a big crank

Apparently a newly discovered fragment of the Titanic indicates that the big boat sank in a different manner than was previously thought. As the Titanic historian David Brown puts it, "What we assumed was it broke up because it sank. Now we know it sank because it broke up."

Explorer Robert Ballard, who first found the wreck in 1985, was unimpressed. “They found a fragment, big deal,” he said. “Am I surprised? No. When you go down there, there's stuff all over the place. It hit an iceberg and it sank. Get over it.”

-- globeandmail.com