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In February 1998, Timothy Foecke, a metallurgist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), published a rather low-key "interagency report" that cast a new and intriguing light on one of the most famous marine disasters in history, the sinking of RMS Titanic.

Now in a new book, What Really Sank the Titanic, Foecke and colleague Jennifer Hooper McCarty tell the full story of their investigation into how one of the most unassuming of villains—the wrought iron hull rivets—brought about the loss of one of the world's most advanced ocean liners and more than 1,500 passengers and crew.

While there obviously were several factors, Foecke argued in his preliminary report, the critical failure could have been the use of brittle, substandard wrought iron rivets to hold the giant ship's hull plates together.

(See "Failure of Tiny Rivets May Have Sunk 'Unsinkable' Liner"NIST Update, Feb. 17, 1998.) The shock of t