The Titanic was not switched out for the Olympic and deliberately sunk. That is nothing but a deceptively clever story. When the ships were being built side by side, various pieces of each were stamped with numbers unique to each. The Olympic's parts were stamped 400 and the Titanic's were stamped 401. Many pieces of the wreckage of the Titanic still display the number 401.

Moreover, the ships were built in plain sight of the entire city of Belfast who would have noticed the switch-out. They were built by thousands of hard-drinking Irishmen who could not have been counted on to keep a company secret involving the deaths of 1500 people for insurance fraud. The director of the White Star line saved himself by climbing on a lifeboat, but his life was utterly destroyed by the sinking.

Dozens of survivors recorded their experiences in the immediate aftermath of the sinking and none of them give credence to any narrative other than that the ship struck an iceberg and sank to the astonishment of all on board.