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In the Channel 4 documentary entitled Titanic: The New Evidence, broadcast on New Year’s Day, Maloney also said: "The official Titanic inquiry branded [the disaster] as an act of God. This isn’t a simple story of colliding with an iceberg and sinking.
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"Nobody has investigated these marks before. It totally changes the narrative. We have metallurgy experts telling us that when you get that level of temperature against steel it makes it brittle, and reduces its strength by up to 75 per cent.
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