Daniel Allen Butler wrote:
> A new Titanic book has hit the market, Titanic's Last Secrets: The
> Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie
> Kohler" by Brad Matsen.
>
> Dreadful. Absolutely dreadful. Hearsay, speculation and tabloid
> journalism posing as research and history.
>
> Just by way of a single example: when referring to the engineers
> who were doing the design work on the Olympic class ****ps, one of
> the principals exclaims, "My God, they were engineering these ****ps
> with pencils!"
>
> No do***entation at all, not a shred. I mean ZERO! Zilch! Nada!
> Just the hearsay testimony of one man and a lot of speculation
> based on a couple of computer simulations. Oh, and a lot of
> nonsense about expansion joints in the superstructure leading to
> structural failure in the hull itself. Obviously there was as
> serious a lack of technical advice as there was of
> do***entation....
>
> By the way, Jim, if you're reading this, do you really believe
> Tommy McClusky really has such a deep-seated grudge against H&W?
> The Tommy that is ****trayed in this book is not the Tommy McClusky
> I knew....
>
> All the best,
>
> Daniel Allen Butler
>
> The opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of the
> management, but they ought to be!
I'll probably buy it to add to my Titanic library. But I won't be
in any hurry to hunt it down.
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