’t even there when it hit the Iceberg

[@xmarcosnavigator]

Good video👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 i love your explain 🤜🏻🤛🏼

[@OceanlinerDesigns]

Thanks mate!

[@troberts1]

Along with all the other reasons they weren't switched: why would they spend time and money they didn't have, into changing the interiors of both ships? They weren't even carbon copies, people who had already been on the Britannic would have noticed something was really off the next time they sailed on it. And if repairing the damage was too expensive, how the heck could they have afford this bizarre switcharoo? Refitting two enormous ocean liners and then sinking one of them was cheaper than just repairing the ship? The "theory" is so stupid on its face from every angle.

[@Blulight-19183_]

A moment of silence for those who really believed that absurd theory.

[@eliel_360]

Nah screw them

[@iamhungey12345]

You're too kind.

[@atzuras]

talking about the Titanic, the correct expression is "Triple Screw them"

[@Psychoedits-ju9te]

Conspiracy theorists will probably have a mental breakdown

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

That rather assumes that they had much mental capacity to begin with.

[@arandomguy6951]

Are you implying they were mentally stable in the first place?

[@iamhungey12345]

Given how some of them resorted to using alts in some convos and constantly move the goalpost whenever 401 and the enclosed deck gets brought up, you're being generous.

[@domwings4329]

So you totally ruin your company’s reputation, you don’t build enough lifeboats even though you know it’s going to crash? Then you convince the captain to crash into icebergs killing himself and everyone else? You don’t ensure the closest ship can rescue anyone?

[@brianb8003]

There's not: "confusion online". There's only: "Dumb people believe dumb things."

[@kurotsuki7427]

Ohhh, i thought it was just paint. The etching is cool.

[@jameswhitbread7173]

One of the downfall of this modern world is these conspiracy idiots.

[@mac7040]

Tin foil hat users. They serve q good purpose of creating laughter

[@ProjectLeviathan]

Switch theory believers are like flat Earthers, they don't accept that they're wrong no matter what you do.

[@OUTTA-TYME88]

or moon landing deniers.

[@filmandfirearms]

@vladaltreilea1431 None of this makes any sense. It all requires the White Star Line and JP Morgan to be able to see the future and plan things months before they actually happened. Not to mention, they never had the opportunity to swap the ships. Think about it like any other criminal investigation. Means, motive, opportunity. They didn't have the means, so motive and opportunity are irrelevant

[@ves9162]

If the ship was still around today, imagine what a cool museum piece it would’ve been

[@sallykohorst8803]

Thanks for this subject.❤

[@grizwoldphantasia5005]

Aside from everything else, what would the insurance difference have been between which ship sunk? What gain would there be for switching identity?

[@DerpyPossum]

Both were insured for the same amount, by all accounts. And by insured, I of course mean under-insured by $2.5 million and also largely self-insured by the White Star Line themselves...

[@glenchapman3899]

Please dont try to introduce you namby pamby logical facts in this sort of discussion lol

[@Tommy-tz7hm]

Nothing. They lost a lot of money and reputation. They never recovered from the Titanic and so they would ultimately sell to another shipping company

[@filmandfirearms]

@@Tommy-tz7hm Not just any shipping company. Cunard Line. Their biggest competitor, who they had built the Olympic class solely to beat

[@paulgermano7837]

Imagine an Info Wars special with Alex Jones talking about this Titanic conspiracy theory and the other one where J. P. Morgan planned the sinking 😂

[@jordanscarborough348]

i was going to believe that they swapped it before i watched this video. thanks, you just saved my life

[@TyphoonTYUIOP]

I was today years old when I found out there are *Titanic Deniers* out in the world

[@MrDlt123]

Conspiracy Theory: No one on the Titanic ever walked on the Moon. I stand by my theory.

[@svenschildhauer9139]

Yes, I know and I red the whole website why a swab is not possible, but it onlnly gave me more assurance that a swab was done. Furthermore, vistit the "Titanic Museum" in Belfast. You will see a whole collection of Olympic pictures and not Titanic.

[@unownyoutuber9049]

Yeah, because photography was expensive. Why pay thousands to take photos of a new ship when you have photos of a very very similar ship you can use. Not to mention that Titanic sunk on its first voyage so they hardly had a chance to photograph it.

[@Spazy912]

Me when I go to the Titanic and it has a cafe that the Olympic doesn’t have: Oh my GOODNESS THIS PLACE IS WHY BETTER THAN THE OLYMPIC

[@AL-fl4jk]

Conspiracy theorists really need to get an actual hobby

[@thesausage351]

Yeah, huffing petrol has terrible results for them lol

[@evilnigga68]

​​@@thesausage351they don't huff petrol they full on take fentanyl at this point

[@ReiMonCoH]

Oh look, I can see the etching in the hull… Then, suddenly, the sub collapsed crashing us all instantly

[@thesausage351]

You would like to think they were able to at least view the wreck they paid a lot of money and their lives to visit but I’d imagine they were annihilated a Km before that happened.

[@91_C4_FL]

This is such a silly conspiracy theory idk why it persists.

