Carter Roy

Yeah, that's right.

The expert underwater archaeologist who found the Titanic also found evidence the British Navy tried to destroy the Lusitania wreck.

Wild.

If there was nothing suspicious on the Lusitania, then why were they blowing up the crime scene?

Well, these hedgehog mines came with two new stories.

First, the British government claimed that Nazi submarines hid around the wreckage during World War II and had to be attacked.

Then they said the wreckage was used in the 1950s for target practice.

Oh, yeah, we need to test some bombs?

Let's blow up the shipwreck people have questions about.

Oh, that won't be suspicious at all.

That brings us to one more theorized coverup attempt.

Almost immediately after the disaster, the British government and the Cunard line pointed fingers at Captain Will Turner.

They blamed him for the fiasco.

He was shamed for failing to protect his ship, for ignoring orders to take a zigzag route, orders no one could prove he'd received.

Within an hour of completing the inquest, the lawyers received their own orders.

Don't let Captain Turner testify.

This came down from the British Navy.

Someone there didn't want Turner to share what he'd witnessed on the Lusitania.

Unfortunately for Turner, he'd already given his account to the lawyers and was found not guilty of endangering the ship.

The inquiry found Germany solely at fault, and 10 years later, in 1925, Germany paid over a million dollars in damages for sinking the Lusitania, and that's in 1920s money.