A decade after the Titanic was located two and a half miles under the North Atlantic, Robin Gardiner and Dan van der Vat present their root-and-branch reassessment ofone of the greatest and saddest legends of the twentieth century. They show that the technological triumph of the discovery and exploration of the wreck has raised more problems than it solved as well as a lot of debris. While trenchantly re-examining all the great issues raised by the most poignant disaster of modern times, the author tries to bring out other intriguing questions.