[@iamhungey12345]

Some people wants to be different and there are some who got the notion that if one conspiracy theory is true, then all of them are.

[@iamhungey12345]

@@91_C4_FL When you have people stupid enough to keep believing the theory, you can see how it gets fueled. It's like the fake moon landing theory that went on for decades.

[@mancingtom]

The idea that sometimes terrible things just happen terrifies some people. It's comforting for them to believe there's always a plan, always someone in control, even if they're evil.

[@sai_beanz]

i remember this oh my god. i facepalmed myself to mars

[@52thephotoshop]

I fail to see how sinking an identical ship is effective insurance fraud

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

Especially when both were only insured for 2/3rds of their building costs.

[@TACO974]

Titanic and Olympic wasn’t swapped

[@NASCARCHAT24]

Well no shit Sherlock. He explained why they weren’t in the video..

[@littlegalaxy803]

thank you for explaining and denying this conspiracy theory, because it really is something totally surreal to believe in addition to having evidence that proves that the one who really sank was the titanic

[@yourealfr]

that’s literally lowkey an insult because theres artifacts which proves its the titanic

[@JennifuhhGilardi]

Dudes working for JP Morgan inc

[@KillerRedVine]

When the serial number for the ship is on the propeller at the bottom of the ocean, it's pretty cut and dry.

[@benjichaser72]

have you been there and seen it for yourself ? exactly...

[@iamhungey12345]

@@benjichaser72 Considering how much it had been explored and the items being taken up with the said number 401.

[@thelandofnod123]

@@benjichaser72 Have you ever seen a GPS satellite? Oh, we’ll you must still navigate using a map then. But wait you never met the person who drew the map, or saw it being made. Oh no 🙈.

[@johnpurdy3336]

​@@benjichaser72 There's literally pictures of one of titanic's propellers that has "401" stamped on it 🤦‍♂️

[@atzuras]

but ..." if the Nasa forged the moon landings they can fool anyone" ... Remember you are talking about people that usually belive all conspiracy theories at once. Even the contradictory ones.

[@Yaxrob]

How do you know? You wernt there bro

[@Sarah0583]

He did proper research, unlike all those switchers swallowing everything they hear on Tik Tok.

[@MrChesemis]

Nice job you just commented a logical fallacy 😂

[@thesausage351]

How do you know different, you weren’t there. He knows because if you look at photos and look at the wreck, like in the photos he showed, you can clearly see the letters are recessed into the hull.

[@TsaGo_1912]

He has a brain and he is able to use ist😱

[@RyanAshford-o6r]

I enjoy how inarticulate conspiracy idiots are 😂❤

[@Mattstudios-sm9hk]

Did white star pay the iceberg to be in that spot?

[@RyanAshford-o6r]

@@Mattstudios-sm9hk no. She went broke and melted sadly

[@KING-fo6bx]

The idea that they were swapped is a bit far fetched, I did hear another theory though about JP Morgan who was meant to be on the ship but backed out at the last minute. 3 of his rivals died on the ship and not long after the Federal Reserve Act was pushed through. Again very far fetched but also extremely beneficial for one group of people, which is a concurrent theme with tragedies.

[@thesausage351]

It’s incorrect. He did not back out at the last minute. He never intended to travel. He was in Paris organising artworks to be sent out of the country because Paris was trying to stop the countries artworks from leaving the country.

[@dianarozell2166]

I’ve heard this theory too. Interesting.

[@filmandfirearms]

Means, motive, opportunity. If they didn't have the means, motive and opportunity are irrelevant. For example, a dealership I used to work for who are the scum of the earth recently went bankrupt. Now, I absolutely had the motive to drive them out of business, and I definitely enjoyed seeing a "for sale" sign in their window, but I didn't have the means to do it so it's completely irrelevant

[@Kodon32]

It was actually hot glued on

[@evilnigga68]

nope, contrary to popular belief it was not glued on, the nameplates were cellotaped with 5 small pieces of cellotape each.

[@Gam_Saunt]

@@evilnigga68No no no, it was obviously just paper stuck on with fridge magnets🙄

[@sarahtindall3063]

I think some people get confused too bc pictures of the Olympic were literally used as pictures for the titanic so some titanic photos are literally of the Olympic which messed with me for a while

[@allamericantravels]

It’s truly a shame how many people actually believe that nonsense.

[@ncc1701chris]

Conspiracy theorists are just nuts to begin with......period.

[@Dougles_prospecting]

Well some have come out to be true everyone thought Epstein island was a conspiracy till he got arrested/murdered

[@iamhungey12345]

@@Dougles_prospecting The problem is that there are people who gets the notion that if some are true, all of them are. It doesn't take much to poison the well.

[@NRL1908]

Conspiracy theorists? Or idiots? 7.5 to build. Insured for 5. Silly insurance fraud if you’d ask me

[@unitedstatesofamerica9239]

I used to believe this theory. Heh. Not that I ever understood it to begin with. I was just very happy to hear ANYTHING about Titanic back then. Theories and all.

[@MG-ff8eu]

Thank you