However, in the documentary titled Titanic: The New Evidence, a theory has emerged that a huge fire was mainly responsible for the ship sinking. Experts believe it had been burning for almost about three weeks but was overlooked.
Senan Molony, a journalist who studied photographs taken before the Titanic left the shipyard in Belfast, spotted 30-ft long black marks near where the ship was allegedly hit by the iceberg.
"We are looking at the exact area where the iceberg struck, and we appear to have a weakness or damage to the hull in that specific place, before she even left Belfast," he said.
Experts assure those marks indicate a fire in one of the boiler rooms, which have been the root cause leading the ship's steel haul to weaken resulting in the iceberg tearing it open.
"The official Titanic inquiry branded [the sinking] as an act of God," Molony told The Times.
"This isn't a simple story of colliding with an iceberg and sinking. It's a perfect storm of extraordinary factors coming together: fire, ice and criminal negligence."
Doesn't that change everything?