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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_%28ACR-1%29

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Later investigations revealed that more than 5 long tons (5.1 t) of powder charges for the vessel’s six and ten-inch guns had detonated, obliterating the forward third of the ship.[45] The remaining wreckage rapidly settled to the bottom of the harbor. Most of Maine’s crew were sleeping or resting in the enlisted quarters, in the forward part of the ship, when the explosion occurred. In total 260[46] men lost their lives as a result of the explosion or shortly thereafter, and six[46] more died later from injuries. Captain Sigsbee and most of the officers survived, because their quarters were in the aft portion of the ship. Altogether, though, there were only 89 survivors, 18 of whom were officers.[47] On 21 March, the US Naval Court of Inquiry, in Key West, declared that a naval mine caused the explosion.[48]
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Investigations

In addition to the Inquiry commissioned by the Spanish Government to naval officers Del Peral and De Salas, two Naval Courts of Inquiry were ordered: The Sampson Board in 1898 and the Vreeland board in 1911. In 1976, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover commissioned a private investigation into the explosion, and the National Geographic Society did an investigation in 1999, using computer simulations. All investigations agreed that an explosion of the forward magazines caused the destruction of the ship, but different conclusions were reached as to how the magazines could have exploded.

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1974 Rickover investigation

Admiral Hyman G. Rickover became intrigued with the disaster and began a private investigation, in 1974. Using information from the two official inquiries, newspapers, personal papers and information on the construction and ammunition of Maine, it was concluded that the explosion was not caused by a mine. Instead, spontaneous combustion of coal in the bunker, next to magazine, was speculated to be the most likely cause. Rickover published a book about this investigation, How the Battleship Maine Was Destroyed, in 1976.[70]

In the 2001 book Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. Navy and the Spanish–American War, Wegner revisits the Rickover investigation and offers additional details. According to Wegner, Rickover inquired with naval historians, at the Energy Research and Development Agency, about the Maine, after reading an article in the Washington Star-News in which its author, John M. Taylor, claimed the U.S. Navy “made little use of its technically trained officers during its investigation of the tragedy.” The historians, then working with the admiral on a study of the U.S. navy’s nuclear propulsion program, said they knew no details on the Maine sinking. When Rickover asked whether they could investigate the matter, the historians, now intrigued, agreed. Knowing of Rickover’s “insistence on thoroughness,” Wegner says, all relevant documents were obtained and studied. These included the ship’s plans and weekly reports of the unwatering of the Maine, in 1912, by the chief engineer for the project, William Furgueson. These reports included numerous photos, annotated by Furgueson with frame and strake numbers on corresponding parts of the wreckage. Two experts on naval demolitions and ship explosions were brought in. Since the photos showed “no plausible evidence of penetration from the outside,” they believed the explosion originated inside the ship.[71]

Wegner suggests that a combination of naval ship design, and a change in the type of coal used to fuel naval ships, might have facilitated the explosion postulated by the Rickover study. Up to the time of the Maine’s building, he explains, common bulkheads separated coal bunkers from ammunition lockers and American naval ships burned primarily smokeless anthracite coal. With an increase in the number of steel ships, the U.S. Navy switched to bituminous coal, which burned at a hotter temperature than anthracite coal, and allowed ships to steam faster. However, Wegner explains, while anthracite coal was not subject to spontaneous combustion, bituminous coal was considerably more volatile. In fact, bituminous coal is known for releasing the largest amounts of firedamp, a dangerous and explosive mixture of gases. Firedamp is explosive at concentrations between 4% and 16%, with most violence at around 10%. A number of bunker fires had, in fact, been reported aboard U.S. warships before the Maine’s explosion, in several cases nearly sinking the ships. Wegner also cites a 1997 heat transfer study which concluded that a coal bunker fire, of the type suggested by Rickover, could have taken place and ignited the ship’s ammunition.[72]
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1998 National Geographic investigation

In 1998, National Geographic magazine commissioned an analysis by Advanced Marine Enterprises (AME). This investigation, done to commemorate the centennial of the sinking of USS Maine, was based on computer modeling, a technique unavailable for previous investigations. The conclusions reached were inconclusive. National Geographic reported that “a fire in the coal bunker could have generated sufficient heat to touch off an explosion in the adjacent magazine [but] on the other hand, computer analysis also shows that even a small, handmade mine could have penetrated the ship’s hull and set off explosions within.”[73] The AME investigation, however, did note that “the size and location of the soil depression beneath the Maine ‘is more readily explained by a mine explosion than by magazine explosions alone'”.[61] The team noted that this was not “definitive in proving that a mine was the cause of the sinking” although it did “strengthen the case”.[61]

Some experts, including Admiral Rickover’s team and several analysts at AME, do not agree with the conclusion.[61] Wegner claims that technical opinion among the Geographic team was divided between its younger members, who focused on computer modeling results, and its older ones, who weighed their inspection of photos of the wreck with their own experience. He adds that the data AME used for its findings were flawed concerning the Maine’s design and ammunition storage. Wegner was also critical of the fact that participants in the Rickover study were not consulted until AME’s analysis was essentially complete, far too late to confirm the veracity of data being used or engage in any other meaningful cooperation.[74]

2002 History Channel ‘Unsolved History’ investigation

In 2002, The History Channel produced an episode of the ‘Unsolved History’ documentaries titled ‘Death of the U.S.S. Maine’ that utilized pictures, naval experts, and archival information to determine the cause of the explosion. The conclusion was that a coal bunker fire caused the explosion, and a weakness or gap was identified in the bulkhead separating the coal and powder bunkers, which allowed the fire to spread from the coal bunker to the powder bunker.

False flag conspiracy theories

It has been suggested by some that the sinking was a false flag operation conducted by the U.S. This is the official view in Cuba. Cuban officials argue that the U.S. may have deliberately sunk the ship to create a pretext for military action against Spain. The wording on the Maine monument in Havana describes Maine’s sailors as “victims sacrificed to the imperialist greed in its fervor to seize control of Cuba”,[75] which “alludes to the theory that U.S. agents deliberately blew up their own ship to create a pretext for declaring war on Spain”.[76]

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El parrafo anterior sin alguna evidencia o investigacion